Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-26
ROOT WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH ALDR|CH Man Hailed as Champion of People Dances to Fiddle
 of Senate's Boss NEW YORKER LOOKING GUT
 FOR THE MON0P0LlES Former Corporation Lawyer Occupies a Not Very En-
 viable Position

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Ex- -Secre- tary of State EIihu Root. whose cleo tion to the United States senate was hailed with satisfaction because 1t was believed he would be a champion of the interests of the people. is work ing hand in hand with Boss Aldrich. Aldrich is Wall streets representa- tive in the senate. He looks out for the monopolies which make profits running as high as 133 per cent as a re suit of high tariff rates.
 Root. therefore. is practically in the same position as before he became Secretary of State. He was then New York corporation lawyer. The cor. porations still profit from Roots mas ter legal mind. because he is using it to sustain Aldrich and to defeat the progressive Republicans in the senate who are endeayoring in good faith to respond to the aownward-tariff-reyi ! ion sentiment of the country
 By aligninS -sssI Ss-S hidrich forces, 1 Senator Root has aroused the err.IIsey- of the Roosevelt forces. They practic- ally charge him with traitorous con | ntE DOilt ouA lt ncS ttAs | due to Roosevelt's demand or en-
 dorsement. that the New York legis. | lature sent Root to the senate. IL was expected Root would be at | least a sort of a progressive, and that he would take a position with the people against the special interests which are at the present time dominat- | ing the making of tariff law. Roose- welt approves the position of the pro gressives. and it is argued by friends of the ex-president that if Root could not see his way clear to align with the 1 prcgressIyes. he should at least re- ! frain from giving his support to Roose- velt's enemies
 Therefore. it was a real shock to | those friends of Col. Roosevelt who have remained loyal to his policies | when Root came out recently squarely | in favor of the Aldrich crowds gang rule in the senate.
 | The particular point urged by Root was that no responsibility is thrown upon the finance committee to furnish ! facts in the senate bill as written in | the house measure.
 | La Toilette of Wisconsin had been | talking on bar iron. He said that the l finance committee had reported a cer- { tain rate to be applied on bar iron,
 without giving any reason for an ad- .vance over the Dingley rate, and that he didn't feel justified in voting for
 an increased rate unless he knew why
 the committee advanced the rate.
 Root said he was very much per plexed" over LaFollette's position. and lin long argument proceeded to con
 vince the senate that if the finance committee reported certain rate that had not been changed from the house bill rate. the members of the senate
 had no right to ask for information as to why the rate had been advanced. | La Toilette took the position that when the Finance committee of the senate reported a certain rate, with the recommendation that it became a law. the responsibility rested on the senate committee. even though the lrate originated in the house. He said
 that when the tariff bill came over to the senate from the house it was re ferred to the finance committee. which body made whatever Improvements it deemed necessary. and upon reporting lit to the senate with the recominenda-
 tion that 1t pass, assumed entire re jsponsibility.
  bility was on the house. and inferred that it was an i,npertinence to ask the Icommittee to explain why a rate had been advanced. The New ork senator Ieulogized Aldrich, and made it ap- pear certain he could not be depended Iupon to aid in any improvement of the tariff measure.
 T doubt said LaFollette. in ex- plaining why he desired information before voting on the bar iron duty. if ever before in this body. did the
 chairman of committee reporting out a great tariff measure content himself
 with i5 or 20 minute statement with
 the resrect to revenues alone and the
 effect of the bill upon the revenues. land with no report whatever accom- panying the bill from the committee. What is it that satisfies the Sena-
 tor from New York? (Mr. Root. Sched
 ules are taken up here: rates upon i'm portant items entering into the con-
 sumption of the people of this country are advanced with no mon rising here
 to give any reason Tor the advance.
 no reason for the advance to be found
 in any statement printed by the com
 mittee or furnished by the committee
 to the senate. and no reason given on
 this floor or furnished by the commit tee to the senate, and no reason given on this floor for il. It strikes me
 that the senator from New York is
 pretty easily satisfied if he can con
 tent himself with these advances in . rates without any argument or any
 reason or any fact being furnished for
 them
 | I am confident that the people of
 this country will not be satisfied in
 that way, and. for my part. am not"