New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-09

This lei Mr. Newlands TO suggest the desira-
bilty Of tariff commission, and MI Carter
devoted the latter part of his speech to CRITICS
ing the commission plan He denounced gov
eminent by commissions" and declared the
country was suffering because Of a tendency to
bureaucratic control.
LODGE Defends SENATE BILL.
Senator Lodge made a short and forceful
speech in defence of the Senate bill He re-
ferred to the myth of the consumer" and de-
Clared that this country is nation of producers
Asserting that the protective system had been
in force in some form since 1916. he insisted
that to change it would be TO bring disaster
on the nation.
Nobody ever pledged me-" he said. "to revise
the tariff downward to revise 1t upward
What we are pledged to is a revision and 1 sup
pose we are here to revise It in view of the in
terests OF the whole country. If it is wise TO
reduce rates then reduce them; il It is wiser to
give greater protection, we should do that. ana
if il is wise TO keep them they are, then that
should be done. That has been the attitude OF the
Committee on Finance, and without processing
infaIibility, We have adopted that line of ac-
ton"
Referring to statement recently made by
Mr. Bacon, Mr.. Lodge said that what made
Senators on the Republican side laugh when
some members of the minority was 1.-The regu-
Iarity with which protective duties become reve-
nue. duties when they cross the borders Of GER
tain states"
Calculating the number of people engaged in
trades and occupations in the United States at
twenty-nine millions. the Massachusetts, Sena-
tor declared that including those who depended
on their wages for support, they made up
practically the whole population of the ma
ton"
Mr.. Lodge said that Massachusetts had no
lead mines and rehneres and narrow selfish
ness might prompt him to vote against this in
dustry. He realized, however. that the prosper
fly Of Massachusetts was interviewer with the
prosperity Of tile mining states of the West He
appealed TO the Middle Western Senators TO
stand firm against stirling down any industry
saying that the farmers OF the West could not
afford to crush out the great manufacturing in
terests of the East which furnished their best
and surest market In closing, he said that the
protective policy had made the North strong
and was now making the South strong. He paid
a tribute to the valor Of the soldiers who fought
for the Confederacy, but declared that the eco
nomc weakness of the South one of the
factors in Fastening its surrender to the North
in the Civil War
Later in the day. Senator Bacon took issue
made impassioned attack the protective
system, and compared Republican Senators to
feudal lords gathered around to divide spoils
wrung from the helpless. Il cannot sit still and
hear II said that we failed in the great struggle
because we didn't have system by which one
section is plundered at the expense Of another
Mr.. Bacon said.
VOTE ON LEAD NOT REACHED.
When the bill taken UP, and Section $50
placing duty of 21s cents pound on pig lead
read, Senator Bristow again opposed the
increase from IL cents pound. as provided in
the House bill. He read from hearings held by
the Ways and Means Committee TO show that It
was contended that this increase, II made. would
ents used in making paint. He argued that the
House had been tudicious in it's action.
1T makes no difference what the House 34i
from time TO time" said Mr.. Aldrch. interrupt
ing. I'VE are here TO do justice to this industry
in view Of the facts of this case"
The reading of the testimony Of Mr. Brush
of the American Smelling and Refining Com
pany provoked colloquies. In which Senators
Smoot and Smith of Michigan suggested that
the witness was Influenced by his Mexican in
terests and by the interests of his general bust
ness so that his testimony should not be taken
as satisfactory.
Saying he could still and hear these
statements in silence, Senator Root declared
that he knew Mr.. Brush. and had every con-
fdence in anything he might say He was
liable he said, TO be affected IN his views and
in his opinions by his interests. all men are