The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-14
TAFT ATTACKED
BY LA TOILETTE
IN THE SENATE
Administration of the Presi-
dent Denounced in I'm
measured Terms by
Wisconsin Man.
VOTE ON CANADIAN
PACT NEAR AT HAND
Other Legislation to Be Con-
sidered; Date of Ad-
iournment Still Mat
ter of Doubt.
VOTE ON CANADIAN
PACT NEAR AT HAND
TAT AsHINGToN, July 1.-two
NM important insurgcnt speeches
Wv against the Canadian reci

VIZ ASHINGTON, July 13.-Twc
NM important insurgent speeche:
Wv against the Canadian reci
procity bill were made today
when Senators La Toilette of Wiscon-
sin and Bristow of Kansas. introduced
their amendments to that measure and
spoke in favor of them and against the
specific features of the pending bill.
Senator La Toilette excoriated Presi-
dent Taft S administration. not only
with reference to the tariff legislation
proposed, but also on his conservation
policies.
Hoping to reach Il vote on the reci-
procity bill next week, which Chairman
Penrose of the senate finance committee
regards as "neXt to certainty
leaders on both sides of the senate
chamber are figuring seriously on the
subsequent programme.
Most Of them have counted upon get
ting away after perfunctory votes on
the Democratic free list and wooden
bills, but today it became evident that
other legislation will be pressed for
consideration.
Will Demand Votes.
The friends of the Arizona New
Mexico statehood and reapportionment
bills especially will demand votes, as
Will advocates of the campaign pub
licity bill
There is an agreement on an amend
ment TO the statehood bill eliminating
the judiciary recall question, which
would render the measure generally sat
isfactory, but the understanding does
70 bo
cans and there is possibility Of trouble
among them. 1t is probable, however,
that an adjustment will be reached on
this measure, Much politics is in
volved in the apportionment bill and if
1t gets through it will do SO only after
extended discussion.
Whatever their fate, these bills must
be taken into consideration in ali ad
Journment calculations.
Senator La Toilette expects to occu-
py most of the session tomorrow and
Saturday with his speech against reci-
procity.
Senator La Toilette reviewed. act by
act, the administration of President
Taft in unsparing terms and declared
that the contest involved was the
Eight between the plain people and
confederated privilege
CONSIDERED as q measure OF reci-
the Canadian agreement, "it violates
every tariff principle Of reciprocity
heretofore expressed in the platform
declarations of the Republican party
and recommended by former Republican
presidents. Considered as tariff bill,
1t violates every tariff principle and
platform promise upon which William
ii. Taft was elected president.
In the beginning it was heraldcd
as a blessing to the consumers. So was
the tariff bill Of 1909. 1t promises
to reduce duties for the benefit of
the people. 1t reduces no duties, the
effects OF which can ever reach the
people. but it does reduce duties for
the mlllers, the packers, Standard Oil,
the brewers. the coal combines. and in
some measure for the already grossly
protected interests. 1t is nothing that
it pretends to be and processes to be
nothing that it is. 1t is little broth
er to the Payne-Aldrich bill. the great
est legislative wrong inflicted upon the
American people in half century"
Criticizes Taft.
The speaker said that the pending
legislation based ON the Canadian pact
was so related to the "stranpe course
OF Mr.. Taft on the tariff question and
the policies which be was selected to
maintain that the real stable worth
of his recommendations could not be
fairly Judged without reviewing the
more important issues involved in his
election and the most important acts
of his administration.
Continuing his criticism of Mr.. Taft 8
administration, Senator La Toilette
said:
Throughout the first pages of his
first general message he found no space
to say word for the great measures
that had made the name of his prede.
cessor revered and loved everywhere in
the United States. Is it to be won
dered at that the Republican voter in
1910 felt that he had several scores
TO settlei a president whom he had
elected, believed him to be the Gus
todian of the Roosevelt policies. had
dismissed the Roosevelt cabinet and ap.
pointed in their places men, in the
main, of known hostility to those poll
cies.
"Iu all the record of this admins.
tratlon, no more glaring example is
presented of the complete surrender TO
special interests and the complete re-
versal of Roosevelt's progressive poll
cies than that shown in dealing with
the amendments TO the interstate com
meree act IL would have been difficult
to have framed d piece of legislation
affecting interstate commerce moro
harmful 70 the public interest than the
bill drafted by the attorney general
and recommended to congress by PresI-
dent Taft
Platform of 1908.
After reviewing the declaration of
the Republican platform Of 1908 on con
servation Mr. La Toilette went into the
record of the Ballinger- Pinchot contro
Of the interior department down to the
recent dismissal of the Cunningham
claims.
"The. congressional investigation OF
the Al$skan coal scandal said he
CONFIRMED the public opinion which