Show REPUBLICANS DENOUNCE THE 1 TA TARIff BILL I I II Bristow of Kansas Buckett of I Nebraska and Others I Mix in Debate SENATOR ALDRICH DEFENDS THE MEASURE SMOOT ALSO GETS IN WHEN OP OPPORTUNITY opPORTUNITY OFFERS FA FAVORS VORS COMMISSION A v J X s May lay S The entire n or f the senate enate today was wall in v with Ith a debate on the ilu it of or duties on pig pl lead and il N The stout opposition fn r td to the adoption of one oneA A recommended by the committee omm tt on finance making the rate similar to those of or the Ding Dingley ley bill prevented a vote being before adjournment 2 V 4 VV Wi w hington May 8 SAs As soon as the their thet t ir df ff Ml hiP h was taken up by the senate wu oay jay and section putting a duty s 8 cents per pound on pig lead was waa tad rad ao Senator Bristow arose aro e to oppose K increase a e from 1 cents a pound as 1 vided w ded in the house bill but saying pe ne increased rate would make It equal to t th the rate of or the Dingley bill Mr Brist read from tariff hearings he rings held heldi i 1 v till tJI ways was and means mens committee to tow ton n 1 w that it was there contended that iF increase If U made would necessitate i 1 of duties on other t tint that are used in making paint p He gul that the house had been n judi 1 1 11 1 its action It i takes Flakes no difference what the theon mip on uj did from time to time said Mr r ft We I are here to todo do Justice to industry in view lew of th the facts In the 11 1 H He added that Mr i v lio 11 e testimony Mr Ir Bristow read reada break down the whole vas a to trying ing to ad schedule Important to Get Facts y J r i facts fatt stated by this witness s are in things s interposed Mr ic and it makes no difference at Ins hi h personal views are on the tar tarr f or cr r n the aeroplanes aeroplane We e are here tir kJ the facts and If it Mr Lei hber ger gr testimony tf is II 1 t trUe we should n it Mr Ir r Smoot remarked that Mr Leish rr vas as a r nan and a pur nar of nf lead and 00 Mr r Bristow tow retort tn by n saying Baying T f p purchaser ef eC f lead tend has MS more right an all n mst i t men who have bave lead d for sale Je Mr i Ir contended that the Ute differ ual jual provided by the duty du rem m i by Toy the committee OH finance en 00 eng tg g fad ad was greater tn the coat eo t of or and unwarranted Smoot Takes Part l r reading rading Tf of the testimony te of or Mr Ir Irh t h i i of or the American Smelting Re Res Reg s g Company provoked Colloquies T z senators during which Senators r i and Smith of Michigan suggested ar Jt fc h was yaa influenced by his Mexican t r and by th the interests of his bil uro so o O that his testimony te should t r r b taken as satisfactory Vr Ir r Smoot declared that he he knew Mr r 11 i and had every ever confidence he heM M m fl anything he might ml ht say He Heable Heto able to tl be affected In his hie views he hend 1 nd In his opinions by b hie hili inter interI t I all ail men are but h he added a vr he says whether or net et t un nn r cm th I am certain hi says 78 what he hey 1 y Relieves Method Condemned i L Hurkett condemned the method methodi I i 1 the committee on finance pre r r i n 11 bill without hearings rings ri ii men he said Mid have had bad hadi i here chasing cha ing senators en up p and andI 1 tr e corridors in an effort to get et etri I ri i A Ai i tri may think the people are 1 hutS h this th bilL lL But you cannot T I Ii i n 11 on OB these thee schedules on lum mm lumin in r nails steel teel and Iron Iu They hut t out these thelle things and if I we are aret arez re ret z t and defend the bill it seems v p ought to have in print the ther i r of f men who do 00 know about and ought not to be left eft r about aut in the darkness as we wet wed wedo d t i irl MI to If do dor If r Jared that sometimes not even iii of the committee was on onI 1 1 i the i senate to give glye information M that whenever he should thed 1 j he would vote to lower tower the 11 1 articles that appeared to be bei beare bear i 1 art are ar a whole lot of people he be hei beare heare i are more Interested to Ita hay hill mad made right riCht than In having i 1 l in m a hurry burry and J 1 Cw lOr one oner onez c ii r z o 0 stay here all aU summer to t tI toI I right ril ht Aldrich Replies T r T g to Mr Burkett fr r Aldrich itu It great roat earnestness that If the th yd m in i session until itU HU U the 1 understood every schedule In InI 1 1 I would not ORb only be here herern rn r hut for ten years publican members of oJ q the com corn cornI I Mr r Aldrich said hi had hadt hador t tn n or eighteen hours h urs daily dally the S their amendments to Continued on Page 2 I REPUBLICANS DENOUNCE THE TARIFF BILL Continued from Page PaJe 1 tariff Mil A vast ut number of people had l caned called on oa members of or the committee it 4 and ad out of every even 1000 of oC them then had come to obtain increases In the duties in n which they were Interested i t The senator tor from Nebraska he con talks about the consumers not noti i being represented before fore the committee OH Oil finance Who 00 are the consumers Is there thare any class a limited num number number f t ber who whore are net not consumers and not p pro producers ducs Are 4 they entitled to more con consideration conJ J than anybody else The consumers consumer r of 01 0 Nebraska are more moIe in inter tar tares es ted in the preservation of the protective protectiVe protective tive system than they are In any other public policy polk which is involved in the werk work of congress t Th The property of the people of Nebra Nebraska ka kat as of ot the country countr generally depend depended ed he said upon the maintenance of the protective tariff I have seen of ot Nebraska and other othu agricultural E tural tates states mount year by year until the Ute increasing cost COAt of o living in this country is iR owing almost entirely to the