The Mena weekly star., 1909-05-13
|DOLL|VER EXPLAINS
IOWA SENATOR TELLS SENATE WHY Ha IS OPPOSED TO
 ALDRich BILL.
PUBLIC OPINION MORE ENLIGHTENED
Senator Deliver Declared That the Country Has Entered Upon New Era of Direct Responsibility on the Part of Law Makers to the People Wants Tariff Reduced.

Washington. D. C.. May 6.-Notable speeches provoking debate of intense interest characterized the session of the senate yesterday. Senator Dol liver of Iowa made an attack upon the methods under which protective tariff bills are formed and engaged in a con stant exchange of words with Senator Aldrich who was careful listener to the address of the Iowa senator. On the Democratic side senators remain cd mute. no member of the minority interposlng word In the controversy over the tariff which occupied the Republican senators alone. At times this debate threatened to be acrimont ous, but the Iowa senator was ever ready with humorous retort which called forth laughter at times when angry words seemed unavoidable.
 "'If speak the truth" said Mr. Dol liver. If I deal with things as they are. suggest to the senator from Rhode Island that it will not be an adequate answer to reproach me with tnb Ci8OAb OA ny lOuNu VT AO ukopdl~ age me because In other years l fol- lowed without question in the foot steps of our party leaders. If. in times past. l took without disturbing the public peace. every act of the party, 1t was because I loved 1t: be- cause the young man of that day found 1t good deal easier to idolize 1t than they sometimes find if now. speak here because l still love the old Republican party. and would have It's leadership rise to the full stature of it's opportunity and its responsibil lty" Referring 10 a recent exchange of words in the senate between him self and Senator Aldrich, MT. Deliver said If the senator from Rhode Island intended to humiliate me by the intt nation that my course in these mat ters is dictated by political conditions at home. he unintentionally pays me compliment which l sincerely appre- ciate. because this nation has entered upon new era of direct responsibil- ity on the part of presidents and con sresses alike to that enlightened public opinion which ought to be the real government of the United States"
 "Is 1t possible that a man. because he voted for the Allison tin-plate rate of 1889 and heard poor Mckinley dedi- cate the first tin-plate mill in America, gan be convicted in this chamber of treachery to the protective tariff sys- tenn, If he desires that schedule re- examined. after seeing the feeble en- | trprise of 1890 grown within single decade to the full measure of this mar ket place. organized into great cor porations, over capitalized into a speculative trust, and at length un- | loaded on the United States Steel company. with rake of to the pro moters sufficient to buy the Rock Is- land system? If transaction like that has made no impression upon the mind of congress. I expose no secret in saying that it has made very pro found impression on the thought and purposes of the American people.
 T repeat, therefore. what said the other day, that the duty of this con | gross Is 10 reduce the margin of pro lection provided in the Dingley rates wherever it can be done without sub stantial injury to the productive en- terprises of this market place It is our special duty to take up those
 schedules which represent the largest investments of protected capital and, at least. take out of them the rates that are now everywhere known to be extravagent and unnecessary. which rise so far above the level of our real industrial needs as to bring the policy of protection Into ridicule without do ing anybody any sort of good"