The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06
FINANCE COMMITTEE
SUSTAINED EVERY TIME
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated PpesS.s
WASHINGTON. June 5.-After de
voting the larger portion of the day 10
listening TO a discussion OF the cotton
schedule, the senate entered upon pc
riod of voting late in the afternoon and
rapidly disposed Of the entire subject
of changing from advalorem 20 specific
duties for the purpose of preventing
differentiation. On all votes taken the
finance committee was sustained by q
majority of ten or eleven.
Three votes were necessary to ac-
complish this result. and others would
have been necessary but for Senator
Bacon, who, seeing the futlity Of OPP
posing the committee, suggested the
grouping Of the votes after the first two
ballots had been taken. This sug-
gestion was unanimously agreed TO, with
the result that so much was accom-.
plished that night session was not
held.
Senator Dolliver occupied much of
the time of the session with a speech
in which he INDUCED the caustlc crltl-
cism of the methods of the finance com
mittee. He declared that Senators Aid
rich and Smoot of that committee were
at variance IN their estimates of the
effect of the committees 8 action on the
schedule, the former contendlng that
there had been a change of only 10
per cent, while Mr.. Smoot had placed
the change at so per cent.
Aidrich's Explanation.
Mr.. Aldrich was, however. prompt IN
his correction of this statement. as
serting that his use of the 10 percent
age estimate applied 10 cotton lmpor-
tations affected by the bill, and not to
changes i'll duties. Mr., Dolliver also
gnve much attention 10 a petition nu-
merously signed by leading merchants
Is 81, f1,o ro} nf
Dingley law rates on cottons, and when
Mr. Aldrich attempted to show that
most Of the signatures were those or
importers, the Iowa senator replled by
reading the names of many who were
not engaged in that capacity.
The first vote of the day was on an
amendment consolidating the paragraph
relating To cheaper cloths. which was
won by the usual majority. the vote
standing II 10 80. This result was so
pronounced as 10 lead Senator 1iIlman
to make the characteristic appeal 80
permit the tariff bin 10 come TO n
vote, because, as he declared. there was
no doubt what the final result would be,
Incidentally, he asserted that tho NOM
bers Of the finance committee were
t'thc boldest band Of buccaneers that
ever got together
Cummins Also Attacks,
The latter portion Of the day. ses.
sion was devoted to discussion Of
tho committee s. change of the cotton
rates from the advalorem to the spe'
cifc basis In this connection, Senator
Cummins attacked the committee S
changes as in the interest of higher
duties. and when Mr.. Aldrich explained
that a small percentage Of the iinporta,,
tion was affected by the substitution OF
specific for advalorem duties, the Iowa
senator responded that however smai!
the change ii conld be made along the
right lines.
Tho votes on the change of system
were then taken, after which the senate
at $50 p. m. adjourned until Monday.
polliver Gets Busy.
Taking the floor, after Senator Aid.
rich asked for an aye and nay vote OH
the cotton.cloth schedule today, Senator
Dolliver made the senatorial rafters
ring with his denuDciation Of the speech
made by the Rhode Island senator last
night on that schedule.
f'I desire 10 avoid any harsh criti-
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