Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-21
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Just before adjournment Friday the
Senate voted to fix the duty on lead
contained in lead ore at IL cents q
pound. which is the rate of the Ding.
ley law, and OF the pending bill as it
was passed by the House of Representa-
lives. Fifty-three Senators, including
all Republicans present, and Senators
Hughes of Colorado and McEnery of
Louisiana, voted in favor of the duty,
and nineteen Democratic Senators
voted against it. This particular par
agraph has not been opposed by the
low tariff Republicans and the vote
was not significant. During the day
Senator Clapp of Minnesota spoke at
length in favor of lowering tariff du-
ties and Senator Owen of Oklahoma
upheld the constitutionality of an in
come tax. The House was not in ses-
sion.
The entire session of the Senate
Saturday was consumed with a debate
on the schedule Of duties on pig lead
and it's products. The stout opposi-
ton presented to the adoption Of The
amendments recommended by The
committee on finance making the
rates similar to those of the Dingley
bill prevented a vote being reached be-
fore adjournment. The House was
not in session.
The ability of the Republican ma
iority of the Senate to uphold the rec
o~mmendation of the committee on
finance on the lead schedule, which
contains the Dingley rates in the tar
iff bill in the place of the lower du-
ties fixed by the House of Representa-
tives, was fully demonstrated Monday
when by a vote of So to IA the Senate
declined to reduce by one-quarter of a
cent a pound the duty on pig lead. as
recommended by the comittee on
finance. In this vote eleven Republic
cans voted with the Democrats and
two Democrats with the Republicans.
BY a viva voce vote the Senate adopt
ed the rate of 2A cents a pound on
pig lead as recommended by the COM
mittee. At the conclusion of the SEES
sion Chairman A.ldrich stated that he
regarded the vote as an Endorsement
of the action of the committee, and he
expressed confidence that all the SEIZED.
ulcs of the committee would be up-
held. Strenuous opposition by the
Democrats in the House prevented the
reference of the Presidents message
recommending certain legislation for
Porto Rico to the committee on ways
and means A motion Nv Mr. Gov
rett ~(Tennessee) directing the speak
er to appoint forthwith the committee
on insular affairs, which under ordi
nary procedure would have charge of
the subject. disclosed the fact that a
quorum was not present. Consequent.
ly the message was left on the speak.
er's table until Thursday. The Phil
ippine tariff bill was reported and Mr..
Payne ave notice that he would call
it up Thursday.
Substantial progress was made in
the consideration of the tariff bill Tues.
day, the amendments of the committee
on finance being upheld by the Senate
by substantial majorities. A feature
OF the session was a general discussion
concerning the great disparity between
wholesale and retail prices of commod.
tiles. Republican Senator's declared
that this difference was so great as to
demonstrate that the duty levied by q
protective tariff had small effect on
the price paid by the consumer This
feature of the discussion was precipi.
tated by Senator Scott. himself a glass
m q nllf9ptl1rnr Tho ~o1,ol1
the products of lead was passed over
upon the suggestion of Senator AL
dr1ch, because, he said, the finance
committee desires to make some
changes in the duties, as previously
recommended. The House was not in
session.
Alter several hours spent in the Sen.
ate Wednesday in discussing the win.
dow glass schedule of the tariff bill
Senator Aldrich asked that that para
graph be passed over Some other sec
tons relating to glass manufactured
articles that previously had been pas
ed over were agreed to. The Sen...e
proceeded to the consideration of nass-
ed over sections until the iron ore par.
agraph was reached, when Senator
Crawford spoke at length upon the
lack OF wisdom of any tariff that en-
couraged the exhaustion of natural re-
sources, which could not readily be re-
produced. lie insisted that there
should be no tariff on iron ore, oil,
lumber and coal Early in the session
Senator Paynter spoke in favor of he
removal of the duty of 6 cents a pound
upon leaf tobacco, as a means for free
ing the tobacco growers from the ON
troll of the tobacco trust. The House
was not in session.
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