Show REPUBLICANS H I I L I ii ARE 1 Some Contend That Tha Tariff Sched Schedules Schedules j jules ules Are Not Sacred I ALDRICh THINKS THIN 4 S OTHERWISE i iI iI I I I TT A WILL ENLIVEN rL THE T I SENATE TODAY 4 Washington V Jan 13 The proceed proceedings proceedings I I Iby ings ing of the senate senate today toda were enlivened by several eyel spirited speeches affecting the reciprocity provision of the Ding Dingley Dingley 11 ley leJ act While the Vest Vet resolution di dl directing the committee oa on finance to I report a bill bi removing the th duty dirty du on coal was as under discussion Mr Dolliver Dolver of ot Iowa vigorously attacked those sena sean senators senators Ii tors responsible for or the holding up of reciprocity treaties in the senate He I defended defended Secretary Shaw for issuing the order instructing collectors of cus customs customs customs toms to resolve differences regarding relve the grade of coal In favor of or the im ha i I porter It I was true he b declared that Mr r Dingley had put the tariff rates rte i high so that they could be reduced by reciprocity agreements This state statement statement ment meat caused Mr AldrIch vehemently yh menty to denounce Mr Dolliver Dolver and aUd others for making makins it itSon Soon Son after the senate met net today Mr i Jones of Nevada Neada favorably reported the resolution of Mr Stewart authorizing I I ir I ing log the committee on the District of oft t I Columbia to send for witnesses in con connection conn conI J I n cUon wit with the coal cl investigation to toI and ad to compel the at attendance attendance I of witnesses if I necessary n Sa The resolution was as agreed to t Republicans Disagree Consideration pf of p the Vest Vet est resolution directing the th finance committee c to pre pm prepare pr pare Dar and report r a n bill bl removing the duty on o coal por thin then n w 4 r me dUt Mr X c read low defended d the Vie orders order of or Secretary Shaw Sha ShaW which were Issued last fall faU and instructed col eel collectors collector lectors lector lector of customs to resolve all aU rea tea reasonable reasonable doubts in favor of the importer Mr Dolliver doubt then discussed the ef eC efforts eCI efI I forts torts made Dolver to secure reciprocity treat treaties treatIes ies lea and said that congress had not given gien the negotiations the ordinary He of casual consideration courtesy a teok up the allegation aleton made against Mr Dingley and said sarcastically that Mr I r Dingley had been charged with wih the hideous crime of having so arranged arged the tariff schedule in the law of 1897 1597 as a to furnish the basis for reciprocity i arguments argument argumentI It I Is true he be declared that in inthe Inte inthe the bill bi which he had h d repotted reported from te the te c committee on ways was and means he did put duties dutes up for the express pur put purpose pose ose of having them traded faded down Dolliver Doliver Defends Dingley When such a scheme as that is con condemned condemned condemned as a an infamy he said against which the memory of Mr Dingley ought to be defended he could not feel the the restraint of conscience to stand In the senate and say there was nothing Infamous about It ItI It is a scheme chere he continued that thatIs Is I In practice in every evel government of Europe Tf it if 15 Is necessary f for r men mento mento mento to rise in the enate to defend Mr memory against the charge which had been ben made where he I asked is the advocate that shall de dc defend de I fend rend the memory of the congress of I The reciprocity r in the Ding Dingley I Iley ley Icy ali wa as distinctly a P par part rt of osIthe the tariff policy po Hey of the United States S the th tar coal s ule More 1 violence 1 nad hd ad teen been een done to hi the protective system system tem tern by the stolid st ld quiet uncommunicative un failure of the senate mate to take action acton upon the reciprocity treaties than than by byal all the te noise nol that had been made by br the th Democrats about coal I 1 do not intend to sit quietly in this chamber be he declared while it I is Said to te be infamous m us that anybody should have ed to entertain the theno notion no onU that t a t a jiff f schedule dule once fra framed could not be honorably modi modified modified fied fled by bp sensible negotiations It I remains rem reth l ii S a a reproach to t the hC con congress congress congress gress he said that not one line lne of the wisdom of James G Elaine BlaIne remained on the th statute books and not a 3 step had been beert been taken to fulfill the purpose and ad spirit of the last Buffalo Bufalo address I of President McKInley McKnley Mr Ir r Carmack of Tennessee Insisted that Secretary Shaws order was a virtual suspension of the law without authority Mr 11 DoUves disappoint disappointment ment meat regarding reciprocity treaties he be said would grow gow deeper deep r The laying la ng of ot a hand on the Dingley law would be held to be an act of sacrilege Aldrich Indignant Mr AldrIch of Rhode Island said he I J would not ot attempt to reply to the eloquent exemplification of the Iowa I idea to which the senate had just listened If I any friend frend of Governor Dingley Mr r said can remain silent to t the charge cha ge made de by b Y Mr lr Dol Do liver and others other without J repelling it he did not nott understand d that persons Idea ide of honor honorIs honorI I It Is I is ia f not lotte true said Mr r Aldrich that protective duties duts were put high for the purpose purpose of reducing them by I I reciprocity treaties t Ues Th Tb TIle senator from Iowa had undid sounded s the praises of the reciprocity T tree treaties tie it ouM ic e e I to the th credit of ot the senate senat he said it if the reciprocity treaties are passed over oer to in 11 silence and th the senate I should never nover act oa en 00 them It was never DeEr for one moment supposed by b any mem mom memI ber bet of the committee on finance or by bv I Mr II Dingley and his associates that there was to be b a surrender of O the principle of ot protection prot tion The Th intention of oC the reciprocity see sec U tl n of the Dingley act was to make agreements upon noncompetitive prod i UcLa and he never neer expected a it Republican I IHan I lican Han administration would negotiate i treaties which struck at the heart or ol o I protection Mr Tinman Tiliman of ot South Carolina Caronna gave t e I notice entice that be he would address addre e the Pen sen senate senI ate tomorrow on the resolution say sav saving j ing lag i there seems se ms to be livE lie wires aires running around the chamber I 1 have han haene one ne I want ant to string that may or may ma manot not burn He intended to lay the blame for the present condition of af affairs affairs fairs faira regarding ng coal where bete it belonged at the th door of the tile president of ot tho th United States SItS and the t attorney gen sea genera genera era float Toe TIle resolution was wag then laid aside and aDd nd Mr Nelson his speech 1 I on tae statehood MIL bill MILi billI i I At 41 the senate went nt Into t tUve I I tire tiie session on and shortly shorty afterward ad adi i 1 I I |