The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-01-16
D0LL|VER SPEAKS
ON RECIPROCITY
Arraigns Republicans for Re-
fusal to Consider kas-
son Treaties.
DEFENSE OF Mr.. DiNaLEY
Aldrich Says the intention Was ta
Make Agreements on Non-com-
petitive Products only-TiII-
/. man to Speak on Coal.

Washington, Jan. 15.-The senate
today adopted a resolution authorizing
the committee on the District Of Co
lumbia for witnesses in connection
with the coal investigation, administer
oaths and compel attendance of wit
neSses.
Consideration of the Vest resolution
directing the finance committee to re-
port bill removing the duty on coal
was then resumed.
Dolliver Of Iowa defended the orders
of Secretary Shaw which were, issued
last fall, and which instructed collec-
tors of customs to resolve all reason
able doubts in favor of the importer.
Senatorial Dscourtesy.
Dolliver then discussed the efforts
made to secure reciprocity treaties and
said congress had no. given the nego-
tiations ordinary courtesy and casual
consideration. He took UP the allega-
tons against Dingley, and said sar-
castically that Dingley had been
charged with the hideous crime of hav-
Ing SO arranged the tariff schedules in
the law of 1897 as to furnish a basis for
reciprocity arguments.
Tt is true" he declared, "that in the
bill which he had reported from the
committee on ways and means he did
put the duties up for the express pur-
pose of having them traded down.
When such a scheme as that is con-
demned as infamy, he said, against
which the memory Of Dingley ought to
be defended, he could not feel the re-
straint Of conscience to stand in the
senate and say there was nothing in
famous about it.
1t is scheme" he continued. that
is In practice in practically every gov
ernment in Europe. II it is necessary for
men to rise in the senate to defend the
memory of Dingley against the charge
which had been made, where he asked,
memory of the congress of 1872"
Recommended by Mckinley.
The reciprocity provision in the
tinctly 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,
uncommuntcative failure of the SEN
ate to take action upon the reciprocity
treaties than by all the noise that had
been made by democrats about coal.
''I do not intend to sit quietly in this
chamber" he declared, while it is
said to be Infamous that anybody
should have CHANGED to entertain the
notion that tariff schedule once
framed could not be honorably modi-
fed by sensible negotiations"
ASAlld1HS IepIOdCu TO congress,
he said, that not one line of the wis
dom of James G. Blaine remained on
the statute books, and not one step had
been taken to fulfill the purpose and
spirit of the last Buffalo address of
President Mckinley.
Aldrich Makes Reply.
Aldrich replied to Dolliver, saying it
would be better for the memory of the
man who negotiated the reciprocity
treaties, Mr.. Kasson If they We're passed
over in silence by the senate and never
acted upon. He declared the intention
of the reciprocity section Of the Dingley
act was to make agreements upon nom
competitive products. He never ex-
pected that a republican administration
would negotiate treaties which struck
at the heart of protection, which was
the bulWark of republicanism.
Tillman Of South Carolina gave no.
tice he would speak tomorrow on the
coal situation and would put the blame
for the present deplorable condition
where it belonged, upon the president
of the United States and his attorney
general"
At o'clock the Vest resolution went
over until tomorrow and the omnibus
statehood bill was taken up.