Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-04-08
THEY KICK
Democrats Don't Like Being Bar
red From the
TARIFF HEARINGS

Finance Committee Should Attend
Tariff Hearings Discussed in Sem
ate and Referred.
Washington, April 1.-After de-
Gliding today practically to confine
the business of the extraordinary ses-
sion to the tariff, the Senate entered
upon the consideration of Senator
Bacon's resolution declaring that the
| Democratic side of the chamber
should be represented in all the
hearings held by the committee on
| finance.
Senator Aldrich, chairman of the
committee, Immediately took the
floor to explain the reason why the
Republican members of the commit
Zee were proceeding with the consid-
Grafton of the bill, without inviting
the Democrats to be present. He
contended that as the Republican
party would be held responsible for
tariff legislation, it was the province
of the Republican members of the
| committee to shape the bill for the
Senate.
Mr.. Aldrich declared that the poli-
cy pursued by the committee was
the same practice as had been accept
ed in the consideration of other tar
if bills, practically including the
Wilson-Gorman bill Republicans
and Democrats alike for fifty years,
Mr.. Aldrich said, had pursued the
| policy of having the Senator's of the
! majority party frame the tariff oil
before it was placed before the full
| committee
Senator Daniel insisted on know
ing what objection could be urged
by the Senator from Rhode Island
against the Democratic members Of
the committee hearing The STATE
ments. us it," asked Mr.. Dau',I
"A private snap for the purpose of
framing tariff bill without giving
right to representatives of the people
to hear the testimony"
Mr.. Aldrich said 1t was not the
purpose of the committee so far as
he knew, to hold public hearings.
An impassioned address by Sen
ator Rayner was directed against
the methods of the majority in the
framing of tariff bill.
This is the worst practice" he
said"that has ever arisen before a
legislative body.
When you are dividing this
plunder at least be fair to each 9th
r. On behalf of the Senator from
West Virginia, l at least beg of you
to give him back his raw materials.
He has stood with you on the field
of battle and when the hour of sub
mission comes the Senator from West
Virginia will be here and his pro-
testing voice will not be heard in
this hall against a single article on
the schedule"
He referred to the coal mines of
the Senator from West Virginia
(Mr. Elkins). and his indignation
over the proposition to place the
products of his State upon the free
list
1--WE on this side he said, "are
in the camp of the vanquished, and
so far as | am concerned l would
rather be in the camp of the van
| 1uished than in the camp of the vic
| tors in the possession of the spoils."
Mr.. Aldrich charged that if the
Senator from Maryland should frame
a tariff bill according to his policy,
| he would not get ten Democratic
votes for it. He said a distinguish
| ed Senator from Maryland (the late
| Mr.. Gorman) has recast the Will
son bill on liens that did not agree
with the ideas put forth by the pres
ent Senator from that State, and he
did not believe he represented the
views of all the people of Maryland
| or even the Democrats of that State.
Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina,
Louisiana and other States of the
South, he said, are no longer in sup
port of free trade principles.
You might as well be frank"
said Mr.. Aldrich, addressing the
Democratic Senators, land admit
that l do not intend to let such a
speech as we have listened to from
the Senator from Maryland deter
us from being just to every Southern
State.
This tariff will be just to every
section and to every interest of this
country.
II am quite certain that the Sen
ator from Maryland will have no fol-
lowers upon his side of the chamber. -
Senator Bailey Indignantly resent
ed the right of the Senator from
Rhode Island to speak for the Dem.
ocratic party on the subject of the
tariff, and added that when the time
came to vote, that party would be
found sustaining the principles oi
taxation that had so long been main
tanned by it. He said the Democrat
ic party wanted to have the princi
pies of protection. If applied at all
applied to all sections, but that state
ment, he added. did not mean tina
: that party would. of its own accord
) apply such principles at all. HI
contended for the right Of Demo
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