Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-22
TARIFF JOURNEY
 WEARS END
Senate is Rapidly Completing infamous Betrayal of Party
 Platform Pledges
BILL AS NOW FRAMED
 FILLED WITH BOXERS
(By "Tay."n

famous tariff tourney. Not many more days will pass before the bill will be ready for the coGferees. There is no reason for hoping that the bill will be much improved after it has come from conference. or after it has been passed b. congress. aigned by the President and become q law. From its present point of completion to the statute books the bill will be in the hands of the same set of juggiers that have managed it thus far
 The making of the bill is destined to occupy an important place in the history of the United States. The methods used by Senator Aldrich to frame the measure according to his desires are unduplicated in American history. They mark a new era in the making of national legislation. There have been senate leaders before who have ruled with an iron hand, and who in the end secured whatever leg islation they desired. But none of them ever resorted to the under handed and autocratic tactics that have characterized Aldrichs manage ment of the tariff bill. Whether the advanced rates of the Aldrich-Payne bill were justified. will, in all prob ability, not be treated as important by historians as the methods used in securing them.
 The tariff bill as it stands today is filled with jokers. A poker according to the most modern construction is a tariff bill provision which purports to give favored interests a fair and req sonable amount of protection, when it in reality has the effect of giving different and excessive amount of protection, such as will afford manu. lecturers of the particular commodity a monopoly on American markets. Having the monopoly, the manufac- turers thus favored are in a position to extort unreasonably high prices from the American consumer.
 How has the insertion of these jokers been accomplished? In what specific detail have Aldrich's methods differed from those of past senate bosses in charge if tariff bills? h the past, when a chairman of the Finance committee desired cer- tain tariff rate advanced, it was his custom to submit an amendment pro- yiding for the advance. Before the amendment would come up for a vote he would arise in his place and ex- plain why higher rate was justified. If he did not make this explanation on the floor, he would submit his ar gument as to why the rate should be advanced in printed form, so the sen. ators could inform themselves on the subject. and be able to determine to their own satisfaction whether the facts in the case warranted an in- creased rate.
 Always, in the past. when the Fi. nance committee of the senate, either advanced or lowered rates fixed in the tariff bill by the house, the sen ate as a body was informed as to why the changes in the bill had been made. The exclamation of each new rate was made in great detail in a report which ~as seat to the senate along with the bill
 Senator Aldrich introduced a new system. While the tariff bill was still incompleted in the house he was hold. ing private representation, the Rhode Island senator concluded their bene- fits from protection were not suffi. cient. He decided to increase the rates.
 When the house bill came to the senate, it was referred to the com. mittee on finance of which Aldrich is chairman, and he immediately made the changes he had decided upon as result Of the testimony of the rep | resentatives of the special interests. What that testimony was no one ,zL .,x1 fa.rr Ct..fl | lieutenants.
 Then he sent th. oil with the revis ions to the seua'a without enc Toro of explanation as to why some of the 1 advances had been made. Demand after demand was made upon him for | information. JIe aiais genera ! changed since the Dingley law had been made. that more revenue was necessary. but not a single word as to what reasons the big manufactur ! CTS had given for wanting particular rates increased. or not word as to , wsy he had advanced the particular rates.
 l, As one amendment after another came up for vote, renewed demands were made for information. Most ol | Ntit oit t V '%> way or another. Aldrich was satis | as a result of the secret hearings, and | he didn't care whether anyone elss | was satisfied or not He to all prac tical ends demanded that the senate
 vote on the amendments bliudly talk
 rates were necessary.
 e., EnnWr as insurgents. the republicans ac cepted Aldrich's word for the ad lvances and voted for amendment afte
 amendment In many inctances the!
 voted ss Aldrich wished them to. with
 out the slightest knowledge whethe
 the rate as justified or not Thes'
 senators are xaowa as regulars"
 stand-patters" At the outset Aldricl
 had made arrangements with then
 for their regularity" The senat
 boss gave them certain -..iY plum in the ay of advanced rates CT Dinf ley rates on schedules in which the
 were interested, with the understand
 ing they would stand pat" and vot to support every amendment that Alt z rich had made in the house bi''
 Therefore it was not necessary fo Aldrich to make a satisfactory e'
 planation as to why a certain rat
 had been advanced. He knew that hi l "stand-patters" outnumbered dem'
 crats and insurgents.
 ' In this way joker after joker ere ] in. And thus was created bill thi l will effect the Ewing expenses of st 1 900 900 people, and which perhaps vi g someday be referred to as "the Al
 rich crime.