The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-03
CAR RULE SEEMS
LIKELY IN SENATE
May Proceed Without Quorum
Under Certain Conditions,
Is the Decision.
SENATOR BACON AND OTHERS
ENTER VIGOROUS PROTEST
Whole Day Occupied in Debate
Without Real Progress
Being Made.

WASHINGTON, June with the
adoption of a resolution providing for
day and night sessions, beginning to-.
morrow, the senate today heard sug
gestion of a policy for limiting dila-
tory motions, which caused an earnest
protest from Senator Bacon and others.
The vice president, basing his action
upon precedent made IN the last con-
gross, when the Aldrich- -Vreeland cur
rency bill was under consideration, held
that the absence of a quorum could
not be called to the attention of the
senate if the senator occupying the
floor declined 10 Weld for that purpose.
Senator Bacon declared this was one
of the revolutionary rulings made when
the currency bill was under considera.
tion. and that under it there would
be a serious abuse Of parliamentary
rules lie announced his intention to
obtain a full consideration Of this ques-
tion by the introduction of a resolu-
tiou to be considered by the COMMITTEES
on rules. ...-.s4
La Toilette Long Winded.
4 long speech dealing with this
pledge of party leaders with respecr m
a revision Of the tariff, was begun by
Senator La Toilette, and will be con
tinued tomorrow. BY newspaper quota
tions he maintained that no question
could be raised as to the pledge Of tho
party for a revision downward, and de-
clared that before he should conclude
his speech he would demonstrate that
on the whole the PAYNE bill placed the
custom duties above the Dingley rates.
Since the enactment Of the Dingley law,
and until 1904. he said, the control OF
trusts had been extended 10 s664
plants. with capital of more than
twenty billion dollars.
Senator Nelson also spoke and quoted
numerous comparisons between the
existing laws and the pending measure
with the intention of showing that in
| the cotton schedule the rates had been
raised from 90 10 30 per cent above the
Dingley law BY the substitution Of
specific for ad valorem duties
Blind Senator Heard.
| Senator Gore again quoted dividends
and surplus earnings of New England
cotton and wool manufacturing com
panies TO sustain his contention that
these corporations make large profits.
and Senator Frye. in reply, declared
that. taking into consideration both
successful and unsuccessful cotton and
wooden mills. 4 profit Of not more than
Is per cent had been realized by New
England manufacturers upon their in
vestments in these industries. Senator
Elkins spoke al length, advocating n
duty on coal and petroleum.
The cotton schedule was construc,
lively under consideration ali day, but
no feature of 1T was voted on
Astonishing the senate by the CHA
tion of long list of cotton and woolen
manufacturing companies. and giving
their earnings, capital stock, surplus,
etc. Senator Gore undertook the task
Of showing that corporations engaged
in the cotton and wooden industries
were making very large earnings The
speech was one that no other senator
would have attempted without constant
reference to notes, but the blind states
man from the southwest found no diff
Guilty in giving offhand the greatest
varieties of details without the ability
TO assist his memory in any way. The
senate had promptly begun the day
business by resuming consideration OF
the cotton schedule Of the tariff bill,
and Mr., Gore was the first speaker.
Sarcastic in His Speech.
Referring 10 the cotton and woolen
manufacturers, and in a raspiug and
sinister tone, the Oklahoma senator
said he did not blame them for their
large earnings.
az know they are intelligent citi
zens," he said. "iudging from their
business success and from their selcc-
tion of United States senator's
He referred IN sarcastic language tc
the statement made Yesterday by Sena-
tor Lodge that some OF these large
earnings resulted from sales of real
estate, fortunately acquired many
years ago. and said that the stock Of
the Troy Cotton aud Woolen company
of Massachusetts had been advertised
IA earning 81 per cent in 1907. with
out reference to profits from real estate
sales. He suspected. he said, "thas
the good natured philanthropic mann
facturers did not divide their earnings
'on the square with their laborers -
Senator Nelson followed 'The busl
ness interests Of the country need not
be alarmed. as their appeals to us for
prompt action on the tariff indicates,
because there will be no downward re.
understanding in his state was that the
tariff would be lowered, "The only
thing they have to wait for he con-
timed. sis to see how far they can
mark up their goods. At least there
Will be no downward revision that they
themselves did not consent to.
Higher Than Dingley Law.
Sustaining the contention of Senator
Dolliver in opposition TO the speclne 1u-
TIES IN lnc coilVu sChcuuiS ISPN'eS, -.
tho committee on finance, Mr.. Nelson
gave extended examples of specific IN
creases and their equivalent ad valorem
rates TO show that they had been placed
higher than in the Dingeey law, ,,
al have demonstrated. SAID MI
Nelson. after he had concluded his an
alvsis OF the cotton schedule, that thls
Hin increases all of these duties from
% ner cent to more than 30 per cent
over the rates of the present DingIey
Senator Beveridge, raising the ques-
tion of the absence OF a quorum, when
thc Minnesota senator began to explain
,he cumulative duties which he declared
we're provided in the cotton schedule,