The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-21
DOLLNER TALKS ABOUT THE TRUSTS Says Policy of Protective Tariff
 Stands Approved. STATUE FOR JEFFERSON Senator Bacon Offers Amendment Pro viding for Statue as Antldote to
 That of Frederick
 the Great.
STATUE FOR JEFFERSON

| Washington. April 20.-The senate to- day listened to a set speech of two hours on the trusts by MT. Deliver and after wards completed consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill again de- | voting much time to the provisions for an extension of the east front of the capitol and for an additional office build | ing for the senate
 The office building amendment was | agreed to as reported from the com mittee, but the extension paragraph was so modified as to practically provide for plans only the appropriation being re- | duced to $75,000
 | At the opening of the senate Mir Hale, chairman of the committee on appropri- | ations, reported the general deficiency | appropriation bill saying that it was the | last of the appropriations with which the committee has to deal and he expects to have the bill as soon as other appro- | prfation bills on the calendar can be dis posed of
 MT Warren on the committee of mili- tary affairs, stated that the military academy bill, the only appropriation bill remaining unreported, had been referred to subcommittee and gave assurance that it would be reported before the other appropriation bills can be passed. MT, Dubois introduced and the senate passed without comment resolution in- strueting the postmaster general to as- certain as far as possible and to report to the senate what if any postmasters in Idaho are living in polygamy. Deliver Talks on Trusts. Mir. Deliver then addressed the senate on the trust question. He referred to the attitude of the democratic party toward the tariff, saying that for the first time in our national history since 1916, the policy of protection stands approved, its
 
 the common consent of the American people
 The attitude of Senator German and | Representative John S. Williams on the | tariff was referred to at length He de- tended republican politics from the charge that they fostered trusts and contended that every trust is circum- scribed by natural laws which it is inn possible for them to override. One of these laws for instance, was the law of maximum consumption. He added:
 Not even these which like the Ameri- can Sugar Refining company, have ap- preached nearly to a monopoly. are ex- empt from that law. The trusts watch more diligently than ever the signs of the market, for they know better than any one that their profit is in the sale and not in the manufacture of their goods" Continuing, Mir Deliver said "Fhere is only one sense in which the protective tariff can be held responsible for the trusts, and that is that without the protective tariff there would have | been fewer industries to combine, and therefore fewer combinations. He de- clared that the effect of the abilition of | the tariff would be to turn our markets and our industries over to other nations. 1 Mr Deliver in closing said: we ap- | proach this presidential campaign united | in the bonds of our historic origin. We do not originate it, we inherited it from our fathers. If changes are required to bring the tariff law of 1897 into more perfect relation to the industrial progress of the American people, we propose to make them ourselves, whenever, in our judgement, the work can be undertaken without doing more harm than good, but we shall not consent to anything which surrenders the rights of American labor or the advantage which every man who makes a bona fide invesement of his money in the United States ought to have over his competitors in other lands
 Senate Office Building.
 Consideration of the sundry civil ap- propriaton bill was then resumed, the immediate question being the amendment for an office and committee building for the senate.
 MT. Stone and Mir Stewart supported the amendment and MT. Newlands advo- Cated a pOStpOnement of the entire ques- ton until it could be Investigated by architects The amendment was agreed to by a vote of SC to 10. The negative votes were cast by Messrs Bate, Berry, Black burn and Morgan, democrats; and Messrs. Clapp, Hoskins Willard, Perkins Platt of Connecticut and Scott, republicans.
 The provisions for an addition to the east front of the capitol inserted by the house and amended by the senate com mittee on appropriations were discussed. MT. Allison offered an amendment, which was adopted limiting the immediate ap- propriation to s75000.
 MT. Fairbanks moved to strike out the provision, but the motion was lost-2S to g.,
 An amendment appropriating s71.000 as the share of the United States of the cost of A building to be erected in Washington for the bureau of American republics was adopted Mr Bacon offered an amend ment, which was accepted, appropriating s5o, ,0OO for the erection in Washington of statute of Thomas Jefferson He said he desired to have the provision insereted "as an antidote to the petition for the statue of Frederick the Great" and asked to have the provision inserted immediately after the paragraph relating to Frederick which was done.
 | The sundry civil service appropriation | bill was then passed as amended. | The pension appropriation bill was laid before the senate. after which the senate at $40 D. m. adjourned.