Show jre OE ENOS HIS IS 18 THE CLAIM OF BUS BUSINESS INESt MEN APPEARING BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE tariff Is badly needed IP south says business man to members if finance committee WaA washington hIngton southern business TOCO men ne ive awakened to the need of a pro active tariff the senate finance coin atre was told monday by john II if ji bihy fly of houston tex president of ie southern Sout licin tariff association were not feeling our politicians on on his Is question ony any longer longe said mr i rhy ilie whole south Is awak nid neil on tills question mr kirby said the south was ask n nr for Ju jussim JuAt lio lie added that it anted the same consideration as that iven other sections of the country ind did acting chairman mccumber McCu raber de lured hired that the tariff question would e treated liy by the he committee as aa a na lonal anil and riot not a sectional one diaries charles 11 a new orlenna banker gave it as mai opinion lint hat 00 90 per cent of the bankers banker of the south favored a high protect lva lra tariff ifor for the coming year at least div dl bussing cussing conditions to in the louisiana industry mr claiborne said on tie the basa bas a or of the ICO cents a pound on raw sugar proposed in the Ir fordney ordney bill ma his bank could not and would not net ranko make loons loans to the louisiana sugar producers and that with such ft a tariff the louisiana sugar industry would have to quit the field mr claiborne said laid that reports to the tont contrary notwithstanding the public utilities of the country the railroads and industries generally were never lit iri a worse condition than they anre today ilia own theory was that the united states should devote its lt efforts to saving itself and not the rest of the clio world 1 I think it Is ant fein lam which chic it in inkes akes us think we are ordained to help all the world |