The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-01-23
.D0LL|vER SPEAKS
ON RECIPROCITY
Republicans for Re.
fusaI to Consider kas-
son Treaties.
DEFENSE OF Mr.. DlNGLEY
Aldrich Says the Intention Was to
Make Agreements on Non-Com-
petitive Products OnIy-TiIl-
mar 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 a bill removing the duty on coal
was then resumed.
Dolliver of Iowa defended the orders
OF Secretary Shaw, which We're issued
last fall, and which instructed collec-
tors of customs to resolve all reason
able doubts in favor of the importer.
Senatorial Discourtesy.
Dolliver then discussed the efforts
made to secure reciprocity treaties and
said congress a not given the nego-
tiat1ons 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
thel law Of 1897 as to furnish a basis for
reciprocity arguments.
1T 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."
Whcn 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-
stralnt of conscience to stand in the
senate and say there was nothing in
famous about it.
1T is a scheme he continued, that
is in practice in practically every gov.
eminent 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,
is the advocate hat shall defend the
memoir of the congress Of 1872"
Recommended by Mckinley.
The reciprocity provision in the
Dlngley act, he declared, was as dis
tinctly 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 SEN
ate to take action upon the reciprocity
treaties than by all the noise that had
been made by democrats about coal.
Il do not intend to sit quietly in this
chamber he declared, while it is
said to be Infamous that anybody
should lave CHANGED to entertain the
notion that a tariff schedule once
framed could not be honorably modi-
i1eu py sensible negOt1atiOnS.'
1t remains a %reproach 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 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 memoir Of the
man who negotiated the reciprocity
sreaties, Mr.. kasson. If they were passed
over in silence by the senate and never
acted upon. He declared the intention
If the reciprocity section of the Dingley
act was to make agreements upon non
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
Goa 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 2 o'clock the Vest resolution went
over until tomorrow and the omnibus
statehood bill was taken up.