Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-02
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Senate.


Ry vote Of IS to 30 the Senate on Tues
day took hides from the free list, where
they had been placed by the House, ana
gave them duty of - per sent: al Iva va
Just before adjournment for the day at I
O'Clock Senator Aldrich, on behalf of the
tees new lunlEer schedule and also, a mum
Ser of amendments relating to lnoleum
and oilcloth The committee proposed a
rate OF 81 80 per thousand on sawed lumber,
which is a 50-cent increase over the House
rate Neither the lumber nor linoleum
sched1le was acted upon.
The Senate made short shrift of several
provisions in the tariff bill Wednesday. An
amendment for dollar lumber was defeat
cd as was a move for free humber, and the
finance committees proposition for $l!O
1housaDd on sawed lumber was adopted, "a
30 "A The finance committee S provision
reducing the. House rates on p1neappies TO
Senator Talfaferros amendment raising the
rate above that in the House bill was
adopted. Senator Aldrich's committee Won
fight on their coal rates, which loWered
the House rate on DituIni2ous coal from "
to so cents ton and eliminated the recfpro-
city clause. Attempts were made to lower
the rate still further and to have coal free,
but were defeated.
The Senate Thursday adopted amend
ments to the tariff bill Increasing the duty
vaIorern and on sole leather from to 10
per cent. The greater part of the session
was devoted to speech making senator no
gard to the size Of tobacco packages, de-
clared the tobacco trust was making mil
lions by keeping packages down to war
time sizes Notwithstanding the war tax was
long ago removed Mr.. Bailey and Mr..
NeWlands discussed the tariff at length
The Senate Friday raised the duty on
House bill, to $3.50 a ton, increased the
duty on wire nails One-quarter of cent
pound and substituted specific for ad va
loren rates on files rasps, etc: Inc duty
on harness was raised from 35 to 40 per
cent. The increase on scrap iron called
forth vigorous protests from several Vest
AZ to %. Senator Penrose's amendment for
a duty of one-half cent gallon on cruoe
oil was voted down.
Although it devoted almost eight hours to
strenuous effort in that direction, the Sen
ate the 26tk failed to conclude its con
sideration Of the schedules of the tarif plll.
and when at 5:15 o'clock an adj0nrnment
was reached there we're still NUMBER OF
important rates to &c determined. The day,
number Of provisions were disposed OF,
Among the more important questions which
received attention were agricultural lmple
ments weed pup cash cas- i,, fegsters' W tno
pulp was placed on the free list, but the at
tempt To put agricultural implements in the
amendment to cut in two the duty on cash
registers was defeated Other changes mace
during the day were as follows: increasing
to and cents a pound the duty on neInp,
providing for the free importation until l91Z
of linen manufacturing machines, lncreaS-
ing to the extent of about 10 per cent. over
the present law the duties on laceS and EN-
broideries, IMPOSING a duty of 80 per cent
on engraved photographic plates, slightly, de-
creasing the duty on jute yarns, strIklng
from the free list the products of petroleum
and eliminating the House retaliatory pro
vision regarding wrapper and filler TOBACCO.
The Senate Monday afternoon concluded
discussion of the Payne-Aldrlch 'tar1H bill
and the finance committees income tax con
stitutional amendment was presented. rms
amendment with the corporation tax, which
is already before the Senate, constitutes the
programme in the upper house. On motion
Of Senator McLaurin cotton bagglng was
put on the free list. Senator Culoer ,;ct
but this was defeated 81 to 81. The DUTY
on structural iron and steel valued at more
than nine-tenths of cent P e to was III If
a cent pound. Intellectual efforts were
made TO have school books and salt placed
on the free and Egyption cotton on the
dutiable list. The Senate adjourned AT
800 p. m.
House.
The House was not in session on Tuesday.
The House was not in session on Wednes-
day
On the eve of the expiration Of the cur
rent fiscal year the House Thursday author
lied an emergency appropriation Of S10,0O0,-
600 for defraying the expenses of the thir-
bin for that purpose Mr. Tawney, chairman
of the committee on appropriations, eX-
planned the situation with respect to the
permanent census measure still in confer
ence and announced that unless the money
was forthcoming the cesus bureau would be
compelled to suspend all business Wednes-
day To get the members for this vote the
sergeant at arms and his deputies secured
the capitol under orders of Speaker Cannon,
Members reached the chamber in droves.
About eighty Of them were found COM
fortably seated in the Senate listening, to
the tariff debate. Adjournment was taken
at 3:07 p. m. until Monday next.
The House was not in session Friday.
The House was not in session on the Goth.
After adopting the conference report on
the census bill the House adjourned at
1885 p. M on Monday until Thursday No
other business. except the introduction of