The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-06-12
TARIFF
QUESTION !!
Up AGAIN
Discussion Of Civil Sundry Ap-
preparation Bill Stirs Up
the Senate.
BILL PROVIDES FUND
FOR TARIFF INQUIRY
Senator'S Get Humorous and Per
sonal In Their Re-
marks.
BILL PROVIDES FUND
FOR TARIFF INQUIRY

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE tar
iR question again occupied the atten-
tion of the senate throughout today
and the discussion was not concluded
The subject came up in connection
with the provision In the sundry civil
appropriation bill, providing a fund
Of S250.000 with which to enable the
president to investigate the operation
of the present tariff law. The discus
sion was participated In by a large.
number of senators and took a wide
range, which everybody understood to
be largely colored by political condl-
tions.
Senator Clay opened the debate
with a sharp Democratic speech.
charging that the measure was In
tended TO delude the "insurgent" Re
publicans into the belief that there
was to be another revision of the tar
In, which he tried TO prove by several
Republican senators with some meas
ure of success, He was supported by
Senator Bailey on the Democratic
side of the chamber. They succeeded
in bringing Senator Aldrich into the
controversy, with the result that he
made defense OF the present law
and succeeded in again bringing Sen
ator BeyeriGge TO his feet
The Indiana senator and the Rhode
Island senator found opportunity TO
thresh out their old controversy over
the authorship of the Investigation
provision of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill. but with the result that each held
To his original contention.
he alone was responsible for the pro
vision While claiming credit for the
tariff commission bill of last session,
the Indiana senator asserted that but
for the general agitation resulting
from that bill there never would have
been an investigation clause in the
bill
Mr.. Aldrlch said that he desired the
information the $250,000 would elicit
as justification of the present law,
which he and numerous other Repub
llcan senators pronounced the best
tariff law that ever was placed on the
statute books All the regulars eX.
pressed the opinion that there would
not soon be a new revision OF the
tariff
Incidental TO the debate there were
some amusing incidents. Senators
Bailey and Johnson made reference to
the telegram sent by Senator Beyer-
idge to Senator Clapp after the close
OF the Indiana senator's speech, In
which the senator was quoted as eay-
| ing he had kicked the stomach of
the tariff bill" Mr.. Johnson con
strued this language into meaning
that Beveridge had disturbed the
"epldermis in the abdominal region OF
the tariff"
Mr. Hepburn was among the speak
ers. and Mr. Hale called forth the
cpithet of "insolent" from the Idaho
senator BY appealing TO Senator Cum
minis mot to wind him up again,
when the Iowa senator sought TO In
terrupt the Idaho member
The fact appearing that various
senators still desired to be heard
Senator Hale reluctantly moved an adj
journment without reaching vote
on either Senator Clay's motion to
strike out the provision or on the
final passage of the Sundry civil bill.
The senator from Maine expressed
deep regret that an appropriation bill
should he the occasion for such po-
litical debate.