Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-04

office at New York. A curious pro-
cesd!ng this. and unless we can look
into 1t without fear and trembling
we must ultimately rewrite our con-
stitution so as to regulate commerce
with foreign nations"
Investigating His "Package."
Saying the origin of the woolen :
not more mysterious than that OF =
cotton schedule, Mr.. Dolliver, referr :;
to Mr.. Aldrich said that 1T was -
IDENTIFY handed to him by others jus 9
1t was to me. and the only differe .
between us is that / have grow =
little more curious than he has :
to see what IVES in the package?'t@.
quoted from a speech delivered by -
late Senator Sherman in 1867 concera-
ing the wool schedule in which Mr..
Sherman said he would prefer Ito take
1t in the very words they have given
us so that II they are not satisfied
hereafter, they cannot complain OF the
proper committees of congress for any
mistakes" He also referred to letter
by Theodore Justice of Philadelphia in
which he said "he gives a rather vivid
description of how poor Mckinley. be-
wildered by the intricacies of the wool
to the parties in interest to fix 1t up
between themselves" Continuing he
said:
'If I voted for tina. arrangement. 1t
was under the impression that l was
being guided by the wisdom of Will
liam Mckinley. and If 1 acquiesced in
1t in 1897 it was because of my con-
fidence in the character of Nelson
Dingley. l might possibly even at
this late day be able to vote for 1t II
I could identify it with the wisdom
of anybody connected with the tariff
committees of either house"
Schedules Are Too High.
Mr.. Dolliver referred. in considerable
detail, to the method by which the
cotton and wooden schedules We're
framed. He said II these rates were
high enough twenty years ago, they
were too high in the present year "un-
less we admit that the weavers craft
is at a standstill in America-a thing
which nobody believes for a moment" ;"
He quoted 1Ir. Dngley as saying that
lit was perfectly possible to lower
nearly all the rates from the scale of
the act of 1890, and still leave them
equally protective" Referring to the
senator from Rhode Island, ne said it
was with a sort of hereditary cow
ardice" that they had turned over to
the parties who are selflshly inter-
ested in the rates the making of
them.
What l ask today of party leaders"
said Mr.. Dolliver, '1s to take us back.
IN Mol -;,,1n In, i,.
turned the making of the wool tariff
over to mass meeting of its bene-
ficiaries; not to 1897, when Governor
Dingley's avowed purpose to reduce
the MCKINLEY rates was vetoed by the
threats and clamor of outside inter-
ests; but to 1883, when the senator
from Rhode island labored month af-
ter month, day and night. with Will
liam B. Allison in the preparation of
the only schedule of wool and WOOL
ems in forty years in which either the
public interest or the welfare of the
republican party was made paramount
over sordfd private considerations"
In the senate today, after Borah had
completed his speech on the income
tax amendment to the pending tariff
D'Ai' ANo"s S"oAiiAlteu ata.tstlSs 10 SHOW
the extent to which thewealth of this
country is now taxed by states, counties
and municipalities.
1T is not a fact" said Root. that in
this republic property does not bear n
very great proportion of the burden of
taxation" A sharp tilt occurred in the
senate today between Dolliver Qowa)
and Aldrich (Rhode Island). while the
former was speaking on the tariff.