The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-05
Chairman Payne Was Ordered
To Take This Action at the
Direction of the Ways and
Means Committee.
SENATOR OOLLIVER
CAUSES SENSATION
Tainted by AIdrich, a Bad
Blunder, the Iowa States
man Rises Up and Delivers
A Brilliant Speech.

Washington. May s.-The ways and
means committee today concluded the
consideration of the Aldrich tariff bill
and directed Chairman Payne to sub
init it to the house
Nothing has deranged the serene
subcOnsciousneSs OF the United
States senate in long time SO COM
pletely as the speech which Senator
Dolliver of Iowa delivered yesterday.
In 1t he voiced the western demands
for lower rates. took the hide off Of
Senator Aldrich, the New England
apostle Of high protection. and incl
dentally exposed not one but half q
dozen jokers which 1t had been In
tended to reenact into the new law.
The Iowa senator had been provok-
ed by taunts made by Senator Aldrich
that Mr.. Dolliver had departed from
the conservative course pursued by
the late Senator Allison. The result
was one OF the most extraordinary
speeches heard in the senate for
many long day.
It was full of biting sarcasam,
which. Of course. Is cheap commo-
dity. but 1t was fortified by facts and
figures which unquestionably will
have great effect in the determine
alton Of the tariff bill as it is to be
finally passed.
ersatsst speech Of Debate.
aenstoq Qolhyer,s effort iss EeceE-
Enixed generally - much the strongest
speech delivered during the present
debate and It seems to have more In
nuence because it comes from an
avowed protectionist who sat with
Gov. Dingley in the ways and means
committee when the present tariff
law was framed. and whose acquain-
lance with the technicalities of the
subject Is not surpassed by that of
any other man, not excepting even the
great Senator Aldrich himself.
It was blunder on the part OF Mr..
Aldrich to attack Dolliver. because
the Iowa senator In past years had
voted for the same schedules which
are now under consideration. The
only result of such bad tactics was
to provoke Mr.. Dolliver. and he re-
torted in q crushing way. having had
access to letters and correspondence
of Gov. Dfngley which showed con-
clusively that the Main statesman was
not in sympathy with the effort made
by Mr.. Aldrich In 1897 to increase
the rates on cotton and wool manu-
factures.
Mr.. Dolliver reviewed in scathing
terms the history of the principal
schedules in the present law, showing
they were framed in the first place
by the manufacturers themselves. and
that they had been expanded in their
atrocity ever since. Not only did Mr..
Dolliver expose the little Joker which
had been worked on the sheep grow
ers themselves at the instance Of q
New England manufacturer but he
went on to detail some Of the incon-
sistencies and incongruities and in
justices of the present tariff law in a
way which created positive sensa-
(tion in the senate.
To Reveal Cotton Joker.
Mr.. Dolliver is not through. He
proposes to go ahead and dissect the
cotton schedule, giving the result OF
his discovery Of an effort made in the
present congress. first In the ways
and means committee and then in the
finance committee. to introduce an
other Joker which practically would
have prohibited the importation Of all
cotton cloths where they are not n
ready under the ban.
In making his attack on the woolen
and cotton schedules reported by Mr..
AldEeeh. Senator Dolliver was particu-
lar 70 put himself on record - . con-
sistsnt Drotscti0nist, who, however.
represents 10 idea which 10 general
IN the Aisslsaippi valley, that the
rates on clothing and similar manu-
factsred articles ought to be reduced