Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-05

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bates characterized the session
of the senate today.
Senator Dolliver of Iowa attacked the
methods under which protective tariIt
bills are formed and had llVely TIT
with Senator Aldrich.
Democratic senators remained silent
At times the Republican debate threat
ened to become acrimonious, but the
Iowa senator was ever ready with a
humorous retort which called forth
laughter when angry words seemed un-
avoidable.
Senator Borah concluded his speech
on the income tax, delivering an ex-
tended legal argument to show tnat
there was ample reason for beneVlhg
that the supreme court might reverse
itself if the conStitutionality of that
tax should again be presented to 1t.
A strong plea for the extension of the
protective tariff system to jute was
made by Senator Bradley of Kentucky,
who declared that with the protective
policy covering products of his state
Kentucky would be safely Republican
in the future.
Mr.. Dolliver was quoted from q
statement which he said had been
made by Mr.. Aldrich and corroborated
bv Mr.. Flint of California that certain
schedules of the Dingley bill were not
drawn by the finance committee, but
by government experts.
AIdrlch Makes Protest
Mr.. Aldrich protested that he was not
being quoted correctly. When the iden-
tical words were read Mr.. Dolliver said
that man ''irritated as he had been
was justified in drawing the conclusion
he did. Mr. Aldrich hotly retorted that
Mr. Dolliver well understood why he
was irritated
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terrupt him Mr.. Dolliver declined, say
ing he had been in congress long
enough to conduct his speech in his
own way and that he did not intend to
have his remarks "sneeringly discred-
tied"
Attacking the wool and cotton sched-
ules of the pending tariff bill as con-
tanning deceptive provisions, increas-
ing rates of duty on many articles con-
tanning but a trifiing quantity of wool,
Senator Dolliver delivered one of the
most notable speechesA presented to the
senate since the revision of the tariff
has been under consideration. A con-
siderable portion of his remarks was
addressed directly to Senator Aldrich
chairman of the committee on tariff.
''If / speak the truth" said Mr.. Dol
, liver, "If / deal with things as they
are, / suggest to the senator from
Rhode Island that it will not be an
the errors of my youth or to disparage
me because in other years l followed
without question in the footsteps of
our party leaders"
Referring to a recent exchange of
words in the senate between himself
and Senator Aldrich, Mr. Dolliver said:
Thinks 1t Compliment
"If the senator from Rhode Island
intends to humiliate me because my
course in these matters is dictated by
political conditions at home, he unin-
tentionally pays me a compliment
which / sincerely appreciate, because
this nation has entered upon a new
era of direct responsibility on the part
of presidents and congresses alike to
that enlightened public opinion which
ought to be the real government of the
United States"
Referring to the several tariff acts
that have been passed, the senator
said:
rs it possible that a man, because
he voted for the Allison tin plate rate
of 1889 and heard poor Mckinley dedi-
cate the first tin plate mill in America
can be convicted in this chamber of
treachery to the protective tariff sys-
tenn, if he desires that schedule re-ex
amined after seeing the feeble enter
prise of 1890 grown within a single de-
cade to the full measure of this mar
ket place, organized into great cor
porations, over er-capitalized into a spec
ulative trust and at length unloaded
upon the United States Steel company
with a rakeoff to the promoters suffi-
cient to buy the Rock Island system?
IF a transaction like that has made
: no impression upon the mind of con-
sgress, / expose the secret in saying
that it has made a very profound inn
preston upon the thought and pur-
poses of the American people,"
Saying the origin of the wooden
schedule was not more mysterious than
that of the cotton schedule, Mr.. Dolli-
yer, referring to Aldrich, said that at
was evidently handed to him by others
just as It was to me- and the only diff
ference between us is that / have
grown little more curious than he
has been to see what was in the pack
age"
Refers to Odous Method
Mr.. Dolliver referred to the method
by which the cotton and wooden sched-
ules were framed. He said If those
rates were high enough twenty years
ago they were too high in the present
year. unless we admit that the weav-
ers' craft 10 at a standstill in America,
a thing which nobody believes for a
moment
'What I ask today of party lead
ers," said Mr.. Dolliver, lis to take us
back, not to 1890, when Mckinley in
despair turned the making of the wool
tariff over to a mass meeting of it's
beneficiaries; not to 1897, when Gov
ernor Dingley's avowed purpose to re-
duce the Mckinley rates was vetoed by
the threats and clamor of outside in
terests, but to 1888, when the senator
from Rhode Island labored month after
month. day and night, with William
b. Allison in the preparation of the
only schedule of wool and woolens in
forty years in which either the public
interest or the welfare of the Repub-
lican party was made paramount over
sordid private Considerations"
When Mr.. Dolliver declared, as he
said on the authority of Mr.. Aldrich,
that the schedules of the pending bill
we're made by officers of the New York
custom house and not by the commit
tee on finance, Mr.. Aldrich promptly
denied that he had made a statement
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