Evening star., 1909-05-04
T0ASTS TO PROGRESS MR.. D0LuVER SPEAKS
BANQUET of National Catholic Senator From Iowa Discusses
Women's Circle. the Tariff Bill.
MANY TOPICS DISCUSSED ATTACKS TWO SCHEDULES
Speakers NJ. Asserts Wool and Cotton Have
Coope Who Presides. Deceptive Provisions
LAUD CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS TALKS ALDRICH
Refers Recent Exchange
of Words" Between Two-Re-
Held at the Shoreham quest of Party Leaders
ATTACKS TWO SCHEDULES
Asserts wool" and Cotton" Have
Deceptive Provisions.
TALKS STRAIGHT AT ALDRICH
Refers to Recent Exchange OF
Words" Between the Two-Re-
quest of Party Leaders.

Attacking the wool and cotton Sched-
ules of the pending tariff bill, rs con-
| tanning deceptive provisions, increasing
! rates of duty on many articles containing
! but d tritiing quantity of wool. Senator
| Dollvcr of Iowa today delivered one
| or the most notable speeches presented
| 10 Inc Senate since the revision Of the
, tarin has been under consideration. The
| announcement tnat Mr. Doliivcr would
| speak filled every available space In the
| gail .rieS, anu luere were fCw senators
VINO We're not III their places TO near
| nlm. A conSiuera~-e portion OF his
remarks vas addressed uiIcltly to Senator
| AurIcn, CHAIRMAN or lne committee ON
nndIcc.
II / speak the truth said Mr.. Dol
liver, III / deal with Things as they are.
/ suggest 10 the senator from RhDue
ISlanu Inat II will not be an adequate
answer 10 reproach me with the errors
OF my youth or TO disparage me because
III olner years | foio Sru, without QueS-
Ilcn, IN the footsteps or our party read
ers. Ii, In times past, 1 took, without
oislurp,ng the pubiic peace, every act
uI the party, II was because | loved II;
because tne young men oil tnat day
found II gOou u~al .asier to ldeanze
ii luan they sometimes ma 1t now.
speak mere because 1 still love the old
republican party, and would have Its
iei.uers,hp rise 10 the fuIi stature of its
o.poltun.ty and responsibility.
n-ferrlnS 10 the recent exchange of
words in the senate between himself
ana senator Alar4cn, Mr.. DoIiiver saiu:
II tne senator IRON r.node Island in
tended 10 Illuminate me by the lntlmation
tnat my course III IntS. matters is dc
lated ny poilticaI conditions at home,
| ne min, sn,,onaliy pays me compliment
Whlcn | sincerely appreciate, because
TINS nation las entereu upon u new era
OF direct responsibility the part OIL
PRESIDENTS ana Congresses ankle 10 that
enlisnt1 1ned public UpinIun which ought
10 Dc the real government OF the Uni,cd
states.
Reviews Several Tariff Acts.
Reviewing the several tariff acts that
have been passed by Congress. MIR. Dol
| nver said:
rs ii possible that man. because he
voted for the Allison tin-plate rate of
1889. and heard poo Mckinley dedicate
the first tln-plate mill in America, can
be convicted IN this chamber of treach-
cry 70 the protective tarf system if he
desires that schedule re-examined, after
seeing the feeble enterprise of 1870
grown within a single Lecaue to the full
measure or this market place, organized
into great corporations, overcapitaliZed
INTO a speculative trust, and at length
pany, with rake-off 10 the promoters
surnclent TO buy the Rock lslanu system
| II a transaction ike that has made no
impression upon the mind OF Congress,
! expose no secret in saying that 1t mas
made a very profound impression on the
| thought and purposes or the American
people.
Il repeat. therefore. what l said the
other day, that the duty OF this Congress
| is to reduce the margin OF protecl.on pro-
can be done without substantial injury
to the productive enterprises or this mar
ket place. 1t is our special duty 10 take
up those schedules which represent the
largest investments or protected capital,
anu, at least, take out or them the rates
that are now everywhere known TO be
extravagaht and unnecessary, which rise
| SO far above the lever of our real indus
| trial needs as 10 bring the policy OF pro-
tectlOn into ridlcule without dong any
body any sort OF good.
Letter From Gov. Dingley.
Senator Dolliver stated that he had in
his possession a letter of the late Gov.
Dingley, found among the papers of one
of his oldest friends who had assisted in
the work Of the ways and means commit
tee of 1897, in which Mr. Dingley depre-
Gated any increase in the cotton schedule,
| because. in his judgment. the tendency
of the rates ought TO have been uown in
stead of up, and because the cotton man.
ufacturerS were in no position To CON-
PLAN OF the rates established by the
rates of the Wilson law ''in view Of the
| tact that they had written the schedule
| themselves" Referring to the senator
| Irom Rhode Island, who had stated upon
| TINS floor that the amendments to the
cotton schedule ortered 10 the Senate by
the committee We're not the work of the
committee, but that every one of them
was made by persons connected with the
Treasury Department. Mr.. Doliver said:
1t was, nave no doubt a cruel reve-
| iation to some Of his languid disciples to
| .earn from the lips of the senator him
| self thai In this cotton schedule the
changes that were made do not represent
the genius of the man who enjoys in the
mythology or our public life the reputa
| tion Of being the greatest living expert
upon the technicallteS Of cotton manu-
facture, but that the senator from Rhode
Island. ys,ifed by the task set before
| him by his constituents OF raising the
table Of these rates without touching
them, turned the job over to the APP
praisers Office at New York. curious
proceeding this, and unless we can LOOK
into it without fear and trembling we
must ultimately rewrite our Constitution
so as TO legaize this power of experts
| from the custom house to regulate COM
| merce with foreign nations"
Origin Of Woolen Schedule.
more mysterious than that Of the cotton
schedule, Mr.. Dolliver, referring to Mr..
Aldrich, said that 1T was evidently
| handed to him by others just as 1t was
to me, and the only difference between
US Is that l have grown a little more
curious than he has been to seen what
| was In the PACKAGE" He quoted from
speech delivered by the late Senator
| Sherman in 1851 concerning the wool
| schedule, in which Mr.. Sherman said he
would prefer Ito take Ii in the very
words they have given us SO that If they
are not satisfied hereafter they cannot
| complain of the proper committees of
Congress for any mistakes" He also re-
| ferred TO a letter by Theodore Justice of
Philadelphia. in which he said .he gives
a rather vivid description of how poor
Mckinley. bewildered by the intricacies
of the wool schedule. turned the whole
matter over to the parties in interest to
| fix it up between themselves" Continu-
| ing. he said:
| IF I voted for that arrangement II
| Was under the impression that l was be-
| ing guided by the wisdom of William
Mckinley. and IL l acquiesced in ii In
| 1897 il was because of my confidence in
| the character of Nelson Dingley. l might
| poSSih,y even at this late day he able