Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-25
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Again the committee on finance was
upheld when the Senate Friday voted
down an amendment by Senator Cum
Minis to lower the duty on round iron,
etc, by vote of 30 to ~, and upheld
the House rate, which was recon-
mended by the Senate committe. AL
most the entire session was given up
to a debate on the profits OF the
United States Steel Corporation. and
toward the end of the day pe.-SScnali-
ties were freely INDUCED IN by Ss.na-
tors. This occurred wheN Senator
Root had spoken in defense OF the
finance committee and in criticism of
Senators who had complained of the
failure of that committee to provide
more ample information concerning
various schedules. Mr.. Money. ad-
dressing himself directly to the Sena-
tor from New York, resented what he
characterized as lecture to the Sen
ate and said that If the Senator from
New York desired less speaking in the
body ''he should do less of it him.
self" Senator Beveridge proposed an
amendment to the tariff bill increas-
ing the tax on tobacco and its prod
ucts, and charged that by continuing
the shortweight packages of the Span
ism war period the tobacco trust was
reaping a harvest of 21,000.000 a
year. The House. was not in session.
$50.
The lowering OF duties in the case of
eight or ten Glasses of wire goods con.
tanned in the stee, schedule, upon mo-
ton of Senator Aidrich, in charge of
the tariff bill. gave great encourage
ment Saturday to Senators who are
advocating revision downward. With
evident qualification Senator Beveridge
the chairman of the finance commit
tee Iy declaring: Good. that's making
progress" the entire session of the
Senate was devoted to the steel sched-
ule. the section relating to penknives
being under consideration when, at
4:44 p. M. the Senate adjourned to
meet at 10 o'clock Monday morning,
one hour earlier than the Senate has
been beginning business. The House
was not in session.
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comprehensive discussion of the
income tax by Senator Sutherland of
Utah and an extended speech by Sena-
tor Depew in support of the pending
tariff bill consumed most of the ses-
sion of the Senate Monday Mr.. Suth-
erland argued against the constitution
ality of a federal income tax law and
declared that such a tax should be left
as a means of revenue for the States.
Before adjournment couple of hours
cutlery schedule of the tariff BILL A
ruling by Speaker Cannon prevented
| the reopening in the House of old
wounds of the Civil War Mr.. Hol-
| lingsworth of Ohio sought to justify
as a matter of privilege his recent
resolution objecting to the placing OF
| the portrait of Jefferson Davis on the
| silver service to be presented to the
| battle ship Mississippi because of edi-
| torials in certain Southern newspapers
hurting all sorts of epithets at him.
| The editorials were read. The speak
er declared that as the editorials did
not attack Mr. Hollingsworth in his
/ representative capacity he could not
| continue. The result of Mr.. Hollings-
worth's attempt was toget into the Con-
! plimentary remarks about himself and
with nothing to offset them. Although
| its consideration was completed, the
| Philippine tariff bill was not finally
acted upon for the want of a quorum.
| resolution offered by Mr.. Burleson
| (Texas) was adopted, requiring the At
| torney General to furnish information
regarding the steps taken BY him to
annul the contract whereby the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation absorbed
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany unless in SO doing the public in
terests would be affected. The House
adjourned until Thursday.
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After devoting the greater part of
| Tuesdays session to debate, the Sen
ate passed upon a number of IMPORT
ant committee amendments to the tar
If bill It also disposed of adversely
an amendment by Mr.. Stone restoring
the Dingley rates on razors. On that
vote most of the progressive Republi-
cans voted in the Affirmative with the
Democrats. More than two hours were
devoted to a discussion of a resolution
| by Senator Gore to investigate the
! cost of production at home and abroad
and the relative price of commodities
at wholesale and retail The resolu-
ton was referred to the committee on
| finance. Considerable progress was
made in the adoption of several sec
tons of the tariff bill. There were
several amendments decreasing duties
| formerly reported by the committee,
but some of the others adopted increas-
ed duties The House was not in ses-
sion
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