The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-14
People Are Deliberately
Humbugged by Ad-
ministration.
GREAT HOAXES
OF THE PAST YEAR
One Was DR.. Cooks Discovery
of North Pole, the Other AID
rich's Downward Revision
of Tariff-Senator Dolliver
Makes Stirring Defense
Of insurgency.

Washington, June Is.-Senator Dol
liver answered. the critics of the In
snrgents to-day in speech delivered
In the Senate during the discussion OF
the provision OF the sundry civil ap-
Precipitation bill providing s250,o00 to
enable the President to gather infor-
nation bearing upon the operation OF
the new tariff law.
Senator Gays motion to strike out
the provision was lost by party vote
OF 13 TO "a, MIR Dolliver and his fell
low prosressiyes voting with the Reg
ular Republicans. The sundry civil
bill. carrying appropriations aggre-
eating sl1S,0D0,000. then was passed
Mr.. Delivers speech attracted wide
spread interest, and was Listened to
attentively. II was the reply of the
lnsurgent Senator'S to the charges of
party disloyaity and was direct chal-
lenge to their opponents in the party.
The Presidents name was freely han
died and his speeches were referred to
without reserve.
Hereafter. said Mr.. Doluver. it was
evident that men entering Congress
must become either understudies or
lshna elites. Il reject the terms and
shall contend for independence within
the party
Not for Popularity.
Discussing the Presidents course
toward the Insurgents, MIR. DoIliver de-
clared that they were not playing for.
popularity, as mad been charged. ami
speaking of his personal relations
with the President. he declared that
he had never done anything 10 lnjure
the administration.
Such charge does me the gravest
injustice.' ne declared
The President is in error" declar-
ed Mr.. Dolliver 1T is not necessary
for men to swallow every tariff bill
that is set before them. and IL Will be
difficult TO get me out OF the party on
such charge. il, cannot he done By
lying about me or by calling me
names, such as Free Trader or Demo-
crat Least of all. 1t cannot be done
by taking from my neck the milestone
of political patronage I share the
universal disgust of making a great
eNecutive department the headquar-
ters OF the awkward squad of poll
tics"
Mr. Dolliver undertook to show that
rates had been raiSed-+most of them
in an unnecessary secret way and by
the iron and steel. the sugar and
WOODEN schedules. Many of the esti-
mates given out We're intended to de-
ceive,. he declared.
Mr. Dolliver asserted tina; II was
strategic mistake to circulate the
Presidents Winona speech along with
his Lincoln Day address, as they were
contradictory In terms.
The President had given entirely diff
ferent reasons in the two speeches for
considering the Payne law. tho best
ever enacted he said He declared
that the tariff was being bolstered up
by bogus figures.
Last year witnessed two important
hoaXes." continued Mr. Dolliyer. "the
discovery of the North Pole by DR..
Cook, and the revision OF the tariff
downward by Senator Aldrich." he said
When the laughter which greeted this
remark had died out, he added that
executive felicitations had been ten
dered upon both events.
Denouncing the cotton schedule as
"humbug," Mr. Douiver declared
that Notwithstanding protestations to
the contrary, there had been increases
from so TO 100 per cent. He asserted
that the President had been egregious-
sly misled by persons interested in maxi
ing a different showing. "It Is vain
to try to cover up the situation; the
truth is that the Dingley law was
eviscerated, and the facts will be
known"
Mr.. Dolliver closed with the express
sion of confidence that the time was
near at hand when the public would
demand more justice in law making and
higher standards on the part Of legls-
lators themselves.
After Mr.. Clay's motion to strike
out the provision had been defeated,
Senator Bacon moved to amend the
provision SO as to require that not
more than two-thircs of the experts
to be employed under the paragraph
should be of one political party. He
charged that partisan inquiry was
contemplated. The amendment was
voted down and the bill then was pass
ed.