The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-06-11
His Many Amend
ments Voted Down
By Big Majority
WOOL and COTTON
Grows Sarcastic i'm Commensurate
ing "POlka Dots" as WOOl-MOntana
Sheepherders That Live i'm First
Glass HOteIs-COrn Plasters Classed
as Wearing Apparel.

QARASHINGTON, June 10.-The "pro-
Wv gressives" came into the senate
w today determined to continue
their fight against the wool schedule.
although all the votes taken yesterday
demonstrated the ability of the COM
mittee on finance to maintain ma
jority of 10 or IL ON all Of the pro-
visions it had recommended. Shortly
after the senate met, a vote of 81 to
43 was cast against the contention of
Mr. Dolliver that only the wool in
yarn should be taxed, thus upholding
the committee on finance. Nine re-
publicans, Beveridge, Bristow, Brown,
Burkett Clapp, Cummins, Dolliver,
Lafollette and Nelson voted against
the committee, as did Senator Foster
of Louisiana, although his colleague,
Mr.. McEnry, cast his vote with the
Republicans in support of the COM
mittee. Before this vote was taken,
Senator Warren declared that the
purpose of levying the duty on the
entire weight of the yarn was to
keep out material that was mixed
with cheap cotton.
Mr. Dolliver claimed that there was
nothing surreptitious in the mixing OF
wool and cotton in making cheap
yarn and said there was no good rea-
son for discriminating against such
cheap material
Continuing his effort to tax only
the wool in fabrics made partly of
cotton, Mr.. Dolliver offered substi-
tute for that purpose for the para
graph relating to cloths, knit and
other fabrics, and manufactured in
whole or in part of wool. He insist
ed that it was practicable to assess
the wool in the fabric and comment
ing on his proposed substitute, con-
vulsed the senate with his witty re-
torts and his humorous illusions to
peculiarities in the Dingley law. Even
cotton cloth with polka dots of wool
glued on it was under the law, he
said, obliged to pay the full duty that
would be levied on them if wholly of
wool.
Even "Home, sweet home" and
"Welcome," he said, were subject to
pay duty under the wool schedule.
Corn plasters, when made or WOOL
were obliged to pay tribute to the
wool schedule under decision that
had declared them to be wearing ap-
parel."
Referring to his apparent inability
to accept the recommendations of the
committee on finance, Mr.. Dolliver
said that when the bill was finally en-
acted it might be quite different from
it's appearance at present. Then,
he said, "the potatoes of the senator
from Delaware, with tears in their
eyes, may go out of the bill, meeting
the stockings of the senator from
Pennsylvania coming in"
The substitute was defeated by a
vote of 80 to AZ with the same divi-
sion that had been shown in the pre-
vious vote Rejecting a suggestion by
Mr.. Clapp that all of his amendments
bearing on the wool schedule and for
the same general purpose OF those
previously voted on, be presented and
voted upon by one roll call, Mr.. DOL
liver proceeded to offer them one by
one, demanding a roll call on each.
The vote developed no change OF
party lines from that shown by the
first vote taken after the senate met
today.
Becoming engaged with Mr.. Carter
in a debate of which the protective
tariff system was the subject, Mr.. Ba-
con declared he would place the WOOL
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