The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-11
THE D0L[|vER
AMENDMENTS
DOWN AND OUT
Sought to Reduce Committee
Rates on Wool Schedule
But Failed
COPIED An AMENDMENT TO
mckinley ACT BY ALDR|CH
Long Discussion Over the Possibility
Of Determining the Quantity of Wool
in Cloth For the Purpose of Fixing
the Amount of Duty.

the Amount of Duty.
| Washington, June 11.-Sixty-
senators were on hand at the begin
ming of the session of the senate today
when the consideration of the tariff
bill was resumed. Numerous amend
ments offered by Senator LaFollette
providing ad valorem for specific
duties in the wool schedule were
| promptly taken up for the purpose of
voting on them ION bloc" as Vice
President Sherman announced. Sena-
tor Cummins, taking the floor, said
he would vote for the amendments.
not SO much because he was satisfied
that they were exactly right, but be-
cause he was absolutely sure the
schedule reported by the finance COM
mittee was absolutely wrong He then
proceeded at length to show how, from
his point of view, the finance commit
tees work had miscarried.
At 2:15 p. m. the senate voted
down the twenty-four amendments to
the wool schedule offered yesterday
by Senator LaFollette. The vote was
80 to "A.
Arguing the justice this plan for
compensatory duty on the product of
wooden manufacturers to allow them
to pay higher price for wool than
do their foreign competitors, Senator
Cummins said that to levy duty on
goods party of cotton as IL entirely
of wool would be to give the domestic
manufacturers an advantage no man
should have. He admitted in reply to
question by Senator McCumber. that
he did not pretend to frame up a
schedule by which the different
grades of wool in the cloth would be
taxed in accordance with their value,
he was willing 10 make the duty pay
> enough to meet the foreign competi-
tion on the assumption that all the
imports are of goods containing only
the finest grades of WOOL
Time and time again yesterday Sem
ator Dolliver and eight or nine other
of the so-called progressive Republic
cans went down to defeat in their ef-
forts to break the ranks of the AID
! rich forces on the wool schedule of
the tariff bill. The Iowa senator oc-
cupied the floor the greater part of the
day and offered numerous amend
ments looking to the reduction of the
finance committee rules. but in each
instance the amendments were voted
down and the committee sustained.
The first of Mr. Delivers sugges-
tions had for it's object the confin-
| ing to the wool in them the duty on
so-called yarns which are only part
wool. and after considerable spirited
discussion in which Messrs. Dolliver
and Warren were the principal parti-
cipants. the amendment was defeated
by a vote of 81 to 49, In the course
of the debate Mr.. Warren contended
that the object of this provision was
to prevent the Importation of cheap
cloths. but this was met by sugges-
tion from Mr.. Dolliver that there
might be some people who would be
benefited by having cheap clothes
brought in from abroad. On the vote
Mr.. Dolliver was supported by Sena-
tors Beveridge, Bristow. Brown. Bur-
kett, Clapp. Cummins. LaFollette and
Nelson. while Senator McEnery of
Louisiana. was the only Democratic
senator who voted with the Republi-
cans against the provision.
Many of Mr.. Delivers amendments
were along the same lines as the first
! principle that in fixing duty on
mixed cloths it should be applicable
only to the woods in the cloth.
The senator objected on the ground
that it would be impossible to deter
mine the proportion of the constitu-
ents in such articles and that there
| fore the provision was impracticable
On the entire series the vote was
practically the same. and in no in
stance did any of the Republican SEN
ators change.
Copied Aldrictl.
One of Mr.. Delivers amendments
was identical in terms with pro-
vision by Mr.. Aldrich as part of the
Mckinley tariff bill of 1883, but the
Rhode Island senator refused to ac-
cept it. saying that the conditions
were entirely different now from what
they were in those days. In the
course of discussion between Sena-
tors Aldrich and Owen of the duty on
blankets. the fact was brought out
that blankets pay at the rate of $50
per cent ad valorem. In this connec-
tion the chairman Of the finance COM
mittee was given an opportunity to
accept a general provision prohibit
ing any rates in the schedule above
100 per cent but he declined to do so.
because. as he said. it might let in
foreign woolen manufacturers. The
debate throughout the day was good
natured. and Mr.. Dolliver discussed
polka dots. corn plasters, home mot