Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-22
IS PR|M[D
SENATOR WILL SOON MAKE. AN.
OTHER SPEECH ATTACKING
ALDRicH TARIFF.
DECLARES ALLISON, EFT Al.
WOULD BE AGAINST BILL
Senator Says He Has Not Changed
Front But Has Kept Pace With
Changed conditions-Alison Was in
Favor of Lower Steel Rates Before
His Death.
Especial Correspondence

correspondence
Washington, May 22.-Senator Dolli-
yer, when next he talks about the tar
iff, which is expected to be before
many days, is going to indulge in some
comparisons of the positions taken by
the present sponsor for the protective,
with those occupied by Mckinley, AL
lison, Kasson, Dingley and other men
who in their time were the represent
atives of the protective creed.
The Iowa senator expects to demon
strate that if Mckinley, Allison and
Dingley were now here and helping
make this measure, they would be
siding in with him, and not with Sem
ators Aldrich, Smoot and others of the
committee on finance.
He had ample opportunity to know
the views of Allison and Mckinley and
other men devoted to the protective
system; and it is understood that he
will present evidence that, years ago,
they were convinced that a revision
4 downward was needed equally by the
American manufacturer, the American
| consumer, and the country'S foreign
commercial interests.
Senator Dolliver is going to get into
the debate again very soon, with fur
Their observations on the curiosities and
intricacies of the schedules. He has
been getting huge mass of material,
and working half the night analyzing
it for his purposes. People Who have
had opportunity to familiarize them
selves with the material which has
come to his hand declare that he could
talk for a fortnight on the subjects
which have been brought to him, and
which are calculated to back his crit
icisms of the measure. He doesn't ex-
pect to talk that long, but he has
plans for giving the committee some
dent to relieving his mind of some of
the matter he is storing away.
Speech Brings Out Surprise.
= Senator Dolliver never dreamed of
the amount of complaint which all
kinds of business interests have
against the tariff, until he made his
now famous attack on the bill and
thereby advertised himself as the SYM
pathetic friend of people with tariff
troubles. They began coming before his
speech was finished, and they have
been coming ever since. The senator
listens to all of them, and whenever
he discovers that somebody has a good
case, goes into it, informs himself
with all the detail possible, and files
away the facts for future reference.
The thing which has been most mar
velous to him is the discovery that SO
many of the people who are commonly
supposed to be the special proteges Of
the tariff are in fact greatly displeased
with it. They complain that schedules
which on their face Seem to mean one
thing are found, on construction and
interpretation, to mean something else
and that something else isn't what the
supposed beneficiary wants 1t to mean
The manufacturing interests, for whose
benefit the tariff is commonly supposed
to be made a protective rather than q
revenue tax, seem to be as much dis
pleased with it as anybody else. They
point out incongruities and injustices
which they want corrected; and among
them the demand for revision down
ward has assumed proportions which
are striking.
Says No Change of Front.
One thing which has much dis
pleased Senator Dolliver is the dis
position in many quarters to assume
that in criticizing the present bill he
is changing front. "They accuse me of
disloyalty to the memory of Senator
Allison he said, land of treating with
disrespect the work of Mckinley. Now
what 1 am trying to do would not be
disappToved by those men If they we're
here today. l know that. Why, I was
with Mckinley till midnight the night
before he started on that last trip to
Buffalo, and he told me all about the
speech he was going to make there. He
had come to take a new view Of this
tariff question; to understand that II
was become question of going out
for world markets. He wanted to use
} the duties which he knew were excess
sive, for the purpose of charging oul
, markets. It was his idea, not to en-
large the free list by adding to II
those articles which could properly 81
there, but to carry on reciprocal trad
ing operations with other countries
He was anxious to have the Kasso1
reciprocities ratified by the senate
and sent for me to make speech il
favor of them. did so, when I frs
entered the senate; and in doing so
!; had his backing and the approval OF
Allison. stood then, as my position
was outlined in that speech, just where
III have stood since and where an
standing now.
} Allison Would Lower Steel Rates.
Senator Allison wanted the stee
schedule rewritten, and took steps {
number of years ago in that direction
A letter was written to man II
, Pennsylvania who was known to sym.
J pathize with that effort. He was asked
being experienced and expert in tn,
matter, to assist in getting the ma.
ter;al together and in rewriting a mod.
: ell schedule. He replied that he woult
gladly do so, and Allison was muc1
pleased. It was desired to make con.
lsistent, proper, reasonable and defen.
sible schedule. But after a while thi!
Pennsylvania man wrote again that h,
had communicated with various PEG.
.Iple on the subject, and in view Of whaj
they said he rather thought 1t would
be better for him not to proceed witt
the affair.
For myself, am a good deal NOR
interested just now in getting a tariff
commission provision into this bill
than in anything else. I am completed!
satisfied, after this present experience
that this is the last time America,
I business is going to be subjected I,
, this experience of tariff revision on tn
] present plan. There must be a nev
i system Of going about 1t. with infor
4mation and understanding. We go
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