President. before the Senate disposes of the paragraph providing for a differential upon dressed lumber. I wish to ask that consideration be given to a great number of establishments and employees who are engaged in the planing and dressing of lumber along the American side of the water boundary between the United States and Canada. Early in the history of the building of the dwellings for our people all along the pathway of emigration to the West. there grew up along the southern borders of the Lakes a chain of lumber yards and lumberdressing establishments to supply the wants of the moving and growing communities. When the lumbering camps were established in the forests of Michigan and Wisconsin. instead of establisling planing mills at the camps. the cheap Lake freights made it practicable to transport the rough lumber to points on the south of the Lakes nearer the points of distribution and to dress the lumber at those points. Accordingly. these establishments grew up. and as the lumber of Michigan and Wisconsin decreased the same establishments began to include Canadian lumber in their work. so that now they are engaged in the dressing of rough lumber. which is brought from our western forests and from Canadian forests. and the millions of feet of lumber which you see upon the "comparative statement as imported into the United States during the past few years go chiefly to these lumberdressing establishments. which are taking the rough lumber from the forests of Canada and manufacturing it into material fit and ready for use in building and in the various constructions where lumber is used.
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