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Show LUMBER HAS ITS INNING Long Threatened Fight on Schedule Is Begun in Senate Washington, May 22. After a long declared he was from the south, a sec- I tlon which could not afTord to have Its products placed on the free list. -r He contended tha there was no danger of the timber supply of the couutry becoming be-coming exhausted, but argued that the lumber industry would mffer disaster disas-ter should lumber from Canada come into the United States free of duty. Saying he would be satisfied with a protective tariff or 20 per cent, Mr. Elkins declared that the farmers of the northwest had received an increase in-crease of 20 per cent over present rates on their products. That lumber Is only a small percentage per-centage of material which enters In ' the construction of a house wag a contention con-tention made by Mr. Elkins, who gave an instance of a building costing $1,-r.C4. $1,-r.C4. of which only $827 was for lumber's. lum-ber's. Mr. Scott supplemented the remarks of his colleague by an earnest appeal for a higher duty on lumber and the restoration of the house rates on briar wood and briar root which were placed plac-ed on the free llBt In tho senate bill. ; waiting the lumber schedulei was to- day given its Inning In the senate. When the lumber pauigraph was reached, Mr. McCumber presented his amendment providing for free lumber instead of $2 per thousand, as In the Dlngley law, and $1 as provided by the house bill. The action, precipitated the long threatened light and it was (evident, from the beginning, that tho j ground would be 6tubbornly contest-jed. contest-jed. Py agreement reached yesterday, .there was no vote todayv I Mr. McCumber led the debate. Ho declared the lumber Industry needed no protection. There waa, he said, no danger that any of the Ameilcau lum-;ber lum-;ber mills will be closed because or the i foreign competition. Tho Increasing demand for these forest products tend to keep up the prices. Mr. Horah opposed Mr. McCumber's view that a' tariff on lumbor would tend to deplete the forestb. "It Is In- credible." ho said, "that the human race Is going to perish rather than plant trees." Mr. McCumber Insisted that the In- dustry had reached Its highest point in tho United States and urged that Ifree lumber would partly supply the 'American market With a product that J could not bo supplied from American forests without exhausting them. Senator Elkins defended the lumber i interest and accused the senator from North Dakota of being a "spotted: protectionist" pro-tectionist" favoring protection on products pro-ducts of his own state, but not on those of other stales. Kxchanglng viewe with Mr. McCumber McCum-ber on tho need for protecting everything every-thing produced In this country and occasionally oc-casionally appealing to Mr. Aldrlch, Mr. Elkins was Interrupted by the senator sen-ator from Rhode Island, who asked apparently Jestingly, "with whom ho wanted to make a trade." "I would rather made It with you," said Mr. Elkins, laughingly. and I speaking directly to the Rhode Island !! senator, which Is contrary to senator-ill senator-ill etiquette. "I w ant' to .direct the attention," ln-.terpoued ln-.terpoued Mr. Parley, "to the fact that 'the principles of protection merely I consist of bargaining." Mr. Elkins contended that there 'could be no protection in spots and v |