Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-02
TARIFF DEBATE
IN THE SENATE
CONTINUED from FIRST rasel

voice will not be hesrd in this hail against
a single article on the schedule
He referred to the coal mines Of tho
senator from West Virginia (Mr. Elkins)
and his Indignation over the proposition
to place the products OF his state upon the
free list.
I'VE on this side he said. ARC in the
camp of the ~vanquished and so far as |
am concerned, I would rather he H. the
camp Of the vsnquished than In the camp
OF the victors in the possession of The
spoils."
IL have a right" said MFR. Aldrich, re-
plying to the charge that star chamber
proceedings we're held by the republicans
on the committee on finance. ito have a
conversation without having a democratic
senator c-ross-examine the person with
whom | converse" He declared the mem
bers OF the democratic finance committee
we're holding meetings of their own and
that they had their experts. MIR. Raynet
said the members Of the committee lost
their individual character when they be-
came q committee of the senate charged
with a public duty. Mr.. Rsyner In an earn
est manner declared that the democracy
represented the consumers and we're against
the "plunderers OF the people," represented
by the republican party.
PeopIe Are for Protection.
Mr.. Aldrich asserted on the other hand
that the protective principle had never
been more widely approved than at present
and he said he was not alarmed that
defamation OF the kin voiced by the sen
ator from Maryland would in any way
change II.
Continuing. Mr.. Aldrich charged that If
the senator from Maryland should frame a
tariff bill according to his policy he would
not get ten democratic votes for It. He
said a distinguished senator from Mary
land (the late Mr.. Gorman) had recast the
Wilson bill on lines that did not agree
with the ideas put forth by the present
senator from that state and he did not
believe he represented the Views Of all
the people of Maryland, even Of the demo-
Gratis Of that state. Tennessee, Georgia.
North Carolina, Louisiana and other states
of the south, he said, are no longer in
with free trade principles.
you might as well be frank said Mr..
Aldrich addressing the democratic sena-
tors, land admit that"
Il do not intend to let such a speech
as we have listened to from the senator
from Maryland deter lis from being lust
to every southern state.
This tariff policy will be Just to every
section and to every interest Of this coun-
try.
II am quite certain that the senator from
Maryland will nave no followers upon his
side Of the chamber"
senator Bailey II Frank.
Senator Bailey indignantly resented the
right of the senator from Rhode Island
to speak for the democratic party on the
subject of the tariff. and added that when
the time came to vote that party would
be found sustaining the. principles of taxa
ton that had so long been maintained by
1t. He commended for the right of demo-
cratic members OF the to be
present at hearings. but admitted that II
the democrats we're framing n tariff bill
they would not permit the republicans to
participate.
You might look at IT. but you should
not touch t." he said.
Speaking of the Inheritance tax pro-
posed in the bill, he safd he would rather
tax the living rich in an income bill than
to tax the dead who are only moderately
well TO do" as proposed in the inheritance
tax.
Mr.. Aldrich suggested that the matter
contemplated in the Bacon resolution would
be taken care OF by the committee on
finance and IT was by a viva voce vote
referred to that COMMITTEES.
A meeting of the senate committee on
finance to consider the Bacon resolution
has been called for II o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Business Of Session Limited.
The senate, by a viva voce vote, adopted
Hale's resolution to %confine the business
Of the extra session to the consideration OF
the tariff question to the exclusion of
everything else, except the bill making pro-
vision for the Thirteenth census. The dis
cussion was participated in by Senators
Culberson, Bacon, Taliaferro, Bailey, VIII
liam Alden Smith and Hepburn. Mr.. Smith
objected that the resolution practically
placed the senate in recess until the tariff
bin was brought in. Mr.. Hepburn made
an earnest plea for the exception of the
reports of the on revision OF the
laws, which is preparing a re-codification
OF the federal statutes. He said the COM
miSee had been constantly engaged in
this work and urged that It might Just as
well be heard at this time when there was
little to engage the attention OF the senate