The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-07
DIFFERENCE ON
ALUMINIUM DUTY
Iowa Senator'S Do Not Agree on the
Way to Handle the Trust
Controlled Aluminium
Product.
cUMM1Ns FOR TARIFF
Kenyon Wants to Put the Produce on
the Free Liat and insurgents
Favor Ken
yon.
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Especial to The Gate Cty.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-The fact
that Senator Cummins did not with
draw his amendment to place high
protective tariff on aluminium and
its products rate of duty 200 per
cent higher than that of 2 cents per
pound on ingots and cents per pound
en- aluminium scrap and rods, as fixed
In the pending Underwood-Si Simmons
bill-which, of course, prevented him
from voting for Senator kenyon's
amendment to place this trust con-
trolled product on the free list, has
left very sore spot with the little
band Of senate progressives. All OF
the rest of the insurgent republicans
stood with the junior Iowa senator
and voted for his amendment-Bris-
tow, who moved over and sat by his
side throughout the debate; LaFol-
lette, who always supports Kenyon;
Clapp of Minnesota, Crawford and
| Sterling of South Dakota, Jones and
Poindexter of Washington, Norris Or
Nebraska, and Works of California
eThe position which Senator Cum
minis has taken with regard to the
rate of duty on aluminium is beyond
my comprehension and ] don't see
how he can explain it to the satisfac-
ton of the people of Iowa. was the
remark of one of these senators i'm
mediately after the vote had been
taken resulting in the Overwhelming
4 defeat of the amendment proposed by
4 Senator Kenyon.
i Senator Kenyon in his speech made
lit clear that aluminium has come into
almost universal use. 1t is made into
i kitchen ware, used in the manufacture
4 of automobiles and used in a thousanc
4 other common ways. The product Il
controlled in the United States and
Canada by one company, the Alumni
| mum Company of America, which Il
( the successor of the Pittsburgh Reduc
ton company. The same men who
j, were in the original company in the
beginning are, with few exceptions
with the present company. The busi
!, ness was started in 1888 with $lO0,0OO
!, TODAY it has assets Of $30,000,000. ant
has declared dividends as high as 5o'
per cent-one dividend for $17O0O,0O
, II was Senator Kenyon, then specia
assistant to the attorney general 0
i the United States, who Instituted thu
suit against the Aluminium Compan.
of America in the United States cour
for the western district OF Pennsyl
yania. that brought out all these fact
and which resulted in the compan.
being adjudged monopoly operating
; contrary to the Sherman anti-trus
. act of 1890. The company confesset
its sins and many of it's agreement
in restraint of trade were abro6ated
Senator Kenyon knew all about thl
| bloated trust, felt deeply and sincerel
3 that it did not need any protection i
. the way of tariff duty, believed tina
3 here was a real opportunity to he'll
! the masses by taking off all the dut
: and declared that now was the tim
3 to write into the law of the land
). statute which the politicians of al
!, parties were everlastingly proclaimin
: from the stump, ought to be there.
But the democrats are afraid thei
;. tariff bill is not going to produc
enough revenue to run the govern
ment. SO they disregard pledge Q
their Baltimore platform and fixed
!, low rate Of duty on aluminium. bu
high enough to yield about $Soo,oo
annually.
The Cxmmins amendment, by tn
same calculation, would make the tai
!, iff so high that the revenue from tn
duty would be about s2,40000O.
The Kenyon aluminium amendmen
created lot of worry in the demo
cratic camp and only the tight rel
. of the secret caucus held in line a
: least dozen democratic senator
who had no hesitation in saying tina
the party leaders, in thus fiagrantl
: violating one of the most importan
u pledges of the Baltimore platform
7 to place upon the free list all article
) and commodities whose manufacture
: the courts had declared to be col
u trolled by a trust-were making s.
o rious mistake.
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