The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-06-17
BILL is MADE UNFINISHED BUSl-
NESS AND SESSIONS ARE
CALLED EARLIER.
WILL MEET At NOON HEREAFTER
Mecumber and Curtis Speak Ia OPP.
position to the Measure-Ber.
COR Makes Maiden.
Speech.

sideratiOn of the Canadian reciprocity
bill the senate listened to speeches
by Senators Curtis of Kansas and Nc
Cumber of North Dakota. in oppoSi-
, ton to the measure. The senate made
T! the bill the unfinished business on
the calendar and without opposition
changed one regular daily hour Of
meeting to ~ o'clock noon, which
is expected to materially assist in
disposng of the speeches.
Senator Penrose, in charge of the
bill, expressed satisfaction at the out
look, saying he believed there will
be general cooperation in bringing the
discussion to close as speedily as
possible.
Senator Bristow introduced an amend
ment regulating the sugar duty. His
amendment would strike out the Dutch
standard provision of the present law
and remove the differential between
raw and refined sugar. so that the
duty would be 81 cents per hundred
on sugar testing Is degrees and az
cents for each additional degree. MIR.
Bristow expressed confidence that the
able vote.
Senator Gore asked and obtained
leave for the printing Of speech
made in the Canadian parliment by ].
A. Sexsmith, a member, In opposition
to the reciprocity agreement. He
said Mr.. Sexsmith was a farmer and
that he painted an especially dark
picture for Canada as the result of
the ratification of the convention. For
himself, Mr.. Core said he occupied
middle ground, believing that ruin
would come to neither"
Democrats Stick to the Tariff.
An attempt to extend the legislative
program Of the Democratic majority
in the house at this extra session of
congress failed at caucus of the
Democratic representatives. The re-
suit is reinforced determination Of
the Democrats to confine their legis-
lative efforts at this session to the
tariff.
Among the matters which the eau
Gus turned down were the bill provid-
ling for a change from three to five
years as the enlistment period in the
army and other reorganization bills
introduced by Chairman Hay. of the
committee on military affairs. Bills
which the committee on naval affairs
wishes to have passed at this session
and other minor bills and emergency
measures were desied consideration.
Socialist Makes Maiden Speech.
The maiden speech Of Representa-.
tive Victor Berger, of Wisconsin, the
only Socialist member of congress,
was the feature of an otherwise dull
general debate Ia the house on the
bill for the revision of the wooden
schedule. Mr.. Berger supported the
bill on the ground that it would break
down International barriers Repre-
sentatives Kahn, Of California, and
; Moore, of Pennsylvania, spoke against
the bill, Representatives Howard OF
} Georgia, and Cooke, of Ohio, in favor
of it.
While purposing to vote for the
pending Underwood wool bill Mr. Rer.
GER in his speech, declared there is no
such thing as protection to labor in
tariff bills and that any such pretense
was because working men have votes.
He said the measure was of small
immediate concern to the working
class, meant no material changes in
their conditions, but he would support
the bill because 1t is in line with SO.
cial and political evolution, tends to
destroy the old tariff snperstitions and
to bring into closer relation the PEG.
pies of the world" He traced the
history Of the tariff to show that at all
times it was subsidy to the manu-
facturers and declared that the high
tariff does not protect the workingman
!, DULUTH MAN is sUBPOENAED,
Writ n. Cook Summoned 70 Te.%iFv 4.