Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-05-31
Fitting Subject Was Taken Up
Because They Had 10
Work on Holl-
day.
INCREASED DUTY
TO HELP The WEST
California Growers viii Benefit
by Additional Duty Placed
on Lemons at Request
OF Coast Sen
dtOrS.

Washing -on. d. c., May 31.--Sen-
ator Flint spoke on the lemon tariff
this morning, when the senators,
with sour faces, entered the Senate
hsmber compelled u work on le-
gal holiday Flint proceeded to de-
tend the amendment which pro-
poses TO increase the duty on lemons
TO one ana one-half cents per pound.
He declared that without the COM
petition of California growers on the
New York market the price Of lem
ons would increase. He said that
the present small duty amounted to
about one cent a dozen and that with
out this duty the lemon industry in
California would be wiped out. The
amendment was put and carried.
Senator Root declared against the
increase, saying that the lemon grow
ers, of California are already making
100 per cent and a further increase
in the tariff would further increase
their earnings. He showed statistics,
indicating a profit of $3.50 an acre
with expenditures amounting to $370.
Flint met the statement of profits by
saying that the growers have made
only 4 per cent Perkins declared
II
the barren wastes of California in
the early days they would grant the
increase upon seeing the fruitful val
leys of the present,
Senator Gore said he believed
there is banana trust in this coun
try and offered an amendment plac-
ing duty OF six cents a bunch on
bananas
Raynor Poltes Fun.
Washington, ID. C., May S1.-Sena-
tor Raynor Of Maryland today made
a speech abounding with humorous
references 60 many members who
have taken a prominent part in dis
cussing the pending tariff bill.
"The other day" said Senator Ray
nor, the senator from Rhode Is
land tMr Aldrich, when great
speech had been delivered attacking
the rates of duty in the wool and
cotton schedules, remarked that to
change the schedules would destroy
the very citadel of protection. Never
in my experience was a citadel i'm
such state of tumult and commo-
ton "
The speaker declared that the
other day when Senator Bristow Of
Kansas was "hammering the lead
schedule, ii seemed to disturb the
tranquility o. tine senior senator from
MasSac Sachusetts whereupon Senator
Gallinger, the surgeon of the post
always ready with his nostrums, ad-
minstered 4 stimulant to the sena-
tor from Massachusetts" Senator
Crawford OF South Dakota, having
been engaged in dsmantliug the cit
adel by tearing away the iron grid
ers Mr.. Rayner said the Michigan
senators assured Mr.. Aldrich that
they would guarantee enough iron
from their state to underpin the
structure for the next 5000 years.
The speaker called senator La
Toilette "as mild a hammered man as
ever cut throat or scuttled ship
declaring that "he is underneath the
structure all along, plotting day by
day and dreaming by night how to
undermine its foundations
Referring t. Senator Root. Mr..
Rayner pronounced him mot within
the citadel" but as having "A little
citadel of his own"
He said Mr.. Root seems always
figuring and writing" and that the
same applied to Senator Beveridge
as to whom, he said, could not tell
whether he was in the citadel trying
to get out. or outside trying TO get in
Sen. SmOot he dubbed the chaplain
Of the garrison" He added that Sem
ator Aldrich "in his moments OF re-
morse and penitence for the work he
is engaged in is entitled 10 all the
assuaging consolation. religion can af-
ford him"