The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-30
SENATOR BRISTOW
HAS GOOD LAUGH
Filters Loudly When He Hears
Roar Let Loose by Boss
Of the Senate.
TALKS ON RUBBER RATES
AND SAYS the RHODE ISLANDER
iNcRGAsGo DUTY ON THE PROD.
ucT TO PROTECT THE AMERi.
CAN MONOPOLY.

New York, July 30-As to the future
Bristow yesterday was shown a copy
of the article In which Senator AID
rich said the Kansas senator had told
q pack OF lies about him. After read
Ing 1t carefully. Senator Bristow
laughed and said: .....--
why. Aldrich Is mad. isn't he?"
The statements which Senator Aid
rich made and Senator Bristow had
been reading were:
That Bristow had been telling lies
about Aldrich.
That the charges now being made
by Senator Bristow in his Western
speeches. were not made by the Kan.
san on the floor of the senate.
That Bristow charged that Aldrich
had increased the cotton schedule for
speculation purposes. Mr.. Aldrich
contented himself with laughing at
this charge.
The Bristow charge in regard to
the Rubber Trust Senator Aldrich left
20 be answered by Secretary Dutton OF
the International Rubber company, an
Aldrich concern.
Increased Demand Blamed.
Secretary Dutton said in regard to
the Bristow charges that there is no
duty on crude rubber. and that increas-
ed demand Is responsible for the great
increase In the price of crude rubber.
mr.. Aldrich says that have been
lying about him." continued Senator
Bristow, but he does not specify what
particular misstatement I have made.
Every statement that I made in re-
gard to rubber. lead. cotton or any
other schedule is based upon the tari!r
bills as published In Poor's manual o!
1ndustrials for 1910: the Wall Street
Journal Of June "a. 1910; Moore's Man.
ual and the charters Of the rubber COM
panies that were merged into the In
continental Rubber Company. II Mr..
Aldrich will specify the particular
fact that have stated which he denies
then II can be demonstrated whether
or not have misrepresented him.
Referring to his statement that
did not make these allegations upon
the floor Of the senate, he well knows
that according to the rules of that
body. one senator cannot criticise an.
other upon the floor.
Never said There Was Duty.
80 far AZ buttons statement Is con-
cerned, I have never said that there
was duty on crude rubber. The In
tercontinental Rubber Company, in
which Aldrich and his associates are
heavy stockholders. control a very
large per cent OF the crude rubber OF
the world.
Its Mexican plantations are pro-
ducing now, according to Poor's Man.
ual and the Wall Street Journal, about
100000 pounds of crude rubber q
month. which Is imported into the
United States free of duty.
III there had been duty placed up
on crude rubber Mr.. Aldrich's com.
pany would have been paying a part
of the tax to sustain the government,
but instead Of taxing crude rubber
he Increased the duty on manufact.
ured rubber 20 as to decrease the
amount Of manufactured rubber i'm.
ported. thereby protecting the monop.
oily In this country from foreign com
petition.
referring to the statement that Mr.
Aldrich probably will run again for
the senate In order to vindicate him.
self. there Is q belief on the part OF q
large number OF persons that his an.
nouncement that he did not expect to
run again was not sincere, but for the
purpose of avoiding the fight which
his continuance in the senate was Ger.
tain to bring about. I have taken II
for granted that when he said that
he expected to retire that he meant
what he said. In this. however.
may have been mistaken"