Evening star., 1909-05-10
QUOTES FROM ALDR|CH
Tilt Between Beveridge and
Rhode Island Senator.
LATTER USES SARCASM
Resents Application Of the Excerpt
Employed.
HAS READ TARIFF HEARINGS
Carter's Recent Defense Of the FL
nance Committee Replied to by
the Indiana Senator.

Senator Beveridge Of Indiana this
morning pulled" the Congressional Rec.
ord on Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island.
chairman OF the finance committee. in
an effort to show that the COMMITTEES
was demanding action on the Payne-Ald-
rich tariff bill when adequate informa-
tion about the measure was not vouch-
safed to the Senate or sought by the
committee. 1t was in reply to the speech
Saturday Of Senator Carter OF Montana.
who had piled books and pamphlets high
upon his desk and read lists OF tariff
publications for nearly two hours. 4.
defense OF the committee.
Bright and early Mr.. Beveridge was
ready. No sooner had the clerk finished
calling the roll and enough stragglers
had come in TO make up a quorum than
he was on his feet with two copies OF
the Record In his hand.
First he sent to the desk the publica.
ton Of May 3, and had read a paragraph
from a tariff speech by Senator lac
Cumber of North Dakota. member OF
the committee. In this Mr.. McCumber
expressed the opinion that q tarin COM
mission was necessary to properly digest
the great mass OF tariff information that
comes before Congress at . time OF tariff
revision.
Il think the Senate understands this
Speech" said Mr. Beveridge referring to
Mr.. Carters speech. but in order that
the country may understand It will ask
the clerk to read an extract from the
Congressional Record
Quoting Aldrich From the Record.
May 8 to the desk and had the following
read:
Mr.. ALDRICH.-Mr. President. have no
knowledge whatever Of anything that transpired
before the committee ways and means
have never read the hearings before that body.
have no knowledge or idea about any statement
that made before that committee.
urday. Mr.. Carter had laid special stress
upon those hearings before the ways and
means committee OF the House. Although
Mr.. Beveridge didn't say that. he allowed
1t to be inferred that he meant to call
attention to IL.
Mr.. Beveridge was not allowed to pro-
ceed with his remarks because Senator
Hepburn Of Idaho had obtained the floor
: = fraction Of SECOND before him and andre, re-
however, as soon as the reading was COM
pleted. jumped to his feet and declared
he had referred on that occasion to the
hearings only so far as they related to
orange minerals.
Aldrich's Retore.
II have given thirty years to this SUBJ
ject." said Mr.. Aldrich. impatiently. land.
of course, II 1 had had the superior intel
ligence Of the senator from Indiana !
might have succeeded better. But have
done the best I could. think the senator
would do better by his constituents X he
would give one-twentieth Of his time TO
the study Of the tariff that he is giving to
declaimfng against the Information about
this BILL
Mr.. Aldrich added that he had certainly
read those ways and means committee
hearings.
was not criticising the senator from
Rhode Island. but merely replying to the
senator from Montana. He said he want
ed what he had read to go to the country
at this time.
THAT is all for this morning." smiled
the Indianan, as he resumed his seat
The portion of the Record which Mr..
Beveridge had the clerk read was in the
midst OF a speech by Mr. Dolliver against
the high rates of the committee bill. and
followed Immediately question by that
senator directed to Mr.. Aidrich about the
testimony of cotton manufacturers before
the ways and means committee.
Continuing from the point where Mr..
DCN 4uOl0tlUu DIOhc OIL tIe nSC-
ord reads:
Mr.. DOLLIvER.-I will say that IL the senator
from Rhode Island has not read the hcarngs-
Mr.. ALDRICH.-I have not.
Mr.. DOLLIvER CONFERENCE.-The Is not In q
position to belittle the honest efforts have been
making TO get at the truth Of these matters. for
| have thought it my duty to read those hear
ings.
Hepburn Discusses Lead Schedule.
Mr.. Hepburn having the floor declined
to permit any further interruption.
Mr.. Hepburn spoke at length in dis
cussing the lead schedule. He explained
mining methods and the systems of treat
ing lead ore in order to demonstrate the
necessity for differential duty on pig
ore and other products OF lead ore.
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