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gested that in the process of merceriza-
tion the cotton lost In weight.
Dolliver Raises Another Laugh.
'Mercerizing is just like washing your
hands," said Senator Dolliver: 'of course
you lose little in the weight"
This reply and the homely manner of
delivering 1t caused prolonged laughter
In the chamber, and 1t was several min.
utes before the senator was allowed to
proceed.
Il don't lay these things to the COM
mittee, God knows" said Mr.. Dolliver.
THE members are now frantfcally en-
gagged In trying to get experts to explain
their own bill to them"
He charged that the cloth from which
the ordinary white vest is made contains
one mercerized thread. costing compara-
lively nothing. yet the entire cloth pays
an increased duty on mercerized cloth.
Il shall at the proper time," he went
this bill affecting textiles. and leave the
good old Dingley rates in force"
Wants Tariff Out of Politics.
1t was Mr.. Delivers opinion that if
the republican party wants to see a great
tariff struggle begun in this country as
soon as the present bill is passed. and
continuing until the wrongs that he said
1t contained were righted, there could be
no better way to do It than by the
course that was being pursued.
He said he hoped to see the day when
business would be taken out of the realm
of politics; when 1t would be no longer
necessary for business men to hang
around the corridors of the Capitol and
subject themselves to humiliation in try
ing to get a hearing from members of
Congress. He intended to vote for the
Beveridge tariff commission bill as an
amendment to the present measure IL he
got a chance, not believing that the COM
mission recommended by the finance COM
mittee amounted to much. He did not
think the Beveridge bill would be passed.
but after he had voted for that he would
vote for the La Toilette tariff commission
bill, and after that had been killed he
would offer one of his own and vote for it.
A Real Tariff Commission.
The time would come, he prophesied,
when there would be real tariff commits
sion in this country, and one that would
be removed from the prejudices Of men
who seek to be benefited by the tariff.
The one he intended to propose, he said.
was that drawn in 1888 by Senator Al
drich and the late Senator Allison, which
passed the Senate with every republican
vote. but failed because the House was
democratic.
Mr. Dolliver wound up his two-day
speech by declaring emphatically that he
was protectionist in every sense of the
word, and that protection was a doctrine
that had been supported and considered
sound and wise by the greatest minds of
the United States throughout its entire
history. The only reason it failed, he
urged, was that there were greedy men
of great wealth who were able to per-
suade Congress to enact bills in which the
rates are unequal and give undue advan-
tage to various industries and sections.
at the same time leaving out the interest
of the great public entirely.
When the time came to consider the
various schedules to which he objected
Mr. DOlliver said he would have more to
say.
Aldrich Replies to Dolliver.
Senator Aldrich followed Senator Dol
liver. saying that when the cotton and
woolen schedules are reached he will
make full statement showing that the
schedules have been only harmonized and
specific rates substituted for ad valorem
without increasing actually the rate. He
declared that under q system of under
valuation and through erroneous decisions
by the board OF appraisers, the actual
protection contemplated in the Dingley
law had been reduced and cotton importa-
tions enormously increased, to the detri-
ment of the American manufacturer.
He asserted that an assault upon the
wooden schedule s an attack upon the
very citadel of protection. which would
be welcomed by every foreign nation, but
deplored by American wool growers and
manufacturers.
Interrupting Mr.. Aldrich Mr.. Bailey
declared that there is no schedule in
the tariff which exemplifies the frauds
and injustice of the entire protective
system well as the wooden sched-
ule.
Predicts Southern Conversion.
In replying to question by Mr.
Money. Mr.. Aldrich ventured to propn-
esy that within twenty years the rep
resentatives of the south in the Senate
will be voting with the republicans for
protection.
Taking the opportunity to defend
the woolen scehdule. Mr. Carter as
serted that the difference in the wages
and other wool producing countries
would justify a tariff of 300 per cent
on wool and woolens. He undertook to
show how the woolen industry mas
grown under a protective tariff. and
declared that free trade had had the
effect of practically wiping out the
industry
Reading Bill by Paragraphs.
At 2:3O o'clock the Senate resumed the
reading of the tariff bill by paragraphs,
following an agreement that the session
for one week shall run from noon, instead
of II o'clock, until o'clock.