Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-04-23
WRANG[E
On TARIFF IN
SENATE
ALDRICH DEFENDS
PROVISIONS OF BILL
New England Leader ChaIIe0g
es Bailey to Show Where Re-
pubIicanS Ever Promised Re-
vision Downward,

,Rv Morning journal Special Leased wirel
washington, April 22.-Repubican
criticism of the pending tariff bill on
the prcund that the rates were too
nigh was prominent in the senate to-
day when senator Nelson OF Mime
sota, ana senator Dolliver. OF Iowa
attacked various schedules
Under the guise of disc usslhg the
dity on gas retorts, general debate
on the tariff was INDUCED III py dello-
cratic senators. SeHdlVi p"i'.s - -
as. declaring the Dlll dlscrluillidleu
a4snst the South.
Fifty of the 302 pages OF the olli
we're read today
4 further consideration of the un-
derstanding under which the senate is
considering the tariff bill today re-
shifted in an agreement by Mr.. Aldrich
that At any time while the measure
VAS being considered for amendment
any paragraph of the bill under con-
sideration might be reverted to and be
subject to amendment without neces-
sity of resOrting to any formal parlla-
mentIry procedure.
The consideration of the duty on
Gas retorts caused an oratOrlcal eN-
posion. The committee on finance
had increased the rates on these ar
tices from $3, as provided in the
house bill to Il 80 per cent ad valorem'
the new duty being, on large retorts,
three times the amount levied by the
house bill and the present law This
course was denounced by Mr. Ballc5
as evidence of failure of the repupl-
can party to keep faith with the peo-
pie in their demand for revision OF
the tariff downward.
Mr. Aldrich challenged the senator
from Texas TO show that the republic
can party had been pledged to re-
vision Of the tariff downward
THE republican party said INT AL
dtrn agreed TO revise the. tatitf on
the basis of rates equalling the dii-
ference in cost of production in tins
country and abroad.
Mr. Bailey insisted there was an un-
Outstanding in the country before the
last election that the republican party
would revise the tariff downward,
Otherwise, he declared, the house
would have become democratic.
The people, said Mr.. Aldrich,
understood that the republican party
was party Of protection, bound 10
revise the tariff from the protective
standpoint. If any paragraph in TINS
bill can give protection equal to the
cost Of production, | am for an amend
mcnt Of the bill in that respect.
Il went into tn, union army before
! was and have been republican
ever since" declared Mr.. Aldrich in a
coll0quy with Mr. Bailey Mr.. Aldrlch
asserted that practically none of the
union soldiers north of the Mason ana
Dixon line had been democrats after
the war
Mr. Bailey replied that great injus-
tice had been done TO hundreds OF
thousands of democrats who had come
tJ the aid of the Mort in the strug-
gle Of 1SG1-65. "And but for whose
Efforts the result might have been dill
tcrcnt"
Mr. Aldrich declared he had not in
tended to say there was no loyal DEM
ocrats in the North or in the union
army
Mr. Bailey asserted that any such
attack un any democrat was 'll tir'9'.
Il have heard it said" added Mr..
halley that the present administra-
Ton aims as one of its chief accom~
phshments to disrupt the solid south,
ana it is endeavoring to accomplish
mat result by flatterng the weak men
among us i'm the South by conceding
70 them an invitation to the White
rouse or by giving them portion OF
"'' patronage of the country
The president wastes his time and
wastes his breath when he gives need
10 those men who tell him they can
uAfOpt the South. There is i'm the
south today, as there was before the
war a sentiment that is not demo-
uatic Tn the older time they were
Wigs and i'm this day they are republi-
vahS' but some of them are ashamed
VI ihcir associates down there.
Ihls bill is fun of sectional dis
glmnations. The farmers binding
w ile is placed on the free list, but in
.nls very same bill. the bagging of the
,ol'on planter is highly protected. II
,pV want 20 find way to the hearts
y our people of the South, do not
",at them unjustly."
Nt Aldrich in replying, said that
a' 'he time of the war ne was forced
10 a choice OF either voting for Lin
."'l cor for Mcclellan. who was rum
,tius upon "a platform that declared
sial ING war FOR the union was
,allurc He believed that the supre-
,4a'S oi the republican party was ne
saIy Tor The Wcll-bcing of the coun-
senator Nelson. OF Minnesota. de-
,t uAted the measure. declaring that
t'e cotton. glass and wooden sche-
.t's We're too high He said that
,.aDihs duties on wooden manufac-
goods 80 per cent higher than
GUY on raw wool was unjust.
az Nelson said also that the sill
~. agitation was largely responsible
the panic of 1898
senator Doliiver declared that not
ny ts. were tho duties imposed by the
=, -Aldrich bili too high Lut they
~. So Worded as to result in large
,i.,-l.tases ,l,ases oi rates Without definite in
ta,inn Of such increases in the
.,.ttne woolen schedule" he said
tfHt 70 De reduced For two years
- slhceule has been a bad adver-
-. ''''1s'.'. ~ Tor the republican party. 7
e iu 20 80 vote as TO adhere as far
NJ tSsiuir to every reduction in the
bslss rate that was made By the
fie,- committee and to every reduc-
W.. made By the senate committee
'iF u may b. that there are only
'-h increases and quite a large NUM-