Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-04
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BITTER ATTACK
ON LAFOLLETTE
ABSENCE OF BADGER STATE
S0L0N is DENOUNCED
ATTITUDE ON TARIFF is QUEs-
TONED BY REGULARS
insurgents and Democrats Defend
Wisconsin Lawmaker and De-
clare He Is too III to
Appear in Senate
IBy Associated Press. ]
WI AsHINGToN, june 3.-The 8


w mosphere of the senate chamber
was surcharged with electricity
tonight when the tariff bill was taken
up at o'clock in the first nights ses-
sion since congress was convened. Fiji
ty-four senators were present.
Every Republican senator in the city
except Mr. La Toilette was in his seat,
and his absence was the subject of crit
icism.
The sincerity of his attitude on the
tariff bill was questioned, and finally
serious attacks on him were made by
conservative Republicans in charge OF
the bill, and a spirited defense came
from insurgents and Democrats.
Another outbreak is almost certain
| to take place when the Wisconsin SEN
ator again gets the floor.
Calling attention to a recess taken In
the senate yesterday in order to give
Mr.. La Toilette an opportunity to rest
and to his failure to be on hand tonight
| to resume his remarks, some senators
sought to show he had received unusual
consideration.
Mr. Beveridge. in defending Mr.. La
| Toilette, asserted that no senator would
I
and needed the rest.
Says La Toilette Not III
Mr. Penrose declared he would be
| able to prove that Mr.. La Toilette was
well enough to be abroad on the streets.
consulting with the representatives of
yellow journals and uplift magazines"
| Prompt defense of La Toilette came
| from Senators Borah and Dolliver, Re
publicans, and Money, Democrat.
r GA
senate should adjourn for reasonable
| time to give Mr.. La Toilette an oppor-
tunity to recover and resume his
speech. Mr.. Aldrich opposed the sug
gestion. Ill feeling was apparent on
every side.
To end the discussion, Mr.. Aldrich
| suggested that the senate pass over the
cotton schedule temporarily and pro-
| ceed to the consideration of the fax apd
| hemp schedules.
schedule and Mr.. Bradley of Ken
lucky offered an amendment taking
jute and jute butts from the free lisI
and assessing duty of 1 IL cents
pound. The amendment was adopted
An amendment by Mr.. Aldrich MAX
| ing the duty on threads made of flax
or hemp yarns finer that five lea, 13
ga cents per pound was adopted.
Several Clashes Take Place
state of mind today and there We're
several clashes of temper. Senator
Stone of Missouri asserted that tbs
German officials had taken exception
to remarks made recently by Senator
| Aldrich relative to the wage statement
supplied by the German government
at the request of the American Sec
retary of state.
Mr.. Aldrich had characterized rs
"impertinent" the effort which hs
claimed had been made in that state
ment to influence American tariff leg
islation and Mr.. Stone undertook to
show that the epithet had been applied
to the German government.
Mr.. Aldrich resented this implica-
tion, but said repeatedly that the Ger
man manufacturers had undertaken to
influence the course Of the tariff bill
and charged that in doing so they had
been guilty of impertinence.
Mr. Aldrich intimated that Mr.. Stone
was acting as a representative of Ger
many and this remark aroused the
speak his mind as an American sen
ator he said the use Of the expression
was a gross impertinence."
CoIloquy Consumes Three Hours
The colloquy consumed almost three
hours. The incident closed for the day
with the statement by Mr. Stone that
while Mr.. Aldrich and Mr.. Depew, who
also had been involved in the contro-
versy, had not made a straightforward
retraction as he had believed they
should, they had so "sugar-coated'' the
dose as to relieve it of its bitter taste.
Senator La Toilette resumed his
speech in opposition to the cotton
schedule. His speech was a general
criticism of the methods of the finance
committee. Mr.. La Toilette became
quite exhausted, and an EFFORT was
made to obtain permission for him to
suspend and resume again tomorrow.
Senator Aldrich took advantage of the
incident to make an effort to obtain an
agreement to vote on the cotton sched-
ule at a fixed hour tomorrow. IN thls
he was unsuccessful, and after few
minutes rest the Wisconsin senator
continued.
IA system has grown up here" said
Mr. La Toilette, "by which legislation
is in the hands of two or three men.
whose authority seems to have been
recognized here for many years with
ont question. 1t seems hazardous on
the part of any one who wants to know
and who fails to come along when ne
Is told. I want to announce TO the
autocracy of the senate that the clock
will strike presently and that there will
be new hour in the legislative bust
ness of the senate"
Mr. La Toilette once refused to yield
to Mr.. Aldrich for an interruption ad-
dressed, you're going 10 DC aScotucN
the same kind of treatment that have
received from you"
An amendment offered by Mr.. Aid
rich placing duty of thirty-five per
cent ad valorem on tampico when
mixed with other vegetable substances
was adopted.
The most important amendment
adopted was a reduction of the duty
on common gloves, for women and
children, from $1.75 to $1.25 per dozen.
The rest of the glove schedule, which
was a restoration of the Dingley rates
for the house provision. which We're
considerably higher, was agreed to
The amendment was Offered fly Mr.
Aldrich.
Quills were made dutiable at thir-
ty-five per cent ad valorem and
fifty per cent duty was placed on
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