Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-24
Cummins SHES Castor on Income
Tax, Colleague Follows.
GATHERS BIG LIST OF FIGURES
Believes He Can Show Payne-Aldrich
Bill Increases Duties.
SEEKS DUTY UPON CATTLE
Brown of Nebraska Takes Position
New Measure VIII Eventually
Prove sstisfactory-Needed
Protection Given.
(From a STAFF Correspondents }

(From Staff Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, April 22-CSpeclsl Tele-
sram.)-Another Richmond has appeared
upon the tariff field in the person OF Sem
ator Jonathan P. Doliver, and this Rich
mond promises to give Mr. AIdrich and
those associated with him a fight the senior
senator from Rhode Island will remember
for years. There are dozen Richmonds
in the field, but Dolliver is the last to
OF the tariff.
Yesterday 1t was WOODEN and cotton
schedules, which he attacked and which
he asked to have passed over. Today the
senior senator from Iowa protested against
cattle and sheep, which had been sent into
Mexico as calves and lambs and after
years feeding had them brought in free
of duty. He said the cattle people OF the
western country were beset with disad-
vantsges and the decision of the Treasury
department that young animals may be
taken into a foreign country and brought
back into the states without paying duty,
worked a hardship upon native producers
and he proposed TO have this paragraph
under the free list corrected II possible.
Getting Into Line.
Senator Dolliver may not be actuated by
the broadest statesmanship in his attacks
upon very material paragraphs in the tar
iff bill, but the fact remains that Iowa is
revision downward state, and Mr. Dol
liver will be candidate for reelection.
Senator Cummins has shot his arrow for
the income tax, and In order that the senior
senator may hold some one of the boards,
Dolliver has taken It upon himself to crit
icise many Of the schedules under the AID
rfch-Payne bill, and in this particular he
will probably be in the public eye until
the senate bill passes that body and goes
to conference.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Dolliver has re-
tanned a former. expert on customs duties
and called at the appraisers office OF New
York for the purpose of furnishing him
comparisons between the Ding
ley, Payne and Aldrich bills with a view
of showing that instead of being a reduc-
ton downward the Aldrich bill marks an
increase of duties In the aggregate instead
of decrease as desired by President Taft
and his party.
Senator Dolliver has generally been regu-
lar 1t is not often he has been found in
revolt from the leaders of tthe senate or
but in the game OF politics
Senator Dolliver Is not a "spring chicken
and he probably realizes that he must hold
his own with Iowas former governor, AL
bert B. Cummins, and he is therefore out
In the tariff field to meet the doughty
warriors who still believe that protection
for every commodity is a blessing
Brown Likes the Bill.
Senator Brown, who has followed tariff |
debates assiduously since the report of the |
senate bill, said today he believed the
Aldrich bill would pass the senate by the |
18th or Goth OF May and that differences
between interests were being gradually |
Senator Brown said he would |
not make speech on pumice stone IL con-
'essions OF three-eighths of cent a pound |
on ppmice and its products would be |
granted by the finance committee ana 1
which he had every reason to believe |
would be done. He said so-called insur- |
gents In the senate were winning sub |
'tantial victories and he believed that the
bill finally adopted would |
prove to be the best tariff bill that has
been passed in a third of a century and
hat II would meet with the wishes of "A
arger number of people than any similar
measure passed for the primary purpose
II raising revenues and at the same time
'iving protection to American industries
where needed.