Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-04

president said Mr.. Money. but under
the dispensatton Of Providence he might
die. and we might have a bad man like
the presiding officer OF the senate and
he might make partisan appointments"
Money Jabs at AIdrich.
Vice President Sherman Joined I'm the
smile that became general as the Missis-
sippi senator proceeded 10 show the temp
tation Of men to make appointments with
q partisan bias.
There IL the chairman OF the finance
committee Mr.. Money added. "He has
never been charged with being anybody's
good Sunday school boy. He has never
been shot at as an angel"
Mr.. Money further declared that he un-
derstood the postmaster general was to
appoint the census supervisors. and re-
ferring to Mr.. Hitchcock he continued:
Whatever that distinguished gentleman
may be doing, l hsve never been able to
find him in the Postoffice department. 1
have called four or five times to see him
and / have never been able to find him.
My experience is the common experience
on this side Of the house. l suppose his
political cares are so engrossing that he
has not time to attend to the duties of the
department he is called to preside over"
The discussion Of Mr.. Culberson's amend
ment was incidental and when 1t was con-
cluded the controversy over the minimum
and maximum provision was renewed.
says Maximum VIII Prevail.
Senator Shively discussed the subject at
length, declaring that the maximum rate
would be the real tariff. The senate fell
into a discussion Of the reasons for the
failure of the senate to ratify the reciproc-
lty treaties negotiated under the Dinghy
law.
Mr.. Aldrich contended the treaties had
not been acted on because a majority Of
the senate was against them. He Id
mitted his opposition to the treaties and
said no one act of his public life had given
him as much satisfaction as his course in
that matter.
BY a vote of II to 4S the amendment Of
fered by Mr.. Culberson was rejected, Mr..
La Toilette being the only republican who
voted with the democrats. The amendment
limited to four the number of members
OF any one party which might be appointed
as experts to advise the president in the
matter of discrimination by other countries.
An amendment by Mr.. Gore, substituting
the provision of the Dingley act authoriz-
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the maximum and minimum clause, was
defeated, 16 to 80.
An amendment by Mr.. Deliver, authoriz-
ing the appointment by the president of a
customs commission consisting of five
members, with extended authority for gath
ering m concerning domestic and
foreign prices and various matters affect
ing the cost of production In lieu OF the
experts authorized by the finance commit
tees amendment, was voted down, 70 to 2S.
Mr.. Dolliver said his commission would
have power to make the tariff rates equal
to the difference in the cost of production
In tho United States and abroad. The
time had come, he commended, to provide
for tariff revision on the scientific plans
that have been adopted by other great
powers. He would like to create. a COM
mission that would measure up with
the Interstate Commerce commission in
ability to look after foreign as
their interstate commission looks after in
ternal ommerce r' r
Mr.. Hepburn offered. and Mr.. Aldrich
accepted for the finance committee, an
4 amendment requiring ninety days notice
for the application of the maximum rate
after the minimum rate has been in
force. In presenting the amendment Mr..
Hepburn expressed apprehension that as
it stood the provision would cause unrest.
AIdrIch Cites Discrimination.
This criticism brought Mr.. Aldrich to
his feet with a recital of determinations
that ave been practiced by foreign gov
ernments against the United States.
France, he said, had imposed its maximum
tariff against the United States and
against no one else. Germany had i'm
posed various restrictions upon American
meat and other products and about a
dozen other nations had maximum and
minimum laws.
1t was to protect the American pro-
ducers that this provision had been framed.
Senator Bacon, approving the idea of a
retaliatory provision, said he thought the
method employed should be reversed. The
duties should be fixed, he said, with power
for the president to increase a rate II
this country is Disseminated against.
Mr., Cummins suggested a substitute fix
ing a penalty of 25 per cent Of the exist
ing duty instead of 25 per cent ad valorcm
on countries discriminating against the
United States, but it was voted down,
viva voce.
The vote being taken on the maximum
and minimum provision 1t was adopted,
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