Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-15
Senator Dolliver Stands Up
for Reciprocity.
STRIKES FROM SHOULDER
otturWa Republicans Much Interested
in the Effort of the Able Iowa SEN
ator on This ouestion-speaks I'm
promptu But Effectively.

delivered by Senator Dolliver of Iowa,
attacking the policy of those senators
responsible for holding up the reci-
procity treaties and pleading for the
carrying out of the reciprocity claus
es in the Dingley tariff law in the spir-
1t in which they were intended. 1t
was true, Senator Dolliver declared,
that Mr.. Dingley had put the tariff
rates so high that they could be
reduced by reciprocity arrangements.
He argued that reciprocity was part of
the American protective tariff system,
and that the success and perpetuation
of the system depended largely upon
the recognition Of this fact. He dwelt
at some length upon President Nc
Kinley's last speech as embodying the
proper policy for the country.
Embarrassed the objectors.
Senator Delivers speech was in re-
ply to an attack made by Senator
Carmacl1 upon Secretary Shaw, but
before he concluded he cleared up
some other Misrepresentation and
made things very embarrassing for
Aldrich and Hale, two of the senators
who for three years have been defeat
| ing all efforts to get the Mckinley rec
| iprocity treaties to vote. The last
effort was made by Senator Cullom be-
| fore the recent holiday adjournment,
but Senator Aldrich objected on the
ground that there had not been sufi-
cient time to Investigate them.
Delivers Speech.
| During the consideration of the Vest
resolution directing the finance COM
mittee to prepare and report a bill re-
moving the duty on coal. Mr.. Dolliver
said:
'"The thing about the coal traffic
that has impressed me more than any
thing else is lAe Iact that when others
were Indifferent and careless, and
wilnout foresight OF any sort. the head
4 of the executive department of the
government long before the. coal fam
inc arose, with extraordinary wisdom
and good sense foresaw and forecast
the intolerable conditions that were
about to be visited upon the people of
the United States and we owe to him
more than to anybody else the fact
that the coal famine so-called has
borne as lightly as it has upon the
people of the United States.
But he was not alone in his fore.
sight of conditions which were about
to arise in the United States. 1t is to
the credit, it appears to me, of the
secretary of the treasury that he en-
tered into the spirit and purpose of
the President in preventing as far as
an executive department might be
able to prevent it, such visitation as
has been threatened, and it appears
to me to be at least unfortunate that
/ the senator from Tennessee should
have made the effort of the secretary
of the treasury to forward the purpose
and spirit of executive department the
subject for an attack which can hard
ly be denominated as less than absurd
in the presence of all facts"
Design of Dingley Bill.
Taking up then the general subject
of the tariff, Senator Dolliver faced
the coterie of prominent republicans
around him. "a very interesting con
: troversy has grown up" said he
about the designs and purposes OF
congress- and especially of the late
honored chairman of the ways and
means committee of the house of rep
resentatives, in respect to reciprocity
4 treaties based upon the tariff law oi
1897, and desire to say candidly, be
!, cause there are reasons which ought
70 move everybody to speak with can
, dor, that for one have been disap
pointed in the total failure of congress
to take up and consider and fayorably
dispose of the pending reciprocity
treaties.
4 'I presume that something of my
interest in these treaties arises from
, the fact that they We're negotiated by
one of the most famous and honoret
| men in public life of the state of which
| have the honor in part to represen
J, here and have felt that the attitude
, of congress toward these treaties is
far from creditable to the government
We saw the reciprocity treaties O
4 1890 cast into the sea without a mo
ment's notice to ten or fifteen foreign
countries, with whom we had solemn
, lily negotiated them. We have by Law
: authorized the negotiation of treaties
some of which are pending before tn,
senate and house in the present con
gress. and we have been SO far neg
F ligent of the high obligation whicl
rests upon congress under the tariff
law of 1897 that we have not given t,
? those solemn public negotiations th
!. ordinary courtesy OF a casual consider
alton.
81 do not intend to indulge in an
lbearing of testimony as to Governo
: Dingley's views He left his opinion
. u