The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-23
SENATORS TACKLE
TARIFF SCHEDULES
WITH MERE WORDS
DEBATE ON PAYNE BILL BEGINS
IN UPPER HOUSE or
CONGRESS.
DEMOCRATS WANT INCOME TAX
List Of the Loquaeious ls 4 Long
one-No Attempt to Cut on The
Flow Of Languase-Aldrieh First
Gun.

WASHINGTON. April 19.-The tar.
in debate in the Senate will begin
today Immediately after the close Of
routine business. Senator Aldrich.
Chairman of the Committee on Fl
nance, will open the proceedings with
general statement in support of the
bill, and will be followed by Senator
Daniel, the senior Democratic Senator,
who is expected to outline the Demo
cratic position regarding the measure.
Senator Aldrich will go into detail
in explanation Of the various changes
made by his committee, and it is un-
derstood will undertake to show that
the bill as reported will be strong
revenue producer.
Senator Daniel and other Demo-
Gratis will take the opposite view.
They declare the weakness of the
Payne Aldrich bill is found in the fact
that it will not insure suficient in
come to permit the governmental bust
ness to proceed without the addition
of other features which will put mon
ey into the National treasury Some
Republican Senators ar Elm sympathy
with this view, and Mr. Aldrich's
statement will be listened to most a.
tentively.
The Democratic Senators will urge
an income tax as the most rational
and most prolific means of increas-
ing the receipts. All of them will
support an income tax provision, and
in addition some of them will siren.
uously urge a tax on all dealings in
futures. They will have the support
of some of the Republican Senators,
but will not receive any assistance
from the members of the Committee
on Finance, as they take the position
that with greater economy and I'M
proved business conditions, which all
are predicting, the bill will insure
sufficient revenue to meet the demands
of the Government.
There will not be in the Senate, as
in the House, any sharp dividing line
between general debate and the dis
cussion of amendments to the sched-
ules, but on the contrary it is expected
that Immediately after the close OF
the Aldrich and Daniel speeches, the
reading of the bill will proceed with
view of considering amendments
whenever they may be offered.
If Senators desire to make set
speeches, even on the general subject
of the tariff, they will be permitted
tn do go in connection with considera-
ton of the different schedules. II 1t
is found necessary, there will be a
lengthening Of the daily sessions. The
Democrats profess as great anxiety as
the Republicans for the early dlsposl-
ton of the measure. Among the Re
publicans who will speak on the bill
are Messrs. Lodge, Hale, Brown, Car
ter, Cummins, Cullom, Hepburn, Nc
cumber, Nelson and Smith, of Michl'
gan, while the Democratic orators will
include Senators Bailey, Bacon, Bank
head, Clay, Gore, Johnson, Money
Newlands, Rayner and Smith, OF
South Carolina.
The House will be in session on
Monday and Thursday only, and no
business will be done on either day
beyond making provision for the next
census. The conference report on the
general census will receive the atten-
ton of both houses, and 1t is prob
able the House will initiate the legis-
lation to carry the census law into
effect. 1t is probable that the absence
of a quorum in the House will pre-
vent definite action by that body. The
House Committee on Ways and Means
will give hearings during the week on
the Philippine tariff bill, which there
will be an effort to get through during
the present session.