Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
PRoeREsslvEs IN THE SENATE
SEE FAILURE IN EFFORT FOR
DOWNWARD REVISION.
coNFEREEs SAID TO BE TIED
BY ACTION ALREADY TAKEN
Figures in the House Bill the Best
That Can be Expected = Aldrich
Crowd Charges That Dolliver is
Playing the Part of a sorehead-
Why LaFollette Failed.

Washington, June 14.-The senate
radicals have given up all hope of Sc
curing any revision downward worth
mentioning in the pending tariff bill.
If they can get substantially the Payne
or house bill they will think they are
doing very we'll and they don't expect
to do even that. This is the opinion
of the leading radicals, as seen by The
Journal today, and asked what. in
their judgment the new tariff law
would show in the way of reduction.
| Furthermore. and of the highest i'm
portance, there will be little and per-
haps no chance of consequence to
amend the bill in conference so as to
been telling the president that the OBJ
| jectionable features of the bill would
be fixed by the conference and he left
the impression on the presidents mind
that the conferees would see that the
reductions were made.
Hands Of Conference Tied.
The radical senators are saying
today that all this talk about low
ering the duties in conference is bosh.
Only those schedules can be considered
in conference as to which there has
been a disagreement between the two
houses. In every case. as with wool,
where the senate passed the house
paragraphs of the bill without amend
ment, the conferees will he without
jurisdiction. And in other schedules, as
with cotton, where the senate amend
ments have shown increases over the
figures fixed by the house, the juris-
diction of the conferees will be con-
fined to the figures so fixed. or to some
figures between them. For instance, If
the house fixed a duty of a dollar on
some commodity and the senate in
creased that duty to two dollars, the
conferees can not go below the dollar
fixed by the house, or above the two
dollars fixed by the senate. They can,
however, fix the duty at any point
between these two figures.
To apply this principle to the pend
ing bill, inasmuch as the senate has
passed the wool schedules of the house
bill without an amendment, there will
be nothing to confer about as to wool,
and as the senate has increased the
cotton figures of the house, the confer
ence at best can not fix the COM
promise cotton duties below the house
figures.
Carter Lets Cat Out Of Bag.
Senator Carter, in debate the other
day, let the cat out Of the bag. He
agreed, when discussing the wool
schedules, that some Of the figures were
entirely too high, and said that he
would be glad if they could be changed,
but to change them in the pending bill
would be to throw the wool schedule
into conference, which he did not want
to do, and he purposed voting for the
committee.
The hnportant schedules of the bill,
! the senate radicals say today, will not
be in conference. AS to lumber, the
questions which will be in conference,
| it is believed, will not be those of the
most Importance. And so on thru the
whole list. The conferees, according
| to radical opinion today. will find
| themselves with their work all mapped
out, and 1t will not be possible for them
| to do anything to redeem the state
ment made by Mr.. Aldrich to the pres
ident, that the bill is to be made sat-
isfactory by the conferees.
House Figures Best Possible.
In short, the best that the radicals
are now expecting is the house bill, and
in various important respects they will
not get even that. las to wool, it is
said by the radicals that the schedules
of the house bill, which the senate has
now approved, show. a duty of from so
to 100 per cent advance, which they
claim is outrageously in excess of what
is necessary. AS to cotton, the average
increases made by the senate over the
house figures will average from rs to
SO per cent.
ting is revision upward, and there
seems no way to prevent it.
| How will the stand-patters justify
themselves to the country two years
hence?
That seems easy. from the stand
patter point of view. If there are good
crops this year, as seems assured-if
| there is return of prosperity, as also
seems certain-and If, as result, the
people become contented and inclined
to forget what is now going on, every
thing will be well.
Why La FoIIeete Failed.
The radical senators have been
Handicapped because Of the personal
| unpopularity of Senator La Toilette
among his senatorial associates. He
has been one Of the chief spokesman of
the radicals. and his voice has been
an offense to all of the Aldrich SEN
ators. They regard him as being little
better than a socialist. and as not be-
ing republican in any proper sense
Their bitterness is Increased because
of the knowledge that he is planning
to roast the individual senators on the
Chautauqua stump this summer and
fall on account Of their tariff revision
records.
The Aldrich senators do not pay as
much attention to Senator Dolliver as
they would but for their belief that he
has turned radical because Of disap-
pointment at not being made a member
of the senate financial committee. The
conservatives say he was a candidate
for this place. and that he exhibited
great anger when he failed. For many
years, the conservatives say, Dollive,
was stand patter Of the ultra type
and they insist that he can not Sc
quickly have changed his spots
Whether this charge against Dollive,
is true or false, is not known. He, OF
course. denies its truth. It Is merel,
referred to here 70 explain why he has
not had more influence with the senate