The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-16
New Senator from Iowa Surprises Colleagues By
 Maiden Speech
OPPOSES ALL REVISION
 OF TARIFF AT PRESENT
Youns Anaxes the Dignified Senate By Declaring That the Country Would Feel Relieved at a Long
 Adjournment


 fayette Young of Iowa today gave the legislative body of which he has been a member exactly 10 days, the surprise of its existence. He had prepared to make an attack on his colleague, Sen ator Cunmins, who seeks passage of concurrent resolution changing the rules of the House and Senate so as to per init piecemeal revision of the Payne Aldrich tariff law. This he did. and more.
 Doffing his toga when he arose, he bowed to the grave and dignfed sena- tors from the standpoint of an editor, which he is in private life.
 The Senate gasped and then laughed when MT. Young told 1t that the country would feel relieved were Congress to adjourn altogether for two solid" years. It gasped again when he alluded to it's members in breezy fashion as "boys" and when he declared that the editors of the country and not Congress ruled the country, the galleries joined with senators In general hilarity.
 Senator Young's speech, which occu- pied less than an hour, commanded the strictest attention. The senator had pre- pared an address which was before him on his desk, but he seldom consulted the printed transcript He warmed as he proceeded and apparently realizing that it must be at once his salutatory and his swan song he spoke his real thoughts on legislation and national legislation"
 His reference to editors and printers ink as the real directors of the destiny of the nation was followed by disavowal of any intent to offend.
 When he called his colleagues "boys" he accompanied it with a wave of his hand. This incident followed a story of law, just as he was about to take the train for Washington and the Senate. a constituent 'button-holed" him.
 ..Go down there. Senator" said the constituent. "and for Heavens sake put up-a fight for the consumer"
 "I will not" MT. Young said he re- piled. Those boys are doing that. I am going to fight for the producer. !. Standing in Senator Tillman's place, MT. -Young attracted general attention when he arose, not only because of the novelty involved in a set speech from new sen ator but because of the quaintness and forcefulness of his language as he warmed to his work.
 MT. Young opposed all efforts at re- vision of the existing tariff law because, as he contended, the law protects the interests of the farmer. He had great fear, he said, that ultimately the adop- tion of the resolution would prove in- furious to the great agricultural inter ests.
 ''The principal complaint against the tariff as regards prices, he said, ''has had reference to the products of the farmers. Therefore. we might anticipate that the first schedule that would come from the other house would be the agri- cultural schedule. I would be afraid for Secretary Wilson or any number of great farmers to be caught alone with that schedule with no means of defense.
 '"rhe weapons of offense and defense in legislation are the right of amendment and the privilege of offering substitutes. My colleauge would take from himself and myself the right of introducing the woolen schedule as a substitute for any proposed amendment which might put agricultural products on the free list. So should the proposed rule become the law of the two houses we would be de- nied the privilege of fighting for our in- terests by the arraignment and introduce ton of the interests of others
 MT. Young spoke of the recent elec- tions and plainly referring to the pro- gressve republicans said that arguments made by men within the republican party had produced democratic votes. In dis cussing the attacks by insurgents upon the principle of protection, MT. Young told of meeting Col William Jeennings Bryan recently and saying to him that just as the latter had progressed in fit- ness for the presidency his chances had diminished and that as he had now be- come conservative his party would not prefer him for that high office.