The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-20
CR0NNA TALKS
ON Dem MEASURE
'-.
Believes it. Will Pass Sub
stantially the Same as
it is Now.
THINKS SOUTHERN
STATES GET BEST
Senator Met With Williston
Commercial Club on En-
,larged Homesteads.

United States Senator Gronna, who
Is spending a few days at Lakota, was
In Williston yesterday where he at
tended a meeting of the Commercial
club at which the question of securing
to North Dakota the benefits accru-
Ing under the enlarged homestead act
was considered. 49,.
A bill providing that North Dakota
should have the benefits of the 500
acre homestead act was passed about
year ago. being introduced by sena-
tor Gronna, but up to this city the
secretary of the interior has refused
to designate any land for entry under
the act.
The Williston Commercial club pass.
ed resolutions urging the designation
Of such lands. and 1t is the plan to Sc
cure the cooperation Of all the west
ern cities in IN effort to bring this
about.
Secretary bennett was in favor of
the plan, but George Otis Smith of
h geological survey ia opposed to
the proposition so far as this state is
concerned, although it is operative
in Montana.
Little Hope for Change.
Senator Gronna says he sees little
hope for any radical amendments by
the senate of the democratic tariff bill.
and he believes hat it will be passed
substantially the same as it was pass
ed by the house.
The bill" said Senator Gronna in
an interview owe the telephone today.
"seems to favor the southern states,
In that the industries Of hat section
are those of the northern states.
While two. senators have stated
that they would vote against the bill.
1t is regarded as quite possible that
n or two republicans will vote for
It.
East is Worked Up.
"There never has beer a time when
I have received so many letters on any
question as I have IN this tariff bill.
These letters come from manufactur-
ers and-lahoring- organizations, and
they are all in protest against the
various FEATURES. * III
, Some Features Not Scientific.
"Some features of the act are not
scientifically drawn, that being partic-
ularly true with reference to the free
wool situation.
THE beef industry. under the bill.
fears the competition of Argentine and
Australia. The bill provides for a ten
per cent duty on cattle and for free
beef. The beef. shipped by water. can
be handled very cheaply as against the
handling of it by rail. and the ship
ments from Argentine and Australia
would be made to the coasts of our
country at a cost injurious to the in
dustry in the United States.
The Flour situation.
With reference to the flour situa-
ton; while it is true that flour will be
admitted free only from such coun-
tries as admit our -four free, it opens
the way very easily, as all the other
countries have to do Is to change their
laws.
I'm Argentine flour mills would be
established and the product shipped
to the United States at about the
same cost that wheat can be shipped
from Williston to Grand Forks.
THE Touring industry in the Ar
gentine would be built at the expense
of the American industry"
Favors Income Tax.
Regarding the income tax feature of
the bill, Senator Gronna says he is
favorable to 1t, believing that 1t has
been worked out in a satisfactory
manner.