Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-01
WANTS IT FREE
Senator TiIIman Aaainst tho
Lumber Trust.
FAv0RS FREE TRADE

| ht, MATERIAL, md So
Votes to Put All Lumber ON ths
Free List-Senator Gilman T.t,.
issue With Senator AIirtch and
Talks Out Plainly.
Senator Tillman took occasion 9.
the United States Senate on Wednes-
oay TO define his position on the lum-
Der schedule by voting to nut nj,
'iasses OF lumber on che free list
ana thus make building material no
cheap as possible to the consumer
lie emphasized his opposition to tho
lumber trust by voting Wednesday
LOT an out and out free lumber sohed-
uie' In his letter from Washington
70 Inc State Zach MCGEE, in SPEAK
ing of Senator Tillnan's vote for
free lumber says:
He voted some weeks ago aso,,,.
the McCumber amendment 70 mn.
t'0e llSt. Following
'ne statement he made several davs
thereafter that he did this bec,usS
the McCumber amendment ala ,o.
'H'iuue all Glasses of lumber, he
stated on the floor of the senat.
wednesday that he had been aw,t,
ing an opportunity to vote for frao
lumber when all grades of Irr,hau
Snouiu be included. He voted
euhesday for an out and out free
lumber schedule.
Ihis leaves Messrs. Lever and
Hlerbe' the two house members who
'o'eo Tor the 81 duty on lumbar
"ione IN the South Carolina delepa-
t'on' lhey Will make no statement
ior publication at this time. but tha,
say they are willing to face mi,
CONSTITUENTS on the subject at the
proper time.
" hen the DINGHY bill passed
senator Iillman voted for se duty
ON rough lumber. stating at that tim.
lhat II there was to DO any staaIfne
nc wanted his share. This year ha
nas announced that he has given mn
.hat doctrine. as he has found TINT
nc does not get his share. So,nr-
BODY else gets II. and he says 1, th,,
case they are the big lumber syndf-
Gates whose owners for the most part
I'VE In some other States"
a press dispatch SAYS the first
vote on the lumber schedule In tho
senate Wednesday was on an amend-
ment by Senator McCumber propoe-
ing the rate of 81 per 1000 on
sawed lumber instead of the Sl.5o de
clded upon by the finance committees
! The committee was sustained. a. 10
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From the beginning OF the ses-
| sion there has been a decided contest
over tho lumber rate, and one OF
the hardest fights made by the North
western senator has been for free
lumber. In the house the reformers
succeeded in reducing the Dingley
! law rate from 50 to 81.
| Insisting that the differentials on
planed or finished lumber provided
by the finance committee were up-
necessarily high. Mr.. McCumber of.
fered an amendment reducing them
33 1-3 per cent and reducing tho
duty on sawed lumber to Sl.25 Der
900 feet.
Mr. Aldrich had read a letter from
a Vermont sawmill owner showing
that the mills charged four times as
much 20 tongue and groove and plane
a board on four sides as TO plano II
on one side.
Jumping quickly to his feet, Sena-
tor Tillman denied that such DIFF
ference OF cost could exist.
anybody who has ever been in a
saw MILL" he declared, knows that"
He vociferously chided the Rhode
Island senator. who, he insisted. was
"the whole senate" for not promptly
passing the tariff bill.
AS Mr.. Aldrich protested that be
wished to vote as soon as possible the
South Carolina senator apologized for
taking up any time in debate. added :
When the senator makes a state
ment like that ] can not sit here like
an ass as if l agreed with 1t when
know it is not true"
Mr.. McCumber's amendment was
rejected 80 to 40.
The vote was then taken on the
main proposition. the finance com
mittee amendment placing a duty Of
$3.50 on sawed lumber with differen
tials on finished lumber. The com.
mittee won. so to 2S.
BY amendments offered by fir. Aid
rich and adopted. the duty on clap
boards was increased from 81 tc
$3.50 per 900; on laths from 90 tc
25 cents per 1000 and on shingles
+ from 80 to 70 cents.
The entire schedule relating Il
doow and manufacturers of wood wa