The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-25
RAYNER ON NEW
TARIFF
(By Associated Press.)

Rayner of Maryland today made a
speech Astounding with humorous ref
erences to many senators who have
taken a prominent part in discussing
the pending tariff bill.
"The other day." said Senator Ray
lner, 1.-The senator from Rhode Island
(Mr Aldrich), when great speech
had been delivered attacking the
rates of duty in the wooden and cot
ton schedules, remarked that no
change those schedules would des-
troy the very principle of protection.
Never in my experience was a citadel
in such a state of tumult and COM
motion"
The speaker declared that the
other day when Senator Bristow of
Kansas was "hammering the lead
schedule, it seemed to disturb the
tranquility of the senior senator
from Massachusetts," whereupon Sen
ator Gallinger, the surgeon of the
post, always ready with his nostrums,
administered a stimulant to the sena-
tor from Massachusetts.
Senator Crawford of South Dakota,
having been engaged in dismantling
the citadel by tearing away the iron
Orders, Mr. Rayner said the Michi-
gan senators assured Mr. Aldrich that
they would guarantee enough iron
from their state to underpin the
structure for the next thousand years.
The speaker called La Toilette "as
mild hammered a man as ever cut
throat or scuttled ship" declaring
that "ne is underneath the structure
all the time, plotting by day and
dreaming by night how to undermine
its foundations"
Referring to Senator Root Mr..
Rayner pronounced him mot within
the CITADEL" but as having "a little
citadel of his own" He said Mr..
Root Seems always figuring and
writing" and that the same applied
Ito Senator Beveridge, as to whom he
said, he could not tell whether he
was in the citadel trying to get out
or outside trying to get in" Senator
Smoot he dubbed "The chaplain of
the garrison" He added that Sena-
tor Aldrich Sin his moments of re-
morse and penitence for the work he
is engaged in, is entitled to all the
assuaging consolation religion can af-
ford him.
That the maximum and minimum
rate provision of the senate bill may
prove unconstitutional on the ground
that it delegates legislative power to
the executive, and that the tariff bill
as amended by the senate under such
decision may prove null and void
and the Dingley rates be continued,
were some of the assertions made to-
day by Senator Shively of Indiana,
In q speech in the senate on the tar
lift.
"The rates prescribed in section 2
are to be the actual and prevailing
rates." said Mr.. Shively. "The rates
prescribed in section one are all made
conditional and contingent and could
only become operative as rates
chargeable against all dutiable i'm
ports when the president shall have
performed the physically, if not legal
ly, impossible function assigned to
him by the provision in section 81
Should the supreme court hold that
the provision putting in effect the
minimum rates by presidential pro-
clamation is an attempted delegation
of legislative power to the executive
in contradiction of the constitution,
said Mr.. Shviely, then the maximum
rates will be the only rates to be
levied and collected under the law.
Should the courts hold the pro-
visions constitutional, he declared,
the maximum rates would remain in
effect until the president should have
become satisfied as to a longer series
of things existing under foreign gov
ernments and by proclamation from
time to time make exceptions to the
maximum rates and set in operation
the minimum rates.
"He could not be enjoined to be-
come satisfied nor mandamused tC
make proclamation If he were salts.