The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-05
Iowa Senator Resumes His Attack on
AIdr'ch Tariff Bill, Large
Crowds Being Present to
Hear Speech.
REFERENCE TO ALLISON
Charges That Changes in Tariff Were
Carried From People With a
Bewiderlns Flow Of
Language.

IL
OF Iowa, resumed the attack on the
Aldrich tariff bill in the senate today.
AS result Of the tilts with Aldrich
yesterday, large crowds were attract
ed to the galleries today. The alb
sence OF routine business gave Dol.
liver the floor at once. He said:
When the session closed yesterday
| was making considerable progress
in showing that substantial, unknown
and unknowable advances have been
made in the cotton schedule by the
senate committee. Aldrich was some.
what hurried and excited and in a
statement said 1t would be shown no
changes have been made. The fact is
the phrasology, and framework OF
the cotton schedules have been
changed so as to make serious diff
ferences in the rates, and plenty Of
them in the wrong direction.
Aldrich Threatened.
Doiliver said Aldrich threatened to
discourage him by printing in the REQ
ord arguments that are similar to his.
that were made by democrats Jones
and Vest several years ago. Dolliver
replied IL Vest found the same de.
fects in the mysterious schedules that
Dolliver found hard to study, he felt
compl1mented, becarse few greater
men than Vest sat in the senate. He
continued, The object of these
amendments. we are told, originated
in the customs offices in New York.
If that is true it will be a sad com
n ltary on the senate but it Is un.
true. Long before the senate commit
tee was appointed, manufacturers sub.
mltted these schedules to the house
committee, asserting they had been
0. KID. by appraisers stationed in New
York. !" They had been sneered at
Dolliver said, because they had sought
advice and information about the
schedules. He said Aldrichs sneer.
ing was not only uncalled for, but
absurd, in fact he read the senate re.
ports made by experts. He declared
that Aldrich had even taken from the
| paymaster, who had been an expert
In the preparation of the Dingley bill
and charged tnat the favorite method
of raising the tariff without the peo.
pie finding 1t out, was to change the
rate from advalorem to specific and
cover the change with a wealth OF
bewildering language.
He cited paragraph 313 Of the bill
as an instance, which relates to cot
ton cloth not having over 100 threads
| to the square inch.
Produces Figures.
Combating Aldrich's statement that
in reducing the advalorem rates Of the
cotton schedules, to specific rates
there had been no increases by the
senate committee, Dolliyer produced
figures which he claimed showed the
| increases from quarter to a cent
/ or seven cents per pound. He rea.
an interview published in a Bostor
paper which quoted Lodge as saying
the cotton schedule will be great ad
/ vantage to Massachusetts and that tn,
advalorem had been increased. Lodg,
denied he said it to be an increase
and said it was just the opposite. Dol
liver said he was willing to give al
protection necessary to struggling IN
dustries and he was opposed to
rate reduction that would kill off th'
independents. He seid:
Warn these men who are respon
sible for the republican party that
they want to start an agitation III
day this bill is passed, against TIL
wrongs have mentioned, they are &c
ing the right way to bring about tn
result"