The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-16
Senator Urges Republicans to
Drop Tariff
STEPS ON CUMMINS' TOES
Iowan Refuses to Indorse Colleagues
Move for Piecemeal Revision--The
Senate Gets a Surprise from
Iowa Senator.

Washington Dec l6. Senator Lafay-
cite Young Of Iowa made his maiden
speech in the Senate yesterday and
stepped on the toes Of his colleague, SEN
ator Cummins While agreeing that tar
iff revision was necessary, he refused
to. indorse the Cummins proposal to
amend the rules of the Senate and House
TO bring such thing to pass In clos
ing he called on those Republicans
pledged to a revision to accomplish all
they can by March 4 and then ito sub
side with their agitation and give the
country rest"
My colleague on Tuesday said there
were gross inequalities in the tariff
enacted in 1909 said Mr. Young at the
outset. This statement is undoubtedly
true, and would be true if my colleague
and those in sympathy with him We're
TO put in the next five years in rewrit-
ing the schedules. Schedules aro n~oiif"
in opportunity for attack. 1t has al
WAYS been true, and will continue to
be true so long as there is a duty ON
imports"
go After Middleman."
The Iowa senator challenged any
member to state his belief that the
farmer was receiving too much for his
products. He declared that it had been
irtimated thqt tie mildleman was get
ting too great share of the value of
1a1u prouuets.
III this be true,' lie demanded why
strike at the producer? Why not 90
after the middleman direct?"
With the declaration that tariff leg
islation never can be made perfect nor
universally satisfactory Mr. Young
urged that the duty of public mon md
the public press was to accept the
Payne-Aldrich law and let the ,uunJfy
get down to the transaction of bus
mess.
"The tariff ought to be revised he
continued, "as the president has sug-
gested, in a scientific way, one schedule
at time | might not be willing to
object to the rule proposed by my col
league which would prohibit the offer
ing of amendments to a schedule which
might be pending were | not afraid that
the first schedule to be pending would
be the schedule covering farm products
Such being the case, Mr.. Young con-
tinued, the great farming states would
be attacked by the South. the Rocky
mountain states and New England. Uu
der the combined attack Of the great
manufacturing and mining regions, the
agricultural states would be practically
helpless. Because of this condition, he
said he hoped the Cunmjns rule would
not be adopted and at this junction in
dulged in a fling at his colleague.
Fling at Cummins
81 am surprised, also" he declared,
that my colleague, who has been fight
ing bravely and CALAMITY to nshaellle
the members Of the House from the
tyranny of the rules. should undertake
to bring the shackles into the Senate
Yet my distinguished colleague seeks to
make it impossible for me to defend the
only products Of our home people"
Demanding TO know who was dis
satisfied with the tariff, the senator
declared the time had come to end the
tariff discussion. He agreed with Presi
dent Taft, he said, that the country
needed rest.
Would it be presumptuous for me to
suggest to such Republicans as have been
attacking the tariff, he inquired, with
ironical emphasis, "that they leave that
to the Democrats who are preparing to
take control OF taat particular branch
of the government where revenue bill 5
shall originator
'Let me suggest further to such Re-
publcans as are in favor of low tariff
that they press the matter with all their
might and accomplish all they can pre-
vious to the 4th Of March, and then
would it be too much TO ask them to
subside with their agitation and give
the country a rest?"