The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-29
TAILS TO ALDRICH KITE,

The Juggling with the tariff bill in
tacturers md of the trusts generally
is proceeding to such an extent that
the Republican press throughout the
country has become thoroughly aroused
and disgustcd. President Taft g cam
paign pledges and his after election re-
iteration Of those pledges, and his plea
for good faith, have been openly re
pudlatcd by the Senate. Tho most dis
tinct and insulting reputation of them
all was made by Senator Hepburn of
Idaho on the floor of the Senate on
June Sth, where he said:
This talk OF being under obligations to
revise the tariff downward came from
somewhere; ! do not know from where:
from some political I was going to say
swamp, like a miasna. II was
concession, sop, thrown by those lack
ing In confidence 10 the voters whose
support they thought they had to have.
There is nothing In the platform
OF the Republican party which requires
MS, as suggested by the Senator from
Iowa, to make any conccss ion. because
some one or many may nave promised
This is n distinct, direct and pract.
cal reputation of President Taft. and
an assault upon him as making cam
palgn pledges unauthorized by the
party, and the concession of his own
lack of confidence. Nothing more d.
rect and insolent has been said in the
Senate against any President for many
years. And the worst Of it is, the Sen
ate is acting III this in clear repudia.
tion of Taft.
In the Aldrich programme of pro-
tecting the New England manufacturers
and continuing the advantages which
the trusts at present derive from the
Dingley schedules. certain Senators
have voted with Mr. Aldrch on every
one of his propositions. A list is car.
ried in Golfers Weekly of those who
have never failed to vote as Mr.. Aid
rich desired. The list is as follows:
Brandegee OF Connecticut
Briggs of New Jersey,
Burnham of New Hampshire
Burrows of Michigan.
Carter OF Montana
Dixon OF Montana.
Flint Of California.
Ga1inger OF New Hampshire.
Guggenheim Of Colorado.
Hale of Maine.
Hepburn OF Idaho
Kean OF New Jersey.
Lodge OF Massachusetts.
Oliver of Pennsylvania
Page of Vermont
Penrose OF Pennsylvania.
Perkins Of California.
Piles OF Washington
Roof OF New York,
Scott OF West Virginia.
Smoot OF Utah.
Stephenson OF Wisconsin.
Wetmore of Rhode Island.
Another list is made also by Collier s
of those who have steadily supported
Mr.. Aldricb, except that upon some
schedule each of them was either alb.
sent or "paired. - In no case was
either Of the following Senators op,
posed to Aldrjch. And this list is dis
tinguished from the other merely in a
technical sense. The list given above
is of Senators who wero always pres
ent and always voted for the Aldrich
ideas, Those Senators whose names ap.
pear In the following list supported
those ideas Just the same, but on some
they were either absent or
"paired' - and so did not record an af- |
firmative vote, but still they were in
the affirmative:
Bradley of Kentucky.
Bukeley of Connecticut
Clark OF Wyoming
Crane of Massachusetts
Cuilom OF Illinois
Depew of New York
Dick OF Ohio
Dillingham; OF Vermont
Elkins of West Virginia.
Frye OF Maine.
Nixon of Nevada
Smith OF Michigan.
Sutherland OF Utah.
Warner OF Missouri
Warren OF Wyoming.
In the first list of active and con,
stant supporters, present all the time
and always voting as Aldrich directed,
was Smoot of Utah. In the second list. |
always with Adricb, but sometimes |
"paired" or absent, was Sutherland |
of Utah SO that in selecting Smoot |
to be his whipping boy" on the
Finance Committee, Aldrich bound the
State Of Utah to him completely, and |
made its two Senators as many tails |
TO his kite. It is humiliating for a
State to. be placed in such a position
as to be constantly represented in Sen
atorial voting by two votes always for
the moDopolstic combinations and the |
trusts, but primarily for the New Eng
land manufacturers, who, so far as they
are able, put up jobs against Utah g |
products, especially wool, beat down the |
price and practically nullify the tariff
so far as it was intended to protect |
the wool growers whenever they can.
The New England Senators have their
aims clearly and exactly expressed by
Senator Bulkeley of Connecticut, who
openly SAYS that his efforts in fran
ing the tariff bill are directed solely
to the advantages of the manufacturers
of Connecticut, and that he makes con
cessions TO other Senators only to get
their votes for his homo manufacturers
And that is the way that the tariff