The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-06
Hoosier Senator Speaks in
Senate on Bill Creating
Commission of Tariff Ex-
perts and Tells Why Needed
MUST HAVE SYSTEM GIVING
SAME WEAPONS AS RIVALS
We Must Have a Maximum
And Minimum Tariff-Ger-
man System Is Pointed Out
As a Model by the Speaker.

| Washington. Feb. Ex-senator Albert
J. Beveridge of Indiana yesterday af-
! ternOOn delivered a speech in the sen
ate on his bill for the creation Of a
| tariff commission. The galleries were
filled long before the senator began
his speech The HOosier senator is
one of the most entertaining orators in
the senate, and he is always greeted
by crowds whenever he speaks, The
senator said in part:
The tariff is fixed by facts: how to
| get at these facts is the first question
| in the whole tariff problem. Common
| sense and experience answer that ques-
ton we should create a body OF eX-
perts to find out these facts for us.
IF we thought it wise for the presi-
| dent to send a commission to find out
the facts in so simple a matter as a
| strike at GOldfeld; if it is wise in liti-
| CATION for chancellor to appoint Spe-
| cial examiners and commissioners to
| find out and report the facts in single
| cases: if the senate directs the bureau
| Of corporations to find out the facts
about the doingS Of a single trust in d
single branch of its activities; if con
gress creates a body Of men to find
out the facts about any great business
which the president thinks should be
investigated, and if its work is so
wise that no man in any party asks
that that work be stoppcd-hOw much
wiser and more necessary is the same
plan as to our tariff. which is more
important, more intricate. more diff
cult than all these other things put to-
gether."
The senator said the congressional
committees cannot work on the tariff
question all the time. He cited several
instances showing the committees had
more work than they could accom-
plish. He continued:
Il have carefully gone over the bill
| that Mr. Dingley reported to the house
and which the house passed: also the
| bill which Mr.. Aldrich reported to the
| senate, and have tabulatcd the duties
| which these two bills fixed on the
same articles. The duties fixed on
most of them by the house bill differ
widely from those fixed by the senate
| bill. and in many cases the differences
are so wide apart that they are start
ling"
| The senator gave 4 list of dutiable
| articles showing the differences. He
said:
We must have foreign trade. We
must open foreign markets to our live
| urbi n
those markets. Our manufacturers ash
the same advantages in foreign trade
that the German government gets fO1
German manufacturers. American pro
ducers demand that the door of othe
nations which are open to their rival
shall no longer be closed to them. W.
cannot open these doors by purel,
| revenue tariff, because such tariff
merely gives other nations trade ad
vantages with us, without getting from
those other nations any trade advan
tages in return.
| We must have a system that give
us the same weapons that our rival
have by which We can get for our pro
ducers the same favOrS that our rival
get for their producers. We must hav
a maximum and minimum tariff. tn
first to apply to all nations that will
not give our producers special favor
in their markets. and the last to appl
TO those nations that will give our pro
duCers favors in their markets. B.
this plan German producers are sellin
more German goods abroad than an
other nation. If we consider the ares
wealth, history. and aU other element
of The problem. German producers ar
selling more German goods abroa
than any other FIVE nations in tn
world put together"