Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-05-07
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SENATOR DOLLIVER DENoUNcES
HIGH SCHEDULES IN PAYNE
TARIFF BILL.
COLLEAGUES INTERRUPT HIM
Unable to Finish Speech Because Of
Lack of Tme-BradIey of Ken
lucky Talks on Protection, When
Income Tax Address Is Finished.

favor of an income tax amendment tC
the pending tariff bill.
Both Senator Dolliver of Iowa and
Senator Bradley of Kentucky spoke
this afternoon, but the time was not
sufficient for them to conclude theil
remarks, as Senator Dolliver had pre-
pared very extended address il
which he favored lowering Of duties
especially on the wooden and cottor
schedules. AS he antagonized the bill
in its present shape in very vigorous
manner he had many Interruptions by
senators on the Republican side.
DolIiver Attacks Schedules.
Attacking the wool and cotton SEIZED.
ules of the pending tariff bill as con.
tanning deceptive provisions, increas
ing rates of duty on many articles con.
tanning but tritling quantity of WOOL
Senator Dolliver of Iowa yesterday de
livered one of the most notable
speeches presented to the senate since
the revision of the tariff has been un.
der consideration
IF speak the TRUTH said Senator
Dolliver, eff deal with things as they
are, l suggest to the senator from
Rhode Island that it will not be an
adequate answer to reproach me with
the errors of my youth or to disparage
me because in ether years followed
without question in the footsteps OF
my party leaders If, in times past,
took, without disturbing the public
peace, every act of the party, it was
because l loved it; because the young
man of that day found it good deal
easier to idealize it than they some
times find it now. / speak here be
cause l still love the old Republican
party, and would have its leadership
rise to the full stature of it's opportu
mites and its responsibility"
Would Reouce Protection.
Il repeat, therefore, what l said the
other day, that the duty of this con
gress is to reduce the margin of pro
lection provided in the Dingley rates
wherever it can be done without sub
stantial injury to the productive enter
prises of this market place. 1t is our
special duty to take UP those seized
ules which represent the largest in
vestments of protected capital, and
at least, take out of them the rates
that are now everywhere known to be
extravagant and unnecessary, which
rise so far above the level of our real
Industrial needs as to bring the policy
of protection into ridicule without do
Ing anybody any sort of good"
Senator Dolliver stated that he had
In his possession letter of the late
Gov. Dingley, found among the papers
OF one of his Oldest friends who. had
assisted in the work of the ways and
means committee of 1887, in which
Mr.. Dingley deprecated any increase
IN the cotton schedule, because, in his
Judgment, the tendency of the rates
had been down. instead of up.
Appraisers Office Is Judge.
Referring to the senator from
ERODE Island, who stated upon this
floor that the amendments to the cot.
ton schedule offered to the senate by
the committee were not the work of the
committee" but that every one of
them was made by persons connected
with the treasury department" Sena.
tor Dolliver said:
1T was, have no doubt, cruel
revelation to some of his languid dis.
ciples to learn from the lips of the
senator himself that in this cotton
schedule the changes that were made
do not represent the genius of the
man who enjoys in the mythology of
our public life the reputation of being
the greatest living expert upon the
technicalities of cotton manufacture
but that the senator from Rhode Is
land, mystified by the task set before
him by his constituents of raising the
table of these rates without touching
them, turned the job over to the ap.
praiser's office at New York. A curl.
GUS proceeding this, and unless we
can look into it without fear and trem-
bling we must ultimately rewrite our
constitution so as to legalize this DOW
er of experts from the custom house
to regulate commerce with foreign ma.
TONS"
Bradley Wants Protection.
A strong speech for the principle
of the protective tariff with a special
plea for duty on jute was made by
Senator Bradley of Kentucky yester.
day.
Give us fair protection in Ken
lucky" said Senator Bradley, facing
the Republicans of the senate, "and I
promise you that in a short while it
shall become as certainly Republican
as the great state of Massachusetts"
Senator Bradley declared that I'M
less the jute industry, on which he
asked protective tariff duty of one
and one-half cent a pound, was pro
tected, it would be annihilated.
1T has been demonstrated by actual
experience in tho last five years." said
Senator Bradley, "that hemp may be
successfully grown in Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Kansas, and we are informed by
high and unquestioned authority that
1t may be successfully grown in lime
stone soils anywhere in the Missis.
sipri valley, as we'll as at many points
along the Pacific coast: in fact, in al.
most every state In the union"
Miner MysterousIy Slain.
Pittsburg, May 4.-Frank Ross, a
miner who has been assisting the po-
lice in getting suspicious Italians out
of McKeesport. suburb, was mysteri.
ously shot yesterday.