The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05
DOLLIYER REVIEWS
SCHEDULE FIGHT
Denies the Statement of No
Increase on Cotton
Tariff.
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porters. manufacturers. merchants. and
others that large increases had been
effected.
Senator DoIliver declared the real
issue as to the cotton schedules had
been befOgged in the most amazing way
He said Il was whether the Dingley
rates as 10 this subject ought to be mu-
tiliated
some time ago." ne said. Il came
into this chamber with a childlike sim
pliCity and few samples, ans
everybody smile at my childlke sim
plicity. The newspapers had much 70
say and was in the frame OF mind OF
a man who has been criticised. But
am feeling much better now, because
have seen the most distinguished Sen
atorS of this body do the same thing.
Even the distinguished Senator from
Massachusetts, our scholar, our most
eminent and famous literary product,
though we must reflect that now he
leads a lonely life from which the ulti-
mate consumer is entirely dismissed,
even il he showed samples at his desk"
The Iowa Senator said his OWE figures
as to the increases were reliable or h.
would not have presented them and thar
he was willing to stop this discussion
night now and postpone a vote until the
Treasury Department could figure out
the effect Of the proposed rates on the
s9mples of cotton cloths he had placed
before the members.
DingIey Law.
Senator Aldrich has insisted. con-
tinued Mr. DOHiver. that we must COM
pare the rates of this bill with those
of the Dingley law as it was intended
to be construed, not as it was con-
strued They don't pretend to use the
law as II now Is as a basis for COM
p@flsong but the law as II was con-
strued by Col. i. A Harsthorn- Who
was he? He was an amlable gentle
man who got appointed head Of the
linen division in the appraisers office
ana was afterward discharged by Sec
rotary shaw because he had an interest
n the linen business, contrary TO law.
He was discharged on the ground of
Senator Smoot said we do not produce
the higher grades Of cottons in this
country / deny Il. We not only
produce the best cOttOns I'm the world
but we invented the machinery to make
them, and are now selling Il 10 England
IN order 10 bring their cotton Industry
up TO our standard. Yet Senator SmoOt
says we must be careful; we only make
the crude goods, and so the duties must
he kept high on the crude, but can be
left low on the high grade goods. And in
10 do this they have equal
lied the duti 8 as between those classes
which were assessed absurdly high and
those which were low. How? BY leav-
ing the high rates as before, and yet,
he says without raising any rates.
That's what he claimed was done; the
high rates were left high, the low were
not. changed. and yet they svsTa equal
led
Committees Economies.
Il don't accuse him Of knowing the
effect Of that language. The man who
does know it can explain the econcTatcs
Of the Finance Committee We have
now the testimony Of the importers, the
and of the Senator from
Utah, who thus uncOnsciOusly let the
cat out of the bag to the effect that
these low rates have been raised"
1t would appear Interrupted Sena-
Tor Tiliman, that we have two Dingley
laws here"
Yes; one in the statute books, the
)ther IN the Imagination of the Senator
rom Rhode Island replied Mr.. Dol
liver, amid laughter.
Mr.. Doiliver showed that. besides the
the importers. Senator
smOot, and the Bureau of Statistics au-
.horities, there was, finally. the testI-
nony OF the customs officials that these
'ates are raised. This was shown by
Senator la Toilette. with his five sam
oles which had been sent through the
.ustOm house and appraised as under
he present law, and as under the Aid
fch bill, showing an increase under the
after
And 7 say to you young men who
viii have 10 fight the battles of the Re-
publican party after some of the pres
snt-day authorities viii have passed OF
hat you cannot permit 10 see the Sen
tie to be turned into an uneasy aggre-
cation of intellectual come-Ons."
What Is Come-On?
What's that2' somebody whispered
n an undertone. not for the Record.
a come-on-a come-on," replied Dol
liver. likewise. in histrionic whisper
ept the reporters. That has relation
o operations i'm green goods" The
augh was audible.
Nobody ever heard OF the Dingley
avs emasculatIOn till we got 10 the
lotion duties" continued Deliver IF I
hey had known. the manufacturers ]
would have told the House committed /
senator Aldrich. however says the
manufacturers don't know what is go |
ng on at the custom houses. Why, I
)iess his innocent and unsOphisticated I
leart, they know o. better than any
'ody else on earth. They have their I
representatives there every Monday I
morning, and Sometimes-tOo often I
here have been strong limitations that 4
hey even succeed in getting attached I
o the payrolls of the Government con- /
rary TO the peace and dignity OF the 1
Government.
Duties Transferred.
The Dingley bill" he went on, was. /
s TO cotton. the Wilson bill plus a few
mendments by Governor Dingley.
)ingley frankly said so. Senator Al
rich, IL l under ltand him, said the
Wilson bill did not haze these provi-
ions as 10 the ad valorerns on the high
r grades Of goods. If he said 30, he is
mistaken. I wish the Senator from
Rhode Island were here to hear what /
m now going 10 say. He told us the
)ingley act was emaSculated by de-
isions. and therefore It was proper for
i'm TO apply the rates which were in
Existence before that emaseulation-
NOW, his facts are not accurate.
hose decisions did not take place till
hree years after the Dingley law was
n effect. and not till after the death of
'olonel Tichenor, for thirty years the
cal mead Of the customs and tariff
making business of this GovernEent.
ot till after Colonel HartshOrn had
tarted into his EeTal enterprise of
transferring all the cot IONS TO the linen
Chedule at so per cent. AldTich says il
vas intended to apply q so per cent rate
o a wide variety Of cloths / deny it, -
Senator SmoOt interrupted 10 insist
rat the Dingley ast did sppiy a 60
eT cent rate TO many cottons
In what schedule did it do so?"
sked Mr.. Deliver.