The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
REMARKS CULLED FROM THE RECORD Tilt Between LaFollette and
 Shoot JUST NOW IN PRINT Congressional Record Still Being ls- sued In Spite of Fact That Congress Adjourned Two
 Weeks Ago
By WALTER HARPER

Though Congress adjourned two weeks ago. and most of the senators and rep resentatives have gone to their homes or to some recreation point for the rest or the summer, the Congressional Record is still making it's daily appearance. 1 The issue of September l has just reached my desk and is a fair sample or | post-session issues. It contains three speeches by Senator Robert M. LaFollette delivered on three different occasions on the floor of the Senate. The first was de- livered August 15 and was on the confer ence report on the revision or schedule | K of the tariff law. It makes interesting reading and recalls one of the most dra- | matic scenes of the extra session in that rejuvenated body of lawmakers.
 Senator Shoot of Utah, one of the lead CTS of the regular republicans, had just made a strong speech in defense of the present tariff laws. | The opening paragraphs of MT. LaFol- lettes speech and the colloauy that passed worth repeating here. | MT. LaFolette said:
 aMr. President before passing to a discussion of the conference report I am warranted in first taking some notice of the address of the senator from Utah (Mr. SmooD, to which the Senate has just listened This may properly do, because of the statements, tone and cooring of the speech.
 "It is fitting, sir, that the defense of the infamous woolen schedule, when it is at last brought to the bar of this Senate, should be made by a senator who is him. self a beneficiary of the protective duties of that schedule. | MT. Shoot MT. President"
 The Vice President: Does the senator from Wisconsin yield to the senator from Utah?"
 MT. LaFollette: Certainly"
 Mr. Shoot: q have not uttered one word of defense of the Payne-Aldrich bill: I never referred to it." MT. LaFollette: "I do not yield for that, Mr. President" MT. Shoot: "So far as being the bene- ficiary--"
 
 members the senator's speech. If he has something to say in response to what I have just said, 1 will yield for that but will not permit him to take my time to repeat his speech
 The Vice President The senator from Wisconsin declines to yield" S&
 Mir. smoot; T was soing,to say, in re- lation to being a beneficiary="
 The Vice President: ''The senator from Wisconsin declines to yield MT. LaFolette: q yield for state- ment on that subject" The Vice President: .'The senator yields.'
 MT. Smoot "Mr President. so that there will be no misunderstanding about my being a beneficiary under the present law I wish to say to the senator from | Wisconsin that l own S2475 worth of stock | in a woolen mill in this country and 1 will assure the senator that the mill has never paid more than 3 or 4 per cent a | year. That is all that l own in, any wooden mill"
 MT. LaFollette: "Well, MT. President, if the senator admits owning a dollar S worth of stock in a wooden mill, he con- fesses his shame, for he has just engaged in a defense of tariff duties which are a benefit to the industry in which he owns an interest. I accept the senator's state ment as to the extent of his individual holdings in rather a unique position in this Senate. Will he say a certain insti- tuition, intrenched as a stronghold in Utah, is not interested in woolen mills and that it does not own stock In the woolen industries of this country?"
 MT. Shoot: MT. President--"
 The Vice President. "DOes the soma tor from Wisconsin yield to the senator from Utah?"
 Mr LaFollette: q yield'
 MT Shoot; T will gladly say that the wooen mills, and the only mills of Provo, were bought by MT. Jesse Knight at sale. The church-that is what suppose the senator means---''
 MT LaFollette That is exactly what mean
 Mir Shoot Had stock in the original mill, but it was sold out. I cannot say that they own a dollar today in the Knight mill. It is not the Provo mill any longer. but it is owned and controlled by MT. Jesse Knight.
 Another thing l will say, is that I am not the owner of a single head of sheep. nor is the church the owner of single head of sheep
 MT LaFolette: "T take the senator's answers so far as his holdings are con cerned, and I take the senator's answers so far as the particular wooden mill is concerned'
 MT. Shoot: MT. President, will say--'
 Mir LaFollette: But I say, MT. Presi- dent, twithstandng-"
 MT Shoot: They do not own dollar in any woolen mill"
 MT LaFollette "I will say that the sen- ator from Utah has already stated that he is the owner of stock in woolen mill"
 MT Smoot: That is right"
 Mir LaFollette: "lf he is. he never has had any right to vote on tariff schedule that affected the product of that wooden mill. It is an outrage against common deeency that any member Of the United States Senate should vote to- represent his own interests, personal or pecuniary.