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to invoke paragraph two of rule
nineteen.
Courtesy Demanded.

nineteen.
Courtesy Demanded.
"In my experience in this body"
said Mr.. Gallinger, II have never
heard SO oft-repeated accusations
that legislative tricks were being
practiced and ask that this rule be
laid befrore the senate that every one
may know what it is"
Rule nineteen which relates to the
necessity for avoiding personal allus-
ions, was then read and the vice
president declared that he thought the
senator from Wisconsin had yiolat-
ed it.
Mr.. LaFollette had taken his seat
and arose saying that he had noticed
that this rule had not been equally
applied to all senators on the floor.
He said he had noticed that some SEN
ators could say things without atten-
tion being called to them, and it was
generally understood that he had in
mind Senator Penroses recent .criti-
cism of himself, which was not re-
buked.
Vice President Sherman said he
would see that the rule was uniform-
ly applied to which Mr.. LaFollette
aNPAASo IAoC AC u1u ilOl UldIllC Lu0 VlCO
president, as he understood that the
rule was only applied when the atten-
t1on OF the chair was directed to it.
The Aldrich-Lafollette incident then
came to a close and Senator Bacon
then took the floor, endeavoring to
have his amendment to the wool
schedule considered. Senator Bacon
asked that separate vote be taken
on his amendment placing duty of
thirty per cent ad valorem ON all
wools, shoddy, noils. wool extract,
mingo and flax and waste. His other
amendments he said, referred to the
duty on wool goods. He urged the
adoption of the amendment, which,
he said reduced the duties on raw
! wool.
Requesting Mr.. Bacon to postpone
the consideration of his amendment
until the bill is presented for final
action by the senate, in order that
Democratic senators might have full
opportunity to examine the amend
ment, Mr.. Newlands declared that he
desired to follow the policy embodied
in the Democratic platform with refer
ence to reductions in duties. He said
that his view was that the duties on
necessaries of life should not exceed
thirty per cent and on luxuries sixty
per cent, while the average rate
necessary to produce the revenue
needed by the government should be
between thirty and forty per cent
New Precedent.
After the roll call on the Bacon
amendment had begun Vice President
Sherman noticed that Mr.. Bristow,
one of the progressive Republicans,
had been endeavoring to attract the
attention of the chair. When the vice
president stopped the call of the SEN
ate to recognize Mr.. Bristow, Mr.. AID
rich declared that the vice president
was establishing dangerous prece-
dent but Mr.. Sherman insisted that
the senator from Kansas should be
recognized. Mr.. Bristow stated that
If he voted against Mr.. Bacon's amend
ment his action should not be con-
strued to mean that he favored the
senate bills provision.
The vote was strictly along party
lines. The progressive Republicans
voted with the members of the finance
committee; and the amendment was
lost by vote of so to %.
Mr.. Bacon then offered his amend
ments reducing duties on wool of the
clothing. blankets, carpets, etc. He
explained that in many of these arti-
cles the rates recommended by the
committee on finance were from about
sixty to $50 per cent ad valorem in
place on which he proposed revenue
duties of thirty to forty per cent.
Wilson Bill Rates.
II suppose the senator from Geor-
gia knows" said Mr.. Aldrich, that
these rates are as low or lower than
the rates of the Wilson bill which
put wool upon the free list"
Explaining that Democrats had
voted with progressive Republicans in
their efforts to reduce the excessive
rates" of the bill. although they did
not wholly approve of them, Senator
Bacon said that he regretted that the
Republicans could not see their way
clear to vote for these Democrat
amendments with the object of giving
relief to the people who had desired
the revision of the tariff.
"The revision of the tariff" said
Mr.. Bacon. was made because the
cries of the people were so great that
the Republican party could not turn
deaf ear to them.
Replying to Mr.. Bacon's quotation
from a "protectionist and Republi-
can,' Senator Aldrich said one of the
peculiarities of such statements was
that they were alwoys from 'Republi-
cans and protectionists," although
their declarations showed that the
writer's were far from being protec-
tionists.
AS was the case with Mr.. Bacon's
former amendments his proposition
to provide for these revenue duties"
received no Republican support. be-
ing rejected by party vote of 20 to
so, except that Senator McEnery vot-
ed no with the Republicans.
Explaining that the duty levied by
the pending bill upon blankets used
by the poor was as high as $50 per
cent ad valorem although but seventy
one per cent was placed upon the
finest blankets used by the rich. Sem
ator Gore offered all amendment limit
ing to seventy-five per cent any duty
upon a woolen blanket. This amend
ment received the support of Senators
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