The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-13

speakers desk it extended from one side
OF the room to the other two deep. A
few who have not yet arrived failed TO
answer to their names. 50 Senator Car
any OF the employees had gotten away
penter of Neosho announced that IF
there were plenty more in the lobby to
take their places" This raised d laugh.
The rear end of the room had been filed
with supposed spectators, but most of
these moved I'D and were sworn in as
employees" Then a few minutes were
spent in rag chewing over a resolution
to bar out everybody not provided with
tickets to the senate chamber. Senators
Pestana of Russell and Cubbison OF
Kansas City were especially exercised
lest their lady friends be barred out.
Governor Hanna announced that as long
as the present administration lasted the
members need have no fear about the
admission of lady friends.
This was about the only horsepiay in
dulged in After the naming of Sena-
tors King and Porter as the concurrent
committee to inform the house that the
senate had assembled an adjournment
was taken till o'clock.
Mr.. Aldrich replied to Mr.. DoIliver
saying that it would be better for the
memory of the man who negotiated the
reciprocity treaties Mr.. Kasson, if they
were passed over in silence and never
acted upon. He declared that the inten-
ton of the reciprocity section of the
Dingley act was to make agreement up
on non-competitive products. He never
expected that a Republican administra-
ton would negotiate treaties which
struck at the heart of protection which
was the bulwark of Republicanism.
Mr.. Tfllman Is. C.) gave notice that he
would tomorrow speak on the coal sit
uatlOn and would put the blame 1Jr "a :
present deplorable condition where it
belonged upon the president of the Uni
ted States and his attorney general"
At O'Clock the Vest resolution went
over until tomorrow and the omnibus
Statehood hill f1lxa7
Mr.. Doiliver then discussed the efforts
made to secure reciprocity treaties and
said th5t congress had not given the
negotiations the ordinary courtesy of =
casual consideration He took up the
allegations made against Mr. Dingley
and said Sarcast stically that Mr. Dingley
had been charged with the hideous
crime of having SO arranged the tariff
schedule in the law CT 1897 as to furnish
the basis for recirrccIty arguments
1T is true" he declared, that in the
bill which he had reported from the
committee on ways and means he did
put duties I'D for the express purpose
of having them traded down."
When such scheme as that is con-
demned as an infamy. he said, against
which the memory of Mr. ISingley ought
to be defended, he could not feel the
straint OF conscience to stand in the
senate and say there was nothing in
famous about it.
1T is the scheme he continued.
that is in practice in every government
in EuroRe.''
IF it is necessary for men to rise
in the senate to defend Mr. Dingley's
memory against the charge which has
! been made where he asked, lis the
advocate. that shall defend the memory
4 Of the congress of 1900?'
The reciprocity provision in the Ding
/ ley act was as distinctly a part of the
tariff policy of the United States as the
/ coal schedule. More violence had been
done to the protective system by the
stolid. quiet, uncommunicative failure
! of the senate to take action upon the
reciprocity treaties than by all the noiss
/ that had been made by the Democrats
about coal.
IT do not intend to sit quietly in this
chamber" he declared. while it is said
4 to be infamous that anybody should
/ have CHANGED to entertain the notion
! that a tariff schedule once framed could
not be honorabiy modified by sensible
/ negotiations"
It remains a reproach to the times, he
said. that one line of the wisdom Of
James Gl. Blaine remained on the stat
ute books and not q step had been taken
to fulfill the purpose and spirit of the
last Buffalo address of President Nc
Kinley-