Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
PRICE PROBE A FAKE!
LAFoLLETTE CHARGES THAT
SENATE COMMITTEE HAS
BEEN "FIxED."
PLANS TO PREPARE MATERIAL
ON WHICH TO MAKE CAMPAIGN
LaFoIIette Insists AIdrich and Others
Have Kept Control of Committee
All Members AIdrich Henchmen With
Possible Exception Of Crawford
Other Washington News.
Especial lCorrespondence.l

| Washington, March. 2-Senator La
! Toilette, of Wisconsin, in the latest is
sue of his magazine, comes out with
sweeping attack on the probe into the
cost of living in the senate.
/ Asking the question:, "Will This
Probe Go Deep?" Senator LaFollette
proceeds to show why, in his belief, it
will not go deep and will not draw
blood.
He characterizes the senate investi-
| cation as nothing less than a senator
ial investigation to prepare politica!
| campaign material to prove that the
new tariff has not advanced prices"
He declares the "Aldrich machine" is
responsible and that the system man
agement of the party" seeks to escape
condemnation on technicality.
| The general increase in prices of
articles of everyday consumption since
| the new tariff law became effective"
says Senator LaFollette," and especial
| ly advances in the prices of manu-
featured products on which the tariff
was increased, has been universally at
tributed by the people and the press
primarily to the new tariff law The
standpat party leaders have been
forced on the defensive. The repub-
sentatives is threatened The system
control of the government is in jeopar-
dy. The Aldrich- Cannon management
has had recourse to measures which
are heroic, if not desperate"
Senate/Leaders in Control.
Senator LaFollette then proceeds to
set forth how the senate leaders have
kept the control of the investigation in
their own hands. He tells the story of
the Introduction of the original resolu-
ton by Senator Ell<ins, who he says,
has keener sense of public senti-
ment than most of the senate leaders"
He points out that by the rules of
courtesy in the senate Senator Elkins
would have been entitled to be chair
man of the committee but how he was
not given place on the committee at
ALL Senator LaFollette says that evil
IDENTIFY the vigorous senator from West
Virginia was not wanted by the AL
drich management to make an investi-
cation which was intended 'to prove
that the tariff has not advanced
prices"
Then, Senator LaFollette takes up the
personnel of the committee as it was
selected. He begins with Senator Lodge
and tells first of his appointment to a
belonged to the middle west or south
He says Lodge was named to 'cinch'
New England's domination of the
finarce committee and Lodges profess
sion being that of literature and the
cotton goods schedule requiring some
literary touches" He makes light of
Senator Lodges efforts to demonstrate
in a tariff speech that the tariff had
nothing to do with high prices and says
that turnout the tariff session Lodge
was the faithful and consistent sup
porter of the Aldrich tariff boosting
pro gram"
All Aidrich Henchmen.
Senator Gallinger, Senator McCum-
Der Senator Smoot and Senator Craw-
ford. the other republican members of
the committee to investigate prices, are
then taken up, one by one, and de-
scrihed. Senator LaFollette says Gal
linger represents practically the same
degree of answering loyalty to the
Aldrich management and to the Aldrich
tariff as does Lodge. Only thrice out of
127 roll calls on the tariff bill did CAL
linger dissent from Aldrich's program
1t is pointed out that McCumber
voted against "the Aldrich duties less
than dozen times in the whole tariff
SeSSlCn anu ludl lie IS III no pOSlLlOn TO
report on the effects of the new tar
iff
AS for Senator smoot, Senator La
Foilette says:
Never once in all the tariff session
did Smoot vote against Aldrich. For
Smoot tho an apostle in his own right
in Utah, is a newer of wood and a
drawer of water in Aldrich's finance
committee in Washington" LaFollette
declares Smoot will prove the tariff has
nothing to do with high prices, for che
has got to-
Crawford is said to be the only re-
publican on the committee in position
ITO give a real investigation.
Taking up the dem ocrats on the COM
mittee, Simmons and Clarke of Ar
kansas, Senator LaFollette says they
will be no embarrassment to Senator
Aldrich's majority on the committee
He aiiudes to Senator Simmons "con-
spicuous service in the senate for the
lumber interests in the tariff fight
WILSON IMPATIENT