The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-04
AlDR|CH WILL
RECEIVE ALL
The "Gl0RY'
Rhode Island Senator Will be
the Master in the Tariff
Legislation
SATELLITES Rave THE HONOR
OF PLky|EG TO HIS HANDS

Clash Likely to Come Between Aid.
rich and Payne As to Whose Bill
Shall Ultimately Become the Law
and Carry Authors Name.
Washington, June 4.-Those sena-
tors who have followed Senator Nell
son w. Aldrich OF Rhode Island
through the tangled network of the
senate tariff fight are beginning to
wonder how much glory they are to
get cut of their part in this drama.
1t is rapidly becoming apparent to
them that Senator Aldrich is playing
brand of politics in the senate the
outcome of which will be that he will
get all the credit of having resisted
efforts to amend the pending tariff bill
downward as against the progressives
of the west, while at the same time,
If any concessions are to be granted
in conference, it will be Senator Aid
rich who will achieve the credit for
them also.
Last fall Governor Utter of Rhode
Island announced that he had inform
alton that Senator Aldrich would not
again be candidate for his seat in
the senate. The announcement caused
a stir at the time, but it was subse-
qusntly found to be unauthorized. Now
word comes to Washington that Rhode
Island politicians, presumable with
the consent Of the senate leader, are
quietly framing the way for his re-
election for term beginning in 1911.
The reason fer this has a bearing on
the game which Senator Aldrich now
is believed by many of his colleagues
to be playing.
Desires to Leave Fame Behind.
Senator Aldrich is known to desire
to leave his name indelibly printed on
American legislation before he dies.
His name is now attached to the So
called Aldrich-Vreeland emergency
currency bill passed by the last con-
gress. but this measure, as is. we'll
known. was only makeshift pending
the report of monetary commission,
authorized by the bill, the purpose of
which is to devise ways and means
of revising the entire currency sys-
tenn of the country. 1t is to this leg
islation and to the tariff that the
Rhode Islander has been looking for
ward as the fitting climax of his con.
gressional career which began in
1881.
There are many of Senator Aldrich's
colleagues who would dispute the as
sertton that he is a selfish man. To
those whose ideas accord with his own
Senator Aldrich is known to be courte-
GUS, affable and kind. Those who op-
pose him have nothing but good words
for the mastery of his leadership
against them.
Mine Of Facts and Figures.
Senator Aldrich is a wellspring of
facts and figures. Those who cannot
think in his channels might as we'll
quit before they start. His committee
room. at the present moment, is abso-
lutely loaded down with statistics
cleaned from all corners of the world.
He has a genius for anticipating every
angle the tariff-making may take and
on more than one occasion he has
loaned to the "progressives' even in
formation which would have been ut
terly without their reach except for
him.
pei uSdl vi ClO Idl Ill uCUdIS udIc
will convince any one of the fact that
Senator Aldrich is not one of those
men who tell all they know. 1t is not
infrequently said in Washington that
he has from time to time during the
tariff debate been confronted with un-
answerable arguments. The fact is
that he has simply not chosen to an
swer the arguments at that time and
may not choose to answer them at any
time in the future, but to proceed on
the theory that he has not facts and
figures to justify his own action,
whether mistaken or not, is not to be
correct.
Is GluttOn for Information.
Whatever may be the reason for his
reticence in giving information, he is
a glutton for seeking information. The
only answer thus far vouchsafed by
anybody for his silence is remark
dropped by Senator Penrose of Penn
sylvania, who said:
when you have the votes anyway,
what is the use?"
In private conversation Senator AID
rich is more voluble. 1t is this fact,
perhaps, which has led so many sena-
tors to follow him, apparently without
asking why. Senators upon whom he
can rely may be sure that any ques-
ton which may be troubling them
about the tariff for the time being can
find ready answer, privately, from
Aldrich. He has convinced most of
his colleagues. in this way. that when
ever he acts he does so with founda-
tion of knowledge satisfactory to him
self which few of the so-called AID
rich senators. at any rate, can contro-
vert.
Makes Himself Hub Of Senate.
On the otner hand Senator Aldrich
has way Of making himself the hub
Of the senate SO far as the general in
in that body is concerned.
1t would be manifestly impossible, for
instance. for Senator Aldrich person.
ally to have attended to all the de-
tails of this tariff making. Instead hn