Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-11
REPUBLICAN
STRENGTH sure
Senate Demonstrates it in vote
10 Uphold Finance Committee
Recommendation on Lead.
ALpRlcH is MUCH PLEASED.
senators s.noot md sutherland DIS
putc.l senator c'i,iniills, '''a'e'aien' z.
Regarding Freight Ratcs'

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y,-as1,inston Sf.iy in.--The apit'tN
90 tho Republican majority q ~
senate to uphold the recommends :
OF the committee Oh finance On .ns
lead schedules which retaiils tn
T,inglev rates In the tariff bill IN place
4 Or Tie ,oSer duties fixed BY the $siousc,
,yns fulle represented TODAY. when pY
j, vote OF 30 TO A, the: senate
"a = reduce BY one-quarter on q cSi.1 y
gNund the duty on pig Lead q ! recon- S.,la
Euended bv the committce.oli ilii ni.lai
In 7this vote IL Republicans Nosed
ritI5the Democrats and two Demo
Scrats With the Republicans. ny
,,iva cote the senate adopted the rate
* OF a " cents 4 pound on PIG lea ''t -. 80
Recommended by the comraittee.
Chairman Aldrich said nc y re n
Z ttc y,tt, as IN Endorsement Of the ae,
lion Of the committee. and seNpfess seq
confidence that all the isched1uics OF sile
committee would be upheld
HEYBUI,N,s5 SPEECH.
Mr.. Hepburn spoke ut length III y. das Y >
cussing methods and the systems q
Treating lead ore. ~ oi '' ~
1 stiatc the necessity Tor uliterelilia
duty on big orc and other products
of lead orc. H..
All 5thc&industiies Of idaho. said Mr.
Heyburn. encirclc the lead mines, ana
disaster to the mines would result IN
general business tagnation, II g clali :
cd that without the protection OF PIE
lead provided bS the anfendment OIL
4 the committee on finance. the leailg IN
4 dustry could not continue. Smelling
d in Mexico, lie said, costs but oneIhtl
q MS much as here, and mining anout
two-thirds. "
" AS .l8conlpronlise between the con-
tentfon3 of senators who have contend
ed against giving any differential FOR
pig lead and these VII !1a We sistcd
Oh fve-elghtls OF a cent a abound, as
proposed by the committee finnnce. Il
Senator Cnmmins offered an amend.
! rnent fixing the duty AZ three-eignts
Of a cent! a pound. III addition to the
duty of X one aud oilc-half cents
pound on the lead in lead ore.
y safoo1 is. EMPHATIC.
ing the frelshtFrates on lead ore from
q western states to New York were dis
5puted by M essrs. N1tlrich. Sutherland
8and smoot. Sfr. Smoot5 was pa rticui-
arly emphatic in stating that the rate
was about s25 a ton and not $ or
as claimed by MI. Cummins.,
The j owa senator however, declared.
that If there was any railroad chars-f
ing a, rate of SIS 81 ton on lead ore
from alt5Iake to New. York, Congress
should turn aside for a. few minutes.
from the consideration of the tariff
and deal vigorously with any such
railway.
In the opinion of Mr.. Boral1, no
y form OF legislation would hurt the
lead and smelter trusts. 1t was idle
\ he commended, for a ny ono to say there
A We're no such trusts. SO thoroughly
intrenchetl We're they, he snid, that
4 they easily could avoid the provisions
Or thetbill by transferring their bases
Of operations.
Referring to the criticism. which
tain senators. Mr. Nelson said he was
tired Of being lectured about the
schedules of the bill sandsthe orthodoxy,
Of tho Republican PARTY.
a NATTER o II TICKLING.
let us recognize tho fact, he said,
THAT the tariff bill Is just like the
\ rivers and barbors bill. You tickle me
and I'll tickle you. gu give MS what
Y We want on the Pacific const for our
lead orc and o,'I' citrus fruits. and we
will sticllleg the people Of New England
and give them what they want on
their cotton goods
Mr., Nelson said ALI comparisons We're
being made ON the BASIS of "the poor
laboring il1n:lsi in his competition with
the poems of Mexico and In other ways.
81 lie said he wished some OF the senator.
= Who We're interested III the su.Ating
ana refining trusts could be compared
Il With the Mexican poems.
In ~ briee speech MI. Bradley OF Ken
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