The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-08
SENATE RETAINS
THE DUTY ON LEAD
Rate of One and 0ne-Haif Cents
a Pound on Lead in Ore
AgreedsT
SAME RATE PROVIDED
= In THE DlNGLhY LAW
All the Republicans and a Few
Democrats Vote as Pro
tectiOnists.

WASHINGTON. May The senate
voted today TO fix the duty on lead
contained in lead ore at IL cents
pound, which is the rate of the Dingley
law and of the pending bill as it was
passed by the house.
Fifty-thrcc senators, including all Re-
publicans present, and Senators Hughes
of Colorado, McEneTy of Louisiana,
Democrats, voted for the duty and nine
teen Democrats voted against IT, The
vote was not significant.
During the DAY Senator Clapp of Min
pcsota spoke at length in favor OF low
cring the tariff duties and Senator owen
OF Oklahoma upheld the constitution
ality of an income t1N.
Senator Clapp's Address
The session of the senate was begun
TODAY with a speech by Senator Ciapp
of Minnesota, who commented upon the
policy OF protection. and referred to
distinctions between Il protective tarlh
and tariff for revenue only.
Mr.. Clapp declared that instead OF
congress taking up the work OF com
plctc revision of the customs duties 1t
should have taken one schedule at
time. in which event there would not
have been the great excitement ana rue
opposition which existed when al the
schedules were taken up. The effect OF
the Elkins law. he cited as having been
passed with little popular attention,
while the last railroad rate Legislation.
he declared. had met opposition because
agitation had exercised the public mind
and caused widespread opposition
and predictions of danger TO the inter
ests affected. so the present tarIh op-
position. he said. had been provoked by
widespread agitation, whereas had the
schedules been taken up separately, re-
vision could more easily have been ac-
comphshrd.
Must Revise Downward.
The promise Of the Republican party,
Mr.. Clapp declared, was that the tariff
should be revised downward, aud he as
serted that this promise had been made
in response to a positive demand. lie
said the position on the part of the
protected interests was that VIC
should leave we'll enough alone. and
on the part of the consumers, "That
the tariff should he revised.
''You can t tell me. he said, ''that
the latter demand did not mean that
the tariff should he revised downward.
TO take any other position is mere
bows play. nothing less than farce.
aud if I did not believe the duties
were to be lowered in response 10 this
cxaction, | would pack my grip and go
homo. for, as a senator, am not re-
Quired 10 participate in such farce as
the mere re-enactment of the DlnglcY
rates The people understood that We
were to have j revision downward; {;
II -,o I.a ha "a of ~ 10y.
stood it: We understood it Every
body understood it. and no amount of
sopbistry eau otherwise explain the
popular demand and the party promise.
Don't Make 1t Farce.
elf this PROMISE he said. ''was
for revision that would mean the
maintenance of the Dinelcv rates, theu
we are confronted by the ridiculous
ness of the chief executive calling con
gress together TO revise something that
should stand unchanged until the end of
time When tho people made the de
mand for a tariff revision downward
there was no suggestion that these IN
dustries were not sufficiently protected.
If the demand for revision did not
mean changing the duties downward. it
did not mean anything, and we arc in
dulging in i farce now
q Declaring that if congress should fail
now TO lower the tariff rates the Demo
cratic party would hc put IN po-
sitiop TO so revise il two years hence.
Mr.. Clapp said he did not wish TO use
threats, but merely TO tcll the truth.
1.-The American people, he added,
F'harc determined upon this revision
downward. and anything else Will dis
appoint them. 1t may be in your
power he said as he faced thc Re.
publican senators, "to act contrary TO
the wishes of the people, but so sure as
YOU do that. two years from now this
tariff will be revised not by the friends
of protection, but by the enemies of
protection,
Lead Schedule Up.
When The lead schedule was again
taken up. Senator Stone took issue with
his Republican colleague, Mr.. Warner,
on the duties provided in The bill,
declaring that the rates of the houss
bill were sufficient TO protect the great
lead industry of his state. and that the
increases made by the senate committee
on finance were unnecessary for that |
industry.
F'Iu my opinion continued Mr. |
Stone, "l1. cents n pound on lead |
orc is more than it ought to be. |
even from the standpoint of the pro
tcctionist; and | will vote to put it
down TO | cent.
Referring to remarks by Mr. Bristow |
yesterday Mr.. Stone declared there
were moro people using white lead than
making 1T, and they were entitled to |
equal consideration.
Mr.. Warner agreed with his colleague
that the lowering of duties on lead
would not increase lmportatiops. He
did think. however, that anyone ia.
niliar with the conditions in the lead
mining districts of Missouri in 1856
would attribute the small jmporta tions
1T that time to lowering of the duty,
IN the opinion of Mr.. Carter, de.
,ided majority of the senatc was in
accord with the lead industry. The
'ate of n of cent pound, lie de-
larnd WIZ Inin0us lie dnfnnlnd The