The San Francisco call., 1909-07-09

Laurin placing farmers implements on
the free list and an amendment by Bev-
eridge making imperative the draw
back provision of the tariff on tin
plate were successfully laid on the
table.
Beveridge explained in championing
his amendment that the Standard oil
company during period of II years
had paid S20,000.0OO in duties on tin
plate and afterward, upon making it
into oil cans for export, had received
that vast amount as a drawback.
Il do not offer this amendment be-
cause of prejudice against the Stand
ard oil company or because of its un-
popularity explained Beveridge
He was moved TO take this action, he
said. purely as measure of protection
to promote the tin plate industry.
The United States steel company are
the only people who make tin plate in
the United States" said Aldrich upon
moving to lay the amendment on the
table. Oil was not the only article
exported in tin cans, he added. Meats
of the west, fruit, fish and vegetables
were sent abroad that way.
A deluge of proposed amendments
came from republicans and democrats,
while with automatic regularity Aid
rich caused them to be laid on the table.
1t appeared that senators were prac-
ticaIly lighting over in the senate all
of the issues that had been contested
while the bill was in committee of the
whole.
Efforts of senators were successful in
obtaining increases of duty on salicyltc
scid from to 10 cents pound; on
steel sheets from two-tenths to three
tenths of one cent pound, and duty
of 35 per cent ad valorem on nickel
sheet strips and wire. Arsenic was
taken from the free list and duty of
, cents a pound was placed upon it.
Senator Bristow's amendment to elm
mate the color standard in the sugar
schedule was laid on the table after he
had spoken in its advocacy.
ORANGE OIL RATE
A duty of 215 cents pound was
placed on licorice, on orange oil rate
of so per cent ad valorem and on lime
the present rate of cents per 100
pounds was doubled.
Aldrich said that he had no doubt
that the appropriations necessary for
the tariff commission provided for by
the bill Will be made.
Beveridge expressed great pleasure
ever this statement, and La Toilette
added that he intended to rivet down
that assurance, as well as to strengthen
the tariff commission provision gener-
ally.
Gore delivered final denunciation of
the entire system of protection as eX-
emplified in the bill. He compared Aid
rich to the shepherd of hungry flock,
saying that his lambs hadN all been
tanned until they would eat out of his
hand. Said he:
Mary had one lamb, and it followed
her to school one day; the chairman of
the finance committee has so lambs, and
they follow him every day"
Suggesting that the president should
promptly veto the tariff bill in fairness
to his campaign pledge, Gore said:
TT might not be so far reaching a
prophesy to say that the next president
of the United States may be an Afri-
cam"
This adroit reference TO Roosevelt was
received with laughter.
BEVERIDGE EXPLAINS
The failure of the senate to keep the
promise made to the people by the re-
publican party respecting a revision
of the tariff downward was the theme
of Senator Beveridge as the debate on
the pending bill was drawing to
close.
Our vote" he said, should be cast in
harmony with our party's pledges as
voiced by our party's leader and the
national president"
Suggesting that insurgents" would
cast their votes on the final passage
of the bill "in conformity with their
previous action" Beveridge said they
would do so as a notice to the con
ferees to bring back a bill in which
there should be decreases of duties
Beveridge was answered by Aldrich,
who said he had often seen men in
lterpret their own judgment as the
Judgment of their party.
"The republican party is a party of
majorities,' he added, and the views
of the majority in matters Of legisla-
ton control party policies. The sena-
tor from Indiana does not speak for the
republican party. He has no right
to call in here the name of the presi-
dent of the United States in support
of any suggestion which he has made"
Aldrich declared that the pending
bill was a fulfllment of the party's
pledges. If senators wished to vote
against the bill, he said. they should
not attempt to speak for their party.
"FUNERAL GRAFTON"
ST have listened with deep interest
TO the fearful and prophetic funeral
oration," said Stone, from the demo-
cratic side of the chamber. He de-
clared it reminded him of the old hymn.
Hark! From the Tomb, a Doleful
Sound"
Crawford delivered a vigorous pro-
test against any attempt on the part
of Chairman Aldrich to prevent repub-
lican senators from the exercise of
their judgment.
1T will take more than the senator
from Rhode Island to read the state of
Minnesota out of the republican party.~
said Nelson, amid applause which
called down the gavel of the vice
y.
such expressions were not permitted.
He said he did not care to be lectured
by the senator from Rhode Island.
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