Mexico Missouri message., 1908-04-02
What Congress is Doing

The AldrIch financial bill was taken
up in the senate Wednesday. Sena.
tor Aldrich offered an amendment in.
creasing the limit from rs TO 80 per
cent of the par value of the securi.
ties which may be accepted as a
basis for circulation. II was agreed
to. Amendments eliminating railroad
bonds; limiting the retirement OF cir
culating notes TO 100000 in any
one month and accepting Porto Rican
bonds for circulation, were 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 II
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 Il
was sent to conference. Messrs. Gil.
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
who strongly advocated the encour.
agement of agricultural education
through experiment stations
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and z. II. Smiley Of East st. Louis az
alternates.
The platform as outlined and adopt
ed follows, In part:
1T is now apparent that in order
TO maintain the scientific accuracy or
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some must be repealed altogether.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
IN demonstrates the wisdom OF revising
II to conform to the improved condi.
lions which It has produced. We be.
lieve that the people OF the United
States will profit by a new tariff, but
II must be a Republican tariff, a pro-
tective tariff, a tariff which recognizes
In all its 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
ncient wages upon foreign workmen.
I'VE therefore recommend 70 our
delegates to the Republican national
convention that they urge upon the
convention the wisdom Of declaring TOR
q revision OF the tariff 70 be made ut
the next session Of congress or at a
special session OF the slxty.frst con-
gress. to be convened Immediately aft.
er the Inauguration OF the next presl.
dent. March 4. 1909.
1--WE believe that our tarifR should
contain n provision for minimum ana
maximum rates. the minimum rates
giving full protection. the maximum
rates to be invoked for retaliatinK up
on foreign countries that discriminate
against American products. We be.
lieve that two main ideas should per.
wade all the provisions of the tarlff;
nrst that the protective prInclple 20
prevail In all the schedules, that Amer
lean farmers. worlmen and producers
shall be given the FIRST cali on the
home market; and secondly, that no a.
legal or unjust Combination, trust or
monopoly, shall find announcement or
shelter IN any OF its provisions.
ITO the end that the revision OF the
tarif 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 houaes az
resolutions directing the proper com.
mittees TO proceed immediately 10 col.
leet the preliminary information necss.
sary for a revision OF the tariff. that
when the work IL entered upon All par.
lies In interest may be heard ana the
law framed. discussed and passed with
out delay, and without any disturbances
OF the financial and Industrial later.
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