Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-14

/ "a RA1NlIRe ASiAlNSItD QI1.fss
Saying that the senate should reject
| the act of the conlmitte on 1inance
placing a duty Of % cents u ton on
iron ore, he would later move to pur
| that article on the free list Mr.. Rayner0
! proceeded to discuss the iron ore in
dustrS. He read extracts from news
1 papers to the effect that il the duty
| on iron orc should be retained the act
would rebound to the benefit OF the
United States Steel corporation, as The
owner of the ore lands and would in
| jure the independent steel companies,
as those companies must buy their iron
! ore from the steel corporation il they
could not import it free OF duty.
Mr.. Rayner read from a 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:
II 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
ghenics, but it would be available for
the steel companies on the Atlantic
coast, III eastern Pennsylvania, Della
ware and Maryland. The companies. he
said, were competitors OF the United
States Steel corporation, from which it
now buys It's iron ore.
RAINIER DOESN'T BELIEVE HIM.
Mr.. Smith of Michigan quoted Charles
Schwab as stating before the house
ways and means committee that to put
iron ore on the free list would not re-
duce the price Of the manufactured
product.
II don't believe 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, that per-
verts the human mind and aspirations
and lodgings of the soul for truth
rs that true of importers as we'll as
of manufacturers? inquired Mr.. Dick.
THE situation in Washington here
today" replied Mr.. Rayner, "is such
that you cannot get the truth out OF
anybody i am very fond Of liars.
have studied them by day and night,
but never in my life saw such an ag-
gregatlon of them as are assembled in
this capital, and they can lie with
equal facility upon one side or the
other side of the same question:"
Mr.. Smith of Michigan replied that
he spoke not for the steel corporation
owned the iron ore of Michigan and for
the thousands OF men who worked
in those mines of his state.
Later MI. Smith said Mr.. Scllwalo
owned more iron ore property iii Cuba
than anybody else and that consequent !
ly free iron ore would give him fine
bonus on his property there.
Short speeches were made by sem
ators defining their positions with ref
erence to the proposed protection Of 25
cents ton on iron ore. Mr.. Nelson
(Repubican) favored the free entry OF
that product. Mr.. Daniel Democracy
wanted it to pay the duty of 8 cents.
thing was ever to be done about the
illegal" absorption Of the Tennessee
Coal & Iron companytby the United
States Steel corporation.
Mr.. CulbersonEreplied that iffthe at
torney- general had not Information to
show the illegal nature of that com
bination hef would furnish it to him.
MIR. MONEY FOR REVENUE.
81 an for revenue declared Mr..
Money who is a minority member Of
the finance committee. He. introduced
statement giving the total value of
products and the total wages entering
Into each under each schedule of.tthe
bill.
'This bill does not carry revenue
enough" he said. II am OF the opin- |
ion that the expenditures of the gov
ernment cannot be reduced, and will |
venture to predict that the next supply |
bills, instead of carrying $l,032, 900 900 |
will amount to s1,10o,0o0.O00.
Il am one man, at least, who Is for |
the United States of America first and |
next for the consumers" |
Mr.. Money had read a circular calling !
upon people to- write letters to senator's !
asking for free hides and to request |
others to do so, and characterized the !
system as an endless pra yer
Now, il these people would get to-
gether on free hides, free leather and
free shoes, Jumping them together, I |
might stand for the program said |
Mr.. Money.
Mr. McCumber referred to the esti- |
mate of j. J. Hill that the merchant |
able iron ore OF this country would be |
exhausted in 50 years |
Mr.. Aldrich, quoting from the report |
of the chief of the geological survey, |
said the estimate OF iron ore in sight
was SO billion tons, which, he said, |
would last 1900 year
BAILEY ON REVENUE.
Analysing the economic features in
volyed In free iron ore as giving the
United States Steel corporation the |
same advantage of chearness as 1t |
would give the independent companies |
Mr.. Bailey was arguing that the levy
ion e, of 1e tairT wy, g a m Z, - ,f