Evening star., 1909-05-09

revision. and suppose are here to
revise ii in view of the interests of the
whole country. If it is wise to raduce
rates, then reduce them. IL 1t IS wiser to
give a greater protection, we should do
that, and IL Ii is wise To keep them as
they are, then that should be done. That
has been the attitude of the committee on
finance. and without protesting infailihil
ity we have adopted that line of action. "
| He told the southern senators. and par
ticuiarly Mr.. Bacon of Georgia. who had
made a speech the day before. that ii
their section had made use of the protec-
tive tariff before the civil war the great
disaster of that war would not have been
visited upon them. for they would have
had their resources developed just as New
England had.
Mr. Carter to the Rescue.
Mr.. Bacon squirmed in his seat when
this was being said but he didn't get a
chance to answer back right away be-
cause Mr.. Carter of Montana had a
speech to make. Mr.. Carter's was dis
tinctly humorous effort. Everybody said
so. and he admitted it, He laughed good
naturedly and even uproariously the
idea that senators did not have plenty of
information upon which to form their
tariff opinions.
Look at this said he. and sure enough
there on his desk were piled books of all
sizes and shapes. pamphlets great and
small. that Mr.. Carter's head was
barely visible over the top.
Give me an hour more he continued
and I'll pile them clear to the ceiling of
the chamber.
The Montana senator then proceeded to
say that these were all tarin books and
pamphlets-hearings before the ways and
means committee of the House that had
cost half million dollars tables of all
kinds prepared by that committee and
the finance committee of the Senate. re-
ports from the heads of government de-
partments and hundreds of other things
that a senator would strike before he
would read. For two hours Mr.. Carter
read list of some of these works. with
the number of pages each contained IL
was an eloquent effort and spoke Tor
itself.
Aha said Mr. Newlands of Nevada
in substance. 1.-The Senate could never
digest such lot of information SO It's
fine argument for tariff commission
that will be paid to do nothing else
Mr.. NewlandS never loses Il chance to
drag that tariff commission into the dis
cuSSion.
Senator Hale, Too.
Senator Hale here saw his chance to
get in something good. too. He remarked
with emotion that some senator's were
claiming that there was not enough in
formation and others that there was too
much. One claim completely offset the
other. he thought, so there ought to be
an end to it.
But Mr. Newlands was not through:
He made speech. 1t was all about
tariff commissions. tariffs for revenue
only and other things. and lasted for
about an hour. While it was going on
many senators left and the result was
Mr.. Aldrich could not get the vote he
wanted before adjournment upon that
differential duty.
1t was Senator Bacon who had the last
word of the long day of speechmaking.
He said he just had to reply to that war
speech of Mr.. Lodges, although nobody
could ever accuse him of injecting that
sort of a discussion into the debates of
the Senate. Mr.. Bacon fought the war
all over again, resenting Mr.. Lodge S
imput alton about the south not develop
ing its resources in every sentence. He
WaXed poetic and even sentimental. and
he waned with a biting rebuke to the
Massachusetts senators in the following
words:
1T is not true that the great disaster
of the south was due TO the fact that II
did not share in the policy by which one
section robs another
Then the Senate adjourned. 1t was a
pleasant day for the clerk, for he had
not read a word Of the bill.