Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-08
RAW WOOL ON
THE FREE LIST
Democratic Way sand Means
Committee Determined
to Ruin Industry
new WORKERS HOLD CAUCUS
Investigation Recommended of
Sugar Manufacturing and
Refining Business.
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Washington, D. c., May S.-That the
ways and means committee of the
House will put raw wool on the free
list in revising schedule K, was de-
clared to be practically certain today
and resulted in caucus of the Dem.
ocratic delegation from New York at
which eighteen members declared
themselves in favor of free raw wool
and four argued against it. All pledged
themselves to abide by the decision of
the full Democratic caucus.
Sugar Trust Investigation.
Washington, D. c., May S.-Investi.
cation of the American Sugar Rein.
ing company and all other concerns
engaged in the manufacture or rein.
ing OF sugar, to ascertain whether
there has been violations of the anti.
trust law, was recommended today by
the house committee on rules.
Free List Bill Reached Today.
Washington, May S.-The farmers
free list bill will be reached by the
mousse late today. Many Republican
opponents of the bill, armed with
amendments, have no hope of their
adoption, but insisted that repudia.
tion of their amendments should pro
ceed in regular order.
Taft on Reciprocity.
Washington, May o.-Charles M
Pepper, one of President Taft's com.
missioners in negotiating with Cana
-da concerning reciprocity, has out
lined the presidents views on that
subject in letter to John NJ. Stah]
OF Chicago, legislative agent of the
Farmers National Congress.
NO demand has been pressed more
persistently and determinedly by the
farmers of the country, and especial
ly the farmers of the middle west
than that for free lumber. It was
frankly understood that by free lum
Der was meant lumber imported from
Canada, since the Dominion is
and must continue to be exclusively
our source of foreign supply. The
realization of this hope was deferred
from time to time in our tariff legisla
tion, but no change was effected in
the popular mind. The demand con
tinued unabated.
The question of the means by
which this demand should be satisfied
became one of practical statesman.
ship. The negotiation of the recipro.
city agreement with Canada afforded
the opportunity. Free rough lumber,
with heavy reductions on dressed lum-
Der and on other lumber products. is
a distinguishing feature OF the agree
ment.
Again, it is sometimes stated that
While we are by this agreement open
ing our markets to farm products, our
manufacturers are not asked to make
any concessions. How untrue state
Elents of this kind are is apparent
from an examination of the actual
terms of the agreement. When the
commissions came to discuss the
benefits that would result from mu-
tually free interchange of dairy pro-
ducts they found that cream separa-
tors entering the United States paid
q duty of forty-five per cent. This
duty is abolished, and not only are
dairy products free but all of the spe-
cial equipment that enters into the
process of dairy making is free. The
same principle was followed through
cut In the treatment of manufactured
and they were either made
free or the duties materially reduced.
"The president highly appreciates
the conservative influence Of our farm
ers. He knows how little disposed
they are to follow leaders who seek
self exploitation. He is fully satisfied
that a years trial will demonstrate
how beneficial the reciprocity agree
ment is to all classes in the United
States, and how unfounded are the
fears that 1t will prove harmful to the
farmers. He is entirely willing on his
part to take the unbiased Judgment of
the farmers of the whole country on
the results of the agreement after it
has been in effect for a year."
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