Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-13
DO[UV[R S||RS
UP The SENATE
Failure to Act Upon the Reel
procity Treaties Denounced
in Unmeasured Terms
MeklNLErs ADVICE REJECTED
MeklNLErs ADVICE REJECTED
senate's Attitude Toward the Reeiproc-
ity Agreement Severely Scored and
tho Memory of Dinsley Defended
Aldrich Answers DoIliver Tillman
Will Attack President Tomorrow.

$50 washington, Jan. 10.-I ne senate To-
day adopted resolution authorizing
The committee on District of Colum-
tion with the coal investigation, adj
minister Oaths and compel attendance
of witnesses. Consideration of the Vest
resolution directing the finance COM
nittee to report a bill removing the
duty on coal was then resumed. Doll
liver, of Iowa, defended the orders of
Secretary Shaw. which were issued
last fall and Instructed collectors of
customs to solve all reasonable doubts
In favor Of the importer.
Dolliver then discussed the efforts
made to secure reciprocity treaties ana
said congress had not given the nego-
tiations the ordinary courtesy of casual
consideration. He took up the allega-
tion made against Dingley and said
sarcastically that Dingiey had been
charged with the hideous crime of
having so arranged the tariff schedule
in the law OF 1897 as to furnish basis
for reciprocity arrangements. 1t is
true" he declared. under. that bill.
which he had reported from the com-
mittee on ways and means, he did put
/ duties up for the express purpose of
having them traded down. When such
scheme as that is condemned as in
famous he said, against which the
memory Of Dingley ought to be defend
/. ed he could not feel restraint OF con-
science to stand in the senate and say
there was nothing INFAMOUS about it,
.It Is scheme" he continued, ..that IS
in practice practically In every govern
n,ent In Europe. If it is necessary
for men to rise In the senate to de-
feld the memory OF Dingley against
a charge which had beer made where :
he said, lis the advocate that shall
defend the memory of the congress
Of 1897" Reciprocity provision In
Dingley act, he declared, was as dis
tinctly a part Of the tariff policy OF th,.
United States as the coal schedule.
More violence had been done to the
protective system by the stolid, quiet.
uncommunicatiye failure of the senate
to take action upon reciprocity treat,
les than 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 in
famous that anybody should have
chanced to entertain a notion that a
tariff schedule may be honorably modi-
fed by sensible negotiations.
1t remained a reproach to congress- -
he said, that not one line of the wisdom
Of James G. Blaine remained on the
statute books and not step had been
taken to fulfill the purpose and spirit
of the last Buffalo address of President
Mckinley"
Aldrich replied to Dolliver, saying 1t
would be better for the memory of the
man who negotiated the reciprocity
treaties, Mr.. Kasson. IL they were
passed over In silencs. by the senate and
never acted upon. He declared the In
tsntion OF the reciprocity section of the
Dingley act was to make agreements
upon nom competitive products. He
never expected that republican adj
ministration would sanction negotia-
tions which struck at the heart of pro-
lection. which was the bulwarlk of re-
publicanisrn.
Tillman. of South Carolina, gave no.
tice that he would tomorrow speak on
the coal situation and would put the
blame for the present deplorable con-
dition where 1t belonged, upon the pres
ident of the United States and his at
torney general"
Att O'clock the Vest resolution went
over until tomorrow and the omnibus
statehood bill was taken up.