Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-23
DEMOCRATS NOT
ALONE IN FIGHT
AGAINST TARIFF
DOLLVER DECLARES PEOPLE
ARE TIRED OF PROMISES
PROPOSED DUTY ON GAS RE-
ToRTs CREATES TROUBLE
--
Senators Aldrch and Bailey Indulge
in Wordy Encounter, During Which
Administration Comes in
for Censure

WASHINGTON, April 22.-Repub-
lican criticism of the pending tarlIl
bill on the ground that the rates were
too high was prominent in the senate
today, when Senator Nelson of Mime
sofa and Senator Dolliver OF Iowa at
tackled various schedules.
Under the guise of discussing the
duty on gas retorts, a general debate
on the tariff was participated IN ny
Democratic senator's.
The bill was taken up soon after the
senate convened. The consideration oil
the duty on gas retortS caused an ora
torical explosion. The committee on
finance had increased the rate on these
articles from So, as provided in the
house bill to 80 per cent ad Valoreln,
the new duty being on large retorts
three times the amount levied by tne
house bill and the present law. rms
course was denounced by Mr.. Balley
as evidence of failure of the Repup-
lican party to keep faith with the peo-
pie in their demand for revision OIL
the tariff downward.
Mr.. Nelson called attention TO rec
ords showing that even under the %
specific duty in 1907 only fifty-t1Ve gas
retorts were imported. valued at $loVV,
Welding an income of only about $l6O
year. That, he claimed, showed the
old duty was prohibitive, ana ne
thought conditions did not warrant an
Increase Mr.. Bailey read from Presl-
dent Tafts Inauguration address 10
show that he had favored lower duties
and Mr.. Aldrich responded that the
pending bill proposed to fulfill that
pledge absolutely.
Il went into the Union army before
I was q and have been a Republican
ever since" declared Mr.. Aldrich in
colloquy with Mr.. Bailey. Mr.. AID
rich asserted that practically none or
the Union soldiers north of the Mason
and Dixons line had been Democrats
after the war.
Mr. Bailey replied that great injus-
! tice had been done to hundreds of
thousands of Democrats who had come
to the aid of the north in the struggle
of '61-65, and but for whose attitude
the result would have been different
Senator Aldrich declared he had not
intended to say there were no loyal
Democrats in the north, nor in the
| Union army.
Mr.. Bailey asserted that any such at
| tack on any Democrat was ill-timed.
Bailey Says Taft Wastes Time
II have heard it said" said Mr. Bal
ley, that the present administration
aims as one of its chief accomplish
ments to disrupt the solid south, and 1t
| is endeavoring to accomplish that re-
suit by f1attering the weak men in the
south by conceding to them an invita-
ton to the White House, or by giving
them a portion of the patronage of the
country.
1.-THE president wastes his time and
wastes his breath when he gives heed
! to these men who tell him they can dis
/ rupt the south. There is in the south
today, as there was before the war, a
sentiment that is not Democratic. In
the older times they were Wings, and
in this day they are Republicans. But
some of them are ashamed of their as
! sociates down there"
Senator Nelson of Minnesota de-
nounced the measure, declaring the cot
ton, glass and wooden schedules were
| too high.
Mr.. Gallinger interrupted, referring
to the closing of the wooden mills of
New Hampshire by the low rates of
the Wilson bill.
Mr.. Nelson energetically declared
| that that was the same spirit that
actuated New England in it's criticism
of any effort to reduce the high rates
that had prevailed upon her products.
Senator Dolliver declared that not
only were the duties of the Payne
Aldrich bill too high, but they were so
! Worded as to result in large increases
of rates without definite indication of
such increases in the schedules.
The wooden schedule" he said,
Ought to be reduced. For two years
this schedule has been bad advertise
ment for the Republican party. l in
tend SO to vote as to adhere, as far as
possible, to every reduction in the
Dingley rate that was made by the
house committee and to every reduc-
ton made by the senate committee
Mr. Dolliver said he had defended the
Dingley law in every state of the I'm
ion, but he added, my audiences are
growing tired. The people are tired of
having these duties raised from 100 to
$50 per cent on the clothes they wear
upon their backs"
Mr. Aldrich assumed the responsible
ty for the duty on hides as placed in
the Dingley law, and asserted that he
believed the same rate, Is per cent,
would be offered by the finance COM
mittee as a substitute for the free
hides position of the house tariff bill