The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

ate to say the rates had not been
raised.
Ridiculing the possibility. of "equaiiz.
ing' tho rates without raising some or
lowering others. Mr.. Dolliyer Launched
upon a comparison between the DlngleE
law and the Wilson bill. He commented
on the Dingley law as interpreted ny
Mr.. Aidrich and by the appraisers. >,
''Thcn we have two Dinglcy laws,
intcrposcd Mr.. Tillman,
Sarcastic Comment.
eyes" responded the Iowan;. cone
on the statute books and one in the
Imagination of tho senator from Rhode
Island. -
Mr.. Dollvcr ridiculed the attack on
the above rates when some rates ac'
tually had been increased. ''Thc equal
ization' that had been effected, he
said, had been leaving the high rates
up and bringing the lower ones nearer
their level, Speaking of the need Tor
accurate information, he sand.
"Scnators cannot convert the senate
of the United States from great de-
Lucrative body to an aggregation OF IN
tcllcctual come-ons.'
Responding To side expressions of sur
prise by some senators near him, he
added, ''that is green goods PROPOSE
tiOn. -
dealings with the New York custom
house, saving it had been suspected that
they had "agents on the payroll en-
gagged i'm the administration of the Gus"
toms laws.
He declared "the Dinglcy law was
the Wilson law. plus few amendments
added by Governor Dingley in the house
of representatives
The Dinglev law. he declared, orgi-
mated with Colonel Tichcnor, and he said
he had positive proof that the law
never contemplated bring ing cotton.
"ctamines.' loosely woven cloth.
fThcrc was change after TiGhe-
nor 9 death, and yet continued Mr
Dolliver "whcu Mr., Dcvrics ovcrruIed
that foolish decision respecting eta,
mines, the senator from Rhode Island
denounced his decision as originating
with British exporting interests, and as
a. great offense. - The decisions, be
| added, that were said 10 have oVerrued
the law were in harmony with the IN
terprctations of Colonel Tichenor, who
had drawn the law.
Loss Not as Stated.
''Thc government he said, 'col-
lccted sixty per cent on these goods
as etamines The appraisers made them
give it up. How much do you suppose
| they refunded? Imaginary millions have
been wandering like ghosts through the
corridors of this capitol and yet, ac'
cordiug TO information ] have Just re,
cclvcd over the telephone, the total
loss of the government on that account
would only be $4,000.
This. he said, was in spite of the I'M
preston that had been made by the
| senator from Rhode Island that these
| directions had resulted in large losses,
perhaps two or three millions oil dol
| lars.
| Commenting on the statement Of Mr..
| Aldrich on this question, Mr.. Dolliver
| characterized his speech of last night
as an outburst Of "mock heroics.
Taking up another phase of the
speech of the senator from Rhode
/ Island Mr.. Dolliver criticised that SEN
ator for having read in the senate an
anonymous clipping stating that SoVo'-
} 600 would be lost in the form oil duties
! by reason of a decision in the United
| States supreme court because Of CON
! tention over the question whether the
duty should be % per cent or 80 per
cent. All the importations of cloth OF
that kind in New York IN 1907, he sad
were worth only S250000 and the mat
Ter In the dispute involved only five
per cent Of the amount.
"Yet," he said, 'that is the KIND
Of claP;-trap that is here substituted Tor
| facts.
! Senator Borah declared he had VIII
I ten to the treasury department for the
! total amount involved in the case and
had been told it was 100000. If SEN
ators could not get readable informa-
ton. he declared, lone thing must be
| apparent-there would be some changes
| in the treasury ,,
"'Either,'' suggested Mr.. TIllman,
s'the senator from Rhode Island bam-
! hoozled us last night, or the senator
from Iowa is bamboozllng us now
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