Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-20
Denies That They Are Eos
tered by Protection.
CHANGES IN TARIFF
MUST BE MADE, He DECLARES, By
ITS FRIENDS.
General Deficiency Bill Reported
Military Academy Bill Nearly
Ready for Submission.

At the opening of today's session of the
Senate the committee on appropriations re-
ported the general deficiency appropriation
BILL the last of the appropriation bills
with which the committee has to deal. The
bill is to be considered as soon as other ap-
preparation bills now on the calendar can
be disposed of.
Mr.. Warren, froy1 the committee on mill
tary affairs, stated that the Military Acad-
envy bill, the only appropriation bill re-
manning unreported, had been referred to
subcommittee, and gave assurance that 1t
would be reported before the other appro-
priation bills can be passed.
A bill donating 40 acres of land at
Beecher Island, Col to mark the site OF the
battle between a party of SO scouts ana
about 1000 Indians. which occurred In
1858. was passed.
Mr.. Dubois introduced and the Senate
passed without comment resolution IN
structing the Postmaster General Ito ascer-
tain as far as possible and report to the
Senate what. If any, postmasters In Ioaho
are living in polygamy.'
Messrs. Dryden and German were ap-
pointed visitors on behalf of the Senate to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis
DoIliver on Trusts.
Mr. Deliver then addressed the Senate on
the trust question.
81 have been very much interested since
the present session of Congress began
said Mr.. Dolliyer. in observing the COM
plete victory which the existing tariff law
has won over the prejudices and settled
opinions which Tor generations have deter
mined the attitude of the democratic party
toward the protective policy. For the first
time in our national history since 1916 that
policy stands approved, Its enemies them
selves being the judges, by the common
consent of the American people. If we may
accept the plain intima ton OF the demo-
cratic leaders of the Senate and OF the
House of Representatives, the old battle
cries of the party not to be heard as
we approach the presidential election OF
this year"
He defended republican policies from the
charges that they fostered trusts. saying !:
1.-The only responsibility which republican
policies have had in the matter is that
under their auspices revival OF business
took place which lifted the country at once
out of rags into affiuence; and whatever
may be said in condemnation of the trust
evil, there are mighty few thoughtful citi-
Zens who have ever had any temptation to
kill them off by remedies which have never
failed to produce the industrial misfortune
out of which we escaped in 1896"
He denounced speculative trusts, but ex-
pressed sympathy for business interests
which by reason of business conditions
were forced to combine in order to live.
He declared that the effect of the aboli-
ton of the tariff would be to turn our mar
kets and our industries over to other ma
lions.
Mr. Dolliver in closing said:
If Changes Are Made.
eff changes are required to bring the
tariff law of 1897 into more perfect rela-
ton to the Industrial progress of the Amer
lean people, we propose to make them our
selves. whenever in our judgment the work
can be undertaken without doing more
harm than good; but we shall not consent
to any change which surrenders the rights
of American labor or the advantage which
every man who makes bona fide invest
ment of his money In the United States
ought to have over his competitors in other
lands. We look forward with hope to the
progress of our commerce from the river
to the ends of the earth but we do not
forget that the statistics of our foreign
trade have brought the most encourage
ment to our people in those exact periods
when our own producers have been most
perfectly guarded against the injurious ap-
proach of the outside world. and that the
law of 1897 for the first time in our history
has yielded us a favorable balance of our
trade in manufactured goods"