The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-26
Fight Today Was on the sched-
ules Covering the Products
of Trust
OIL DUTY ANOTHER BONE
Of SERIOUS CONTENTION
Party Lines We're Broken up When the
Vote on This Question Was Taken
Observation-Disclosures Oil Was Prin.
cipal Key Note.

Washington, June 26.-When cnr "
sideration of the tariff bill was lss,
sumed in the senate today the pend-
ing question was on the amendment
offered yesterday by Senator Raccn
placing agricultural implements ON
the free list. Senator Stone Of Mis-
souri, Immediately took the floor to
continue the Eleech in which he yes
terday outlined the testimony taken
by the attorney general of Missouri
in prosecuting the International Har-
vester company as trust. Senator
Stone asserted that number of COM
ipanfes had been merged to constitute
this trust, declared that 1t was con-
Quoting eighty-five per cent of the
business Of supplying agricultural i'm
plements and contended that it was a
trust and a monopoly notwithstand-
ing the denial of Senator Aldrich.
Soon after Senator Stone began his
speech he was Interrupted by Senator
Davis of Arkansas with the statement
that the company had been driven oilt
of Arkansas by legal proceedings un-
der the state antitrust law.
Wood Schedule.
The entire wood pulp and print
paper schedules we're agreed to by
tire senate today with the amendments
as proposed by Senator Brown:
Upon taking up the schedule relat-
ing to agricultural Implements, Mr..
Bacon offered his amendment propos-
ing to place lon the free list this class
lof implement, including plows. har-
rows, harvesters, forage and feed
cutters, reapers,. drills, planters,
] mowers, horse-rakes, cultiyators.
threshing machines and cotton gins.
He decIargd that:.sthe pricesS-1s-
manded for. agricultural implements
! were e1tortionate ID this country. Ny.
Aldrich asserted that their prices
were lower in this country than
abroad.
Senator Overman insisted that the
p International Harvester company,
charged higher prices for their I'm
'plements in this country than abroad
and was told by the chairman of the
finance committee that he would SUBJ
init absolute proof from the depart
iment of commerce and labor that the
contrary was true.
Senator Stone, reading recent
statement by the attorney general of
Missouri, concerning the evidence Of
Geo. w. Perkins relative to the Or
ganization of the International Har-
vester company, declared that cor
poration was monopoly. Without
concluding, his remarks, Mr.. Stone
gave way for an executive session.
Oil Duty.
Senator Penrose then proposed an
amendment placing duty of half Of
one cent gallon upon crude oil. He
said this rate had been finally agreed
upon by Independent oil producers of
the United States, representing
eighty-nine per cent of the total crude
petroleum production Of the United
States and also by the independent
reflners of the country, representing
some twenty per cent of that part Of
the business. Mr.. Bailey said his op-
position to duty on oil rested upon
the fact that 1t was an article of uni
versal use and because the govern
ment had never received more than
$4,000 from a duty on oil In any
year Of its existence.
Replying to a question by Senator
Borah, Mr.. Penrose said the finance
committee had seen vast number Of
oil producers Of the; United States,
100 of them being present on one day.
They were, he said, from $4,000 to
100000 independent oil producers IN
the United States, many Of them be-
ing his constituents of Pennsylvania,
who had gone to Oklahoma, Indian
Territory, California and West Vir-
ginia to develop oil properties. There
was, he said, among the people OF
Pennsylvania, no more popular
amendment to the tariff bill than this.
one for duty on crude oil.
Senator Owen, declaring that last
year Oklahoma had larger output
of crude oil than the remainder of the
United States, insisted that the price
of crude oil did not regulate the price
of refined oil.
Disagreeing with his colleague.
Senator Gore spoke against the
amendment. He had wished, he said,
to confine the duty to oil from Next
co, NUT had been told that was in
conflict with treaty relations with
that country. He spoke of the Mexi-
can oil fields as myth.
Mr.. Gore said, that the Standard
Oil company controlled the Mexican
oil field and could import Mexican oil
and crush and destroy the independ-
ent producers and refiners of the
United States, he would cast his vote
to shield the American oil producers
and the American consumer. He
spoke of the Standard Oil company as
serpent whose embrace is death"
Referring. to the oil producers of
this state as his personal friends. Mr..
Gore said: Il wish that this cup had