The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-18

imposed was likely to throw the con-
troll of the sale of hides into the hands
of the meat packers in Chicago.
I'm order to balance the reduction
on hides. however there was great
reduction in shoes-from % to 10 per
cent: on sole leather from 20 to 5
per cent: on harness from 40 to Is
per cent. There also was a reduc-
ton in the duty on coal of 33 1-3 per
cent All countervailing duties were
removed from oil. naphtha. gasoline
and its refined products.
Lumber was reduced from 81 to
1925. 1t is said that there might
have been more. but there were many
business interests in the south, in
Maine along the border. and espec-
iqlv in the far Northwest, which in
i'sisted that it would give great adj
: vantage to Canadian lumber IL the
reduction were made more than 10
i cents. Mr. PinchOt. the chief fOres-
! ter. thought that it would tend to
! make better lumber in this country
| if more duty were retained on it. The
! !~mber interests thought 50 was none
and the compromise effected. Per
sonaliy I was in favor Of free lumber
because / did not think that if ,the
tariff wns taken off there would be
mi1C:, -, ling among the lumber in
tcre-fs
IN the controversy the house and
senate took a middle course and who
en- say they we're not justified?
Woo Schedule Too High.
With respect to the wool schedule,
agree that it is too high, and that
t Orght to have been reduced and
thet it probably represents consider
ably more than the difference be-
tween the cost of production abroad
and the cost of production here The
difficulty about the wool schedule is
that there We're two contendlng fac
tons early in the history of the re-
publican t4riffs-wool growers and
the WOODEN manufacturerS-and that
finally many years ago they settled
on basis by which WOO! in the
grease should have II cents pound
and hv which allowance should be
made in the Shrinkage in the deferen-
tial upon WOO! manufacturers. The
percentage Of duty was very heavy
quite beyond the difference of the cost
of production. which was not then
regarded as a necessary or proper
Limitation of productive duties
when it came to the question of
reducing the duty on wool Mr.. Payne
and Mr.. AIdrich found that in the
republican party the interests of the
wool growers of the far West and the
interests Of the wooden manufacture
ers in the F, st and in other states
were sufficiently strong to defeat any
attempt to change the wooden tariff
and that hid it been attempted it
would have beaten the bill reported
from either committee.
Il am sorry that this is so, and |
wish if could have been otherwise.
This is the one important defect in
the Payne tariff bill, and the perform
ance OF the promise of the platform to
reduce rates to difference in the cost
OF production with reasonable profit
to the manufacturer That it will in
crease the price of wooden cloth or
clothes. | very much doubt.
There has been increase by the nat
ural increase in the price of wool the
world over as an agricultural product,
but this was not due TO the tariff be-
cause the tariff was not changed. The
increase would. therefore, have taken
place whether the tariff was changed or
not The cost of wooden cloths, be-
hind the tariff wall through the eff
feet Of competition. has been greatly
less than the duty. if added to the price,
would have made it.
's'TEaF,, cop1nlaipt now DN the
Woolen' clothiers and by the carded
wooden people of this wooden schedule.
! They have honored me by asking in
circulars sent out by them that certain
questions be put to me in respect to it
, and asking why 1 did not veto the bill
in view of the fact that the WOODEN
schedule was not made in accord with
! the platform.
Worsteds Are the Style.
Il ought to say in respect To this
point that all of them in previous ia
riffs were strictly in favor of main
/ tanning the wooden schedule as it was
| The carded wooden people are finding
that carded woods are losing their sales
, because they are going out of style.
People prefer worsteds. The clothing
people who are doing so much circu-
: larlZlng We're content to let the wooden
schedule remain as it was until very
late in the tariff discussion, long after
the bill had passed the house, and i'll
deed they did not grow very urgent
until the bill had passed the senate
: This was because they found that the
price of WOODEN cloth was going up and
they desired to secure reductions in the
tariff which would enable them to. get
! cheaper material. They themselves
3 are protected by q large duty and l
cannot with Difference to them ascribe
their intense interest other than to
deep sympathy with the ultimate con-
sumers. so-calied. But l am quite
willing to admit that allowing the
wooden schedule to remain where it is
! is probably not a compliance with the
terms of the platform
Beet Ever Passed.
ON the whole however. | am bound
to say that | think the Payne tariff bill
is the best tariff bin that the republi
can party ever passed: that in it the