The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-01-09
CONGRESS Will
TAKE UP TARIFF
Especial to the Silver State.)

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month to the tariff.
Perhaps you do not take any inter
est IN the tariff, but if you do not, you
can't have the faintest idea what tar
iff revision means to those who have
something at stake.
OF course, importers are for low
tariff. 1t would help them to sell
more foreign made goods in this coun-
try. A good many persons who are
neither importers nor producers also
want a low tariff. They figure that
they could get overcoats, and under
wear, and cutlery, and chinaware
and other things into the composition
of which labor enters largely, at low
er prices than they pay now. But the
people who produce these things want
tc have tariff on to help meet the
difference in the cost of production
here and abroad. The tariff clans are
getting together and it will make
times brisk for Washington hotel men
and restaurant keepers Yes, the
stars indicate that January will be a
very busy month indeed for Washing
ton.
Mr.. Morgan and Congress.
Quite the star attraction in Wash
ington for long time was J. P. Nor
gan as witness before the Puio com
mittee, which is investigating the
money trust
Mr.. Morgan proved, almost to the
surprise of some who crowded the
committee room to hear and to feast
their eyes on this king of the financial
world, to be really quite human. He
took the stand, very much as any 9th
er witness did, and he was sworn, and
interrogated, and mildly badgered by
the attorneys. Asked for the names
of certain directors he named one.
The attorney, suggestively: "And
you re another?' and he replied
."And I'm another. Then someone
laughed and tie crowd, looking on
goodhumoredlv with their necks cram
ed, took up the chuckle which ran
around the room.
Has Their Confidence.
Mr. Morgan, who probably had
thought out what he would say but
as child, would not admit that be
controlled the money market or that
his directors ON various boards did
anything except to note what was 60
ing on in order to protect his inter
ests. He thought that no one could
control the money of the country, but
he admitted chat he had the confidence
o. great corp )ratioDs and that because
of that confidence they invited him to
handle their financial affairs. Conf
denee, he said, could be retained only
by good conduct. Once lost. he de-
elared. confidence could never be re-
gained. And that, according to Mr..
Morgan, is practically all there is to
the ''money trust But the commit
tee is going ahead with its investiga-
tion. 1t is very desirous of getting
the elusive William Rockefeller on the
stand, thinking that he mas a different
idea of finance or may be able to tell
few things about the manner in
which the public is separated from its
money
To Improve San Diego Harbor.
Congress is being asked by the peo-
pie of San Diego to make provisions
at this session for the deepening of the
water over the bar, where it is now
thirty feet, and in the middle ground,
where il is about the same, so that the
increased sea traffic due to the opening
of the Panama canal shall find bet
ter harbor accommodations in the first
harbor in the United States, for west
bound ships passing through the canal.
The war department and the navy
department, it is understood, agree
that the depth of water should be thir-
ty-five feet at least, and as the navy
department now maintains a base in
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finest in the world, this reeomenda-
tion, when made officially, will 'oubt-
less have its due effect on congress,
and in view of the fact that the San
Diego exposition win open on Janu-
airy l, 1915, or in less than two years
more, congress win probably favor
quick action.
Growth of Water Traffic.
One great steamship company, the
Cunard, has expressed its intention to
the writer, through one of its officials,
not to engage in the Pacific trade
through the canal. Perhaps this de-
cision is due in part to the attitude
of the British government toward this
country for exempting American ship
ping from the payment of tolls. Per
haps it is due in part to the fact that
its ships are all as busy now as they
can be, and that they need not look
for more business.
On the other hand, most of the bic
ocean carrying lines are making prepa-
rations to extend their business when
the canal opens. Their plans are be
ing closely guarded. but the biggest
of them all, the Hamburg American
line, with over million tons afloat is
frankly planning to 60 into the Pa
eific coast business. In fact, it is
building 81 ships, some of which viii
be plying through the canal in 1915
to San Diego and other ports on the
west coast. Some of the ships of this
line (Which boasts the biggest ever
built, as the Imperator), would find il
difficult to get into San Diego harboi
unless the depth of water We're in
creased But congress will doubtless
see to it that the conditions are rene
died. No man, saws Senator William
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