Show I I SENATOR GORE GORf m m w j sj M TELLS OF THE TRUST GRAFT Blind Oklahoma Statesman Can See Many Things Ob Obscured Obscured soured to Vision of Others NELSON OF MINNESOTA SOMEWHAT SARCASTIC LA FOLLETTE DECLARES THAT MONOPOLY IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF THE TARIFF Washington June 2 With the adoption adoption adoption tion of a II resolution providing for day eJA and night sessions Ions beginning tomor tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow row the senate enate today heard a tion of a policy for limiting motions which caused an earnest pro protest protest test teat from Senator Bacon and others other The vice president baaing basing his action upon a precedent made m de in the last con oon congress geese gress when the nd cur currency currency currency rency bill was under consideration held that the absence of a quorum could not be called to the attention of the senate enate If the senator occupying the floor de declined declined dined to yield for that purpose Senator Bacon declared this was one of the revolutionary rulings made when the currency bill was under consideration tion and that under it there would be serious abuse of ot parliamentary rules roles He announced his intention to obtain a full consideration of this question by the introduction of a resolution to b be con considered considered considered by the committee on rules A Along Along Along long speech 8 h dealing with the pledge of party leaders with respect to a re rc revision revision vision of the tariff was begun by Son Sen Senator ator tor and will be continued tomorrow Will Offer the Proof By newspaper quotations he main maintained maintained tamed that no question could couk be raised as to the pledge of the party for tor a re revision r revision vision downward and declared that be before before before fore he should conclude his speech he would demonstrate that on the whole the Payne bill placed the customs du duties duties duties ties above he Dingle Dingley rates rata Since the enactment of the Dingley law and anet an until 1904 he said the control of trusts had been extended to plants with a capital of more than twenty billion dollars Senator Nelson NelOn also spoke and quoted numerous comparisons parlOn b between twe n the ex existing e laws and the pending measure with the intention of showing that In the cotton schedule the rates had b been en rais raised d from 20 to 50 00 per cent above the Dingley law Jaw by the substitution of specific specific for d 4 valorem duties Senator Gore again quoted dividends and surplus earnings of New England cotton and woolen w Olen manufacturing com corn companies panics to sustain his contention that these corporations make large profits and Senator Frye Foe in reply declared that taking into consideration both success successful ful UI and unsuccessful cotton and woolen mills a profit of nut not more than 6 1 per percent percent percent cent had been n realised realized by New England manufacturers upon their Investments in these thee industries Senator Biking Elkins spoke at length advocating a a duty on coal coel and end petroleum Gore Produces Facts The cotton schedule was construe constructively constructively under consideration all day but no feature of it was wall voted on Astonishing the senate by the elLa cita citation tion of ot a long list lIat of ot cotton and woolen and manufacturing companies and giving ing In their earnings capital stock our sur surplus plus etc Senator Gore undertook the task of or showing Iho that corporations en engaged engaged engaged i in the cotton and woolen Indus Industries Industries tries were making very large earnings The speech was wan alt one that no other son sen senator ator would have attempted without con constant slant stant reference to notes but the blind statesman from the southwest found no difficulty in giving offhand the great greatest greatest est st varieties of details without the abil ability abilIty ability ity to assist a his memory in any way ay The senate enate had promptly begun the days business by resuming consideration con tion of the cotton schedule of the tariff bill and Mr fr Gore was the first fint speaker Referring to the cotton and woolen manufacturers and in a rasping and sinister tone ton the Oklahoma senator said he did not blame them for their large earnings I know they are intelligent citizens he said judging from their business s success and from their selection or ot United States senators As to Profits He referred in sarcastic language to the statement nt made yesterday by Sen Son Senator Senator ator Lodge that some orne of these large earnings resulted from sales of real es estate estate estate tate fortunately acquired many years ago and said Mid that the stock of the I Troy Tro Cotton Woolen company of I Massachusetts Ma had been advertised as all earning 67 7 per cent In 1907 without ref Jef reference erenee to profits from real estate sales ales alesHe He suspected he said that the good natured philanthropic manufacturers did not divide their earnings on the square with their laborers Senator Nelson NellOn followed The busi business business ness Interests 8 of the country need not he be alarmed as their appeals to us UK for prompt action on the tariff Indicates Indicate because there will be no downward re revision I vision ision he declared after atter saying the understanding In his state was that the I tariff would be lowered The only thing they have to walt wait ait for he con continued continued continued is to 8 see e how far they can mark up their goods At least Iet there will be no downward revision that they the themselves did not consent co to I Really an Increase Sustaining the contention of Senator Dolliver in opposition to the specific du duties duties duties ties in the cotton schedule reported by the committee on finance Mr Nelson Nelsen gave extended examples of specific s in increases increases creases and their equivalent ad valorem valom rates to show boW that they had been placed higher than in the lew law lawI I 1 have demonstrated said Mr Nelon Nel Nd Nelon on son after alter he had concluded his analysts analysis of the cotton schedule that this bill hill increase increases all an of these thue duties dutle from SO 20 2 per percent percent percent cent to more than 66 60 per cent over oer the rates of the present pre ent Dingley ley law Senator Beveridge raising the ques question question question tion of nt the absence of ot a quorum when the Minnesota senator began to explain the h cumulative duties which he declared declare were provided In the cotton schedule Mr Ir Nelson Nelsen Interposed d to say MY Oh Ob these hese high protectionists dont care t to icar Har mf mt Never mind It would do no good if it th they v were all mustered In here they would retire again Mr Ir then entered d upon a ft long iff ch In support of the lower kmer tar tariff iff itT rate Tariff and Monopoly Mr discussed the protective tive tariff in Us Its relation rol tl n to monopoly which he said was a n direct dired result ol o 0 prohibitive rates of duties Asserting that manufacturers of ot shoes earn came cameto to Washington begging beg for a hearing hearin before the committee on finance because the beef beet packers were obtaining con control control control of the tanneries Mr LaFollett prophesied that the packers woul would reach out and eventually control noi no only the tanneries s but all the product of leather I t would like to ask the senator il I this combination of capital which w Wi wall wall all recognize as true is not worldwide e and is not confined to the d States said Mr Dixon It Is III becoming worldwide and probably probably probably ably in the end will be worldwide re reo replied plied piled Mr LaFollette I dont to see Cee the trusts of this country con trolled traIled by the protective tariff and he h hadded e added that an international agreement et only wily exists on some prospects of the th e United States Steel corporation Sen Senator Senator Senator ator LaFollette during his argument became somewhat Exhausted owing to t e the close cloce air lr In the senate chamber and anda anc an anca ana d eL a brief recess was taken When the th e senate was as again called to order Mr LaFollette appeared ap eu d much refreshed d 1 and said mid that there was no occasion foi fOJ x the anxiety of his friends who feared that he would become b ome exhausted Mr frequently pitched hed his E to a high key and became become greatly over heated He was wa often compelled to gas gasI p for fur breath and long pauses pause t marked the th e pe I progress of his speech |