Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-05-04
STRIKING SPEECH
BY DOLL|vER
Most Remarkable
Address in Tariff
Debate
ATTACKS WOOL SCHEDULES
Senator Borah Declares That
Income Tax Would Be
Constitutional.

Washington, D. c., May Attack
ing the wool and cotton schedules of
the pending tariff bill as containing de-
ceptive provisions increasing the 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 in
the present Senate since the revision
of the tariff has been under discussion.
Considerable portion OF the remarks
were addressed directly to Senator
Aldrich, chairman of the Finance COM
mittee. 'If l speak the truth said
Dolliver, 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 dispar-
age me because in other years ! fol
lowed in the footsteps of the party
leaders" Referring to the recent ex-
change Of words with Aldrich, Dolli-
yer said: IF the Senator intends to
humiliate me by my course as die
tated by political conditions at home,
he unintentionally pays me compli-
ment because this nation has entered
upon new era of responsibility on
part of the Presidents and Congresses
alike"
Referring to the tariff act passed,
the Senator said: "Is 1t possible that
man because he voted for the ALI
son Tin Plate act, in 1889, and heard
Poor Mckinley dedicate the first tin
plate mill in America, he can be con-
victed in this chamber Of trNchery to
the protective tariff If he desires that
schedule be examined after seeing
the feeble enterprise of 1890 grow
within a single decade to full measure
in this market place, organized into
great corporations, over-capitalized in
to a speculative trust, and at length
unloaded on the U. S. Steel Company
with a rake-off to the promoters suf-
ficient to buy the Rock Island Sys-
tenn"
Borah Defends Income Tax.
Washington, D. c., May 4.-Resum-
ing his speech on the Income Tax
amendment of the pending tariff bill
Senator Borah insisted upon the con,
stitutionality of an income tax. He
contended the principle of the income
tax applies also to the Inheritance tax
| which is either tax on real estate
or on the right to take real estate. II
one is unconstitutional the other is
equally so.
Taft Will Study Decision.
Washington, May 4.-The decision
of the supreme court on the commod
tiles Clause Of the Hepburn Law will
| be studied by Taft this summer. Ac
cording to the announcement the
President proposes to make a study
of the control of corporations before
making recommendations to Congress
next winter. Under the decision OF
the court, railroads can carry coal OF
mines they do not own outright but
through holding companies can oper
ate them as if the law did not exist
Holcombe's Appointment.
Washington, May 4-Ernest p
Holcombe, of Utah, was nominated as
an Indian inspector to investigate
land, timber and coal entries in New
Mexico. He served week as clerk
in the district court at Santa Fe, vice
Bergere. This is evidently the same
appointment to which the Associated
Press referred yesterday when it said
that Holcombe had been appointed tc
an Indian commissionership, the In
dian commission consisting of five
members serving without salary.
G. e. Clark has been appointed a
stenographer and clerk in the land
Office at Santa Fe.