Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-07-08
TRAITOR TO TRUST
IS What NEWLANDS CALLS The
united STATES SENATE.
Says No Reductions Have Been Made,
and Calls upon President Taft to
Rebuke the Senate. Says Confer
enCe Committee Can Afford No
Relief.

WASHINGTON, July 7.-Speaking
on the evolution of the tariff sched-
ule today, Senator Newlands said,
in part:
mo material changes can now be
made in the bill and the only ques-
tion before us is whether we may
not by some general provisions plant
the seed of q rational tariff system
under which excessive tariff duties
may be gradually reduced and the
tariff taken out of politics.
''The senate has now been in con-
tinuous session for 80 days on these
tariff schedules, but the legislation
thus far shaped is almost barren of
results in accomplishing what the
president doubtless has in view-an
honest revision of the tariff follow
ing the rule laid down by the Repub-
lican platform.
LAS the senate has made practi.
cally no reductions, all that confer
ence could accomplish would be ac-
quiescence in the moderate reduce
tiOns of the Payne bill; so that con-
ference presents an opportunity for
little relief and the only remaining
expedient is veto of the bill.
1.-The tariff is not a place of orig
inal legislation, but a measure of an
existing law.
at would be difficult for the presi-
dent to accomplish what he disires
by veto unless he wishes to record
his condemnation of party breach of
faith, and the only alternative will
be to accept the bill and press on
later for the ameliorative legisla-
tion.
1T is not my province to offer ad-
vice to the Republican party; but I
am deeply solicitious that our action
here shall contain the seed of
rational tariff system, which will
gradually eliminate the tariff from
politics, just as the railroad question
has been taken out of politics by the
creation of the interstate commerc.
commission.
II feel assured that if the Republi-
can rule were fairly applied it
would result in a considerable re-
duction of duties and that much re-
lief would come to the country from
it; and l feel assured that If the
American people were satisfied that
a fair effort was being made to com-
ply with this rule through some COM
petent tribunal, organized by con-
gress, tariff agitation practically
would end.
II have contended against the
abolition of duties on Filipino sugar,
tobacco and other products, on the
ground that the purpose was to give
the Philippine islands artificial pros
perity. The presidents recommend
alton, however, made with the bes,
of motives and out of solicitude for
the welfare of the Filipino people,
has carried and all that can be done
is to ameliorate it's effects as much
as possible.
II would suggest that we put into
law the recent declaration of the
senator from New York upon the
floor that we do not contemplate in
cooperating these islands as a part OF
the United States or holding perpet-
ual dominion over them; but we hold
them in trust for their own people
and that our purpose is so to shape
the government of those islands as
to prepare the Filipinos for self-gov-
ernment. and ultimately to yield the
islands to the government Of their
people,"