The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-03-15

in that case, the treaties under cor
sideration never became operative. II
1905 under President Roosevelt, Secre
tary Hay negotiated arbitration treat
les with Eng land and other power
which providing that questions of vita
interest, national honor and those al
fecting third parties, were not to b.
arbitrated.
The senate by a vote OF more thar
five to one amended the treaties t.
provide that any special agreement.
for arbitration were to be presented
for its advice and consent. The treat
les were pigeon-holed in the state de
partment.
Three years later, Secretary Root
now Senator Root, negotiated abou'
% arbitration treaties which the sen
ate ratified, but in each of those the
advice and consent of the senate tC
arbitration was expressly provided for
Diplomatists think the situation much
alike.
Washington, d. G. - Dinner par
ties were raided, hotel Hobbies invad
ed and many theater parties broken
up as the result of a %day-long filibust
er against the private pensions bill
in the house.
The sergeant-at-arms and his assist.
ants were the raiders and more than
so absent members were arrested and
hailed before the house to record their
votes. Among those was Mckinley OF
Illinois, manager of President Taft S
campaign. The bill was completed and
passed by the house.
Raw Wool on the Free List.
Free raw wool to follow free sugar
was reported to be the program of
the house Democrats. Although Chair
man Underwood of the ways and
means committee has been for a down
ward revision bill, such as was pass.
ed last summer and vetoed by the
president. it is declared that a majori-
ty Of the Democrats of the committee
insist that a free raw bill be sub
mitted to the caucus and indications
are that such a bill will be ratified.
With the $4,000, 900 revenue which
would be lost from sugar, provided for
by the proposed excise tax, the Dem
ocrats are free to provide a duty on
raw silk or rubber for the $40, 000, 900
estimated loss by placing raw wool on
the free list.
Washington, d. c. - Proposing to
rename the Democratic free sugar bill
IAN act to surrender revenue, destroy
competition and create monopoly" the
Republicans of the ways and means
committee Of the house submitted a
minority report on the Underwood bill
which will be the next tariff bills en-
acted by the house. The report was
submitted by Representative Fordney
Of Michigan. 1t charges that there is
a union between the sugar trust and
the Democratic party and that the
free sugar measure Is designed to
catch the votes of the consumer and
will in time deliver the consumer to
the mercy Of the sugar trust.
The report reviews in the main the
dissenting views of the Republican
members of the Hardwick sugar trust
investigating committee. 1t gives cred
1t to the beet sugar industry for hold
ing down the price of sugar during the
advance of last year and predicts that
such a safeguard would be destroyed
If the beet sugar men were driven out
of business.
The report asserts that the Under
mood fra~ c,,~o, hin H. sxlz LaIlozx
attempt in the history of our republic
to surrender an important and growing
industry to foreign importers" and
that it is against the domestic sugar
producers and solely in the interest of
the refiners of imported raw sugar,
commercially known as the sugar
trust"
Industry Would Be Killed.
The report says that the sugar beet
growing industry would be killed if
the beet ~refineries were forced to sus-
pend by tariff legislation. There are
10000 farmers engaged in growing
sugar beets, the report declares.
Predicting dire days for the sugar
consumers, the report says:
Mot in the palmiest days of the
trust when Mr.. Havemeyer ruled it's
fortunes with a rod of iron and an am
bition bounded only by the confines of
this country did the American sugar
refining company ever monopolize such
a portion Of the sugar consumed in the
United States as this bill would de-
liver into it's keeping.
THE Payne-Aldrich bill places an
ad valorem duty of Is per cent on
bone black. In the Democratic chem
ical schedule the duty on all items In
this section, except bone black is re-
duced from rs per cen to Is per cent.
Bone black is taken out of the section
anc placed on the free list. Who uses
bone black? Practically no one ex-
cept The sugar refiners. 1t is one of
the principal items Of expense in re-
filming sugar"
Panama Bill 10 Completed.
The legal machinery for the opera
ton of the Panama canal and the
transfer Of it's constructive force to
it's administrative staff was practically
agreed upon at a meeting Of the house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce. The question Of tolls for
the canal was discussed but no con.
clusion reached.