The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-02

at least be fair to each other On be- half of the senator from West Virginia l at least beg of you to give him back his raw material. He has stood with you on the field of battle and when the hour of submission comes the senator from West Virginia will be here and his protesting voice will not be heard in this hall against a single article on the sched- uie.'
 He referred to the coal mines of the senator from West Virginia (Mr. Ellxins) and his indignation over the proposition to place the products of his state upon the free list.
 We on this side'' he said, "are in the camp of the vanquished and so far as l am concerned I would rather be i nthe camp of the vanquished than in the camp of the victors In possession of the spoils.'
 Mir. Rayner declared that the republi- can procedure was merely star cham Der process. James I and Charles I. he said had undertaken to stem the progress of civil and religious liberty by the same methods that are now used to stem the progress of commercial free dom 'I have 8 right" said -dr. Aldrich. replying to the charge that star cham Der proceedings were held by the repub- licans on the committee of finance, ito have a conversation without having a democratic senator cross-examine the per son with whom I conversed." He de- clared that the democratic members of the finance commiItee were holding meet ings of their own and that they had their experts.
 Plunderers of People.
 MT. Rayner said the members of the committee lost their individual character when they became a committee of the Senate, charged with public duty. MT. Rayner. in an earnest manner declared that the democracy represented the con sumner and were against the 'plunderers of the people," represented by lthe repub- lican party.
 MT. Aldrich asserted on the other hand that the protective principle had never been more widely approved than at pres ent, and he said he was not alarmed that declama ton of the kind voiced by the Sem ator from Maryand would in any way change It.
 Continuing. Mir. Aldrich charged that if the Senator from Maryland should frame a tariff bill according to his policy, , he would not get ten democratic votes for it. He said a distinguished Senator from Maryand (the late MT. Gorman) had re- cast the Wilson bill on lines that does not agree with the ideas put forth by the present Senator from that state, and he may not believe he represented the views of all the people of Maryland, even of the democrats of that state. Tennessee, Geor- gia, North Carolina, Louisiana and other states of the south, he said, are no longer In sympathy with free trade principles You might as well be frank said MT
 Aldrich, addressing the democratic Sem ators, and admit that I do not intend to let such a speech as we have listened to from the Senator from Maryand deter us from being just to every southern state.
 This tariff policy will be just to every section and to every interest of this coun- | try. 1 am quite certain that the Senator | from Maryland will have no followers l on his side of the chamber Bailey Is Indignant. l Senator Bailey indignantly resented the l right of the Senator from Rhode Island
 to speak for the democratic party on the l subject of the tariff, and added that when
 the time came to vote the party would be found sustaining the principles or ta-,-.- 1 ton that it had so long maintained. He l contended for the right of democratic
 members of the committee to be present | at hearings but admitted that If the dem 1 ocrats were framing a tariff bill they l Wouiu hot permit the TepupiiSaho eo Poi ! ticipate.
 You might look at 1t, but you should , not touch it. he said
 ], Speaking of the inheritance tax pro-
 posed in the House bill, he said he would
 rather tax the living rich by means of an i income tax than to tax the dead. who are only moderately well-to-do,' as pro- posed in the inheritance tax.
 Mr. Aldrich suggested that the matter | contemplated in the Bacon resolution
 would be taken care of by the committee
 on finance and it was. by viva voce
 vote, referred to that committee.
 A meeting of the Senate committee or finance to consider the Bacon resolution
 has been called for Il o'clock tomorrow | morning.