Arizona republican., 1909-04-20
MIR. DANIELS
 HAS HIS SAY Suppression of Minority an Indignity to Country
DEM0cRiIsALsO AMERICANS
And Have to Pay the Tariff the Same as Republicans. Other Remarks Concerning
 One-Sided Character of the Committees Hearings.

Washington. April 19.-The tariff debate was opened in the senate to- day when Senator Aldrich reviewed at length the pending measure which on finance. He received practically no interruption throughout his remarks, which were listened to not only by every senator. but by Speaker Cannon and members of the house of repre- sentatives. who visited the chamber for the purpose. Senator Daniel. senior minority member of the committee on finance, followed Senator Aldrich and laid down the general line of Opposi- tiOn that will be made to the pending measure by the democrats.
 Mr. Daniel spoke, in part, as follows: This is a prodigious bill. It contains 302 pages. and carries about a million dollars a page. The democratic mem bers of this body never saw it nor heard it read, for it was not read at the only meeting of the committee un- til April 12. when it was reported here by the chairman of the finance com mittee. with amendments. None of
 
 even to see before they were here pre- sented.
 q cannot regard this as either good or fair governrTe Tent. We have at home constituents v'h" are EiAh interested. besides we are all Amer.kans. We are all as anxious for justice 10 be done to our country as any of those who as- sume the prerogative of excluding us from opportunities of which they avail themselves.
 "The indignity is toward the people of the United States and toward the senate. which is the only body in the country where thereSremains free de- bate and where the members in their rules and in their conduct try to make everything as fair and open as pos- sible.
 T would conserve and not destroy any of the plants and industries which raise by reasonable taxation the reve- nues which we need. If we don't do this and are won away from 1t by the fascination of the word free we will find ourselves in a quandary of deficits. with interest-bearing bond issues quick upon their heels. Our declarations and the conditions alike require something more than this. We have declared for a material reduction of the protective tariffs. No more would be possible without d declaration. and no more is possible with it. When a great and widespread system has been published for years all over the country, we can not leap out of it by one spring or bound.
 We must respect labor. The parties have been both willing to add to the tariff the differences in cost between this and European countries, and such a tariff would not oppress the Ameri- can people, but conserve the interest of all. The farming class and the me chanical classes would both share in the benefits"
 In commenting upon the increased expenditures of the government, Mir. Daniel declared that militarism had been responsible for a large part of the excessive appropriations, and he quoted MT Tawney's remarks in the house respecting the part of military expenditures in causing a deficit. The Japanese scare, he said. had been re- sponsible for much that had been done, but he did not believe there were any Americans who believed Japan could overrIIn or overtake this country.
 At the conclusion of MT. Daniels remarks. MT. Aldrich sent to the clerks desk a copy of the senate debate held on February 21. 194. in which Messrs. Voorhees, and Vest defended the demo- cratic procedure in framing the Will son bill. to be reported to the senate without the participation of the re- publican minority. Upon the motion of Mir Aldrich, the bill was then made unfinished business in the senate.