Show fIGHT FIGHt ON O SCHEDULE DEU Washington May lIa 22 After AHer a long Ion waiting the schedule was to today toda today day da given lon Ita its Inning In tho the senate When the lumber paragraph was reached MI Mr presented his amendment providing for free lumber lumb l Instead of 32 2 per thousand as In tho tite law and SI t as provided by h tho the house bill The Tue action precipitated the tho long lon threatened fight and it was evident from tho the beginning that the ground would be ho stubbornly contest contested I Id ed d By B agreement reached yesterday thero there was no vote vole today MI Mr McCumber led lou the debate Ho lIe declared the lumber Industry needed no Ito protection There Thero was he Ite said alli no danger langeI that tutu any of the thc American lum lumber ber bel mills will till be bo closed close II because of the foreign n competition ion The Tho ho Increasing demand fOI for these forest products tend ton tonto to keep I cop up liP the tho prices Mr Borah Dorah view that a t tariff on n lumber would tenth tend to Lo deplete tho the forests It Is In Incredible incredIble credible he lie said that the human tare taco Is going to lo perish rather rathel than plant tits s R RII Mr II r insisted that the In Industry industry had hind reached Its highest point in iii rt the tho United States and urged urge that free lumber would partly supply the American market markt with a product that could not be he supplied from American forests without exhausting them Senator Elkins n defended the lumber J JI I I Interest and accused the senator from front North Dakota of ur being he In 11 IL spotted pro pio protectionist t favoring protection on proS pro products I ducts of or his own state slate but not on of or other states stales I I Exchanging views villi Mr 11 I her he I on the tho need neel for protecting every everything I thing thins produced In Iii this country and oc cc ocI I appealing to Mr Mi 1 Mr I r was wn Interrupted by b the thc son sem semI I ator alor from Rhode Island who ho asked ell ellI I apparently jestingly with whom ho lie wanted to make a n trade I would rather made ma e It U with you yet said Mr Elkins laughingly and speaking directly IlIr to Ibe be Rhode thode Island senator which Is contra to senator senatorial lid ial etiquette I want to direct the attention In Interposed interposed Mr lr Bailey Daller to lohu he hi fact that tha thaI the thc of or protection merely I i consist of bargaining i Mr Elkins contended that there I I could cOlli II be no protection In spots spols s and tI he lie wa tva from front the south a sec see I which could not afford to have havo Its Us products placed paced on tIm tho free fico I list Ho H I contended tha thOre Lh re was no danger dan er of or j J JI the thc Umber lImbel supply of oC the thc country be tie becoming I coming comin exhausted hut but argued ar that tho the lumber Industry would buffer suler disaster ter ler should lumber wim Om Canada como COniO into tho the United 1 States Stales free oC or duty Iut Saying ho lie would be satisfied with witha 4 a o protective tariff of 20 O per imer cent Mr Ir Elkins declared that tho time 1 armors farmers of o j the tho northwest l had received an In Increase Increase crease of oC 20 per pe cent over Oer present pr j rates on their thel product p That lumber Is only a small entail per her of material which enters In tho construction of a house was wa a con COIl contention t made malic by h Mr who an nn Instance of oC a building costing co SI VI c riGI of which only was for lum him lumber her ber Mr I r Scott supplemented the remarks of or his colleague ne by II an earnest appeal Up II I Ifor for a n higher hl hel duty on lumber and thu tho restoration of or tho the house rates on briw wood and briar root which thich were plan rd ed on the tue free freo list In the le senate blU u I j |