Show CUTS II MADE MAD ON WIRE i STEEL SUR GOODS Fact Heralded in Dispatches as Proof of Revision Downward SPEECH BY THE BLIND OKLAHOMA SENATOR FACTS AS TO THE CHARGE OF EXTORTION AGAINST THE THERE RE RETAILER RETAILER TILER OF US U S DEMANDED j y n May Th tower A n a f r in the th case e of 0 f eight eI g go ht in X 1 o n ng tIll ten la Ia S of wire WIt POd goods eon con ind in m the steel schedule upon t Senator AMrich In Inhar of or f n moti cr f t the tariff tari MB bill gave great t tp har hai X engagement today tOdY to senators X p advocating ad a revision r mho wh h n rl r v Howard With evident gra tift X cation Senator Beveridge greeted X th proposed amendments by tim the airman n of the finance committee A by b declaring Good rood making mI progress progreso A The The entire e tire session of ot O the senate was devoted deot to the steel schedule to penknives c the th section relating under consideration when A being bern the senate adjourned to meet at atA atlo A 10 lo Monday morning one hour pour earlier than the senate INmate has been boen beginning t business during tho the Jat ten tenI ays I I v v n May 15 As soon as a au aurum jorum u rum was wa as announced In the senate senator from da Jay a Mr Gore the blind precipitated a lively debate y j asking immediate Imm consideration of a solution instructing the committee on onn n Iane to t obtain by Investigation the prices pric of various articles of ot gen genal genral ral al 1 and anti ordinary consumption and andI I the wholesale and retail prices price of ot urh uch articles when used need in this country The object of cit the resolution re is to de dermine 1 whether bether the retailers of or the are practicing extortion r Tn In moving the resolution be referred the committee on finance Mr Hale aid it conferred no new authority on nat at committee and could only embar af a 3 it Facts Are Wanted The Th Oklahoma senator enat r declared d that the retail dealers had been held eld up be bethe ber r the country a U practicing p g extortion hd d h M wanted to haver h feets ts te to de do whether that was ws true If retail men are robbers he be said t they should be held up to the wrath md ind of their countrymen Mr lr Gore said he bad had Investigated and jund that the referred to by Scott as s selling at wholesale at ato o cents a 8 dosen dOlen retailed at 15 1 and 10 cents each instead of ot ofa 26 5 It as a stated mated Ion of the was postponed until Monday Monda Spunk on Free List Liet Mr Yr Johnston of Alabama treated the humorously He congratulated he ie majority that it had placed spunk n the free list and said aid if it there was wan inre of Of t that article the Republicans a better tariff bill So 80 far tar as I have observed aid Id Mr J 1 not a a single Democrat has hag protection foeS lor a single artl arU arUP f P and in no ca case e so far as I have red has a proposal al been made to ton n a revenue duty greater than 2 O I 9 r r cent whilst the average aveNge rate under this bill is nearly 15 45 5 per cent ons jons have been made matle In this bill In only bre and it is Ie I noticeable le that ivo If 0 of these Include articles largely l produced in the south BOuth and aDd in the other othera a 1 i 15 l less leu ss than 1 per cent Protection has hu enough sins aiM to an ann anwer aner n er to tn without adding to them unfair Crimination Steel Schedule When the steel Ie was taken i P Mr Aldrich withdrew the amend amendment ment rient of f the committee on OIl in the duty on structural steel rom om to of a aen ait en it a und and the house hou e provision f of 1 cent a pound was waa to tn this amendment ame dment to thin tIl tIlam am raph not permitting structural l i to tn be b assembled aI when Imported Import d sir If fr Aldrich said mid Id The Th rates of duty In La Ud industry J ue ae been cut nearly Dead half and I Ir Ir r to t place on record the great ap h that we may mJ be committing S grav injustice to this great t Indus indue He said saM the th manufacturers of ot B Del Bel l ium nl and Germany may be ho able aide under we Ie rates to send lend hi ht their tbt structural jn rn n and aM steel when they Ute have a 3 sur BUr lu u or r the conditions warrants such ao Senators Cummins lowlands and Ith I south c Caronna Croft w n contended that en with Ith the reduced Tate rat the HI duty to high Carnegie Quoted from 1 th the testimony ny of Mr u r rn rf n am f u Lf before ore the way and nd m means iw os tJ concerning In la tile the Industry our Mr T a aa a Mr r a arne m e had hJ a t of oft t 11 nl t iv ly y In j Je I 1 not say by dishonesty 7 saM w Mr a because ause be he has luy only coly taken Continued on Page 2 I I 1 SLIGHT CUTS MADE ON WIRE I STEEL GOODS iI i I Lt 1 Continued from Page 1 1 i ad of o th the laws I S wo WC p pas But Hut h hI hII Isas lIas mafle more f mon than the entire I I of ot ut u here put together t ether and ami all there therean an at some rich mci rn 1 In lit thi senate He Hf has aw away more mon money tush all ithe the Democrats i U r this body 1 1 ten tEl time S I 1 4 ept t t Mr Nc Ne S n nd 1 ii d J elated dated Mr Aldrich J proposed 14 the duty dut on Il structural structural I tural but ut that tie the th explanation given of tb th rov hv I rate Showed that the fC ct t would 10 Ie e to 10 I reduce r u tO rate from juin 10 to t 9 9 P The Te paragraph was I passed over oer I J I i l uH Hi i h Speed Steel I When hen the th p 11 r h on nfl steel teet t 1 Lars bars t plates plate and sheet t and an pressed steel was wac a 4 I reached Mr tr C nih r ron on desired information information r tion regarding s vt ai I additional values i 1 nf of steel ted whirl ii TC re 1 provided with ith high I by b lb rt Mr r I Aldrich h I tInt thit th additional I brackets bra vet ver put ir it to tl provide fair fairI I i rates of duty 01 II i several sra new no w kinIs of o ot oI I I I steel t high speed I ed not I f made at the time the th Dinley Din lav lar la was as j enacted I 1 Mr Oliver r explained that t till the hit hisH hl 4 pc d sterl as I trade tHade in Europe f by a t pro es ess S but said American i manufacturers manuta had discovered the pro process I I cess and were E It He added in I IIi Ii order orner that Its It manufacture m might be br beli li continued here a higher rate of duty I was a necessary Mr Oliver said Mid the Im imI I porta lons of Or this th i steel in increased j I II I creased from J pounds pound in III 1901 1301 to toj 33 In I j j |