Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-12

This vote followed u long an dominated
discussion. interspersed with many per-
sonal opinions,
LA F'O GILLETTE ON sALDRICI.
Declaring his opinion that Senator
AlSlriohr had lost the confidence of other
~ senator's Of his party which d leader
4 should have. Mr.. La Toilette made a
determined fight 10 compel the adop-
ton of amcndnients to the wool schGd-
sllle sOf the taiI'ff bill, which were yes
4 terday presented by himself They
went5down to defeat before the major
+ ity which consistently supported the
finance committee. the vote being A
to g. 1t was after this vote had been
& taken that the WISCONSIN senator made
mig assertion that by discourse with
reference to the WOODEN schedule Mr..
a Aldlich4 had forfeited the position of
II leadership. q M 1t
Senator Cummins was also severe on
chairman Aldrich. AMI in the course of
Ills remarks declared that the sena-
I torial leaders were counting the de-
sstruction Of the Republican party by
EsIl,eil. course With reference to the
duties on wool and woolens.
38s Senator Bacon forced votes on two
EIaendments reducing to 80 per cent ad
sSalorem the duty on wool and wooden
goods, but he failed to obtain the sup
port of any Of the Republican senators.
& ,S54SiatS-onc senator's were on hand at
the beginning of the session of the
q senate today when consideration OF the
tariff bill was resumed Numerous
amendments offered by Mr. La Toilette,
y providing ad s5valorem for specific rates
lin the wool schedule, We're taken III
for the purpose of voting on them zen
q bloc, as Vice President Sherman an
nounced
Senator Cummins. taking the floor.
said he would vote for these amend
llients not so much because he was sat
listed that they We're exactly right, but
because he was sure the schedule re-
ported by the finance committee was
absolutely wrong. Mr.. Cumnllns an
Ynouncad that he would move to re-
commit the wool schedule to the finance
committed. a ,s.3.3
Arguing the Justice of his plan for
compensatory duty on products OF
4 wool manufacturers to allow them To
pay Il higher price for wool than their
foreign competitors. Senator Cunnins
said that 10 levy a duty on goods part
~ of cotton, rs Ii entirely of wool,
would be to give Democratic nanufac-
,turers an advantage that no man
should have. He said IN reply to a
81 question by Mr.. McCu.nber, that he did
not pretend to frame a schedule by
e which the different grades of wool in
a the cloth could be taxed in connection
with their value. He was willing to
make the duty high enough to meet
foreign competition. on the assumption
Il that all imports are of goods containing
only the finest grades of wool.
Senator Warren. opposing the plan
of the Iowa senator, declared that ii
would unduly encourage the importa-
ton of shoddS
Ard Y added the Wyoming senator,
this is not a shoddy nation
BLINDNESS OF LEADERS.
Mr.. Cuminins declared that he mar
relcl at the blindness of the leaders
sof the republican party that they We're
willing to commit their party to such q
woolen schedule
Senator'S he said. you are simply
counting the destruction OF your party
by allowing such q schedule to go out
to the country.
The contention made by Mr.. Cum
MINIS that g REIMBURSEMENT of the wool
on schedule is desired, caused Mr..
4. 44Aldrich to assert that no such desire
+ had been reflected through the appear
ancesof any deputaticn OF farmers.
shecp-raisers. or WOODEN manufacturers
whose organizations have representa-
tires in Washington. He said there
was apparently genera! satisfaction
With the wooden schedule, with the pos
sible exception of one class of manu-
facturers who are affected by natural
conditions which cannot be changed by
legislation.
AIR. Aldrich called attention 10 the
fact that Mr.. Cumtuins had favored
lower duties all along the line, but add
y ed that the people of iowa We're rot
especially Interested in the wooden
schedule, while 10 or IL senators rep
resenting states whose people are vi
tally Interested in the duties on wool
and woolens are unanimously rpfavor
4 of the exclusion schedule.
"a After Mr.. Cummins had yielded the