The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-25
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man who would act as a wet blanket.
Senator Burrows was put In the chair.
"Rubber Stamp Senator"
Not only when the Aldrich leaders
fall out does the public get glimpse
OF the inside workings OF the Aldrich
control, but also when they embrace
each other and grow fulsome and fool
ish In extolling each others virtues
and ability--to deliver the goods
is the public sometimes taken inside
and given look around This hap
pened a few days ago at Detroit. Mich.
Aldrich was i'm town and Burrows was
showing him off 10 some OF Michigans
leading citizens. In extolling Aldricn
TO gathering at the Cadillac hotel,
Burrows said:
Whenever I wanted anything Tor
Michigan, have always known where
TO go to get IL, and he never failed
me-.
The distinguished senior senator
from Michigan told his hearers that,
II they were disposed to accord him
any credit for the things he had got
for Michigan, their gratitude was mis-
plaCeQ. mat IL pttOuSco " ef&c 49,
ator from Rhode Island.
But Burrows did not tell his peo-
pie about the one-sided bargain py
which he had secured for Michigan
the kindly Offices OF Aldrich In De
half of anything Burrows wanted
for Michigan He did not tell them
that Aldrich's service in getting these
things for Burrows for Michigan
were not given freely by Aldrich
out OF the goodness OF his heart, put
were based upon a consideration.
Burrows did not tell his people that
this consideration was q fidelity 10
the Aldrich control that ranks Sena.
tor Burrows well up with Smoot and
Kean. and Flint and Sutherland and
Lodge, and Penrost. and the other
'me-to' system senators OF the Aid
rich machine. The Michigan senator
did not explain that in return for the
little dribbles of pap and petty IA
vors which Aldrich had conferred up
on him for Michigan, he had, In the
words Of Steve" Elkins, come I'M
der the yoke and had become good,
obedient and servile' and had traded
TO Aldrich Michigan's representation
In the senate Of the United States.
Control Not Mysterious.
"The Aldrich control, to those who
study IL closely. is no mysterious. II
could as we'll be a Burrows control
or a Smoot control or a Kean control
with no more of ability OF leadership
or magnetism than any Of these sena-
tors possess II any OF them were
equally irresponsible to his constitu-
ency and were picked by the System
for the Job and were given by the
System a solid support of me-too.
rubber-stamp senators ready to fol
low them through thick and thin
without asking or knowing whittier.
Speaking of Burrows votes on the
tariff BILL the magazine says:
I'm a few instances Senator Bur
rows voted against increases on duty.
He voted against increases OF the du-
ty on pineapples He voted TO
reduce the living expenses of work
ing people by admitting free OF duty
old paintings and works Of art.
HE acted against the tenets of
protective principle for increased
profits to the interests exploiting
Philippine labor in voting for the ad.
| mission of Philippine cigars, and
against amendments to restrict that
importation, while thousands OF Am.
erican cigarmakers were walking the
streets in search of work."
ION the duty on hides there was a
conflict of powerful interests, and
Michigan with the rest of the Middle
West was for free hides. Burrows
voted against the committee amend
mont IN mt a dutv ~ TX nor cont
on hides. But he also voted twice
against amendments to put hides and
manufacturers Of hides on the free
list. Out OF 1923 yea and nay votes
on the tariff bill In the senate, this
was the only time Burrows differed
from Aldrich."