The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

! OIL oJs ana - but Tor whose ATTITUDE
the result might have been different. -
Bailey Grows Warm.
| Mr. Aldrch declared he had not in
| tended to say there were no loval Demo
Gratis in the north or in the Union
army,
Mr. Bailey asserted that any such at
tack on any Democrat was ill-timed,
81 have heard il said said Mr..
Bailey. "that the present administra-
ton aims as one of its chief accom-
plishments, to disrupt the solid south
and it is endeavoring to accomplish
that result by flattering the weak men
invitation to the White House or by
giving them portion of the patronage
of the country.
"The president wastes his time and
wastes his breath when be gives heed
to the men who tell him they can dis
rupt the south. There is in the south
today, as there was before the war,
sentiment that is not Democratic. In
the older times they were Wings and
in this day they arc Republicans. But
some of them are ashamed of their as
sociates down there.
Discrimination Alleged.
"This bill is full of sectional dis
elimination. The farmers binding
in this very same bill, the bagging of
the cotton planter is highly protected.
If you want TO find a way TO the hearts
of our people of the south, do not treat
them unjustly.'
Senator Nelson of Minnesota de-
ncunced the measure, declaring that
the cotton, glass and wooden schedules
were too high. He said that placing
duties on wooleu manufactured goods
= no biubpr on C
wool was unjust,
Mr.. Gallagher interrupted, referring
to the closing of the wooden mills of
New Hampshire by the low rates of
tn" Wilson bill.
Mr.. Nelson cnergetically declared
that was the same spirit that had ac-
tuated New England in its criticism of
had prevailed upon her products.
Senator Dolliver declared that not
ONLY were the duties of the Payne
Aldrich bill too high, but they were so
worded as TO result in large increases
Of rates without definite indication Of
such increases in the schedules.
Vote for Reduction.
"The woolen schedule, he said
fought to be reduced For two years
this schedule has been a bad invest,
ment for the Republican party. ! in
tend TO vote so as to adhere, as far as
possible, to every reduction In the Ding
lev rate that was made by tho house
committee and TO every reduction made
by the senate committee. Wherever l
find a rate in this bill above the Ding
ley rate, I reserve the right to inquire
whether after twelve years of prosper
ity with every industry multiplying out
put and increasing its capacity. it might
be possible to scale some of these du-
ties.
"Wbile it may be that there are only
few increases and quite large num-
Der of reductions in the bill, | venture
10 SAY when we are through with it it
will be sc nearly like the Dingley law
that many men will wonder what was
the extraordinary occasion that called
us here.
Mr.. Dolliver asserted that by a
system of rating cotton goods higher
on account of the presence of small
percentage Of wool. a greatly in
creased protection, which was not ap-
parent to the ordinary person, had been
obtained
Senator Elkins criticised the lack Of
information concerning wool coming
before the committee on finance in re-
spect to this schedule.
Mr.. Flint referred to suggestions
offered by the West Virginia senator
for rates on coal.
Pertinent Query.
"You don mean to say that the
senator from West Virginia fixed the
rates on coal?" inquired Mr.. Beveridge.
''No. mean he suggested what the
rates ought TO be- said Mr., Flint.
MI. Aldrich asked the Iowa senator
whether he had criticised the Dingley
bill because Of the faults he now found
in it, when he was member of tho
ways and means committee that framed
| the bill.
Mr., Dolliver replied that he had not.
lie said he had voted for the bill Just
as many others had done. because to
insure the passage of bill at the time
it was necessary to accept many figures
that were not entirely indorscd.
Mr., Dolliver said he had defended
the Dingley law in every state of the
union, but he added. "My audiences
are growing tired. The people are tired
Of having these. duties raised from 100
to lao per cent on the clothes they wear
upon their backs''
Mr.. Dolliver said that his conviction
that ''thc protective tariff system could
be perpetuated only by making the
duties more reasonable" had been one
Of long standing
Mr.. .Aldrich assumed the RESPONSE
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