The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-04
LA TOILETTE HITS
!. BACK AT PENROSE..
DEFENDS HIMSELF
Says He Was Not I'll, But
Worn Out With Much
Speechmaking.
MAKES APOLOGY
TO Mr.. GALLINGER
Takes Hot Shot at Aldrich-Dis-
pleased by Attitude of
Members.
By JOHN sNuRE.

| AS 20 the remarks OF the Senator
from Pennsylvania. would suggest
that he would render a more important
service 10 the country. to the Senate,
and 10 the State CT Pennsylvania, II he
would account for the way he spends
his time when outside Of this chamber.
than by attacking me"
''No man could undertake to tell OF
the whereabouts Of the Senator fiom
Pennsylvania when outside Of his
chamber without transgressihg the rules
of this Senate. and that I do not pro-
pose 10 do"
In this fashion and by allusion to
the "contemptuous attack on me per-
sonaiIy'' Senator La Toilette. IN the
Senate this morning. replied to the
bitter attack made on him in his ab-
senee in the Senate last night by
Senator Penrose. La Toilette, sftsr
speaking most of yesterday. was sb-
sent at the evening session bee auss
he vas tired out. he said. and did not
feel able to proceed with his speech.
This led Penrose TO say:
la toilette Speaks.
while I have no desire to make
any reference 10 the Senator from
Wisconsin in his absence. I will be
| prepared to show 10 the Senate at any
time that part of his professional
tactics is to make this pretense az
sickness while he is openly abroad
upon the streets consulting With the
editors OF yellow journals aRd the
editors os uplift magazines"
He charged that Ia Toilette had made
a plea of sickness that was not justi-
fled. Senators Beveridge, Bonah and
Dolliver promptly sprsng to the Eefease
and bitter wrangle was imyninent
when ASdrich steered the Senate away
from the cotton to other schedules.
Bad blood has existed between the
Senator from Wisconsin and the Penn
sylvanian for a long time II has been
particularly so since Penroses attack
on La Toilette in the Senate last winter
when he charged that he neglected his
committee duties and Ii<ened him to a
vsn1er Of patent medicines. Prior to
last night. it was whispered about tie
cloak room that Penrose intended to
make a bitter attack on la toilette be-
cause of an article that lately appear
ed in La Follette's Weekly
Members Intervene.
It is understood that other Senators
intervened and tried TO prevail on Sen
ator Penrose not to do So This. now
ever, did not prevent the brief attack
night.
1t was whispered about this morning
that La Toilette would respond with a
lengthy and bitter arraignment, and
the members and the galleries were on
edge. The incident was closed, for the
time at least. BY the suggestive aIluslon
of la Toilette TO the whereabouts OF
PeHrose, a statement that the offensive
article in the paper had beer retracted
lass night
nouncement by La Toilette as to his
course in the past. and his refusal to
be drawn aside fro%1 the main business
at hand to answer attacks upsn him
self.
The session was opened with brief re-
marks by Senator Smith Of Michigan.
who discussed the cost OF living here
and abroad. and held that il was a
piece OF impertinence for chambers
OF commerce in Germany to attempt 70
present an argument to Congress as TO
the higher cost OF living here. Senator
Hepburn asked II the information in
the German document which as been so
such discussed came from the German
government or from individuals Smith
said Il was sent by the government, and
for that he found no fault, but he did
think the statements OF the chambers
of commerce constituted an imperti-
nence.
Then the cotton schedule was taken
up, and Senator La FoKette was recog-
nized. He started in by allUsion TO the
proceedings of last night so far as they
related to him personally
Cotton Schedule
For almost an hour La Toilette read
from the table prepared for him by the
Bureau of Statistics a comparison of
the rates in the Dingley law and in the
pending bill He declared that a sum
mary of the duties imposed in the cot
ton schedule would show that instead
OF the thirty-three increases admitted
| by Senator Lodge there were in reality
| 2Ss increases In the entire bill and that
| in the cotton schedule alone there were
| seventy increases as against twenty-ons
| reductions and thar the increases are
vastly more important than the reduc-
"a called attention to the fact that it
/ was proposed 10 assess the duties on
/ the market value OF the goods IN this
| actual value in the country in which
they were produced The average ad
| yalorem rate in the Dingley law, he
continued, is "A per cent, while the
Z average rate IN the Payne bill as amend
/ ed by the Finance Committee is A per
An important feature was his exhibit
of hundreds ef samples OF cotton cloths