Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-07
Sixty-first Congress.
Washington, June 7.
sRNATE,


cotton schedule claimed attention. The
feature of their consideration Was cross
firing by Mr.. Deliver, Of Iowa, and Mr..
Aldrich, Of Rhode Island, not to men,
ton a rebuks administered by Mr.. AL
drich to Mr.. Beverage.
TIE fret paragraph takeu up was
number 3lS, which defines cotton cloth.
Mr.. Aldrich presented an amendment
which read, "In the ascertainmeDt of
any aud all the particulars and descrip-
! tions upon WI ich the duties, cumulative
or others, imposed upon cotton clolb,
are made to depend the entire fabric
and sll the paris thereof and all the
threads of which 1t is composed shall be
included" The paragraph as amended
was adopted.
Mr.. DOliver protested against the in
! clusiOn of cotton window hollands in Sl9
with duty of cents square yard aod
20 per cent al vslorem. The amend
| ment was adopted by 4 vote OF Al to 26.
Senators Foster and McEnery, OF Louisi-
ana, voted with the republicans and niue
progressive republicans voted with the
| democrats.
Mr.. Aldrich asserted thai Mr.. Dolli-
ver's statement was bssed substantially
upon a circular issued by importers.
Mr.. Doliver replied that his infor-
nation wss obtained from a reputable
merchant who was an importer and
| from another man who was not
an importer but was q representative
Of q manufacturer. In replying 10
request from Mr.. Beverage, Mr.. AL
drich said that he felt encouraged that
up to certain point the Indiana senst
Was with the committee aud he hoped
that some time he would go so isr a. 10
vote With the committee.
al am sorry the senator made that re-
mark" said Mr.. Beveridge. every re-
publican senator would prefer to vote
with the committee but we cannot fol-
low the committee when, on the balance
of argument presented here, the COM
mittee is found to be wrong. With q
recognition of that fact the senator from
Rhode Island ought lot to make an APP
peal, much less the rebuke."
The paragraph was then adopted.
The Senate took up paragraph S2l
and Mr.. Deliver moved to strike out the
1st clause which put special duty OF
cent square yard on mercerized cotton
cloth.
During the debate Senator Bailey
quoted political history to show tnst
party divisions on the tariff had Away s
taken place He predicted "thst when
the roll is called on this bill more re-.
publicsns will vote against it than
democrats who will vote for it,"
HOUSE.
The threat to arrest by the sergesnt-
alarms made last Thursday when the
House met, had its effect. There was
score of members above the number
necessary for quorum when the House
met today and sgsin under consideration
i of the bill amending the organic act for
the government of Porto Rico. The bill
provides that when the Islands legsla.
ture fails to appropriate for government
tai expenses, the appropriation for the
previous year shall automatically be ap-
propristed sgain. Mr.. OlmSted, the 81.
thor Of the bill, urged It's passage de-
clariDg that there had been Rrest deal
of Misrepresentation regarding it.
Mr. Sayden dec AIRED he would offer
an amendment providing select COM
miltee of seven members Of he
House and four of the Senate to iu-
vestiga.e the condition IN the island a d
report upon changes necessary ia the
present law back to Congress before Feb
rusry /. He only favored the bill, he
said, because he had been assured that
anarchy would ensue unless some mea-
sure was passed.