Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-19
TO RECoMMIT SCHEDULE K.

excuse that IN order to protect the wool grower the
senator was compelled to vote as he did with Aldrich
on the whole wooden schedule. I
They make the excuse that in so voting Senator
Crawford was merely following out the expressed wish
of the South Dakota legislature as indicated by the
resolution relating to duty on wool. They admit that
the resolution had reference to raw wool, but they join
with Mr.. Crawford in offering the excuse that there
would have been no adequate protection to the wool
growers had Mr.. Crawford voted otherwise. than with
Aldrich and Penrose and Elkins and Lorimer.
We have hitherto shown that vote after vote is
recorded wherein the South Dakota senator stood up
with the men whom he had previously characterized
as representing everything bad in government and
whom he so characterized in his speech opening his
present campaign. lie has repeatedly charged that his
opponent has been allied with Aldrich and Guggen-
helm and in linking the name Of his opponent with {
these cohorts of evil, as he himself has branded them, {
he seeks to create prejudice against the man whom
he is trying to defeat. :
After it was proven that Mr.. Crawford had himself {
been aligned with these men in both the making of :
the tariff bill in the senate and in seeking to relieve the {
railroads of the necessity of conforming to the provis- {
ions of the antitrust law, Mr.. Crawford and his spon- :
sors fell back upon the finsy pretext that the senator's {
vote on the tariff with Aldrich grew out of the resolu- {
ton passed by the state legislature. r
Let us look into this question of schedule X for a {
moment Let US e dDout IL. we luu ludl dLtei La
Toilette and Doliver and Bristow and Clapp and other {
progressives had vainly sought to have the schedule (
amended, Crawford voting continuously with Aldrich, =
Senator Cummins proposed an amendment which we {
herewith reproduce and which is found on page 3l39 :
of the Congressional Record, for June II, 1909, and
reproduced on page 1905 of the record for August 2, (
1909, as fellows: =
"Senator Cummins moved to reconmit Schedule K i,
to the comthittee, with instructions as fo16ws: '~" -"
ITO again consider the same and report a schedule =
as follows, to-wit:
81. With the wooden Duties unchanged.
"2. With so-called Compensatory duties tot he
wooden manufacturers that will measure the difference
between the price which domestic manufacturers pay
for wool and the price paid by their chief foreign com
petitors.
"3. A Further duty upon imported wooden manu-
facturers that will represent the dierence between the
cost of production at home and abroad, with a fair
manufacturers profit added, less the compensatory
duties already given to domestic manufacturers be-
cause of the higher price they are compelled to pay J
for WOOL
The foregoing is Senator Cummins' proposed am
endment in full. III shows that the Iowan proposed to )
retain the duty ON raw wool just as the senate had {
already fixed it; that in addition the manufacturer was
to have the benefit of Compensatory duties'3-duties
that would adequately compensate him for the higher (
prices he would have to pay for wool that, still addi-
tional, the manufacturer was to be given full protec-
ton to represent the difference between the costo { man
ufacturing at home and abroad and on top Of all Of
that, the manufacturer was to be given the benefit Of a (
fair measure Of profit after taking into account the
Compensatory duties mentioned.
The wool grower was hereby amply protected, for
the Iowa senator did not propose to disturb the duties
on wool. AT the same. time the manufacturer was to
be amply protected over and above the extra price he
might have to pay for wool, What does the roll call
show2 Herei is, as shown by the Congressional Rec
ord page 3l39, June II,
Yea-Beveridge, Bristow, Brown. Clapp, Dolliver,
ct al.
Nay--Alrdich, Crawford, Depew, Elkins, SGuggen-
HEINZ Penrose, ct al
So the motion Of Mr. Gunmins8 was rejected, !, says
the Congressional Record.
The next time Nh. Crawford Or one Of his special
pleaders lodges behind the South DAKOTA legislative
resolution, cite him to the page Of the Congressional
! Record Whereon the above proceedings are recorded.