Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-04
HAYS
SENATOR A|DR|CH
IOWA SENATOR MAKES WARM
SPEECH ATTACKING COTTON
AND WOOL SCHEDULES.
BURNS BRIDGES BEHIND
HIM IN NEW ALIGNMENT
DolIiver Gets squareIy in the Progress.
i've Band Wagon in His Attitude on
Tariff BiIl-Points Out Deceptive
Provisions That Really Increase the
Rates-Prohts by Past Experiences.

Washington, May 4-Attacking the
wool and cotton schedules of the pend
ing tariff bill as containing deceptive
provisions, Increasing rates of duty on
many articles containing but trifling
quantity of wool, Senator Doliver of
Iowa, today delivered one of the most
notable speeches presented to the SEN
ate since the revision of the tariff has
been under consideration. The an
nouncement that Mr.. Dollver would
speak, filed every available space in
the galleries and there were very few
senators who were not in their places
to hear him. A considerable portion of
his remarks was addressed directly to
| Senator Aldrich, chairman of the COM
mittee on finance
"If 1 speak the truth" said Mr.. DOL
liver, "If deal with things as they are,
suggest to the senator from Rhode
Island that it will not be an adequate
answer to reproach me with the errors
of my youth or to discourage me be-
cause in other years / followed with
out question in the footsteps of our
party leaders. If, in times past, took,
without disturbing the public peace,
every act of the party, 1t was because
loved it; because the young man OF
that day found it good deal easier
to idealize it than they sometimes find
| 1t now. speak here because still
| love the old republican party, and
would have its leadership rise to the
| full stature of its opportunity and it's
responsibility"
Admits Force of Public Sentiment.
| Referring to a recent exchange OF
words in the senate between himself
and Senator Aldrich, Mr.. Dolliver said:
"If the senator from Rhode Island in
1 tended to humiliate lne>by the intima-
tion that my coarse in these matters Is
dictated by political conditions at
home, he unintentionally pays me a
compliment which 1 sincerely appre-
ciate, because this nation has entered
upon a new era of direct responsibility
on the part of presidents and con-
crosses alike to that enlightened pub
| lie opinion which ought to be the real
government of the United States" Re-
viewing the several tariff acts that
have been passed by congress-, Mr..
Dolliver said:
"Is it possible that a man, because
he voted for the Allison tin-plate rate
of 1889 and heard poor Mckinley dedl-
cate the first tin-plate mill in Amer
lea, can be convicted in this chamber
of treachery TO the protective tariff
system, If he desires that schedule re-
examined. after seeing the feeble en-
terprise of 1890 grown within a single
decade to the full measure of this
ma 6, ct place. organized into great cor
porations, over capitalized into spec
ulative trust, and at length unloaded
on the United States Steel Company,
with a rake off to the promoters suf-
ficient to buy the Rock Island system?
| If a transaction like that has made
no impression upon the mind of con-
gress, l expose no secret in saying
that 1t has made very profound i'm
preston on the thought and purposes
of the American people.
Duty Of Congress Plain.
II repeat, therefore. what 1 said the
gress is to reduce the margin of pro-
lection provided in the Dingley rates
wherever 1t can be done without sub
stantial injury to the productive enter
prises of this market place. 1t Is our
special duty to take up those schedules
which represent the largest invest
ments of protected capital and. at
least, take out of them the rates that
travagant and unnecessary which rise
so far above the level of our real in
dustrial needs as to bring the policy
Of protection into ridicule without do
ing anybody any sort of good"
Senator Doliver stated that he had
in his possession q letter of the late
Governor Dingley. found among the
papers Of one OF his oldest friends
who had assisted in the work of the
ways and means committee of 1897, in
which Mr.. Dingley deprecated any In
crease in the cotton schedule because
in his judgment the tendency of the
rates ought to have been down instead
Of up, and because the cotton manu-
facturers were in no position to COM
plain Of the rates established by the
rates Of the Wilson law in view Of
| the TACT that tney mad written che
schedule themselves"
Referring to the senator from Rhode
Island who had Stated upon this floor
that the amendments to the cotton
schedule offered to the senate by The
committee We're not the work of the
committee" but that Everyone of them
was made by persons connected with
the treasury department" Mr.. Dolli-
yer said:
Prod For Mr.. Aldrich.
"It was. I have no doubt, a cruel
revelation to some Of his languid dis
ciples to learn from the lips of the
senator himself that in this cotton
schedule the changes that were made
not represent the genius OF the man
who enjoys in the mythology OF our
| public life the reputation OF being the
greatest living expert upon the techni-
calities OF cotton monufacture, but that
the senator from Rhode Island, mysti-
fed by the task set before him. by his
constituents OF raising the table OF
these rates without touching them
] turned the job over to the appraisers