Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18

(By Former Mel
Editor Herald The recent sudden
death of Senator J. p. Dolliver, one or
the most prominent progressiVes, ana
the appointment of "Lafe" Young, one
of the most prominent and best
equipped standpatters, and who is also
a warm personal friend of President
Taft and a defender of the recent tar
if bill would seem to make the an
tagonism rather acute between the two
senators from Iowa, as Senator Cum
minis has been one of the most pro-
nounced opponents of that bill. The
closeness of the vote in the legislature
between the two wings of the party
viii be likely to prolong the contest
until late in the session of congress.
The writer has been well acquainted
with Senator Dolliver for twenty-four
years and has followed his career
closely ever since he sprang into prom
inence as the result of his remarkable
speech as temporary chairman of the
state convention.
The senator had from the beginning
of his career warm personal friends in
Chairman Charles Beardsley, Ret
Clarkson and Governor Carpenter the
latter of whom had for him almost the
attachment of father, and is said to
have wept when he was defeated for
the nomination for congress by S. j.
Holmes in 1885, AT the next congress
sional convention in 1888 he was sue
cessful and was elected to congress
by about 5000 majority and became
member of the fifty-first congress, pre-
sided over by that great man, Thomas
b. Reed.
Mr.. Dolliver acquiesced in that rule
more honored in the breach than the
| observance-that a member should as
sert himself very little in his first term
and did not take prominent part.
He came near being overtaken by the
disaster that overlook so many after
the passage of the Mckinley bill, in
Guiding Mckinley himself, Delivers
majority being reduced to about 1000.
The fifty-frst congress passed more
| important legislation than any con-
gress since that lime, including the
Mckinley bill, the disability pension
bill, the Sherman antitrust bill, modi-
| fications of the immigration laws and
other acts of importance. The tariff
! bill reduced the duties in the most of
the articles in iron schedule S4 ton.
| The duty on lumber was reduced to
81 a thousand and many articles were
added to the free list, including bind
ing twine. A higher duty was put on
! tin, of which none was then made in
this country, and it has resulted in the
production of our entire supply.
The great mistake of the Mckinley
bill was the removal of the duty on
sugar, which had produced a revenue
hof near $60,000,O00, and the passage of
the sugar bounty, which caused an in
creased expense OF 15,O00,0 900, constant
ly increasing Senator Sherman of
Ohio did not favor this and Mr.. Blaine
was decidedly opposed to it and Mr..
| McKenna of this state, now a member
of the supreme court, then a member
of the committee Of ways and means,
filed a minority report against it.
| These measures added to the addition
al charge of over 100000 900 caused by
the disability pension bill, changed a
surplus of $7O,000,100 annually which
| had been continuous during all the
years of Clevelands first term and the
first years of Harrisons term to a
deficit of over $3.50 000,0 900. and in its
effect brought on the panic of 1898,
from which the country had only par
TALLY recovered when the Wilson bill
went into effect in 1895.