Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-06-05
HAD A LONG TALK.
Senate Gets Weary Of Straight
Public Business
AID RESTS ITSELF WITH oRAToRY

Ao0tol El0QaoNtly Elab0Hoeeo the Wool
Question-Butier Urges t. Lsvslinsas
Of IN Incsmo Tax and the Cus6eAnsas ef
Corperats NenoPolies, and Il sAaeply
Picked Up by Cullom ~ to the Railway
Pool BnlslC.pe Smith ON Cuba.
Washington. June 5.-The senate had
. beriod Of speech-making yesterday
and as q result little progress was made
on the tariff bill. The advance covered
about two pages, or seven paragraphs,
and brought the senate up to the wood
schedule, the first item Of which was
considered. but not completed. Mantle
spoke for two hours on the wool sched-
ule. urging increased rates for the wool
made a plea in behalf Of the income
tax. The senator referred at the out
set to recent supreme court decisions on
the income tax and on the antitrust
law. He added an expression Of sur
prise at the Indecent haste with which
the pooling bill was being urged before
congress, Immediately after the decision
OF the supreme court on the antitrust
law. This aroused Cullom, chairman of
the interstate commerce committee. now
considering the pooling bill, to a spirited
rerly.
Cullom's Reply IL Decidedly Tart.
The senator from North Carolina was
making statements about which he
knew nothing, said Cullom. The pooling
bill had been before congress for months
before the supreme court decision, and
it sought to strengthen the interstate
law. He resented the statement Of lin
decent haste" and said such a charac-
terization was q Misrepresentation of
facts.
Chiffon Of Texas, another member of
the interstate commerce committee, said
he had been on the committee for two
years. and he had never known of the
pooling bill being pressed, until after
the recent supreme court decision
against railway pooling. He differed in
toto, he said. with the chairman Of the
committee. that the pooling bill sought
to Strengthen the law.
Butler Considers Himself justified.
Butler. resuming. said that Chilton's
statement had fully justified his original
assertion, and he would leave it to the
public to Judge whether there was "in-
decent haste" He would, he said, in
sist OF the consideration Of a measure
authorizing an income tax before any
pooling bill was brought before the sen
ate. He declared that the pooling bill
was in the interest Of the most gigantic
trust in existence, compared with which
all other trusts are pigmies. The sem
atGr then spoke on the merits Of an in
come tax.
The tariff bill came up at 8 p. m. and
during the discussion Pettigrew made
a sreech which was looked upon as
significant Of his attitude toward the
bill.
Pettigrew Defines His Position.
The issue Of free trade and protection
was settled forever in this country, he
declared. No political party would ever
again come to power on an issue of
free trade. and no senator would ever
enter this senate on q platform of free
trade. Senators might speak in favor of
free trade for South Dakota's mica, but
they would not favor it for. their own
Industries. The issue was now a con-
test over schedules only. and it had
ceased to be a question on which the
two great political parties could be
divided. The great issues before the
people today did not relate TO schedules,
but to the greater question as to whether
government of plutocracy and COR
porations shall take the place Of the
rule Of the people.