Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-07
Pu|p Industry Guarded in
The Tariff Dispute.
ECONOMY Program Means Hard
Fight in Committees.
Maine Delegation Is Back and
Ready for Work.

-Maine'S interests in the pulp and pa
per industry will be well guarded in
the negotiations with respect to the
imposition of the maximum tariff
against Canada. There are no pros
poets OF the duty being lowered be-
yond the rates that Went into effect
under the rev law and, While the sit
uation is not altogether composed with
reference to the future tariff relations
between the two countries. there is lit
tie likelihood OF the maximum tariff
being imposed that would invite retal-
iation from canada and make the i'm
portation of pulp logs into the United
States more difficult,
A great amount of buster has been
INDUCED in regarding the Canadian
situation. In the meantime the tariff
Board. of which Prof. Henry G. Emery.
of Yale University and Ellsworth,
Maine, is chairman has been diligently
at work gathering information about
the situation. This information is for
the President. but the State Depart
ment is keeping watch of the work and
care is being taken not to cause any
additional friction. The New England
men in Congress want a continuation
| of pleasant relations between the Unit
| ed states and Canada There is a vast
amount of trade between the New
England states, Maine included, and
| the eastern provinces of the Dominion
and while practically all of the New
England Senators and Representatives
| want the products of their constituent
cies protected from the Canadians,
they are anxious that this interchange
of goods should be encouraged.
Senator Hale. who is just returning
here FOR the resumption of the session
of Congress will call an early meeting
OF his Committee on Appropriations to
| handle the SUPPLY bills that the House
| has already disposed of. The first of
these will be the District of Columbia
! appropriation bill which supplies the
! funds fer the government of the Dis
trict, including the beautiful city of
| Washington. The Maine Senator pro-
| poses that the supply bills shall be
| handled expeditiously at his end of the
| Capitol this winter and also that the
| totals of funds carried shall be kept
down. The District bill, as it energies
from the Appropriation Committee
will he closely scrutinized for eviden-
ces of the results of the Maine Sena-
tors first tussle with the economy
| problem under the new regime.
Half dozen bills will be coming
over from the House at intervals dur
ing tie next two or three months. car
rying totals of hundreds of millions.
| These will go to Senator Hale'S COM
mttee to be handled directly under his
| eupery ision. But apart from these will
| be fully half a dozen other appropria-
| ton bills. made up by different COM
mittees Of the House and assigned to
| similar committees in the Senate-the
| Army bill. for instance to the Military
| Committee; the Navy bill to the Naval
| Committee, the Agricultural bill to the
| Committee on Agriculture; the Dip
| lomatic bill to the Committee on For
eign relations and so on through quite
a category The Maine Senator, in his
| role as Chairman and as Senate leader.
will bear hand in keeping the totals
of those bills down. He will work
much in that direction through the
new Committee on Expenditures, which
comprises in its membership. all the
chairmen Of these other committees
that prepare appropriation bills.
Personally Senator Hale is not hope
full of accomplishing much in the
economy crusade. He knows how in
sistent the demands are for appropria-
tons and what task it is to keep the
friends of divers appropriations from
standing together and carrying all
their leagued items through. Then this
is the long session of Congress when it
is easier to- pile up the authorizations
for many different kinds of eXpendi
lures than at short session. While
there is talk about adjourning Con-
gress early this year it will easily run
well along toward the end of April and
perhaps will extend into May and
June. The longer the session lasts the
greater the chances for big appropria-
tons and the larger the task of the
Senate and House leaders in keeping
the totals within bounds
Senator Frye is back here after
very pleasant holiday season spent
with his granddaughter and her hus-
hand, Mr. and Mrs. Hobart at Patter-
son. In recent years he has been
spending Christmas and New Years
there, as is it convenient to Washing
ION ard is almost like his own immedi-
ate family. as Mrs. Hobart, before ner
marriage, lived in Washington with
him and her mother. Mrs. Briggs, dur
ing sessions of Congress
Senator Frye is interested in several
matters of legislation this winter, al
though not on such an extended scale
as his colleague. His Committee on
Commerce handles a large number Of
bills every session. Many of them are
comparatively small bills but in the
aggregate they comprise big feature
of a winters legislation. The River
ana Harbor Bill. which the House
Committee is now preparing comes be-
fore the junior Maine Senator's Com
mittee. 1t will carry appropriations to
the amount of probably $60.000,0o0 and.
perhaps, of as much as SSoooo,Ooo.
While the House decides upon the first
draft of that bill it is always revised