New-York tribune., 1909-06-25
TALK s HOURS, VOTE l
MUCH SENATE OR4TORH.
BeUerdge, Bailey and Ne1rIand
Sneak and Leather Action.
From The Tribune Bureau

washington. June 24-Progress and oratory On
| the tariff bill in the Senate to-day were in the
| ratio of one TO eight The session lasted nine
| hours, the first eight hours being oeVoteo u
speeches on parts of the bill not before the Senate
and the hour being given over to consideration
Of the schedules. The orators were Senator beF-
eridge. who talked four and half hours Seha'ol
Bailey who talked two and half hours, anu
Senator Newlands, who talked an hour-and tle
temperature in the Senate chamber was % degrees
Mr. Beveridge discussed his tobacco amendment
to the internal revenue provisions Of the blll MI
Bailey reviewed political history for the last haI
century in an effort prove that free ra" ma
terial not Democratic doctrine. and MI New
lands devoted his comments to the proposed tax Oh
the net earnings of corporations
When the oratory was exhausted, at 6 O'CLOCK MI
Lodge was the only member of the Finance Com
miltee on the floor. He mildly suggested that per-
haps some progress might be made on the business
under consideration in the remaining hour of the
session. He offered amendment increasing the
duty finished articles of which collodion any
compound of proxyne is the component material
of chief 'ralue from s. cents pound and . per
ad valorem 10 IS cents pound and So per cent
ad valorem. Mr. Lodge explained that this provi-
sion applied TO articles of luxury. such as fancy
combs made of celluloid. He said that under the
Dingley law importations of this character had in
creased from $4,000 S1sO0O0O in three years and
that the present tmportatiOns were at the rate or
$4,000 month. He asserted that the proposed in
crease necessary to maintain the collodton In
dustry in this country. that the engaged in
that industry were being paid from 81 to 81 day.
against wages of from % 10 30 cents day in
Japan The committee amendment was adopted
after Mr. Bristow had stated that while he did not
understand II he was against II because IL was an
Increase. He said the people of the country were
getting tired of these many Increases and he
wanted chance to register his protest against
them.
Mr.. Aldrich then called up paragraph 44s. relat-
ing to leather and shoes This had been passed
over 20 await the action Of the Senate hides.
Mr.. Hale explained that the rates in the House bill
we're based on fire. hides In of the fact that
the Senate had voted TO restore the Dlngley duty
of Il per cent hides the diherental the prod
ucts Of hides must he increased. Mr. AIdrichs
amendment to increase the duty sole leather
from > - 0 per cent was adopted He then moved
that the duty boots and shoes be increased from
Ia to % per cent. saying that while this
increase Of per cent over the House bill, #
decrease Of per cent from the DingIey Law.
Messrs Bailey Bacon and stone opposed the in
crease and rolcaH IT'S adoption was de-
mandsd. The amendment adopted. 30 10 -.
the following Republicans voting in the negative:
Senator's Rrfstow. Capp Crawford. Cummns Cur
tis. Gamble La Toilette and Nelson
Mr.. Rristow offered a substitute for tho leather
paragraph providing for trade hides leather
shoes. heltinR etc. with all countries which impose
no tax similar articles imported from this coun-
'rv. Mr.. Aldrichs motion to table the amendment
vas adopted. SO 20 q. Following the announce
rnent of the vote. Mr. Brstov raised a question Of
order he Sain ne hsn been taken on MS feet by
the motion table. He was irving 10 md out n
he had not been deprived of his parliamentary
rights when the hour for adjournment was reached
and Mr Kean. who presiding declared the
Senate adjourned
After Nfr Beverdge had finished hts tobacco
speech he asked for Immediate action his amend
u1su' bat finally consented - ler II GO over Sew
eral Senators said they desired 10 examine t. and
Mr. Aldrtch assured the Indiana Senator that II
the purpose ~ the Finance Committee to take
up the amendment and submit report on n. Mr.
BeveridEe safd hts amendment woulG yield the
government about S2l.ooonb0 annually In revenue
The amendu1ent restores in large measure all the
taxes tobacco. except cigars. II
enacts the prohibition against coupons and prizes
with tohac and cigarettes and puts corice paste
the free list Mr. Bevertdge said that when the
tax repealed the legislation permitting
the Tobacco Trust TO sell short weight packages
vas not repealed. He charged that the American
people we're stu paying the tax but instead
% going into the United states Treasury it
going into that of the American Tobacco Company.
Mr ReveridEe asserted that the American tax on
tobacco was only a fraction OF the tax Of most
other civilized nations Stating that the annual
consumption OF tobacco IN this country amounted
I'VE and a half pounds 70 every woman and
child. he said that II the United States taxed
bacco AT the same rate vas imposed by Eng
land and France IT would every year derive $685.
3ss SIS instead less than 100000 present
Furthermore. he asserted that the tobacco tax was
now lower than az any previous time except for a
few years prior 70 lsss.
Mr.. Baiey's speech in the main devoted to
effort show that free material not
cardinal Democratic doctrine. and that he had
never advocated such doctrine. He willing to
admit that during the time when Mr.. Cleveland
and his friends dominated our party they did COM
nit il TO the supreme folly OF giving our manu-
facturers free trade in what they buy while leav-
ing them protection on what they SELL He had.
however. in season and out OF denounced
this a radical departure from the well estab-
lished principles and policies OF the Democratic
fathers After citing many authorities he traced
the advocacy of free material to the late
Abram s Hewitt. Of New York. but declared that
this doctrine had never commanded any substan-
ttal support among the leaders or with the rank
and file of that sturdy democracy which won so
many victories nad administered this government
with such consunmato wisdom through so many
years"
Reading list Of administrative items IN the
tariff bill that have not been reported upon by the
Finance Committee. Mr.. Money appealed to the
chairman OF that committee bring in q report on
all of them. He said he could form Idea OF the
time necessary 10 complete the measure until he
knew what is to be considered Mr. Aldrich said
he could not why before the present week closed
the Senate would not able dispose Of all the
dutlahe list. and added that he would endeavor
promptly to report all the admlnistrat tive items
toned.
s125,ooo FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA.
Phnade phia June 24.--Fre to-day destroyed part