The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-22
SENATE OPINION
DIFFERS WIDELY
Many Changes Likely to Be
Made in Tariff Bill.
AT VARIANCE ON LUMBER

Senators From Maine and Pacific
Northwest viii Resist Any Reduc.
tlon of Duty, While Minnesota and
Dakota Members Desire 1t Put on
Free Llst-strong Opposition to In
heritance Tax in Upper House.
! Washington, March 2).-That there
will be great variety of opinions on
the tariff bill when it reaches the SEN
ate is now certain, according to ex-
pressions OF senators in whose states
are Located the various industries
chiefly affected by the changes Of
schedules proposed in the house bill.
Reductions on lumber schedules will
be sturdily resisted by Senators Frye
and Hale Of Maine and by some Of the
senators from the Pacific coast and
from the extreme Northwest. Sena-
tors from Minnesota and North and
South Dakota, on the other hand, will
make strenuous effort to secure free
aumber, instead of the mere reduction
,of the tariff as proposed by the house
Bill.
The proposed inheritance tax will
Ibe stoutly resisted and senators will
have an opportunity to vote upon an
amendment providing for an income
tax. Free coal and hides also will be
resisted and there is likely to be a
strong fight against reductions in the
various iron and steel schedules.
While the general trend of senti-
,ment among senators favors an in
crease in some of the schedules and
while they generally believe that the
house has made ample reductions to
satisfy tariff .reformers at least one
Republican senator, Mr.. Cummins of
Iowa, declares that the tariff should
be made still lower and that he will
d. everything in his power to obtain
further reductions.
l. Minnesota Delegation United.
The entire Minnesota delegation has
steadily taken leading part in advo-
eating a reduction in the iron and
steel schedule and in the procurement
iof free coal and free lumber and the
senators from that state will continue
to advocate that course, as we'll as to
obtain a lower tariff on glass. It is
declared that Minnesota, North Da-
kota and South Dakota have nothing
to fear from free lumber, while they
are anxious to obtain entrance into
the Canadian market, which now has
q duty on lumber from the United
States. The lumbermen of these
states hope, by a removal of the duty
on lumber, eventually to obtain sim
tlar concession from the Canadian gov
eminent and they claim that the price
OF their product would not be changed
by removal of the tariff. s.--..r
Senator Frye of Maine says that the
removal of the duty from wood pulp
will transfer that industry to Canada
and states that the 10000 men now
employed in the wood pulp and paper
business in Maine would be placed in
forced 1dleness. These industries, he
said, represent $7O,OoO,0OO in capital.
With free hides he believed the 40 per
cent reduction in the boot and shoe
schedules would be fairly acceptable.
Senator McCumber of North Dakota
declared himself in favor Of free lum-
Der and tariff on hides and insisted
That the Inheritance tax was all right
Senator Aldrich, chairman of the
committee on finance, Is giving great
attention to the tariff bill and it is
well known that he is fully convinced
that many changes must be made in
order to make the bill acceptable to
tho saHata