The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-01-12
Thursday. January II. 1922.
SENATOR COOLING AND THE
MINING INDUSTRY.

The Miner has received a letter frC
Ravenel Macbeth, secretary of t
Idaho Mining association, who is $
journing in Washington as the re
resentative of the mining interests
connection with matters affecting Il
industry both in congress and in Il
departments. Mr.. Macbeth believes
recent editorial in this paper was III
just to Senator Gooding with respe
to his attitude toward protecting Il
mining industry and his letter is wri
ten as a matter of justice to the sena
tor. 1t is in that spirit that the Min,
publishes it in full. The letter is date
Washington, d. c., December 80, an
here follows:
Referring to the editorial, Sen
atOr GOoding and the Agricultural
Bloc" contained in your publica-
ton of December %. last, in which
the attitude of the senator tow
ards other interests than the live
stock and agricultural interests is
questioned, advise it gives me
much pleasure to state that the
mining industry possesses in Sen
ator Gooding a loyal and sincere
supporter.
when the duty on lead was un-
der consideration by the ways and
means committee. Senator Good
ing called on Chairman Fordney
of that committee with me: and
with Senator Stanfield and myself
called on Congressman Tilson,
chairman of the sub committee
having charge of the metal sched-
ule.
ITO each of these gentlemen the
senator represented the conditions
existing in the Occur d'Alenes ow-
ing to the lack of an adequate duty
on lead and zinc; and he insisted
to them there should be a duty
provided on lead and zinc which
would permit the mining compan-
les TO operate
"As the result of our conference
with Chairman Fordney the chair
man requested me to set forth the
opinion Of the Occur d'Alene oper-
ators with respect to what they
considered would be an adequate
duty on lead, in a letter to him.
within an hour; and with which
request l complied.
1.-The duty on lead recommended
in my letter to Chairman Fordney
is the duty provided for lead in the
Fordney bill now under considera-
ton by the senate finance commit
tee; and / personally feel we are
much indebted to Senator Gooding
that such is the case.
while l am on thii subject. I
will state that Senator Borah and
Representatives French and Smith
have never failed the mining in
dustry when called upon for as
sistance."
We are glad to publish this letter
Or certainly the Miner has no desire
} be unfair to Senator Gooding. 1t
as not the intention to question the
enator's attitude toward the mining
nd other interests requiring tariff /
rejection, and we hahrdly think the /
iitorial in question justifies that inter-
rotation. Senator Gooding had been /
'iticised by a south Idaho paper for
IS connection with the agricultural
oc, and in a statement replying to
$ critics he also referred to another
Oc in these words:
THE organization of which l am
chairman is composed entirely of
1t is commonly known
as the tariff bloc Republican SEN
ators who belong to this organiza-
ton do not call themselves a bloc '
but are organized for the purpose
Of giving to the agricultural and
livestock interests proper protec-
ion regardless of what section of 0
he country they are in" il
rhe point raised by the Miner re- q
red to the propriety of republican u
lators organizing bloc in behalf V
protection for the agriculturalist Fl
/ stockgrower when they were fl
tally obligated to protection for the Il
Ter. mmberman, manufacturer and OF
other interests. There has never II
n any doubht about Senator Good NJ
s attitude toward protection of the W
ling industry. for there is no man Vi
he senate more thoroughly ground W
on the principle of protection than it
senator from Idaho. The propriety ha