The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-18
Lodges Substitute for the
Sugar Measure Ordered Re-
ported FavOrably.
ADVERSE on INCOME TAX
Criticism for Roosevelt for the
Way He DOdged Action
on the Tariff.

and reports on two OF the bills
that have been pending in that committee.
IL was strict partisan alignment on the
question Of reporting the bills Senator
La Toilette was absent campaigning for
President. The committee by strict
party vote authorized Senator Lodge To
report his proposed substitute for the
Housn' bill. revising the sugar schedule
and by the same alignment directed Sena-
tor Cullom to report adversely the Under
wood bill proposing an excise or income
tax on all copartnershps and corpora
tions doing yearly business in excess OF
5000
Senator Smoot. who has a substitute
of his own for the sugar bill, voted to-
day for Senator Lodges bill, hut re-
served the right TO offer his own measure
on the floor Of the Senate. Senator
Lodges bill proposes to eliminate the
Dutch standard test and the differentials,
leaving the duties as they are under the
Payne -Aldrich law. Senator Smoot's bill
would preserve the Dutch standard
and the differentials and make reduc-
tion Of from 20 To 25 per cent in the duties
BY the terms Of Senator Lodges bill the
revision will not take effect until six
months after the passage Of the act.
Senator Lodge submitted the report
later in the day in the Senate and Senator
Cullom made brief report recommending
that the excise bill do not pass the Senate.
Democratic members Of the Finance
Committee will Offer substitute later.
which will be supported by minority
report proposing reduction OF 80 1-3
per cent. on sugar and 40 per cent. on
moasees from the present rates. Later
n the Senate the steel bill was taken up
and discussed at length. The first
speaker was Senator Watson. Democrat
from West Virginia who made his first
important speech. The feature of his
speech was a reference to Col Roosevelt
and the progressive Republicans. He
said:
It Is we'll known that reformation Of
the tariff Is an article OF faith with those
who are known as progressives. and yet
remember that the arch progressive Of
all. who is now pushing his own cam
paign for a third term in the Presidency.
was In the White House for seven years
without ever lifting finger TO secure a
revision of the tariff. II cannot he said
that this total Indifference on the part of
the former President was due to isnor-
ancc, for as far back as 1902 he con-
sdered the proprtety of recommending to
Congress the appointment Of tariff
commission whose duty II should be to
prepare a revision " the schedules on
which some action might be based,
But while Mr.. Roosevelt was insistent
and persistent upon all kinds Of lesisla-
tion and In his general effort to regulate
oil fArr Of h,,cty anfi ha
not be induced even to make a genuine
demand for the tentative notion OF reform
which he had thus conceived. He allowed
one OF the worst tariffs ever placed on
the statute books-the Dinclcy act OF
lsa1-to continue in operation absolutely
without disturbance throughout the whole
seven years which, as ne himself an.
nounced, are to be- considered two terms
In the White House. This is Mr. Roose-
velts record AS a tariff reformei II
should be borne in mind by those who
| are now sending abroad his criticisms
Of President Tafts action in signing the
tarf act Of 1909 that in praising that
unfair and partisan enactment as the
best ever there is nothing To be expected
from President Roosevelt with reference
to the tariff should he again enter the
White House. Experience has shown him
as one who had not the courage to at.
tack this fundamental problem, knowing
AS he did that the foundations OF his
party's supremacy We're laid upon tar IL
favoritism and special privilege.
Senator Smoot followed Senator Wat.
son Much of the time the Utah Sena;o.
was in the midst of n colloquial debate
with senator t'ummins. Senator Newlands
and senator Wilson. He had not con-
cluded his speech at o'clock when
having expressed Il desire for a rest. the
Senate agreed to lay aside the bill until
Monday. when senator Smoot will re-
sume
just before the bill was laid aside there
was an interesting colloquy bearing on
the tariff Legislative programme in the
Senate. Senator Gallinger moved that
when the Senate adjourned it he to NEE,
on Monday Immediately some of the
Democrats were on their feet objecting
Democratic tariff fight expressed desire
to hold session Tomorrow He said
that II Senator Smoot was not ready TO
proceed Senator Stone of Missouri would
occupy the floor
Senator Lodge and Senator Cummins
argued in favor of an adjournment until
Monday. They explained that there had
been an accumulation of official corre-
spondence in the rooms of Senators.
that the Senate had been continually in
session TINS week with long sessions
each day and that no time had bee n
Afforded Senators to care for their CORE
spondence, Both Senators argued that
no time would be saved by holding a
session tomorrow.
Is there any possibility that the Senate
can reach an agree"". fixing a day GER
tain for vote G. tarii billsY" in
Quired Senator S,
"'rhere Is alBOlu possibility of
such an agreement al .is time" renlied
Senator Lodge.
The Senator from Massa achusetts Ak
planned that quite a number of speeches
were to be delivered on the tariff bills
Senator Williams Of Mississippi opposed
en- adjournment and dema nded roll call
but il WIS refused. only tour other Scna
tors joining him in the reluest. There
was general feeling among Senat ors
to-day that the prospect for an agreement
for an early vote on the tariff bills is by
no means bright
Senator Bristow Of Kansas, who has
been making war on the Dutch standard
and on the diferentials almost from the
day he entered the Senate, expressed
some qualification to-day AZ the action of
the Finance Committee in agreeing 10
report Senator Lodges bill
"'The effect OF eliminating the difTerential
duty on sugar that has undergone a
process of refining, said the Senator from
kapsas. will reduce duties from 81 90
to 81 s2Ia per hundred pounds on refined
sugar The elimination of the Dutch
standard. which confers important bene-
fits on the sugar trust. would free in
dependont ma n nj N Ct ,,rors If N h,,I;o,,.