Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-11
COMMITTEE ON
FINANCE UPHELD
ON WOOL TARIFF
PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS
MEET WITH DEFEAT
SENATOR DoLLIVER UNABLE TO
BULGE ALDRlcH FORCES
Iowa's Scion offers Many Amendments
to Senate Bill, but His oppo-
nents Remain Firm
with Leader
(By Associated Press.l

w time again today Senator Dolli-
" yer and eight or nine others OF
the so-called progressive Republicans
went down to defeat in their efforts TO
break the ranks of the Aldrich forces
on the wool schedule of the tariff bill.
Senator Dolliver offered numerous
amendments looking to the reduction
of the finance committees rates, out III
each instance the amendment was voted
down and the committee sustained.
The first of Mr.. Delivers sugges-
lions had for it's object tho contnlng
of the duty on mixed cloths to the WOOL
in it. which was defeated by vote OF
81 to 43. Mr.. Warren contended that
the objection of this provision was to
prevent the importation of cheap cloths,
but Mr.. Dolliver argued that there
might be some persons who would be
benefited by having cheap clothing
brought in from abroad.
On this vote Mr. DolliVer was sup
ported by Senators Beveridge, BristoW,
Brown, Clapp, Cummins, La Toilette
and Nelson, while Senator McEnery of
Louisiana was the only Democratic
senator who voted with the Republic
cans against the provision.
Many of Mr. Delivers amendments
were along the same lines as the first
and on the entire series the vote was
practically the same, In no instance
did any of 1.-THE Republican senators
change.
Gore and La Toilette Speak
The evening session was devoted to
speeches by Senators Gore and LaFol-
lette both in advocacy of lower wool
rates.
Mr.. LaFollette offered number OF
amendments to the wool schedule. At
1850 p. m. the senate adjourned.
into 10
today determined to continue their
fight against the wool schedule, al
though all the votes taken yesterday
demonstrated the ability of the com
mittee on finance to maintain major
ity of 10 or IL on all of the provisions
it had recommended.
Shortly after the senate met vote
of 81 to 43 was cast against the conten-
ton of Mr.. Deliver that only the wool
in yarn should be taxed, thus uphold
ing the committee on finance.
In his effort to tax only the wool in
fabrics made partly of cotton, Mr.. Dol
liver offered a substitute for that pur-
pose for the paragraph relating TO
cloths, knit and other fabrics and man
ufactures made in whole or in part of
WOOL He convulsed the senate with his
witty retorts and his humorous allu-
sions to peculiarities in the Dingley
law.
Even Home, Sweet Home" and
"Welcome" notices, he said, were sub
ject to pay duty under the wool sched-
ule Corn plasters when made of wool
were obliged to pay tribute to the wool
schedule under a decision that had de-
clared them to be wearing apparel"
Substitute Defeated
The substitute was defeated by a
vote of 80 to Az with the same division
that had been shown in the previous
vote. Other amendments offered by
Mr.. Dolliver were also voted down.
Becoming engaged with Mr.. Carter
in a debate in which the protective
tariff system was the subject, Mr..
Bacon declared ne would place the
wool industry in Montana on the same
basis as the cotton industry of Georgia
and would not tax the people of Geor-
gia to allow the sheep herders in Mon
tana to live in hotels as had been sug-
gested by the senator from Montana.
Mr.. Dolliver also offered an amend
ment limiting to 100 per cent the duty
on any articles.
Mr. Aldrich opposed both the levy
ing of duties according to the wool in
the fabric and also the limitation of
the duty to 100 per cent.
One of Mr.. Delivers amendments
was Identical in terms with provision
suggested by Mr.. Aldrich as a part of
the Mckinley tariff bill of 1888, but the
Rhode Island senator refused to ac-
cept it, saying the conditions were en-
tirely different now from what they
were in those days
In the course of discussion between
Senators Aldrich and Owen on the duty
on blanekts the fact was brought out
that blankets paid at the rate of 1870
per cent ad valorem. In this connec-
ton the chairman of the finance COM