The sun., 1909-05-05
DOLLlVER STlRS UP ALDRICH
FALSEHOOD CHARGED IN DE-
BATE ON WOOL AND COTTON.
The Iowan Makes Accusations Which
spur the Author OF the Tarin Hill TO
Heated Repiies-Root Adds . Few
Facts to the Income Tax Talk.

Facts to the Income Tax Talk
WASHINGTON May 4.-1n q speech Of
nearly three hours in the Senate this
afternoon Senator Dolliver flercely at
tackled the woollen and cotton schedules
in the tariff bill. Two or three times in
the course of exciting ooloquys with
Senator Aldrich the latter charged that
Senator Delivers information was based
on falsehood.
The Senator from Iowa had not oon-
cludei his speech at o'clock. when
Senator Tillman Of South Carolina made
the suggestion that an adjournment
should be taken until tomorrow. Senator
Dolliver welcomed the suggestion, but
Senator Aldrich, while conceding the
right Of the Senator from Iowa to suspend
his speech until tomorrow. made clear
his intention of pressing the tariff bill
to consideration and asked the Senate to
continue in session. After some par
leying the Senate went into executive
session and shortly afterward adjourned
Senator Dolliver will resume Tomorrow
at II o'clock. His speech was full of
accusation and irony and at times was
sensational. He charged that the wooller
schedule was written originally by WOO
growers and manufacturers of woollen
goods and that Congress mad accepted
the rates thus prepared without question
and had adhered to them long after the
reason for them had disappeared.
As to the cotton schedules, he charged
that two cotton goods manufacturers
Mr.. Lippitt of Rhode Island and Mr.. Mccall
OF Boston, after trying to dictate the
schedule to Chairman Payne Of the Ways
and Means Committee had succeeded in
inflioting their views on Chairman Aldrich
of the Senate committee.
"Mr. Payne found he had heen swindled
when he first agreed to accept the sug-
gestions of the two cotton goods manu-
facturers and he kicked the prepared
schedule out Of the BILL said Senator
Dolliver. "but it was put back in by the
Senate Committee"
Senator Aldrich replied that he would
be able to show before the debate was over
that there had been no material change
in the cotton schedule from the Dingley
law.
Repeatedly Senator Dolliver charged
that customs officers in New York city
had prepared the Senate bill, and he per-
sisted in quoting Senator Aldrich as
having said that thess gentlemen fur
nished the information upon which the
schedules were prepared, After fire.
qucntly shaking his head in dissent Sem
ator Aldrich pronounced Mr.. Delivers
statement to be an absolute falsehood.
At one time in the debate Senator Aid
rich intimated that he could disclose
some interesting information to the SEN
ate as to the cause of Senator Delivers
attack on the committee. Senator Dol
liver had referred to himself as being
somewhat irritated.r To this Senator
Aldrich replied that he knew the cause
of the irritation OF the Senator from
Iowa, but that he did not expect to he,
provoked into disclosing it TO the Senate
then or later.
Senator Delivers face became white
with suppressed anger. but he did not
reply at the time. Later when Senator
Aidrich sought to interrupt him he re-
fused to allow him to do 30 and finally
called repeatedly to the presiding officer.
Mr.. Frye, to protect him in the right to
his time.
1t was evident that Senator Dolliver
had been coached for his speech. Mr..
Aldrich openly charged that he had been,
and MIR Dolliver admitted it.
The Senator from Iowa said he had got
much Of his information from one Of the
most reputable business men in the
country. one who stood at the very head
Of the importers and who had marched
at the head Of a great political demon
stration in favor Of tho candidacy Of
prior to the election. Senator Aldrich
said he was willing to concede that Mr..
Delivers informant might be reputable
and eminently respectable, but that he
was one Of class of importers who had
been trying for years to break down the
woollen and cotton schedules. and he
charged that Mr.. Delivers arguments
and illustrations we're timeworn and most
Of them had been borrowed from Demo-
cratic authorities. As e proof Of that fact
he ask cd permission to print in the record
excerpts from speeches made by the late
Senators j. h. Jones Of Arkansas and
George G. Vest of Missouri in parallel
columns with Senator Delivers to show
that the Iowa Senator had no claim to
originality Of argument.
Retorting in kind Senator Dolliver
said he would print excerpts from Senator
Aldrich's minority report on the " ilson-
German bin in which he attacked the
schedules he was now trying to defend.
Tie Senator from Iowa introduced
many illustrations to show, he said, how
the woolen schedule had been stretched
to cover many other articles Of which
wool WAS only small part. He presented
the case of cotton blanket with woollen
fringe which had been made to pay full
wool duty on it's weight because its most
expensive constituent was wool. Senator
Aldrich insisted that no such manufac-
tured product had ever been turned out.
Il could produce the blanket said
Senator Dolliver. -but l don't want TO
cover up this subj ject.'
Another illustration brought forward
by Mr.. Dolliver was a case in which New
York customs appraisers had held that
furniture was subject to the duties on
woolen goods because one Of it's COM
ponent elements was wool. This aroused
the curiosity OF Senator Aldrich. who in
ouired OF the Senator from Iowa where
he obtained his information. Mr.. Dolli-
YER replied that he was reading from a
brief fled by an eminent lawyer in the
Federal Court for the Southern District
of New York.