The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-01-10
TO HELP. POOR
SENATOR HOAR AND VEST PLEAD
FOR REMOVAL OF DUTY FROM
COAL
Senators Listen with Rapt Atten-
ton to the Arguments of the
Venerable Massachusetts,
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Washington, Jan. 6.-Soon after
| the Senate met the Vest resolution
instructing the committee on fnan-
ce to prepare and report bill re-
moving the duty on anthracite coal
was considered. Mr. Vest said there
is nothing in the resolution that the
| finance committee can furnish light
upon, and therefore he could not see
the necessity of Mr. Aldrich's mo-
tion, made yesterday, to refer the
resolution to the finance committee.
"This is no longer partisan
question" said he, "but question
of absolute humanity. We are not
on verge of crisis in regard to
COAL" he said, "but we are actually
in it. Women and children have
been frozen to DEATH" His only
solic.tude was to find remedy for
this disgracef'll and outrageous con-
dition."
Senators stood silent and dumb,
he said, either afraid or unwilling
to take any action, answering the
appeals of the poor, freezing women
and children with a party cry,
"stand pat" Nothing is to be done
he continued, with the sacred ele-
phant of the Dingley tariff law. The
Senator from Massachusetts (Lodge)
he declared had endeavored to ad-
minister homeopathic dose in the
shape of a suspension Of duty for go
days. but If medicine is needed at
all tits in large doses. By refer
ring the resolution to the committee
be said, it would have DO chance to
pass.
"Don't we know" he said, "that
when we send the resolutions to the
finance committee we send it to its
execution?"
He then said that all he wanted
was for every Senator to put him
self on record. He criticised the
Dingley tariff law, and said there
was no more chance today in his
judgment, to reduce single duty
in the Dingley act than for him to
carry off the Capitol building on
his shoulders, That was the end
of the discussion.
Senator Hoar's speech was devo-
ted entirely to the question Of trusts
and partly to an explanation of his
recently introduced trusts bill. He
began his address with the asumpt-
ion that all are agreed as to the ne. !
cessity of legislation, state or natl
onal, for the control of the trusts.
He said as yet there had only been
apprehensions and large but not
serious injury, except in the case of
the recent coal strike, on account
of trusts. On the contrary. the
progress of our prosperity had been
greater in the past few years than
ever before had been known, and
our workmen. were better off. Still
there is, he said, actual peril, and it
is none the less real because it in
wlves only the future and not the
present.
the Senator then took up the
discussion to the effect of the con-
troll of vastwealth of individuals,
saying that in such spstem there
was zmuch to threaten republican
liberty. Most of the vast fortunes
of the present day had been accum-
ulated within 81 years.
Is there anything to render it
unlikely" he asked, ''If one of these
vast fortunes has grown from
hundred thousand to a hundred
million in 80 years, that in the
hands of the next posessori in anoth-
er 30 or SO years the hundred mil
lion may become hundred thous-
and million or the thousand mil
lion thousand thousand million