Arizona republican., 1903-01-17
A Victory for Western Republi-
 caniSm.

vote of both houses was pracIlcally unanimous-there being but five against the measure in the house and none in the senate. But it is no secret that there was pposition-especially in the senate-to the free coal proposition, and this opposition was confined to small coterie Of men from New Eng land who purport to speak for the re- publican party and for the nation whenever bills of broad significance are before the senate. The western senator who came out of the debate with the most credit was Jonathan P Deliver of Iowa.
 Senator Hale of Maine and Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island worked them ton on behalf of the memory of the late Congressman Dingley, and pre- tended to treat as reflection on the character of that great statesman the assertion that number of the sched- ules of the Dingley bill-including the duty on anthracite-were purposely placed at high figure in order to en- able this government to reap substan- tial trade benefits by lowering the duties through the process of recipro- Mr. Dingley in this respect was in harmony with enlightened statesman ship and it was absurd for the New England senators to accept the state ment of fact as an effort to place stain on the character of the dead con- gressman. Neither President McKin- ley, Governor Dingley, nor any of the broad statesmen who have led the re- publican party have regarded tariff schedules as too sacred to be subject to change, and Senator Deliver, as a champion of Mckinley republicanism fittingly answered the New England senators when he stated boldly that re- publican members of congress under stood that the Dingley rates were made high with a view to lowering them by treaty. and it is not surprising that he took senators off their feet when he frankly asserted that from his personal knowledge he knew MT. Mckinley thoroughly understood the circum- stances and indorsed them.
 Speaking of the proposed reciprocity treaties which some of the New Eng land senators are fighting. Senator Dol liver said:
 "The attitude of congress on these treaties is far from creditable to the government of the United States. We saw the reciprocity treaties of 1890 cast into the sea without a word of notice to the ten or fifteen foreign countries with which we had made them. Then we have by law authorized the nego- tiation of similar treaties some of which are still pending in the present congress; We have not given to these solemn negotiations the ordinary court esy of careful consideration. Every body familiar with our diplomatic his tory must agree with me that this neg Iigence and indifference of congress has cast still further odium upon treaty
 making power of the United States.
 Now, I do not propose to interest the senate in conversations with the dead or with living statesmen. I spare ! the senator from Maine's feelings to- ward the memory of Governor Dingley. The only thing that depresses me is that in defending Governor Dingley the senator from Maine (Hale) has left the
 impression on the country that some | infamous charges had been made against the memory of Nelson Dingley who was accused here of the horrible
 crime of having our tariff schedules
 arranged high enough to permit the negotiation of reciprocity treaties. He ! has been charged with the complex of
 fense of deliberately putting duties up
 so that they might be traded down. Governor Dingley left his opinions on
 record; there is no need Of disputing
 over his conversations. He reported
 a bill from, the ways and means committee of which I was a member
 which did put duties up for the express
 purpose of trading them down."
 | MT. Deliver then read from the re-
 port of MT. Hopkins of Illinois, chair
 man of the reciprocity subcommittee
 at the time, which MT. Dingley ap- proved.
 When such a plan is condemned | here" continued MT. Deliver, 'as in fanny against the memory of Governor Dingley which should be defended. I rise ! m protest. ms SCnelne IS Tn OpeTdIlOn
 in practically every country in Europe | that has a tariff scheme similar to our own. It ought not to be defended here as something infamous. I believe more violence has been done to the protec tive system here in the senate by the stolid, uncommunicative refusal to take action on these treaties than by all | those made in the other side of the chamber on account of coal and all other extortiOns of the protective sys- tenn. The republican party has an in terest in this controversy that is not altogether represented by the senators from Missouri or Tennessee. For one,
 I stand for the whole protective policy of the United States, the law of 1897 modified as it may be by congress in it's wisdom from time to time, by changed conditions of business. It would be a reproach to congress to say that there is no way to change a tariff without a hostile explosion. We had for forty years no mechanism for changing tariff schedules. We have enacted pro-
 tective tariffs which have worn them selves ont 1IDtiI finally tba enemies of