Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-03
Senate Will Give Ten
Hours Daily to Tariff.
LaFo|Iette Begins Argument
That Revision Is Upward,
Frye Denies Excessive Profits by
New England Factories.

Washington. June with the
adoption Of a resolution today provid
ing for day and night sessions aggre
eating 10 hours daily beginning tomor-
row. the Senate heard policy for linn
iting dilatory motions suggested. which
caused an earnest protest by Senator
Bacon and others. The Vice President.
basing his action upon precedent
which occurred in the last Congress,
when the Aldrich- Vreeland currency
bill was under consideration, held that
the absence of a quorum could not b.
called to the attention of the Senate if
the senator occupying the floor declined
to yield for that purpose.
Senator Bacon declared that this was
one of the revolutionary rulings MADE
when the currency bill was under con-
sideratior and that under it there
would he serious abuse of parliament
ary rules. He announced his intention
OF obtaining full consideration Of this
question by the introduction Of q res
olution to be considered by the com
mittee on rules.
A long speech dealing with the pledge
Of party leaders with respect to a re
vision Of the tariff. was begun by Sen
ator LaFollettc today, and will be con-
tnued tomorrow. BY numerous quota
tons he maintained that no question
could be raised as to the pledge Of the
party for revision downward and he
declared that before he had finished
his speech he would demonstrate am
ply that on the whole the pending bin
placed the customs duties above the
tnS n hn TDinolp1, Ia Sinco tho % =
actment of the Dingley law and until
1904, he said, the control of trusts had
been extended to 1864 plants with q
capital of more than $4,000. 900, 900.
Senator Nelson also discussed the
tariff bill and quoted numerous com
PARSONS between the existing law and
the pending measure with the intention
of showing that in the cotton schedule
the rates have been raised from 20 to
50 per cent. above that in the Dinglcy
law by the substitution of specific for
ad valCrcm duties.
Senator Gore again quoted dividends
and surplus earnings of New England
cotton and wooden manufacturing com
| parics to sustain his contention that
these corporations make large profits,
! and Senator Frye declared, in reply,
| that, taking into consideration both
successful and unsuccessful cotton and
wooden mills. a profit of not more than
! per cent. had been realized by New
| England manufacturers upon their in
veStments in those industries.
| Senator Elkins spoke at length adj
| vocating n duty on coal and petroleum.
| The cotton schedule was construc-
| lively under consideration all day, but
| no feature of it was passed on.
Washington, June 2.-Astonishing the
| Senate by the citation of a long list
of cotton and wooden manufacturing
companies and giving their earnings
capital stock. surplus, etc, Senator
Gore again at the beginning of today's
session undertook to show that corpo-
rations engaged in the cotton and
wooden industries are making very
| large earnings. The speech was one
| that no other senator doubtless would
have attempted without constant ref
ererce to notes, but the statesman
| from the Southwest found no difficulty
| in giving off hand the greatest va
rety of details without the opportuni.
ty to assist his memory in any way
The Senate had promptly begun thu
| Continued on Page Two.