Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-08

revision of the tariff we ought to
avoid the wrong course if possible.
Mr.. SHIPSTEAD Before we have
some facts. That is what / am try
ing to give to the Senator.
Mr.. MCLEAN l have not received
any yet l am frank to say that !
have listened here for three days, and
up to date / have not heard single
fact stated in this body that would
warrant the adoption of the resolution
under consideration.
Mr. SHIPSTEAD. The Senator
some time ago asked some Senator
here to have faith in his Government.
am simply giving him some figures
from his Government.
Mr.. MCLEAN. If the Senator will
pardon me, l will call his attention
to one fact that was brought to the
attention of the Senate yesterday bl
the Senator from New York (Mr.
Copeland).
His wife bought an aluminium uten-
sill of some kind. She wanted to pre-
serve some fruit. l think he called
it a pot. She paid $4.55 for it. The
Senator from New York, as a pro-
found student of economics, told the
Senate what tax she had to pay on
that utensil. Eleven cents pound
on the raw material made 33 cents.
He took a dollar off from the price
she paid, $4.55, which resulted in
$3.50. That, in his opinion, carried
an ad valorem tariff of So per cent.
That made a tax of $1.95. He added
the 33 cents to the $1.95, and made
tax of $2.2S as the tax his wife
had to pay on that utensil.
Mr.. JOHNSON. How much was
that, please?
Mr.. MCLEAN. Two dollars and
twenty-eight cents.
Mr. President, it does seem to me
that any man who undertakes to dis
cuss the tariff question in this Cham
Der ought to be sufficiently consider
ate of his own reputation to avoid
such a statement.
Mr.. SHIPSTEAD. To whom is the
Senator referring?
Mr.. MCLEAN. The Senator from
New York (Mr. Copeland). am sorry
he is not in the Chamber.
Mr.. SHIPSTEAD. If it is all the
same, l will ask that the Senator
be given an opportunity to answer
the Senator from New York in his
own time.
Mr.. MCLEAN. The Senator rather
challenged my attempt to inform the
Senate as to what fact had been in
troduced in support of the friends of
this resolution.
| Mr.. McMASTER. Mr.. President, if
the Senator will yield a moment, I
wish to say that if the distinguished
Senator from Connecticut had re-
manned in the Chamber when he
knew that certain schedules were be-
ing discussed just a few moments ago,
he would have had an ample oppor-
tunity to ask questions and to answer
questions. Now, should like to hear
the distinguished Senator from Con-
necticut explain the aluminium SEIZED
ules and defend those aluminium
schedules.
Mr.. MCLEAN. will say to the Sen
ator that I have to consume agricul-
tural products; I could not occupy a
seat in this Chamber if l did not.
retired from the Chamber a few
moments to partake of some pea soup.
I do not know what the tariff is on
peas; but that was the excuse for
my absence from the Chamber. ]
have tried to be here all the time
this matter has been under discussion.
Mr.. SHIPSTEAD. Whatever the
tariff is, the Senator from Indiana
will inform the Senator that it has
not any effect on agricultural pro-
ducts; SO it does not make any diff
ference what the tariff on pea soup is.
Mr.. MCLEAN. But I thought the
Senator wanted the tariff raised on
agricultural products.
Mr.. SHIPSTEAD. I said we want
it made effective.
| Mr.. MCLEAN. I do not know
whether it would be effective to raise
the tariff on peas or not. Whatever
the Senator wants to do, I am with
him so far as agricultural products
are concerned.
Mr.. SHIPSTEAD. I thank the Sen
ator for that.
l want to return to the subject on
which l started to make some OBJ
servations few minutes ago-that
is, the charge that all in the North
west are afflicted with what is looked
upon as an undesirable complex, "a
local or sectional political point of
view, because we have been charged
with that, and 1 want to present some
evidence to show that that disease,
if it be disease, is not peculiar to
the Northwest.
l have here a manuscript sent out
by an organization that calls itself
the New England Council, which sent
QUESTIONABLE to the Members of
Congress in the House and Senate
from New England asking them what
they could look for from Congress
for New England this year. 1 have
here the answer of the New England
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