The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
SPOIL ALDR|CH PLAN
SENATORS BY DEBATES ON
TARIFF BILL DELAY EARLY
ACTION.
NO WAY TO STOP THE TALK
Prospects Are for Long Flght-DIs.
cussIon Of Measure Wednesday,
Income Tax and Lumber Schedules
Cause Much Talk.

Washington. Apr. 29.-The senate
rules provide no way to close the
hoodgates of oratory which have been
opened, letting out flow of speech
which threatens to spoil the plans of
Senator Aldrich and his followers to
bring about an early settlement of
the tariff question.
Technically the bill is now on sec.
ond reading, and presumably 1t Ia to
be discussed section by section, in
stead of as a whole. But all of the
speeches delivered and to be deliv-
cred cover the whole gamut Of the
bill.
AS a result. the Alrich leaders are
beginning to lose faith in their ability
to hurry the bill through. and the
prospects of the fights dragging into
the dog days are becoming greater.
When the discussion of the tariff
was resumed in the senate yesterday
Senator Brown of Nebraska spoke to
his amendment recently introduced
providing for a constitutional amend.
ment authorizing an income tax. He
argued that the people of the several
states should have the opportunity Of
voting on the question In order that
the validity of such law never would
be questioned. I'VE owe this to the
people," he said, because there has
long been an earnest and determined
demand for an equitable income tax. !"
They had, he declared, accepted the
decree of the court and had become
resigned to the fact that such law
was unconstitutional but he claimed
that congress owed 1t to them to be
given chance to say whether the
stitution should be made to sane.
ton a system of taxation approved by
the majority of American citizens and
by the economists of the entire civ.
iliEed world.
Says Plan 10 Necessary.
ut seems to me-" he said. that the
discussion of the past two days in
this body led by the able and eloquent
senator from Texas, brings home to
every senator the commanding and i'm.
perative necessity for the adoption
of such an amendment"
Mr.. Brown expressed the wish that
he might have the power to reach
the understanding of the senators on
the subject, because, he said, he felt
that conditions demanded unanimity
on the part of all the men In the sen
ate in the effort to give to the people
constitution whose meaning should
be so certain as to forever close the
debate on the question as to whether
congress should have the power to tax
incomes without the necessity of max
ing the apportionment according to
population.
Discuss Lumber Schedule.
Discussing the lumber schedule. Sena
tor Simmons of North Carolina said that
lumber and it's products represented
the principal industry of IL states, at
fecting more than thousand cities
which were largely dependent upon It
He opposed the proposed reduction on
lumbr principally. he said, because
labor constituted a larger element In
the cost of producing lumber than in
the cost of producing any other mann
featured product and, further, that
lumber was competitor with some OF
the articles which added to the cost
of it's production. ~ submit" he said
that there can be no more cruel re
preston of an industry than by Law
adding 30 per cent. to the cost Of its
production and then forcing It into
competition on the one hand with the
foreign product which. on account Of
the difference in labor cost. stumpags
cost, and the cost of transportation
can he produced at 30 per cent less. >