Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-04
TARIFF BILL FILLED WITH
DECEIT, SAYS DOLL|vER

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gress is to reduce the margin of pro-
lection provided in the Dingley rates
wherever it can be done without sub
stantial injury to the productive en-
terprises of this market place. It'll
is our special duty to take up those
schedules which represent the larg-
est investments of protected capital
and, at least, take out of them the
rates that are now everywhere known
to be extravagant and unnecessary
which rise so far above the level OF
our real Industrial needs as to bring
without doing anybody any sort of
good"
Senator Dolliver stated that he had
in his possession a letter of the late
Governor Dingley, found among the
papers of one of his oldest friends,
who had assisted in the work of the
ways and means committee of 1897,
in which Mr.. Dingley deprecated any
increase in the cotton schedule be-
cause in his judgment the tendency
Of the rates ought to nave been down
instead of up, and because the cotton
manufacturers were in no position TO
complain Of the rates established by
the rates of the Wilson law ''in view
of the fact that they had written the
schedule themselves" Referring to
the senator from Rhode Island who
had stated upon this floor that the
amendments to the cotton schedule
offered to the senate by the commit
tee were not the work of the commit
tee" but that every one of them
was made by persons connected with
the treasury department" Mr.. Dol
liver said:
Was Cruel Revelation.
'It was, | have no doubt, Il cruel
revelation to some OF his languid
disciples to learn from the lips of
the senator himself that in this cot
ton schedule the changes that were
made do not represent the genius of
the man who enjoys in the mythology
of our public life the reputation of
being the greatest living expert upon
the technicalities of cotton manufac-
ture, but that the senator from
Rhode Island. mystified by the task
set before him by his constituents of
raising the table of these rates with
out touching them, turned the job
over to the appraisers office at New
York. A curious proceeding this,
and unless we can look into it with
out fear ard trembling we must uIti-
mately rCwritc our constitution so as
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the custom house to regulate com
merCe with foreign nations"
. Saying the origin Of the WOODEN,
was not more mysterious than that
of the cotton schedule, MIR. Dolliver.
| referring to Mr.. Aldrich said that lit
was evidently handed to him by 9TH
ers just as it was to me, and the
| only difference between us is that |
have grown a little more curious
than he has been to see what was in
| the package"
| Root Says Property Escapes.
Washington, May AIN the senate
today after Borah had completed his
speech on the income tax amendment
to the pending tariff bill, Root submit,
ted statistics to show the extent to
which the wealth of the country is now
taxed by the country and municipali.
ties. at is not fair" said Root, that
in this republic property does not bear
a very great proportion of the burden
of taxation"
a sharp tilt occurred in the senate
today between Dolliver of Iowa and
Aldrich of Rhode Island while the for
mer was speaking on the tariff.