The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-20
By Ernest G. Walker.
al sreeial To- Nc Advertiser. J

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 5.-The
days of this fleeting week rush by
with all Washington waiting for that
supreme moment in the Senate.
"Votel'' "Vote.' will be the impa !
tent chorus some afternoon not far
away, as the amendments are rushed
no to the clerk s desk. And at last
there will be two or three eager as
sertions of "'Yeas and Nays and the
vice President will want to know:
% Is there a secondi'' whereupon forty
or fifty Senatorial hands will be
raised.
The press gallery will scurry for the
long. slender slips of paper. A hun
dred pencils will note responses as W
names are called. A pale, studious'
looking young man. sitting next to the
| Chairman of Finance will also have
roll call. toward which the Chairman
Of Finance will glance nervously every
moment or two. The roll begins and
ends in Rhode Island. Aldrich will
start it with an "aye" and Wetmore,
| his colleague, will close it with an
"ayen and in the midst of silence,
very impressive, the Vice President
again will speak. He will give the total
| of the ayes and the total of the nays
and announce that "the bill is passed"
| Such will be the elimination of the
tariff week, the biggest tariff week in
the history of the Aldrich-Payne bill be-
cause, as all the prophets prophesy, 1t
is the last week of the Senate's pro-
longed and eventful deliberations over
the hill. OF course it will be two weeks
or three weeks perhaps before the bill
is finally completed. but the work re-
naming is essentially the joint work
of the two houses of Congress. 1t is
the Senate that everybody has been
waiting for, even the Senators them
selves. The light breaks the moment
the Senate votes its concluding vote.
The tariff makers will leap all other
tariff hurdles eXpeditiously-lt is be-
lieved.
The Senate has been moving spryly.
1t went over the corporation tax hurdle
with a rush. All the pessimists were
lamenting about the long debate over
CORPORATION tax. "Look out for those
income taxers,'' they warned all within
the sound of their voices. "lt's good
for three weeks of debate. We will ad
iourn August 10 or September l. There
is great principle of taxation invol
we'd. The orators will turn light upon
every nook and corner of the corpora
ton tax"
Nv. my, how everybody was surprised
at the way the Senate debated corpora
ton tax and income tax. There wer'
three days of it and all at once thu
debate collapsed. Only those who hav'
observed that phenomenon of collaps
ing debate in the Senate can appreciat
the statement. There would have bee
a vote on corporation tax and incom
tax all of n sudden one very sultry at
ternoon, if Senator Bailey, of Texas
had not been talking with caller i
the Marble room, off the rear lobby, an
y Senator Aldrch had not been down tn
4 Potomac on rest trip Senatoria
1 courtesy leaped into the breach. Don
vote when these Senators are absent
cried old Courtesy. and the test wer
over till another day.
e And then in less than five hours tn
Senate bounded spryly over that othe
N hurdle, which has been looking highe
N than the Washington fmonument-th
IN dual tariff or in other Words the max
mum and minimum. 1t happened whe
quite a third of the Senate was out q
!, town-worn and weary from the lon
n deliberations and seeking to get
;. breath of fresh air before returnin
: to the hot weather of Washington an
to more days and weeks of tariff, n
y rest on the fifth of July, observed b
y the remainder of the country as I'll
y anniversary Of independence No, n
,. When the Senate is in earnest ii ney'
p, stops for holidays. The Finance Con
!. mittee even worked hard on Sunda
clearing up the flag ends of items q
which il had to make recommendation
B On Monday morning the Senate can
mp fresh and strong before the hurdl
and went merrily skipping over the
- toward the end of the tariff eours
= II voted for the Joint resolution 10 su
:. nit to state legislatures an amendmel
to the Constitution for income tax
RI unanimously Whewl How that too
the breath Of the pToerastinat0rs ava
Then that very afternoon, whom son
cities were resembling with the .
plosions Of patriotic crackers and OF
ers We're celebrating safe and SAL
fourth without ans patriotic eraeke
the Senate bounded away 10 tho go
sidcraiion Of a customs SQUIRT Will
promises 10 provide few 400
pieces Tor customs experts ~ luliei
~ Compartments, Il Jumped through th
GO aud Has ready 10 face a loo vt oth
httle hurdles la ihe eualoms admi
ialTaiYe act, Tor these aIe tbs Ye
lasi paragraphs IA tbs AldriehpayI
W bill,
And everybody feelg haoyaAt and
- good sheer tbs tide has luinpd
lhe fAplps opi NJ town loT 1884 N
ne pleasure iaflpg lhe Nffk ppi ~ q
glorious fapllh lbs epmplfle mpl
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