Show IN THE Sf SENATE NATE P putting ing Finishing Aldrich pl fl Touches on Tariff Bill of the Upper House HouseWORK HouseWORK HouseWORK WORK NEARLY COMPLETED COM PLAN WILL BE DIS DISCUSSED CUSSED EARLY NEXT WEEK June lone It This was an ton n active tive working the senate a aLer er ot of time the session closed clo ed i the by hv gads VI geld and r so to many schedules had been Mr at d and sd disposed of or that predicted that by tomor tomar tomorA tom r rf h freely Aldrich A eight night all would be out lut of the way r f the senate tree free to begin eon con conde dt g the corporation tax and andr tjAn n of de eme ax taX r amendments amendment o Increase the session with an e nine 8 ge Beginning over the how horat rate rat of 35 15 5 1 per wr r c cent een J ad valorem on ha the sen en cent r Arched marched steadily along throughout ae are sine nine S hours hour of Its sitting Indulging re pa and aDd acting upon MU little important provisions ay Rates Rate Boosted the changes made w were re an In among Dong L of t the duty dat on crap iron from reaM ct rents to 21 per e ethe ton ton thus placing placing it The the same Mme level as a 5 pi piS pia I iron an in InH H of on oneo fourth of a cent per pere e rates on wire w und nd over owr the house hou housey e 1 y sn an increase from 4 to 8 i cents per perI monazite sand and and nd on I her articles used in making gas man mans manes s and the substitution of or specific sp for fora foras es valorem rates rate ra t on flies flee f maps raap etc tc a as amend end Penrose presented ree an Tnt nt cat siring a duty of one a halt half cent per crude oil oil and after a ga on on V debate it was as defeated 34 to 40 ring mug the th day the linoleum and oil ll h T schedule S was Wall recast to t roe t the mand mands of the insurgents gen and was the with the understanding undemanding that if should not be satisfactory upon spon U in tn f tion In n the record re ord th the t td schedule lid jid d be reopened tomorrow Protection Gone Mad Speaking Making of the prevision for a high ae on scrap iron Mr Crawford U the a red it was wa protection gone AOne mad made e proposition was also criticised by Cummins and Beveridge There Tere were many efforts to amend the ap apr run Irn n provision but It was adopted I lout change nit spoke at nt length in support of or his oil oU amendment declaring it met with the approval of the Inde Independent Independent Independent pendent producers and refiners The oil oilfields oilfields fields of ot Mexico figured extensively in inn inthis Inthis this discussion d Senator Gore declared they were a myth Senator Aldrich presented the Income tax amendment approved by President Taft and said Mid he hoped the senate would consider it Monday Paper Schedule The retaliatory provisions of t the wood pulp and print paper paragraphs of the tha tariff bill bUl being referred to by Senator Clapp Cl lP today Senator Aldrich indicated that the finance committee still had that matter under consideration con and hoped to report a substitute that would prove satisfactory to all aU interests con concerned concerned concerned Senator Brown offered two amend amendments amendments amendments ments which have the effect effe t of eliminating eliminating the automatic retaliatory fea ten features features tures of the committee amendments and of making retaliation depend upon an order of the president allowing the rates of duty to remain as in the com COlU committee committee substitute Mr Aldrich agreed to take up these substitutes for tor final action tomorrow An amendment was adopted providing duties on oilcloth and linoleum varying front from 6 15 cents a equate quale yard ard and IS 16 per percent p percent r cent ad valorem to 12 cents per square yard and 16 per cent ad valorem Penrose Oil Amendment Senator e proposed ed an amendment pl pie placing a duty of k h cent a gallon upon erode oiL to 1 a i question by Senator lor llor lorah r rah ah Mr Penrose nr said aid the finance com committee committee had bad seen n 3 z vast number of nil n producers of tho tto United States State lee of ot them being present tr t on one day There Vere he said from fr m to oil oU producers prod rs In the United States many man of It them being his hla constituents of Pennsyl Pennsylvania Pennsylvania vania 1011 who had gant ane to tc Oklahoma the In Indian Indian dian dlan Territory California and West Vir Virginia Virginio ginia ginio to develop oil properties Senator Gore spoke speke s against the amend amendment amendment ment He had bad wished be said to cor con confine fin fine the duty to tl oil from Mexico out but had been told such action was wall in conflict with treaty relations ns with that country countr He spoke BroOke of or the Mexican I oil fields as a amyth amyth amyth myth If It he bell d Mr Gore said that t the Standard Oil III U company c controlled the tiie Mexican MaJcan oil field and land would import Mex lex Mexican Mexican ican lean oil II and crush and destroy deJ iroy the Ute inde independent Independent independent pendent producers and refiners he hf would vote yote to shield the American oil on producer and the American Amer au consumer He spoke of tie the Standard M ILl a serpent t whose em embrace embrace brace Is be 1 1 death Mr Flint expressed the lie opinion Oft that producers produceR of California would be driven out or ot oo business if it a duty on OR oil wee was not levied Opposed by Cummins Mr Cummins opposed op the amendment Dt saying he be did lOt act believe behave the of lof this country had bad ba to fear tear from production the Mexican production The Standard Oil company Is I well served with this duty he said be because because cause there Is III s no D suggestion of ot any in intention Intention to repeal the drawback clause by which the Standard Oil on company is permitted to Import oil oU and then n upon exporting it have haV a rebate of the duty Mr Penrose then offered an aa amendment providing that no drawback shall be al allowed allowed lowed owed on the exportation of petroleum or orthe orthe orthe the products p tB thereof The amendment ment fixing a duty was de defeated defeated by 34 u J to M 40 Party lines were wera broken in this vote Of the forty nega negative Ive tive votes voice nineteen were cast east by The drawback amendment was with withdrawn withdrawn drawn Mr Owen sought to present as an amendment a provision pro n prohibiting the Standard Oil on company from crushing competitors but it ft was I ruled out on a point of or order as not germane to the tariff More Increases On motion of Mr II Aldrich the para paragraph paragraph paragraph graph relating to percussion caps etc as recommended Dm by the committee was further urther amended to increase the duty on blasting caps from 2 to s 5 per thou thousand thousand sand and and to increase the duty on min ing InS blasting or safety fus fuses s of ot all kinds from 30 80 to 49 46 per cent Upon objection of or Mr Stone the duty on en fuses was fixed at 36 96 per cent Upon strong objection by Mr lr Dolliver the committee amendment am fixing the du duo duty duty ty on lead pencils was slightly decreased to 1 cent per ounce on black lack pencils 1 I cents per ounce on colored pencils and andi 8 i cents on copying pencils pencil Upon taking up the schedule relating to agricultural implements Mr Bacon offered his amendment proposing to place on the free tree list ll t plows harrows harvest harvesters ers forage and feed cutters reapers drills planters mowers horse hone rakes cul cultivators cultivators cultivators threshing machines and cotton gins The senate then went Into executive ses session session sion son |