th increase ilter In the price of agricultural products he added In a Hurry to Finish Air Mr Ir Aldrich said he had not intended to tv show be any impatience toward tam bena sen tonI tern who ho had d sought information eon con concerning Oft I the schedules scheduler of the ibe tariff hut but he be was anxious to of the tM tariff tanil bin as quickly as possible Mr fro Clay Cia took hook exception to a state statement statement ment mont by b Mr fro Aldrich that he bt had given predominate t to statements by the Mad kad producers an ta II to treed need for a duty duly on lead and declared that if it that course coerse c were pursued the refiners I f t sugar gar would name nse the rate to be he fixed on oe that producT f and amI other producers would likewise to the exclusion of the consumer Mr Aldrich aid said he be had only said M Id that when the testimony of the Amer American American Amerlean ican lean producers and the importers of ot B od from fore countries conflicted t h Ii t took look the tM testimony timon of ol the American Amern producers r and that he h 14 he pro to 0 continue to do so eo Battle of 1910 In concluding his bis remarks Mr Brie Bri l lt t tew w said Id that rather than give he the Ute American people an improper tariff law lw he be would send the subject back to them to be fought over two years yea hence honee Mr Carter undertook to tf refute any f t Ion t 11 t tP hf n te had rot ha I ample information Ion regarding the th schedules of the tM tariff He lie the he s of the th ways way and committee the publications of the finance committee of f th the senate enat dg as well as those e of the various govern government ment mont bureaus and departments He Ht HesaM H saM aid that the t hearings held before the house committee would d finally l II reach rech H a acost cost of over Oer SHI nl ked If there theM was waa any an reason r for fur the duplication of this thill by hy It the t senate Mr Beveridge objected that the th finance committee had reached certain of nf Its conclusions wh ch was wan not at atthe atthe atthe the disposal aI of the most moat of the mem members 1 hers bers of or the senate cenate Mr Yr Newlands contended that there was so 10 much information that a com corn committee should be appointed to reduce it and present a digest of the conclusions to be he gathered from It Mr Ir Carter then spoke in opposition to a tariff commission Pledge Repudiated Mr r Lodge said that what made sen sea senators senators on the Republican side laugh when hen the revenue aspect Pf t of dutes dutel was WB discussed by some ome members of the ml mi minority was as the regularity with which protective duties ut become revenue du duties duties duties ties when they the cross the borders herders of oC certain states Calculating the number of oC people en engaged engaged in jn trade occupations III in the th United States at I the Massa Massachusetts 88 senator declared that In n those who bo were ere dependent upon their wages W for support they make up the UJ whole hole population of o othe the nation Asserting that the tM protective system had hM been In force In some Orne form since ISIS he insisted that to change chan e it now would b be to briny brio brin disaster upon the theM then M nt n Ion Mon Nobody ever p pledged ed me he said Mid to revise the tariff downward or to tor revise r jt t upward What hat we are pledged to is ill a revision and ami T J suppose we are a here to revise rte In view vie of ot the Interests Interest Inter t of f the whole boll country If It is wise wit to reduce rates rat then reduce them tI m If it itla Itis la is wiser wiper to give greater protection we WI should hould do so and if Sf wise to keep them themis is ss they are then that should be done donI That has bas been the attitude of or the corn com mUff on finance and without pro prof f ft fesing s infallibility we Ae have bae adopted thAt line of action Senator Newlands declared that the before fore congress was a reduction reduction reduction tion of or duties on imports which In olM a variety of or information not ac ne accessible to senators lena He advocated the tM creation of a tariff commission to pro V de df such information as al could be bt ber r t easily tUY a lv understood 50 w that intelligent action could be obtained Mr Yr New Newlands lands announced his hili policy for the establishment of a bureau In tl tIe e interstate commerce commission n which upon complaint could deter determine determine mine the hene of or any duty ac to a rule to be established by bythe bythe the Ulf Jaw law Reminding the senator from Nevada ev that the question of oC reasonable ness 11 of Interstate commerce rates guaranteed by the constitution of the United States Mr Clapp lapp of Minnesota Mid that instrument placed no restriction restriction tion of reasonableness upon duties to tobe tobe be levied on imports Import They might be he either reasonable or unreasonable so se 8 tai far as the Hit constitution CO was concerned he said If should desire to empower a commission to regulate rn on ona rna n na a reasonable bass ba baa s a the duties it might do so sij by establishing a max maximum maxImum maximum and minimum rate or by b laying down don som rule to guide the commis I stem elm in dealing with the tariff Mr Ir Aldrich AWrich saying that a vote on I the lead schedule could not l he e taken I tonight suggested that the senate ad adjourn journ Before that action was taken Mr Ir Bacon Kacon referred to the great cotton industry of the south uth he lie sId said not share the benefits of or the pro pm protective tariff He lie declared thit the tariff put upon corn om was wa as useless at aa atwould atwould would be a tariff on cotton The sec eec section tion from which the senator from Mat Mas Massachusetts came caine he said had grown rich by b the operation of ot a law in which the south had not shared S I |