The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
RULE WILL BE ALL
Or NONE
,rctpROcITY MUST STAND AS
WHOLE OR BE REJECTED
AS WHOLE.
9, Saws House Ways and Means Com
misunderstanding of Protests Will
Re Few and Brief-Lumbermen to
20 Given Chance to Present Their
Case.

washington, Feb. 6-That the Can
adam reciprocity agreement must
,+ond or fall as a whole in the house
Committee on ways and means was
made clear Saturday by Chairman
no,,no at hearings that occupied the
entire day.
nroposal of Fordney for an amend
mont of the lumber schedule and an
thor in reference to possible amend
mont of the item making barley free
wore met with the unequivocal state
mont that the committee would sane
tion no change OF any item.
Notwithstanding this, the pressure
brought to bear on the committee has
resulted in the granting of hearings to
oil persons who appear in Washington
nrior to 5 o'clock next Thursday after
noon. This date was fixed to permit
Pacific Coast lumbermen to reach
Washington and make statements.
Farmers, lumbermen, barley raisers
and manufacturers of barley malt were
given hearings. The spirit of the COM
mittee was such, however, that the
witnesses had difficulty in making
serious impression in presenting their
arguments.
Barley Growers Protest.
The barley malt interests of Wiscon-
sin. Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska and
Iowa were represented by a large dele
cation. Bruno E. Fink, of Milwaukee,
presented their protest against the
abolition of the 30-cent duty on barley
and said it would mean the wiping out
of the Northwestern mailing and bar
ley raising industry.
Mr.. Fink explained that climatic con-
ditions were peculiarly necessary in
the barley industry and that Eastern
Ontario would at once capture the bar
ley market. This appealed to Payne,
who had made vain fight, when the
tariff bill was up two years ago, to Sc
cure free barley to aid the mailing in
terests of New York.
Clark expressed the opinion that
Missouri could raise as good barley
as Ontario, but Mr.. Fink assured him
that he did not know anything about
the technical phases of the mailing
and beer-making business.
Malby of New York attacked the re-
cprocty agreement because of it's agri-
cultural items and it's lowering of
duties on lumber and wood pulp and
paper. He said the board had spent
months accommodating all facts bearing
on the paper-making business, but that
paper was put on the free list by the
treaty without any reference to what
the tariff board had found out
If Lumber Free, Logs Should Be.
hearing for Pacific Coast lumber
manufacturers was asked by Edward
Hines of Chicago, president of the Ma
tonal Association of Lumber Manufac-
turers. Mr.. Hines practically admitted
that he personally would not oppose
the agreement if American lumber in
terests could be allowed free logs from
canada. He said the treaty proposed
10 make lumber, but not logs, free.
"Lumbermen want the same privi-
lege that is given the wood-pulp manu-
lacturers, said Mr. Hines Pulp logs
are made free by the treaty"
North of Minnesota, he said, there
is the largest body of white pine left
III North America, but under present
conditions it must be manufactured on
the Canadian side.
Ohamp Clark asked Mr.. Hines wheth-
er lumber had not actually gone up
after the reduction made in the last
.drll1 bill. Mr. Hines answered that
lumber, from the manufacturers
STANDPOINT, had been going steadily
down.