Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-15
'LAFE' YOUNG IN
MAIDEN SPEECH f.
LACES CUMM|NS
|lowa's Junior Senator Passes
J Over Some Warm Remarks
on His Colleague.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator
Lafayette Young. of Iowa, made his
maiden speech in the Senate today. In
cidentally, he stepped on the toes of
his colleague, Senator Cummins, and
while agreeing that tariff revision was
necessary, refused to indorse the Cum
Minis proposal to amend the rules OF
the Senate and House, to bring such a
thing to pass. In closing he called on
those Republicans pledged to a revision
to accomplish all they can by March
4, and then ito subside with their agi-
tation and give h country a rest.
MY colleague on Tuesday said there
were gross inequalities in the tarif1
enacted in 1909" said Mr.. Young at the
outset. This statement is doubted
ly true and would be true If my col
league and those in sympathy with him
were to put in the next Ave years In
rewriting the schedules. Schedules are
prolific in opportunity for attack. 1t
has always been true and will continue
to be true SO long as there Is a duty
on imports"
With the declaration hat tariff leg
~islation never can be made perfect nor
universally satisfactory. Mr.. Young
urged that the duty of public men n
lit puO1lC plCoo was oASSRN hihO
Payne-Aldrich law and let the country
get down to the transaction of bust
ness. He pointed out that changes in
the bill will not stem the tide of criti-
cism setting in from those interests
whose welfare is touched.
Talks ON Tnrif.
1.-The tariff ought to be revised" he
continued, "as the President has sug-
gested, in a scientific way, one sched-
ule at a time. / might not be willing
to object to the rule proposed by my
colleague, which would prohibit the Of
fering- of amendments to a schedule
which might be pending, were l 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.
Under the combined attack of the great
manufacturing n mining regions the
agricultural States would be practical
ly helpless. Because of this condition,
he said, he hoped the Cummtns rule
would not be adopted, n at this
juncture INDUCED in a fling at his col
league.
II am surprised Also" he declared,
"that my colleague, who has been fight
ing bravely and CALAMITY to
the members of the House from the
tyranny of the rules, should undertake
to bring the same shackles into the
Senate. Yet my distinguished col
league seeks to make it impossible Tor
me to defend the only products OF our
home people,"
Agrees with President Taft.
Demanding to know who was dissat-
isfied with the tariff, the senator de-
ciared the time had come to end the
tariff discussion. He agreed with Pres
ident Taft, he said. that the country
needed q rest. W
Would it be presumptuous for me 10
suggest to such Republicans as have
been attacking the tariff he inquired,
with ironical emphasis, that they leave
that to the Democrats, who are pre-
pairing to take control Of that particu-
lar branch of the government where
revenue bills shall originate? Let me
suggest further to such Republicans as
are In favor of low tariff that they
press the matter with all their might
and accomplish all they can previous to
the 4th OF March, and then would 1t be
too much to ask them to subside with
their agitation and give the country a
rest?"