The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
Leaders Think Congress Will
Adjourn Then.
Expect to Reach Vote on Tariff
Bill May Is.
THEN TO CONFERENCE
Believed Agreement Can Be
Reached Without Difficulty.
BristOw Speaks His First Word
in the Senate.

Washington. d. c., April 27-when
will congress adjourn? That is the
question many senators and repre-
sentatives are trying to answer but
| their prophecies date all the way from
the last of May to the middle of July.
Chairman Aldrich, of the senate
| finance committee. and other Repub-
| lican leaders are expressing the hope
that vote can be taken on the tariff
bill May Is. This would give two
| weeks for the bill to go to conference,
and allow congress to close June l.
| Others say the vote will be delayed
| until the first of June. and that the
senate and house conferees will spend
a month agreeing on the amendments
| to the bill Still others contend the
thing is all I'D In the air, and assert
that the greater part of the summer
will be taken up with the measure.
Senator Cullom, who has been one
of the most optimistic members OF
congress about an early adjournment.
said in somewhat disgusted tone
| yesterday that he knew adjournment
could not be taken June 1, and that
| 1t might run to August 15
Not since entering the senate has
| Senator J. l.. Bristow uttered word
on the floor in debate or regular
| routine business. Today, however,
he arose to ask a few questions re-
garding the duty on glass, Senator
Scott of West Virginia having just
finished speech on the subject.
Il was very much interested In the
remarks of the senator from West
Virginia in regard to the reduction
| in the price of glassware" said Mr.
Bristow. HE stated that the price
of a glass pitcher had been reduced
from 81 to $1-25 a Dozen
That" replied Mr.. Scott, .'is the
manufacturers price. You can buy
good pitcher for $1.25 a dozen at
the factory"
Mr.. Bristow: This result was at
tanned, 1 understand the senator to
4 say, because of 60 per cent had been
imposed l should like TO know what
were the various processes of the re-
| duction in price. How did the duty
happily in the manufacture? How was
it that the protection resulted in the
reduction ?"
Mr.. Scott: 81 do not believe that
understand the senator fully. If L
| should go into a discussion of the
glass question in it's manifold forms
| and shapes and yarities there would
be a good many technicalities that I
am sure the senator from Kansas,
without being familiar with the
manufacture of that article, would not
understand. 1 base the reduction
/ principally upon the difference in the
wages paid in Europe and the hours
glass blowers are required TO work in
! foreign countries as compared with
| the wages man receives and tho
hours he is compelled to work in this
country.
"The result in the glass business
was brought about the same it
was brought about by the protection
| that was put on tin. When a glass
| pitcher because there were scarcely
/ any made in this country. We
could not make them because of the
lack of protection. on account Of the
Mr.. Bristow: 81 probably mis-
| understood what the senator said.
My understanding was that the cost
| of a glass pitcher in the United States
| had been reduced from "a to $1-25
dozen I did not understand that all
the pitchers were imported and that
none were made in the United States
Mr.. Scott: 'sThere We're scarcely
any made here. They were nearly all
| imported and they cost anywhere
| from $3.50 to 81. As I stated before.
/ If the senator from Kansas goes TO
a manufacturer making pitchers he
can buy dozen of them. II ne Is
| dealer, at s1.25 per DOZEN
| Mr. Rristow: rs that the same
kind of a pitcher that was formerly
| imported?'
II would be at all enlightening to go
! into the quality. Some factories
make a better quality of glass than
| others 1 am speaking in general
way
The senate has confirmed the ap-
nointment of William j. waterbury
to be postmaster at Haven. Kan.
Kansas postmaster appointments
! of the fourth class: Jesse Miller at
Beaver View, Rawlins county, vice j.
w. Lawrence, resigned Charles l.
Rains at Galena; Mary Kelley at Ball,
| Cove county.
| Those who endeavored to obtain
statehood for New Mexico and Arizona
during the last session of congress, but
| whose efforts failed in the senate. are
not relaxing their efforts preparatory
to presenting the subject to the regular
/ session of congress next fail
Congressman Hamilton, OF Michigan,
| who probably will be chairman OF the
/ committee on territories, Is having tho
| deDartrnent of the interior conduct in
yestigations and gather data which will
aid in perfecting the land grant clauses
| of the statehood bill which passed the
house at the last session
Mr. Hamilton desires to overcome the
objections that were made to these
features. and VIII reintroduce ms oiil
1 at the opening of congress In December
| with the changes as he believes Will
| meet with general approval
The advocates of statehood have rs
| ceived the assurance of President Taft
that he will do all in his power to aid
in the early passage of a statehood bill.
/ pills fntroduced in the house by Com
sressn7ar J. NJ Miller Bills granting
4 Increases of pension to Jacob Holden.
| Margaret Hamilton, Evi T. Nichols,
Emerson o. Place. Joseph Lynn. Will
liam II. Shields. Augusta NJ Kelley.
Rv Congressman Victor Murdock:
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