Evening star., 1909-06-08
MUCH MIXED
Party Lines in the Senate
Hard to Define.
BUT RESULTS THE SAME
That Is to Say, the Usual Result
Prevailed Yesterday.
ALDRICH AGAIN HAS HIS WAY
Plain People Have an Inning, How
ever, in the Reduction in the
Hosiery Schedule.

You're a democrat"
Il amt, nuther.
"And you amt a republican"
L am. too
You don't know the first principles OF
democracy"
You're another: I'm the only simon
pure democrat what Is
Your republicanism makes me laugh.
Huh, a lot you know about true re-
pubicanism.
No, dear reader, this is not the recita-
ton of the kindergarten class in politics:
it is rather free paraphrase OF one day S
debate in the dignified United states Sen
ate. 1t represents symposium Of collo-
quies between various factions of demo-
Gratis and republicans in that body, name
ly, to wit, and as follows:
Finance committee republicans.
Anti-finance committee republicans.
Betwfxt and between the aforesaid
classification republicans.
Tarif-for-revenue-o democrats.
Tariff -for-revenue with little protec-
tion on the side1 democrats.
Common or plantation variety of demo-
Gratis.
And democrats.
The Senate put in the day yesterday
discussing the elementary principles of
tariff making and the policies of party.
The discussion took a wide range ana
before it was over each OF the partici-
pants had, to his own satisfaction at
least. shown that the other fellow did
not know what he was talking about,
could not interpret a party platform and
IN fact would not be able to identify q
party If he met 1t In the middle OF the
big road.
The Usual Result.
The result? Oh. the result was that the
Senate adopted the schedules which Sen
ator AIdrich and the finance committee
proposed. That is to say, the usual re-
yUIt.
The plain people got a little rake-cff in
the days work. The hosiery schedule,
which is reduction from the rates pro-
revision on the poor mans socks, was
adopted. But wait q minute: It isn't over
yet The garter has not been affixed to
that stocking. The conference commit
tee is to have its say, and It's dollars to
deughnuts that this schedule VIII be used
for trading purposes.
In fact, the equanimity with which Sem
ator Penrose accepted the reduction would
indicate as much. Senator Penrose's con-
stituents are vitality interested in main
tanning high rates on hosiery. Yet he
did not even demand roll call on the
proposal to lower, but, like All Sin. the
heather Chinee. sat there with q smile
that was childlike and bland. Can 1t be
that he has something up his sleeve
What?
Yesterdays performance probably in
creased Senator Tillman's disgust with
what he calls this sham battle on the
tariff. Toward the close or a hot and
irritating day last week he blurted out
in the Senate in his characteristic way
his opinion OF sham battles among re-
publicans and democrats, and begged Sen
ator Aldrich to put stop to 1t all and
pass the bill as he wants It, as long as he
is going to have his way in the end.
There Was No Bloodshed.
A stranger in the Senate galleries yes
terday would have thought several times
that senators were about to come to
blows. The way they grew red in the
face, shook their fingers and thundered
at each other. the innocent bystander in
stinctively shied, fearful OF the fate of
the traditional innocent bystander. But,
bless your soul, 1t was all Pfckwlcki0n.
After the talk and gathered about the
lemonade bucket in the cloakroom, cigar
In hand, the erstwhile beIligerents were
mild as sucking doves