The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14
IRON ORE DUTY
IS TWENTY-FIVE
CENTS PER TON
Party Lines AnnihiIated in the
Senate When the Vote
Was Taken.
RLYNER OF MARYLAND
BECOMES EMPHATIC
DECLARES fYoU CANNOT GET
7gg TRUTH OUT OF ANY
sopY'' ON TARIFF MATTERS.

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= Washington, May 13-After a o
d. 5av devoted to discussing the 9,
j. dutv on iron ore, the senate 2
4. adopted bv a vote of 81 to a the Q
d. recommendation from the com Z:
4. nittee on finance for q duty Of % o
d. cents per ton. The house had g
. pIaced that article on the free list, q.
4. The DiuGley duty is 40 cents per s:
4. ton Party lines were annihilated .
d. in the vote today as Il Demo- g
d. .rats voted ave" with the Re .
. pubIicans and L Republicans %
+. voted no" with the Democrats. q.
During the day Senator Bailey. d:
d. I'm announcing that he proposed q
10 vote for the duty on iron ore, 4.
as revenue measure, declared e
e. thar free ore would not affect the 4:
. or1sperity Of the United States (.
steel c0rDC ration, and added that .
d. even if il did there was a better /.
d. way to deal with that OrganiZa- @
q. ton. which was an enforcement 4:
NJ the antitrust law against it. .
d. He declared he expected to see {.
d. this law enforced and expressed .
confidence that eventually the :
q. officers of the steel corporation
d. would either be in the penitentiary 4.
q or fugitives from justice.
o. For the first time there was {.
suggestion looking to the fixing Of 4.
d. date for a vote. but IL came to
d. naueht because Of objection from .
o Senator Beveridge. &"
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Washington. May I3.-After a call OF
The senate had shown that sixty
three senator's were present today
Wr. Burrows spoke in favor Of n
dutv on iron ore as a source Of
revenue for the government. The
present duty OF 40 cents a ton.
which the committee proposes TO re-
duce 10 % cents. yields. he said. a
reynue Of 1892 600. which would be lost
By placing iron ore on the free list as
proposed by the house.
A,r Burrows said that it was rea-
s9uabe 10 state that at the present
tine $500 men were employed. re-
,eiying wages amounting to SSl. 100000
In the production of iron ore, which in
5usfrv. he said, il was proposed to
o1en up TO the competition of the
world.
Mr.. Burrows read a description of
extensive iron ore deposits in Cuba.
which he said belonged to the Penn
syIvania Steel company. This body of
ore on the north coast Of Cuba. he said.
Was larger than the iron ore deposits
O.. the Lake Superior region and all
conditions were favorable to placing
that ore on the market at cheap cost.
Answer Dodsed.
What is the relation Of this Penn
syNania Steel company to the United
states Steel corporation" asked Mr.
Brown OF Nebraska.
That is not material" replied Mr.
Burrows. 1T win appear later"
1t seems to me to be very material,
said Mr. Brown.
Senator Cummins said he understood
the Cuban ore could not be taken west
Of the AllegheGies on account Of the
freight rates
Mr. Burrows stated that from the
Lake region to Pittsburg the rate was
t-2 a ton. while from Cuba to Pitts
burg The rate was $3.50
Quoting from advance proof sheets
~ the next annual report of the geo
logical survey. Mr.. Burrows said there
are n0w iu available ore IN the United
states $500. coo tons OF high grade
ge. while IN Michigan. Minnesota and
Wisconsin there were OF lower grades
ma; viii be available and are now use
ilL le.Q)0,09O. COO tons. making 1885,
tteoJ tons, in addition to which IL is
tstma,ed that the Cuban deposits of
hsn-srade ore amount to I,57S,000 600
tons
Speaking of the basis of the facts he
said.
VIII Last 5000 Years.
The senator from South Dakota
yesterday told us that our iron ore de-
posts would be exhausted in 80 years,
llt according to the statement OF the
seological survey at the ratio OF con-
SUMPTION now going on the iron ore OF
ese three states will last little over
WV years. so that / think We need not
lAeern ourselves about the eXhaus-
Of these products 5000 years
ne presented petitions from bodies
lon ore miners in Michigan and
-@1ere protesting against the with
AI OF duty on iron ore. Saying
u the senate should reject the act
lls committee on finance placing q
10y or . cents "a ton on iron ore he
.-.q later move To put that article on
iree list Mr.. Rayner proceeded &C
-sS me iron ore industry. he read
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