The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-05-28
fMnil snecial 70 the Advertiser.l

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May TO-
There has been group work in the tugs
of war over the tariff bill in the Sen
ate. 1t is something rather now in that
quarter. When President Charles w.
Eliot, of Harvard, was at banquet
here some weeks ago, he said the prog
ress of that university had been due
very largely in forty years TO group
work. The remark, much commented
ppon here at the time, may or may
not have had something to do with the
tactics of debate in the Senate. Sen
ator Cummins, Of Iowa, was one of
those who advised it.
Last week the Republican progress
gives of the Senate started group
Of orators to work. 1t was well under
stood that they had a program of speak.
ing mapped out which would consume
\ considerable part of a week. Several
Senator's we're to strike. blows for revi-
sion downward which it was calculated
no one Senator was strong enough to
strike alone and single handed. Sen
ator Borah, of Idaho, whanged away on
the income tax amendments; Senator
Deliver, of Iowa, delivered in two in
stallments, covering as many days, a
terrific attack upon the cotton and
wooden schedules, flooding the Senate
With elegant and eloquent phrases, and
filing the hearts of many Republican
Senators with hatred for his personal
assaults upon the Republican leaders.
Then came Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
with sledge hammer blows for the steel
and iron schedules.
There were others helping in the
trick, but it succeeded in its main pur-
pose-to impress upon the country the
earnestness of the western progress
sives, who are DINING it into every
body's ears that they want duties low
cred. 1t might be mentioned in pass
ing that they are saying precious little
about the duties they want retained
or raised. Whether the speeehes OF
these low tariff Senators marks the
high water point of their battling is
yet undetermined. All of them are
promising other speeches. They have
been encouraged by their success in
getting the attention of the country
with their initial tariff efforts. They
propose to follow mp whatever advan-
tage they have gained and, when the
time comes, to press amendments along
cations are that all, or nearly all, their
amendments will be voted down. The
margin. however, is none to wide and
the leaders, although confident of sue
cess, win feel easier when the tests
between their own followers and the
alliance of Democrats and these pro.
gressive Western Republicans are over
But the old Senate leaders, which
includes the ruling spirits of the
Finance Committee, replied to these
progressive attacks in kind. They did
not advertise their tactics, as had the
progressives. The plan unfolded only
as the attack progressed. IT. did not
require several days for execution
only one Senate afternoon. They chose
an opportune time-Saturday when
everybody was expecting vote and
when it would be opportune to OBJ
tain good showing in the Sunday
morning papers.
1t was something magnificent to see
the precision and force with which
these Senate elders moved out for ac
zion. Thew wanted to correct the i'm
preston, disseminated widely, that the
tariff had been made in corner, that
adequate time for consideration had not
been given, because of the haste to
enact the law and enable business ia
resume, and, in short to prove, that
the revision had been honest and sin
eere with due thoughtfulness both fol
manufacturers and consumers.
Senator Aldrich. the captain of the
tariff forces, led off. During the stress