The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-09
THE GERMS Of
UNREST IN THE
TARIFF BILL
Aldrich Following Is Becoming
Alarmed at the Inroads
Being Made
CONSUMERS ARE LOOKING
TO The WESTERN SENATORS

UrOunQS Upon which the Increases
In the Rates Over the Existing Law
Will Be Based.
Washington. June 9.-Whatever may
be the final result OF the votes in tho
senate, and the final vote upon the
tariff revision bill, there is a growing
rear, even among some OF the ultra
protectionist Republicans in tho SEN
ate. that the attempt to boost tarifs
! rates In the face Of strong public
demand for downward revision will
bring about the loss of the house OF
representatives to the Republicans in
tho next campaign.
Not only is this true, but there ara
evidences, in tho manner in which thu
high protectionists have conducted the
tariff revision program, that situa-
tion has been brought about thai will
be embarrassing to the protectionists
OF the country for many years to
come.
Already there are murmurings o:
dlscontent among somo Republican
senators, who have up to this time,
! followed tho lead o. Chairman Aldrich
and his colleagues of the finance COM
m1ttee, because OF the policy pursued
by these leaders in tho tariff revision
plans OF the senate, which, it is al
legged, has brought about embarrass-
ment to the Republican majority.
The concentration of the strongest
forces among tho so-called progress
sive" Republicans upon the cotton
goods schedule, has been the most in
teresting feature OF the tariff debate
up to this time. 1t has been interest
Ing because it has furnished the sem
ate and tho country with some new
ideas regarding the tariff. 1t has dis
closed the real weakness of tho
finance committee management OF tho
present bill. The fact will be brought
! home to tho committed by Republican
senators, who are not giving special
study to the tariff bill, but have
been inclined in this, as upon other
legislation, to follow the lead OF tho
committee, upon tho assumption tina.
the committee, having given study to
the facts and principles involved in
the various paragraphs and schedules
OF the tariff bill. should be ready at
all times to defend the measure and
their action with respect to any fea-
ture o. it.
Germs o. Unrest.
For this reason many OF the Repub-
licans who have supported tho COM
mittee up to this time in the consid.
GRAFTON of the tariff bill are now in.
clined to believe that in the speeches
doIivorn1 Inv hn oIr "a
duties, and particularly those speech
es by Senator'S Dolliver. Nelson and
La Toilette upon tho cotton goods
schedule, there lurk the germs OF un-
rest and dissatisfaction with the poll
cy pursued by tho ultraprotectionists
which will be manifested in the votes
cast in the different congressional
districts when the campaign is on for
the election of the next house OF rep
resenativcs.
The claim is made by those who are
watching the situation that the char
acter of the speeches delivered by
these western senators is such that
the voters in the interior districts OF
the country will be greatly moved by
the points made, and will be satisfied
no matter what may be the outcome
with respect to the final vote on tho
tariff bm, that this has not been a
genuine revision of the tariff nor a
revision of the tariff downward in
the interests of tho consuming public
and that the American people have
been hoodwinked, after demanding a
revision of the tariff, by a revision O,
tho schedules upward rather than
downward on the fictitious plea o.
the trainers of the bill that additional
protection is required in tho interests
of American industries and labor.
1t is not surprising. in view of these
embarrassing facts, that complaints
have been heard during the last few
days among members OF the Republic
can majority on account OF the policy
pursued by the finance committee in
omitting to give detailed explanations
of changes in the different schedules,
whether upward or downward, in ad-
vance of the premeditated and WELL
worked-out attacks made by the
friends of lower duties. In this con-
nection the point was brought out
yesterday by western senator, vino
has supported the finance committee
on practically every paragraph of the
finance committee has not been cal
culated to inspire confidence. either
among the members Of the Republic
can majority or in the country.
Due recognition, was given by this
senator to the compliments that have
been passed upon Chairman Aldrich
by members upon both sides of tho
senate for the mastery skill he dis.
plays in the management of tariff mat
ters, his unquestioned intimate knowl-
edge of all the details of tariffs, as
we'll as of the history of such legisla-
ton, and his consummate skill in
marsllaling tho forces of the senate
at ahy and all times to carry the
points which his committee desires to
carry.
Coupled With this recognition of