The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-09
ANTHRACITE
IYaE THEME
|SS.atOrS Discuss vest
= Resolution.
|DINGLEY AND RECIPROCITY
Maine Mans Position Review
ed by Vest and Hale.
Ar. Tillman Says His Colleagues
Have Hardly Had Sufficient
Time to Recover from Their
Christmas DrunkA
.DNGLEY AND RECIPROCITY

" JAM os-4o6hJ tllo OCkl0Sc
again discussed the Vest resolution re-
questing the Finance Committee to re-
port a bill removing the duty on anthra-
cite coal and Mr., Aldrich replied to some
of the criticisms of Mr.. Vest. made last
Tuesday. Mr.. Aldrich insisted that the
resolution would not accomplish the re-
suit sought and that 1t infringed the con-
sututional rights of the public in
respect to revenue bills.
Mr.. Aldrich said that q Democratic
Senate voted to put duty OF 10 cents
on coal in las4 and that they favored free
coal except on the day when they could
nave voted for free coal into the tarin
bill.
Mr.. Vest, in reply, said that the 10 cents
duty on coal was the result OF a hold
up by lew democratic Senators.
Mr.. Vest had read an editorial from. a
washington paper referring to a private
conversation IN which MIR. Dingley was
declared to have made the statement,
knowing the correctness of the assertion,
that the tariff rates in, his bill were made
high In order that reciprocity treaties
might follow.
Mr.. Hale (Ms.) characterized the arti-
Gle as a remarkable statement.
The sacred DingIey Bill.
TT was never made in Mr.. Dingley's
lifetime" he said. Speaking of the Ding
ley bill he declared it was a great, mag
lean people in the cause Of protection and
prosperity.
Mr.. Hoar CMass.) declared that such
resolutions as the one under discussion
was idle and futile in securing the OBJ
jects sought and commended that all legis-
Iation affecting revenue should originate
in the House 49,. .1.ss aas
Mr.. Vest explained his eotion in offer
ing a resolution instead OF q bill saying
he felt sure a bill after its reference TO
committee would never be reached His
object, he said, was to call attention to
the conditions Of the country and inten-
ton OF Congress. After the President Of
the United States had recommended the
removal Of the duty on coal and a month
had elapsed without action upon the rec
ommendation, he thought that even a
poor Democrat might make suggestion
that might hurry action on this import
ant action"
Revsrting to the charge regarding the
object in placing the rates 30 high in the
Dingley bill, Mr.. Vest read letter from
the editor Of The philadelphia Bulletin
saving the statement attributed to Mr..
Dingley was made to writer on the
star of The Bulletin In March. 1887.
In an order, Mr.. Vest said, the Secre-
tary of the Treasury had notified custom
officers that in controversies between the
United States and importers Of foreign
coal as to whether 1t was dutiable or not,
ali doubts should be solved in favor OF
the importer.
,.Tbis was done" Mr.. Vest asserted,
ito induce the importation Of foreign coal
without touching the sacred white ele-
plant Of the Dingley tarif act.
A Remarkable Situation.
He said a remarkable situation was
presented by some ofticials obeying the
order while others ignored it. He did not
bring the matter to the attention OF the
Senate. he said, as a reflection on the
administi alton, but to show that the Sec
retary of the Treasury conceded with
the Secretary of the Navy and the Pres-
dent in the idea that the importation Of
foreign coal IL the remedy Of relief from
the terrible condition that now prevails
in the United States.
Mr. Hale entered into a defense Of Mr..
DinRley, saying the statement attributed
to him is radically opposed to all his ut
terances and involved the charge OF in
sincerity.
Mr.. Tillman interrupted that he did not
consider there had been reflection on
Mr.. Dingley. The policy Of his party. he
said. had been exemplihed in the reci-
procity treaty negotiated, and nothing
but the greed of the people whose protec-
ton is reduced, he said, prevents the
ratification of the pending treaties
None of U.s." said Mr.. Hale. referring
to the alleged interview with Mr.. Ding
ley, would want our sincerity tmpugned
by somebody five years after our death. "
If Senators in sympathy with Mr.. Vest,
he said, have no stronger evidence than
this effort to Iansack the past, turn up the
grave and bring up an alleged conversa-
ton that has slept for five years in order
to show insincerity, they are hard put.
He characterized the person who reported
the alleged interview as a falsifier.
Mr.. Tillman, replying to Mr.. Hale, said
there was no accusation against Mr..
Digney's character or sincerity The
Senator who sympathized with the Sena-
tor from Missouri were not hard up for
arguments on the trust question.
This Is certainly put forward now as
the one argument" retorted Mr.. Hale.
Mr.. Tillman said that Congress had
been assembled only three weeks and
I'VE have hardly gotten over our Christ
mas drunkS."
The debate was cut short by Mr.. Quay
CPa.) demanding the regular order. The
Vest resolution went over, to come up
or the next legislative day.
The Statehood bill then was taken up
and Mr.. Nelson continued his remarks
begun Monday.