Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-06-23

Senator McCumber was elected a.
a member of the finance committe,
of the Senate on the 22a of March,
1909 This is one of the committees
| of the highest rank in the senate and
was especially an important commit.
tee in the special session Of the SiNty-
| first congress, for To this committee
was referred the tariff bill rs il
passed the house. The committees
of the Senate report through then
chairman and the chairman Of the
committee always has charge of tho
legislation reported from the com
mittee. Senator Aldrich was char
man of the finance committee and
as such reported il and bad chayw,
OF 1T during It's passage through tn,
| Senate No measure Will even ht
considered by the Senate unless la
voraby reported by a committee
and as a rule the Senate accepts the
determination of its committees,
The house tariff bill was amended in
many essential features by the
finance comittee of the Senate and
then recommended to pass.
Some of the newspapers OF the
state have severely, and occaslonaliN
malevolently, criticised the senator S
work i'm connection with the tariff
bill, yet none have cited any facts
substantlatng their accusations.
The senator has not answered these
criticisms We submit his record
during the special session to the peo-
pie as a complete answer. Let them
read it and Judge for themselves
The national Republican platform
pledged a revision of the tariff. That
Senator McCumber understood to
mean i'm most cases a downward re-
vision, measured by the difference
in cost of goods at home and abroad,
This work he took up with three
great principles in mind lilst
| The party pledge must be redeemed
Second The law must adequately
protect the interests of the wage
Garner and of all classes of Amer.
| ican citizens, and especially the az.
ricultural interests of the people OF
| North Dakota; Third: That the
real purpose of the tariff law is t.
raise sufficient revenue to meet The
growing expenditures of the govern
ment. and the schedules of the law
Unjust always recognize this princi
Pile He favored substantial rcduc
tions of all duties in most instances
but for the retention of dutie.
affording adequate protection to The
products of the tillers of the soil h,
fought valiantly and successfully
AS proof of his declarations we cite
a few amendments which he offered
On page l54S of the Congressional
| Record he offered an amendmen
| placing barbed wire ON the free list
He secured a duty of one-fonrth o.
one cent per pound, being a reduc
tion of thirty seven per cent Of tn,
Dingley rate
On page 3317l7 he moved to inscr
the House provision placing btu
|minous coal on the free list n,
advocated free coal Unable To Sc
cure that he accepted a conlpromis
of tprty-tive cents per ton and fifteel
cents per tom for slack. being a re
| duction of thirty three per cent o
the Dingley rates. Anthracite Goa
:. is on the free list.
On page 1876 he offered an amend
ment providing for free lumber
He very earnestly and ably advoca'
ed free lumber, and his discussin
of hat subject appears on fortyfou
pages of the record. However, th
lumber interests of the coast throllg
their REPRESENTATIVES IN the Senat,
insisted on protection against tn
Hindoo and other cheap Oriental |;
Dor Of British Columbia. assertin
that unless such protection was gis
len them they would be forced out {
business and the lumber interest q
the Pacific coast destroyed. Althoug
the effort To secure free lumber Wa
unsuccessful, Still substantial ree!ut
tions on all classeso lumber, WhetF
.er surfaced or not, We're largel
through his instrumentality Of
tailed The reductions ON laMhe
were
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He was largels Instrumental IN s.
curing substantial reductions Of Il