The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-13
WHEN KITTY DOLL|VER PLAYED
WITH m0USY ALDRICH

anu " tuiS INTERPRETATION hO duuCo
force and the eloquence of a man
long trained in public speaking
He exposed the leadership of Aid.
rich as trifling and paltry; and
the sensation lay in the fact thai
Nelson w. Aldrich sat and had te
listen. He told of tricks and
subterfuges in the past and present
legislation, and the galleries look.
ed down and saw IN Mr.. Aldfich
the author of these tricks. uoHs
drew on history and parable. eiHt
was both vehement and caustic. sAt
times he was persuasive and then
again almost playful. On fthe
whole hemade speech more darl
ingly antagonistic than anything
which has come from the oppose
ton.
Cold words in type give but a
small idea of the speech of Sena-
tor Dolliver. Yet the touch of Wit
riol may be seen in passage like
the following: TIcSl
"All men bow naturally before
the Divine wisdom even when they
do not understand. All men re-
gard with reverence the wisdom OF
Solomon, or Franklin, or Lincoln.
But 1t Is another matter for men
full grown, sitting in this cham
Der, to put their individual judy
ment into servitude not to the
great and good men who adorn
the deliberations of congress, but
the person on the outside whose
very names are unknown to us. 1t
is not necessary to comment
harshly upon the work of Gov.
Dingley or VIM. Mckinley. Much
less is 1t necessary to appear want
ing in consideration for my hon.
ored friend from Rhode Island.
With this gentle introduction
Senator Dolliver proceeded to ex-
pose the action of the committee
on finance and its chairman in
turning over the construction of
the cotton schedule to the apprais-
ers in New York. With this and
the trick by which Senator Aldrich
aimed secretly to increase the cot
ton schedule the public are Ia
1T is even possible" said Sem
ator Dolliver, ito comment adj
versely upon the cotton schedule
as contained In the senate bill
without impeaching the abilities
Of the senator from Rhode Island,
because, as he has himself stated
upon this floor, the amendments
to the senate by the COM
mittee we're not the work of the
but every one of them
made by persons connected with
The treasury department. 1t was,
have no doubt, cruel revela-
ion to some of his languid disci-
pies to learn from the lips of the
senator himself that in this cotton
schedule the changes that were
made did not represent the genius
Of the man who enjoys, in the
of our public life, the
of being the greatest
living expert upon the technicali-
ties of cotton manufacture, but
that the senator from Rhode
mystified by the task set
before him by his constituents of
the table of these rates
without touching them, turned the
job over to the appraisers office
In New York" y,
Speaking of the wool schedule,
Dolliver said: "What 4
ask today of party leaders is to
take us hack. not to 1890, when
in despair turned the
Of the wool tariff over to
4 mass meeting of its benefi=
,iaries; not to 1897, when Gov.
ayowed purpose to re-
duce the Mckinley rates was We
toed by the threats and clamor OF
outside interests. but to 1885,
when the senator from Rhode n
land Iabored month after month,
day and night, with VIM. b. All.
SON, IN the preparation of the only
schedule of wool and swoolens In
40 years In which either the pub
lie interest or the welfare Of the
republican party was made para
over sordid private consid-
Senator Dolliver said he wanted
ITO see an end to the scandal that
has accompanied the framing of
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