Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-06
A TARIFF PLANK FOR PLATFORM
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IN THE SENATE.
Beveridse Urges Creation of Non
partisan Tariff Commission.

partisan TarIH CommiSS ion.
NGshington. Feb. Ex-senator BeVer-
idg.. of Indiana today delivered an ap-
peal 10 the Senate to adopt his bill
providing for a non-partisan tariff
Commission /. plan which he declared
cnnformed to modern and business
ideas on this subject. He spoke for an
hour ami a half. receiving the careful
attention of senators and a large au-
dlencr in the galleries. There We're
present many delegates to commercial
bodies now in session i'll this city.
Following Senator Beveridges adj
dress several Democratic senators
spoke briefly on the general subject OF
the tariff and at 4.51 T. NJ. the Sem
ate adjourned.
The Senate in executive session
Wednesday made an effort to confirm
the appointment of Willis Wither
spoon to be brigadier general, but
without success. WitherspOon was
lieutenant colonel of the 18th Infantry
and was promoted over the heads Of
several superior officers to be briSa-
der general Oct. 3, 1907, vice William
p. Duvall. who was made Il major gem
cral. There was very little in the de-
bate that was directed at the President
personally The attack was mainly on
his policy of forcing younger officers
ahead Of older men Of the service. no
action was taken.
Washington, Feb. 5.-SenatOr Bcv-
erIdge of Indiana today addressed the
Senate in advocacy Of his bill to create
& permanent tariff commission. The
senator was accorded q careful hear
Ing by both the Republican and Dem
ocratic sides Of the chamber and also
by the crowded galleries.
~ the galleries several sections had
hee1y rserved for members of COM
merciai md manufacturing bodies
now i'll the city for the purpose of pro
noting tbs. interests Of Mr.. Bever-
idge'i hill.
Beverage SPOKE for an hour and a
half and when lie had concluded his
remarks Culbersor, Tex, remarked
that the senator from Indiana was to
he congratulated because in some de-
gree at least he joined the army Of
tariff rcvisionists.
Culberson called. attention to what
ne Sdlu WIS lIlt Ittt tU3l tllt
ad vt.orem tariff is now A. per cent;
that it is greater than the difference
between the cost of labor here and
abroad. and that many articles manu-
featured in the United States are sold
abroad chcaper than in this country,
and .hat L protective tariff encourages
trusts. He then asked to have insert
ed in the record an artIcIe from a
book he exhibited.
Eevcridgc asked to be given he
nam Of the book.
Il will give it," replied Culberson.
"aS | am sure it will appeal to the
senator as IN authority. 1t is the
Democratic Campaign Book
4 thought So replied EevcriIge,
and he then proceeded to express his
regret that craftsmanship should be in
jccted into the debate.
such tactics" Bevcridgc said. "may
b. worthy Of the senator as a leader
OF his party, but it is not worthy OF
any man appearing in the capacity of
statesman III this country. That is
precisely the difficulty We must get
over. We must get away from inject
ing politics into every great question
here"
So far as he was concerned, he had
always been tariff reformer, but he
had never belonged to the class that
would reduce such reform to a parti
san basis. England. he said, was about
to abandon her tariff for revenue pol
icy for protection and all the great ma
tions had first adopted a. tariff sys
TEN and then Il double tariff system
involving 2 maximum and minimum
tariff
The senator from Texas" he said
will have to learn Il new tariff speech
for the next campaign" He declared
that the old way of injecting partisan-
ship into the tariff talk would have to
give way to scientific consideration
of tho subject.
Scott pronounced himself to be a
stand natter" He believed the pres
ent Dingley tariff had done more for
this country in the past 10 years than
any law ever enacted.
Il don't believe in revising the tar
iii before an election or after an cello
ton" he said. ''Why. my dear Mr..
President. before the Dingley bill be-
came into effect TIL" great American
| farmers were ashamed IL look a sheep
| in thu face because they We're so
| WORTHLESS in point of value
! Stone. Nj, spoke for 4 revision Of
| the :dri!f. li> declared that when Will
liam Jennings i;ryan is elected Prcsi-
| dent ANA when Congress is in control
| Of the Democratic party then. and
| then only would Il conscrva tive and
| genuine revision of the tariff be begun.
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HEARING or INJUNCTION BILL.