The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-30

cordially approve the course of our
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress in'voting for the measure.
Resolved, That we heartily endorse
the attitude of Congressman Plumley
| in his support of President Taft's ad-
ministration and we commend his po-
sitioa favoring a modification of rules
of the House which restores to it real
| legislative power, removes the con-
troll of the Speaker and has given a
fatal blow to the old regime so long
dominant in the HOUSE.
The Nominating Speech.
Mr.. Plumley's name was placed in
nomination by W. w. Holden of North
field, who paid high compliment to
the Congressman as citizen and
public official Mr. Holden said that
he did not even pretend to be an or
ator. but merely desired to place be-
bore the convention the name of one
had been tried and not found wanting
and one who had proven himself wor-
thy of all the public offices he had
ever held He referred to Mr.. Plum
ley's services to Vermont and the ma
tion during his first term, which had
not yet expired and declared that in
the Congressman whole political
career he had never attempted to OBJ
tain any office through corrupt prac
tees, but on the contrary, had al
ways and invariably stood out for
clean politics and the square deal.
"He never bought an office" said he
speaker, "and has always been a
champion of clean politics. Mr..
Holden said that Congressman Plum
ley was the friend of the farmer and,
in fact, of all honest labor and had
shown himself the friend of the
Grand Army man.
Unanimously Elected.
The nomination OF Mr. Plumley
was seconded by the chairman of the
different county delegations and he
was then declared by the chair as
the unanimous choice of the conven-
ton.
The chair appointed a committee of
three delegates, Holden of Northfield,
Jeffries of Burke and Boyle of Ran
dolph to find Mr.. Plumley and escort
him to the platform. In few mo-
ments the nominee appeared and de-
livered an address of some length,
eulogizing Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Roose-
velt and giving an accoupt in detail
of the work of the last Congress, not
ending without paying his respects
to the Democratic party which, he
said, knew history well enough but
seldom made a chapter
Mr.. Plumley said In part substan-
TALLY as follows:
The primary purpose of tariff act
is to produce requisite revenue for
the conduct of the Government. This
the Dingley Act was latterly unable
to accomplish.
The ordinary disbursements for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1909 over
dinary receipts We're 6,491, 1878
With less than eleven months in SER
vice the deficit this year will be not
far from 100000. and were the
corporation tax paid there would be
surplus today of about $14,000,0O0.
The actual increase in receipts in less
than eleven months of the Payne Tar
iff are S52205, ,494.22. And notwith-
standing the fact that the country
has grown and its needs have sim
| ilarily expanded economy in admins
tration has reduced the ordinary an
nual disbursements nearly $4,000,000.
AS a revenue producer it has Justified
its existence and in that essential par
| ticular it has proved by far better
tariff than its predecessor. The av-
erage percentage of increase of in
come of the Payne Tariff Act over
the Dingley Tariff for the time it has
been in force is about % per cent.
1t is also important that in arrang-
ing our tariff laws we provide a suit
able weapon for obtaining trade or
J tariff concessions from other coun-
tries and to meet or prevent unjust
determinations by foreign countries
and to accomplish this, maximum and
! minimum rates were favored by our
| platform of 1908. These the Payne
! Tariff provided, establishing that max
imum at 25 per cent. Immediately a
claim went out that this would even
tually add % per cent. to all tariff
schedules and in some calculations
it was actually added to establish the
claim of revision upwards. Instead
however, every nation has consented
to remove determinations against her
!, commerce and the maximum rate has
served its purpose without being put
; in actual use in any case. And the
wisdom of the Republican platform
} which proposed the remedy, the abil-
= ity of the Congress which provided
it and the skill in administration
: which applied it are all vindicated by
the benefcient results.
The next requirement in a Repub.
lican tariff is that 1t shall furnish