The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-14
REDUCTION. O N
IRON DUTY
VOTED
PARTY LINES WERE ANNIHILAT-
ED ON THE MEASURE.
Senator Bailey Expects to See Law
Enforced and Corporations
Prosecuted.


| to 1874 the recommendation OF the COM
mittee on finance reducing the duty
| 20 cents per ton. The house had
| placed the article on tne free list.
| The Dingley duty is 40 cents per ton.
Party lines were annihilated in the
vote today as IL Democrats voted
AYE" with the Republicans and IL
Republicans voted mo" with the DEM
ocrats.
During the day Senator Bailey In
announcing that he proposed TO vote
| for the duty on iron ore, as revenue
measure. declared tnat free ore would
not affect the prosperity Of the United
| States Steel corporation and added
that even II it did, there was bet
| ter way to deal with that organization
which was by enforcement Of the anti
| trust law against 1t, He declared he
expected to see this law enforced and
expressed confidence that eventually
the officers of the steel corporation
would either be in the penitentiary
or fugitiYes from justice.
For the first time there was sug-
gestlon looking TO the fixing of a
date for vote. but it came to naught
because of objection from Senator
BeverIdge.
Mr.. Burrows said that 1t was reason
able to state that at the present time,
the G,500 men employed receiving
wages amounting to s31, 100000 in the
production OF iron ore. which industry
he said, 1t was now proposed to open
I'D to the competition of the world.
Mr.. Burrows read description of
extensive iron ore deposits in Cuba,
which he said belonged to the Pennsyl-
vania Steel company. This body Of
ore on the north coast of Cuba, he
said. was larger than the iron ore
deposits of the Lake Superior region,
and all conditions were favorable to
placing that ore on the market at a
cheap cost,
What is the relation Of this Penn
sylvania Steel company to the Unit
ed States Steel corporation" ae
he asked Mr.. Brown of Nebraska
That is not material" replied Mr..
Burrows. 1T will appear later"
ut seems to me to be very materl-
al said NIr. Brown.
Senator Cummins said he under
stood the Cuban ore could not be taken
west Of the Alleghenies, on account OF
the freight rates.
Mr.. Burrows stated that from the
Lake region to Pittsburg the rate was
$2.2S ton, while from Cuba to Pitts
burg, the rate was S2.35.
Quoting from advance proof sheets
OF the next annual report of the geolog-
ical survey, Mr. Burrows said there
are now in available ore In the United
States, 100000 tons of high grade
ore, while in Michigan, Minnesota and
Wisconsin, there were Of lower grade
ores that will be available and are
now useful, 72 billion tons. making
75,500. 100000 tons in addition to which
1t is estimated that the Cuban deposits
of high grade ore amounts to 1,57S,-
100000 tons.
Speaking OF the basis Of the facts,
he said:
"The senator from South Dakota
yesterday told us tnat our iron ore de-
Dosits would be exhausted in thirty
years, but according to the statement
Of the geological survey, at the rate
OF consumption now going on, the iron
ore of these three states will last
a little over 5000 years, 80 that we
think we need not concern ourselves
tDoul 6huduSllOn IQSSR DrO-
ducts 5000 years hence
He presented petitions from bodies
OF Iron ore miners in Michigan and
elsewhere, protesting against the with
drawal Of the duty on iron ore.
Saying that the senate should re-
1ect the act Of the committee on f.
nance, placing a duty OF 25 cents a
ton on iron ore, he would later move
to put that article on the free list,
MIR. Rayner proceeded to discuss the
iron ore industry. He read extracts
from newspapers to the effect that II
the duty on iron ore should be re-
tanned, the act would rebound to the
benefit of the United States Steel cor
poration as the owner of the ore lands,
and would injure the independent
companies, as those companies must
buy their iron ore from the steel cor
poration, If they could not import 1t
free Of duty.
Mr.. Rayner read from statement Of
Representative Payne in the house In
defense of the action of the ways and
means committee in placing iron ore
on the free list, and remarked to the
Republican side of the chamber:
Il am here protecting Mr.. Payne
from the Republicans Of the senate"
He said he did not believe the Cuban
iron ore would go west Of the Allie
ghenies, but it would be available for
the steel companies on the Atlantic
coast in eastern Pennsylvania. Della.
ware and Maryland. The companies.
he said, were competitors Of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, from
which it now buys its iron ore.
MIR. Smith, Of Michigan. quoted Chas.
Schwab as stating before the house
ways and means committee, that to
put iron ore on the free list would re-
duce the price Of the manufactured
product.
Il don't believe a word he says" re.
torted Mr.. Rayner with energy.
Il don't believe some things, either"
replied Mr.. Smith.
There seems to be something about
the tariff" said Mr.. Rayner. 4" that
peryerts the human mind and aspira.
tions and longing of the soul for
truth"
as that true of importers as we'll as
manufacturers" inquired Mr.. Dick.
The situation in Washington here
today" replied Mr., Rayner, "is such
mat you cannot get the truth out of
anybody. l am very fond OF liars. I
have studied them by day ani by
night, but never in my life saw such
an aggregation Of them as are as.
sembled in this capitol, and they can
lie with equal facility upon one side
or the other OF the same question"
Mr.. Smith, OF Michigan, replied that
he spoke not for the steel corporation.
but for the great body of men who
owned the iron ore OF Michigan. and