The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-05
NOTABLE SPEECHES
ON TARIFF ISSUE
Dollifer Of Iowa Makes Vigor-
Gus Attacks on Methods of
Senator AIdrich.
B0RAH DEFENDS LEGALITY
OF PROPOSED INCOME TAX
Senator Root. While Not Direct
ly Opposing Plan, Feels That
Burden Is on Property.

WASHINGTON, MAY I.-Notablc
speeches, causing interesting debate
characterized the session Of the senate
today.
Senator Dolliver of Iowa attacked
the methods under which protective
tariff bills arc formed, and had lively
tilt with Senator Aldrich, who was q
careful listener to the address of The
Iowa senator.
I'd Democratic senators remained silent.
At times the Republican debate threat
encd TO become acrimonious. but the
Iowa senator was ever ready with a
humorous retort, which called forth
laughter when angry words seemed un.
avoidabe.
Senator Borah concluded his speech
on the income tax, delivering an eX-
tended legal argument to show that
there is ample reason for believing that
the supreme court might reverse itself
If the opstitutionality of the tax
should again be presented 10 it,
Plea for More Protection.
4 strong plea for the extension Of
S the protective tariff system to iutc was
made by Senator Bradley of Kentucky.
who declared that with the protective g
policy covering products of his state
Kentucky would be as safely Rcpubli-
can jD the future as Massachusetts has
been in the past.
Attacking the wool and cotton sched-
ules Of the pending tariff bill as con
tanning deceptive provisions, increasing
rates of duty on many articles contain
ing but a trifling quantity of wool,
Senator Dolliver of Iowa today dclir-
cred QUO of the most notable speeches
presented 70 the senate siuce the re-
vision of the tariff has been under con
sideration. a considerable portion Of
his remarks was addressed directly to
Senator Aldrich, chairman of the com
nittee on finance.
Replying to Aldrich.
of I speak the truth said Mr.. Dol
liver, .''if ] deal with things as they
are, I suggest 10 the senator from
Rhode Island that it will not be an
adequate answer to reproach me with
4 the errors of my youth or TO disparage
>zms bSrx0S1 in other wears ] followed
without question in the footsteps of
Dur party leaders
Referring TO Il recent exchange of
words IN the senate between himself
and Senator Aldricb, Mr.. Dollivcr said:
eff the senator from Rhode Island
intends to humiliate me because my
course IN these matters is dictated BY
political conditions at home nc unin
tentional1y pays me n compliment
which / sincerely appreciate, because
this nation has entered upon II new
era Of direct responsibility on the part
OF presidents aud congresses alike to
that enlightened public opinion which
onglt TO be tho real government OF the
United States.
Referring 10 several tariff acts that
have been passed, the senator said:
Defense Of Free Thought.
els it possible that man. because
lie voted for the Allison tin plate rate
of 1889 aud heard poor Mckinley dedi-
cate the first Tin plate mill in America,
treachery TO tho protective tariff sys-
tenn, il he desires that schedule re-
/ examined. after seeing the feeble en-
terprise Of 1890 grown within a single
decade 20 the full measure Of this mar
ket place, organized into great corpora
tions over-capitaized into speculative
trust, and at length unloaded on the
United States Steel company with a
rake-ofT 10 the promoters sufficient TO
buy the Rock Island system? IT Il
transaction like that has made no inl-
preston upon the mind of congress, !
expose the secret in saying that it has
made a very profound impression on
the thought and purposes OF the Amer
lean people
schedule WAS not more mysterious than
T, that of the cotton schedule. Mr., Dol.
liver. referring 10 Aldrich, said that
9'it was evidently banded TO him by
others, Just as II was TO me. and the
only difference between us is that !
have growu little more curious than
hc has been TO sec what was III the
package
Mr. Dolliver referred to the method
: bv which the cotton and woolen sched'
ules were framed. He said if those
rates were high enough twenty years
ago they were too high IN the present
wear, "uulcss we admit that the weay'
ers' craft is at a staudstll in America
"a thing which nobody believes Tor q
moment.
Demands of Party Leaders.
i'Wbat ask today of party lead
i, ers.'' said Mr. Dolliver. "is TO take
II MS back, not TO 1890, when Mckinley
in despair. turned the making of the
q wool tariff over 10 mass meeting oil
y its beneficiaries; not to 1897. when Gov
\ ernor Dinplev' avowod purpose 10 re
ducc tbe Mex inley rates was vetoed by
the threats and cIamor Of outside IN
terests, but TO 1888, when the senator
n from Rhode Island lalbored, month after
q mouth. day and night, with William h
q Allison in the preparation OF the only
q schednlr Of wool and woolens IN forty
81 years in which either the public inter
q est or the welfare of the Republlcal
4 party was made paramount over sordIe
N privatc considerations.
b Til. With Aldrich.
81 4 sharp tilt occurred in the senate
e. today between Mr.. Dolllver Of low;
y and MI Aldricb Of Rhode Island: Th'
J.; Iowa senator in his speech quoted from
statement, which he said had beer
q made by Mr.. Aldrich and corroborate'
" by Mr. Flint Of California: that certain
q schedules Of the Dingley bill were no
I drawn by the finance committee, bu
Z bv government experts,
~ NJ Aldrcb protested that he wa
n not being quoted correctly and that MI
~ Dolliver was making false statement
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