The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-25

Tuesday. Senator Penrose. Of Penn
~sylvania, who led the reciprocity fght
in the Senate, dined with the Pre.sj-
dent on board his train tonight. In
reply TO congratulations, the Senator.
as ne made his way through the union
station TO the Presidents car, ex-
claimed: 1T was easy"
Congress May Adjourn August 10.
Senator Penrose ventured the pre-
diction that Congress would adjourn
not later than August 9th or 10Th
Afttle struggle is expected III the
Senate next week over the wool tariff.
A wool revision bill already a passed
the Democratic House. Several sub
stitutes have been offered in the SEN
ate and a vote will be taken Thursday
next.
Wool Bill to BE TakenU p Tomorrow.
No sooner had the reciprocity bill
passed than Senators began to prepare
for the attack on the tariff. The wool
bill was made the unfinished business
and will be taken up Monday morn
ing.
The indications are there will be a
Democratic conference before the vote
on the bill Thursday. The indications
tonight are hat the House bill will
be voted down without effort to
amend it, and that subsequently the
La Toilette wool bill already intro
uuSS III liz Ilo may w "AoRASN
as an amendment to the louise free
list bill, to be finally dealt with rhen
the free list vote is taken August /.
In the events that led up to the
final passage of the reciprocity meaS-
ure, when amendment after amend
ment was overwhelmingly defeated,
party lines were variously drawn.
With one Or two exceptions, only the
Republican insurgents voted for the
a~man1mentS with rejOfOrcementS
from Senators Bailey, of Texas;
Clarke, OF Arkansas, and Of
North Carolina, Democrats.
Every threatened change in h bill
was defeated by the consistent union
of Democratic and regular republican
forces. Senator P~OindeXter, OF
Washington. and Senator Works, of
California, recognized as insurgents,
voted against nearly all amendments.
he with but few eXcep-
tons voted against by
Senator Bailey, II TO put the arnlers
freel ist in as an to the
reciprocity bin, and the other to in
corporate a reduction IN the tarlf1
on cotton bagging and cotton ties.
JOhn-Norris, chairman of the Com
mittee on Paper, of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association, in
q statement issued tonight said:
The paper section of the bill be
comes effective Immediately upon APP
proval by the President and paper
made from timber cut on privately
owned lands will come in duty free
without awaiting Canadian action
In hat respect it differs from the
general reciprocity section which vii
not GO into effect until the PreSi-
dent shall proclaim that Canada has
reduced it's duties in accordance with
the agreement between the United
States and Canada
Setting forth WHIT Mr.. Norris be
lieyes will be the effect of the paper
| section of the bill, the statement says:
AN important factor in the Situa-
ton is the remova of uncertainty re-
speeding the tariff on pulp and paper
which has, for at least four years
deferred investment in paper enter
prises. Hitherto the existing Ameri.
can mills lave become free from feal
of competition, because the timbel
areas tributary to available waite
power in the United States had beef
acquired for speculative holdings.
The cheapening of tim Der value il
the United States is also a factor il
the situation. The opening of large
pulp wood areas in the Canadian prov
inces should break the artificially in.
hated price of pulp wood stumpagt
in the United States.
1.-THE daily output Of news prin
paper averages 1000 tons. Within
two years new installations should
add approximately 1000 tons per day
to the supply. Such an addition
ought to restore competitive condi
| tiOES.'