Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-05-06
IoWAN DECLARES MEASURES
CONTAIN DECEPTIVE PROVIS-
IONS INCREASING DuTlea THAT
SHOULD BE REDUCED.
SENATE is CROWDED
DURING HIS SPEECH
DoLLlvER ADDRESSES HIS RE-
MARKS IN THE FAAlN TO SENA-
TOR ALDRlcH BECAUSE OF RE.
CENT EXCHANGE OF WORDS.

TOR ALDRlcH BECAUSE OF RE-
CENT EXCHANGE OF WORDS.
Washington, D. c., May Attack.
ing the wool and cotton schedules OF
the pending tariff bill as containing
deceptive provisions, increasing rates
of duty on many articles containing
but trifling quantity of WOOL Sena-
tor Dolliver of Iowa, today delivered
one of the most notable speeches pre-
sented to the senate since the rev's-
ion of the tariff has been under con-
sideration. The announcement that
Mr.. Dolliver 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 committee
on finance.
| DoI!ver to Aldrich.
"If I speak the truth" said Mr.. Dol
liver, 'if I deal with things as thay
are, l suggest to the senator from
Rhode Island that 1t will not be an
adequate answer to reproach me with
the errors of my youth or to dispac-
age me because in other years | fol-
lowed without question in the foot
steps of our party leaders. If, in times
past, I took, without disturbing the
public peace, every act of the party,
1t was because I loved it; because the
young man of that day found 1t a
good deal easier to idealize it than
they sometimes find 1t now. l speak
here because I still love the old Re-
publican party, and would have IT'S
leadership rise to the full stature <,f
it's opportunity and its responsibility. :
Referring to a recent exchange OF
!, words In the senate between himself
. and Senator Aldrich, Mr.. Dolliver said
sIf the senator from Rhode Island in
tended to humiliate me by the intima
ton that my course in these matters
is dictated by political conditions al
home, he unintentionally pays me
, compliment which | sincerely appra
ciate. because this nation has entered
upon a new era of direct responsible
ity on the part of the presidents anc
congresses alike to that enlightened
!. public opinion which ought to be thu
!: real government of the United states.
), Reviewing the several tariff acts ina
;. have been passed by congress, MI
: Dolliver said:
Refers to Tin Plate Rate.
"Is it possible that man, becaus
he voted for the Allison tin-plate rat
Of 1889 and heard poor Mckinley ded
: cate the first tin-plate mill in Ame'
9 ica. can be convicted in this chambt:
t of treachery to the protective-tarl
: system. If he desires that schedule r.
: examined, after seeing the feeble ei
terprise of 1890 grown within slngl
decade to the full measure OF th1
e market place, organized into grea
cornorations, over-capitalized into
d speculative trust, and at length III
/ loaded on the United States Ste
company. with a rake off to the pr
% moters suficient to buy the Rock !
. land system? If transaction lik
that has made no impression upon TT
ID mind Of congress, | expose no seer
in saving that it has made a vel
n profound impression on the thougl
and purposes of the American pc
pie.
az repeat, therefore, what ! sa
the other day, that the duty OF IN
,e congress is to reduce the margin
a. protection provided in the Dlngl;
a. rates wherever it can be done Wltno
rel substantial injury to the productl'
- enterprises of this market place.
in is our special duty to take up tho
no schedules which represent the large
ia investments of protected capital al
at- at least, take out of them the rat
he that are now every where known
ne be extravagant and unnecessal
in. which rise so far above the level
re our real industrial needs as to bri
"a. the policy of protection into ridicr
re- without doing anybody any sort
6; good"
,ff peprecates Cotton Schedule lncrea
.se senator Dolliver stated that he h
on in his possession letter OF the Il
lit Governor Dingley, found among
y papers of one of his oldest friends "
9. had assisted in the work on the we
90 and Means committee of 1897, in VIII
Mr.. Dingley deprecated any incres
in the cotton schedule because in
,rp Judgment the tendency of the IA
a ought to have been down instead
at up. and because the cotton manu-
Mt turers We're in no position to conpl
,er, of the rates established by the rates
the Wilson law in view OF the I
ar that they had written the sched
on themselves" Referring to the Sc
:. tor from Rhode Island who had st
we'd ed upon this floor that the anne
ers ments to the cotton schedule offered
err the senate by the committee were
the work of the committee" but t
en- everyone of them was MADE py
son sons connected with the treasury
partment," Mr.. Dolliver said:
err 1T was, I have no doubt. cl
the revelation to some of his languld.
re- tiples to learn from the lips OF
Senator himself that in this cot
to schedule the changes that We're m
atal do not represent the genius OF Nthe
that who enjoys in the mythology of
tpublic life the reputation of being