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The Commoner.
VOLUME 11 NUMBER 51
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WASHINGTON NEWS
The Washington correspondent
for the Chicago Rocord-IIorald said:
Joseph B. Cotton, former attorney
for tho Duluth, Mesaba & Northern
railroad, denied boforo tho houso
steel trust investigating committee
tho chargo mado by C. H. Martz that
he had ordered the padding of tho
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cost of tho railroad in a report to tho
Minnesota railroad and warehouse
commission.
Mr. Cotton submitted documents
to show that the cost estimates made
by Martz never were submitted to
the commission. Mr. Cotton was
accompanied by George Wellwood
Murray, counsel for John D. Rocke
feller, who provoked a colloquy with
Mr. Stanley, when he sought to in
terpret testimony of the witness.
"I have warned you, Mr. Murray,"
exclaimed the chairman, "that if you
have anything to say to this com
mittee you must submit it in writ-
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you must go on tho stand and be
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Mr. Murray sat down.
The committee reviewed with Cot
ton tho testimony of tho Merritt
brothers relating to the taking over
of the railroad and ore properties in
tho Mesaba region by John D. Rocke
feller and his almoner, Rev. F. D.
Gates, which later were sold to tho
United States Steel corporation.
"Did you know that Rev. Dr.
Gates; who put through tho deal
whereby the Merritt brothers lost to
John D. Rockofeller their interest in
the Mesaba mines and the railroa'd
they created, was a minister of the
gospel?" Mr. Stanley asked.
"So far as I know Mr. Gates has
not occupied a pulpit for twenty-five
years," Mr. Cotton answered!
"I am entirely inclined to believe
you," Mr. Stanley replied.
Rear Admiral Richard Wainright
has been retired from service on ac
count of ago. He was an ofllcer on
tho battleship Maine when it was
wrecked in Havana harbor.
The constitutionality of tho "full
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and mall trains, was upheld today by
tho supreme court.
"The lntermonntain rate case," in
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long-and-shortrhaul amendment In
1910 to tho interstate commerce
laws, was advanced for hearing on
Monday, Feb. 19.
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President Taft has sent a message
to congress delivering tho tariff
board's report on schedule K of the
Payne bill. The report shows that
the existing duties on many classes
of wool and wool manufactures are
prohibitory and greatly in excess
of the difference in the cost of pro
duction here and broad. The duties
are so arranged as to keep out of
the United States entirely wools of
finer qualities which if imported
might be used to displace the 'cheap
substitute now employed. Presi
dent Taft calls attention to these
points and urges that a revision of
the schedule be proceeded with at
once.
He characterizes tho report of the
tariff board as the most complete and
exhaustive statement of a difficult
ana complicated suoject ever pre
sented to a legislative body. He de
clare it a monument to the thor
oughness, Industry, impartiality and
accuracy of tko men engaged in its
making. He also dwells with
emphasis upon the fact that the re
port is a unanimous one and assorts
the belief that it will convince all
of the wisdom of making the tariff
board permanent.
Neither the president nor the
board propose definite rates of duty,
Mr. Taft holding that the function of
the board merely is to present find
ing of fact on which rates of duty
may be fairly determined in the light
of adequate knowledge and in ac
cord with the economic policy to be
followed. President Taft recom
mend that the proposed revision
adhere to a policy of protection based
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Senator Penrose announced that he
hoped the republican senate would
be able to formulate a bill to comply
with tho tariff board's views. Repre
sentative Underwood said the presi
dent's message really pointed out the
necessity of a great reduction In wool
rates and that he had no doubt they
would carry out tho suggestions
made.
"The president in his message,"
Mr. Underwood said, "favors placing
a specific duty on scoured wool as a
basis for importation of raw wool,
instead of placing a duty on raw
wool and increasing the duty on
scoured wool. If the committee
should adopt a specific rate for raw
wool thero might bo much in the
president's argument, but I have no
doubt the committee will exact an ad
valorem instead of a specific duty.
"The president advocates ad val
orem duty on manufactured wool. In
tho bill passed last year the rate
were ad .valorem, based on import
valuations in contra-distinction to
the compound specific and ad va
lorem rates now exacted in the
Payne-Aldrich law. The president
says the present duty on wool and
woolen manufactures in many in
stances are prohibitive. I have no
doubt the ways and means committee)
will agree with him aa, to tho neces
sity of a reduction. Tho message
clearly justifies the democratic mem
bers in passing the wool bill last
year that the president vetoed."
Representative Dalzell of Pennsyl
vania, republican leader on the way
and means committee, said the mes
sage clearly showed why it is neces
sary to have wool legislation other
than that proposed by the democrat
at the last session of congress.
"I am sure," Senator Penrose said,
"that we shall have a better bill-thaa
the wool bill, which was passed dur
ing the extra session. The financ
committee will take the subject u
after tho holidays, but whether fit
will be possible to bring the demo
cratic house to the acceptance of
such a bill as we might formulate, I
cannot undertake to say. I belier
the report of the tariff board doe
not indicate that the present wool
duties are much too high."
Senator Bristow, who took ft
prominent part in the combination- of
insurgent senators with tho demo
crats that forced tariff reduction bill
through the senate at the extra ses
sion, said that if the president had
signed the LaFolletto wool bill last
summer he would have corrected
every abuse of which he complained
and have preserved ample protectant
duties for every American Industry.
The progressive republicans, he said,
would support the same tariff re
vision this season.
Senator Martin of Virginia, demo
cratic leader of the senate, said 1st
still favored lower duties on wool.
"something like the Underwood bill
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