The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03

The Aldrich financial bill was taken
up in the senate Wednesday. Sena.
tor Aldrich offered an amendment in
CEN of the par value of the securi-
ties which may be accepted as q
basis for circulation. 1t was agreed
to. Amendments eliminating railroad
bonds; limiting the retirement of cir
culating notes to $4,000, 600 in any
one month and accepting Porto Rican
bonds for circulation, we're adopted.
When Mr.. Scott of Kansas, in
charge of the agricultural appropria-
ton bill. Wednesday sought unani-
nous consent to limit to five hours
further debate on the bill, Mr.. Sulzer
of New York objected. That action
forced the house to a vote and it
was agreed to confine general debate
to four hours instead of five. The
house disagreed to all the amend
ments to the legislative bill and it
was sent to conference, Messrs. Gill
lett of Massachusetts, Brick of Indiana
and Livingston of Georgia being ap.
pointed conferees on the part of the
house. Further commentator of the
work of the agricultural department
came from Mr.. Smith of Missouri,
who strongly advocated the encour-
agement of agricultural education
through experiment stations.
and E. H. Smiley of East st. Louis as
alternates.
The platform as outlined and adopt
ed follows, in part:
ut is now apparent that in order
to maintain the scientific accuracy of
the tariff, remove inequalities and
prevent injustice, some new schedules
must be added to the law, some of the
present rates must be lowered, while
some must be repealed altogether.
The very success of the present. tar
iff demonstrates the wisdom oI revising
it to conform to the improved condi-
tons which it has produced. We be-
lieve that the people of the United
States will profit by a new tariff, but
it must be a Republican tariff, a pro-
tective tariff, a tariff which recognizes
in all it's parts the difference between
American and foreign wages, the diff
ference between the high scale of liv-
ing of American -wage-earners and
the scale of living imposed by insult
ficient wages upon foreign workmen.
I'VE therefore recommend to our
delegates to the Republican national
convention that they urge upon the
convention the wisdom of declaring tor
a revision of the tariff TO be made at
the next session of congress or at a
special session of the Sixty-first con
gress, to be convened Immediately aft
er the Inauguration of the next presi-
dent, March A, 1909.
1--WE believe that our tariff should
contain a provision for minimum and
maximum rates, the minimum rates
giving full protection, the maximum
rates to be invoked for retaliating up
on foreign countries that discriminate
against American products. We be-
lieve that two main ideas should per-
NduC OH tuC pioNiSiOHo VI lHe tdTll,
first, that the protective principle SO
prevail in all the schedules, that Amer
lean farmers, workmen and producers
shall be given the first call on the
home market; and secondly, that no H.
legal or unjust combination, trust or
monopoly, shall find encouragement or
shelter in any of its provisions.
ITO the end that the revision or the
tariff may be accomplished with the
greatest possible gain and the least
possible loss we suggest to our sena-
tors and representatives in congress,
that they seek to secure at once the
passage in their respective houses of
resolutions directing the proper COM
mittees to proceed Immediately to col
lect the preliminary information neces-
sary for a revision Of the tariff, that
when the work is entered upon all par
ties in interest may be heard and the
law framed, discussed and passed with
out delay, and without any disturbance
of the financial and industrial inter-
ests Of the country"