Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-02-05
Many Interests Appear Before Conn.,
mittee to Make Objections
Champ Clark has Fun With Barley
Men in Committee Sessions

statement OF the SAdll HAL tHdt lhS
committee would sanction no change
of any item.
Notwithstanding this fact, pressure
brought to bear OH the committee has
resulted in the granting of hearings to
all persons who appear in Washington
prior to five o'clock next Thursday af-
ternoon, February 8. This date was
fixed to permit Pacific coast lumber
men to reach Washington and make a
statement.
"The hearings will be confined to COLI
ditions that have arisen since the hear
ings on the general tariff bill two years
ago." said Payne. 1T is not the COM
mittee's purpose to 60 into second
edition of hearings on the general tar
if question"
Farmers, lumbermen, barley raisers
and manufacturers of barley malt were
given hearings today. The spirit of
the committee was such, however, that
witnesses had difficulty in making a
serious impression in presenting their
arguments against the Canadian agree
ment.
The barley malt interests of Wis
consin, Minnesota, illinois, Nebraska
and Iowa were represented by large
delegations. Bruno E. Fink of Mil
waukee presented their protest against
the abolition of the thirty cent duty
on barley and said it would mean the
wiping out of the northwestern mailing
and barley raising industry and a
transfer of that industry to western
New York and Canana
"This seems to be fight then be-
tween New York and the northwest"
interrupted Representative Clark. Al
ter having that protection tor years,
you fall out amongst yourselves as to
who shall have most of it.
Fink explained that climatic condi
tions were particularly necessary i'll
the barley industry and that eastern
Ontario would at once capture the bar
ley market.
This appealed to Chairman Payne of
the committee, who had made vain
fight when the tariff bill was up two
years ago to secure free barley to aid
the mailing interests of New York.
"Nill free barley mean larger glass
of becr?" asked Payne
"No, it will not" said Fink. "Thc
price of glass of beer will remain
at five cents whether barley and barley
malt pay duty or not"
"As matter of fact" Champ Clark
said, leaning over the desk, Hasn't
the size Of the beer glass been getting
smaller and smaller?"
Yes said Fink, but you can still
get a schooner for nickel if you ask
for it,
why, when l was prosecuting at
torncy in Missouri" said Clark, 81
used to make them sell five quart bot
ties for gallon, because they was not
a full sized quart beer bottle in that
country, unless it was an old one left
over from former days. Even pint
bottles were about one good sized drink
less than the full size.'
Mating interests claimed that the pc
culiar conditions of the trade were sucl,
that if barley is admitted free, eastern
Ontario would supply the product and
western New York mailing houses
would practically control the market.
Clark expressed the opinion that Mis-
souri, could raise as good barley as
Ontario, but Fink assured him he did
not know anything about the technical
phases of the mailing and beer making
business.
Representative George R. Malby of
New York attacked the reciprocity be-
of its agricultural items and its
lowering of the duties on lumber and
wood pulp and paper. He declared that
the board had spent months accumulat-
ing all the facts bearing on the paper
making business, but that paper was
put on the free list by this treaty with
out any reference to what the tariff
board had found out.
"'rhs treaty with Canada is but the
the entering WEDGE said Malby. 1T
must be followed by treaties with other
and it threatens the whole
policy of protection
J. R. Mauff of Evanston, ILL.,, rep
resenting the American Society of
Equity, an organization of farmers,
appeared to yrotest against the reduc-
ton of duty on barley and other farm
products. He said that farm prices on
almost all commodities were lower this
year than last and that the announce
nent of the treaty terms had been fol-
lowed by an immediate lowering of the
price of wheat in this country and an
increase at Winnipeg.