The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-25
CONGRESSIONAL SESSION
MAKES FEW regulations
Tariff Revision Battle Brings Many Into the
LmeIight, However, and Established
Leaders Are Severely Tried


put into circulation about him have
been quite ridiculous. One brand was
his frequent clashes in conference with
Representative Serene Payne. Several
times they were depicted as being at
the point of exchanging blows. But
the real truth is that Representative
Payne was the one man of all the
House Republican conferees with whom
Mr.. Aldrich at some time during the
conference did not have "words. - His
exchanges with other House eonferees
were occasionally pretty spirited but
not especially thrilling.
OF course Seator Aldrich is a firm
believer in the high protection prin-
ciple. His enemies have to admit he
is consistent in that. He stood for it
all during the consideration of the
tariff bill, long and wearisome and
varied as that contest was. He main
tanned himself with patience against
the fercest kind Of attacks, many of
them rough and brutal and constantly
demonstrated his resourcefulness In
emerging unscathed from the ambushes
his enemies made for him, Mr.. Aldrich
won friends during the tariff fight even
among his tariff enemies and undoubt-
edly stands forth today stronger in the
Senate than when the extra session
convened. He is apparently impreg-
nable there.
Senator Lodge, of Mass, gained
some prestige from his fight for free
hides. Senator Crane, of the same
state, gained in reputation as an or
ganizer because of the admirable work
he did in holding a majority of Repub
hcan senators together for the bill.
Perhaps, Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah,
has gained as much fame from the
tariff bill as any man who was COM
paratively unknown as a legislator. He
has been a great student, tremendous
glutton for facts and was of so much
service that he will have a higher
standing hereafter in the Senate. But
after all no regulations have been
made during consideration of the tariff
bill. The same men are leaders in SEN
ate and House and no one is advanc-
ing by leaps and bounds, because of
tariff achievements, to hold the legis
lative attention of the country.
Charges of sectionalism have been
so stOutly made in connection with the
anu VIC pCI1NStAhS VI bIiC UNI
that these are likely to stand out as
historic features. First and foremost
is the charge that it is a New England
bill, favorable to New England manu-
facturers. The truth is that, in so far
as the bill is favorable to the manu-
facturers of the country, it is favorable
to Eastern states where the bulk of
the country's manufacturing is done.
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favorable to New England than it is
to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, IT,
linois and other manufacturing states
that might be enumerated.
Massachusetts, which is the heart of
New England and particularly the
heart of manufacturing New England,
fares especially we'll The manufacture
| ing industries of the Bay State had
alert agents in Washington to make
their wants known The Massachu-
sets Senators are among the most in
fiuential in the upper legislative brach.
| In the House Massachusetts has one of
the largest Republican delegations in
the union. They have gradually been
attaining to influence there and, during
the consideration of the tariff bill, have
displayed excellent team work in OBJ
tanning what their manufacturing con-
stituents asked for. The state had a
representative on the Ways and Means
Committee, in the person of Samuel W.
Mccall, who was also a member of the
Conference Committee The State also
had a representative on the Finance
Committee in the person of Senator
Lodge. That gave Massachusetts,,
which ranks in votes as about the fifth
or sixth Republican state, very great
advantage.
But Rhode Island was strongly rep
resented in Senator Aldrich, and
Maine was strongly represented in
Senator Hale. These three New En-
land Senators. together with Senator
Crane, of Massachusetts, who was the
captain of the Macedonian phalanx of
Senate votes. who perfected the vot-
ing organization and proved a tower of
strength to his party in the Senate,
make mighty team. Those Senator's
constitute group, that virtually rules
the Senate.
The Western insurgent groups, whose
constituents wanted a different kind
of tariff bill than the East wantedt
have naturally centered their attacks
upon New England. Their attitude
toward New England has become one
of intense political hatred The deve1-
opments of the tariff deliberations in
that regard are bound to have a last
! ing influence upon political affairs at
he Capitol. 1t was easier to single
out the New England group than
New York group or a Pennsylvania
group. although Senators from those
and other Eastern states have been as
active as they could be in getting fav-
ors for their manufacturing constitu-
ents, This. was especially the case
with Senator Root of New York, who
has had more manufacturers on his
back during the consideration Of the
tariff bill than any other man in the
Senate. Not all of them wanted high
er duties. Some did and some wanted
lower duties. Representative PAYNE,
Chairman of Wavs and Means, comes
from Auburn, n Y. and he cooperated
to get tariff favors for New Workers.
hnt those efforts did not become intense
till the tariff bill reached the Senate
ard the Senators had to bear the brunt
of the blame. One item which, rightly
or wrongly. was more stoutIy de-
nounced than any other in the tariff
bill was that increasing the duties on
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