The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-03
La TOILETTE ON
REPUBLICANS
SHORTCOMINGS
Sees Dark Cloud in Derision of
Senators Who Do Not
Agree I. ..:..;o
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SENATOR NELSON SHOWS
INCREASE IN SCHEDULE
Rates on Cotton Have Been Increas.
ed From Twenty to Fifty Per Cent
Above the Dingley Law by Substi.
tuting Specific for Ad Yalorem.

washington, June 3-Wlth the
adoption of resolution providing for
day and night sessions beginning to-
day, the senate today heard a sug-
gestion of policy for limiting dila-
tory motions which caused an earnest
protest from Senator Bacon and 9TH
ers. The vice president, basing his
action upon precedent made in the
last congress when the Aldrich-Vree-
land currency bill was under consid-
Grafton, held that the absence of a
quorum could not be called to the at
tention of the senate if the senator
occupying the floor declined to yield
for that purpose.
Senator Bacon declared that this
was one of the revolutionary rulings
made when the currency bill was un-
der consideration. and that under it
there would be serious abuse of par
liamentary rules. He announced his
intention to obtain full considera-
ton of this question by the introduce
ton of resolution to be considered
by the committee on rules.
LaFollette's Speech
A long speech dealing with the
pledge of party leaders with respect
to revision of the tariff was begun
by Senator LaFollette today and will
be continued tomorrow. BY numer-
Gus quotations, he maintained that no
question could be raised as to the
pledge of the party for revision
downward and he declared that be-
fore he should conclude his speech he
would demonstrate amply that
the whole the pending bill placed
the customs duties above the rates of
the Dingley law. Since the enact
ment of the Dingley law and until
1904, he said, the control OF trusts
had been extended to 1864 plants
with capital of more than s20.000,-
000
Senator Nelson also discussed the
tariff bill and quoted numerous COM
! parsons between the existing law
and the pending measure with the in
tention of showing that in the cotton
schedules the rates had been raised
gley law by the substitution of spe-
cific for ad valorem duties.
Senator Gore again quoted dividends
and surplus earnings of New England
cotton and woolen manufacturing
companies to sustain his contention
that these corporations make larger
profits. and Senator Frye in reply
declared that, taking into considera-
tion both successful and unsuccess-
full cotton and wooden mills, profit
of not more than six per cent had
been realized by New England manu-
facturers upon their investments in
these industries.
The cotton schedule was construc-
lively under consideration all day but
no feature of it was passed on.
Assuring his associates that his con-
dition was probably not quite so bad
as it appeared when he suspended,
Senator LaFollette said upon resum-
ing that he would not complete his
remarks today but would continue to-
morrow. Proceeding. he said:
president Taft, realizing some of
the short comings of the Chicago plat
form. and what he said constitutes a
species of contract and an obligation
upon the senate and the house that
they can not Disregard
| Looking about the chamber and in
to the faces of senators, he remark
ed.
"It is all right for senator's to smile
in derision, but it is a pretty serious
proposition to get the support of vot-
ers of this country who have chance
to speak once in four years."