Show I SMOOT OOT AND j ALDRICH ARE I AT VARIANCE i I Senator Dolliver Points OutI Out I Few Discrepancies in inI I TalKs on Cotton J JI I II I EQUALIZATION THAT j RAISES LOW DUTIES Attempt to MaKe MaRe ComeI Come I Ons of Senators Is IsI Roundly Scored I W WASHINGTON June 5 Taking Taking the I floor after Senator Aldrich had a asked ed for an aye and no vote on the cotton otton cloth schedule oday iday Senator D Dolliver l ver made the senatorial rafters ring with h his denunciation of the speech made by the Rhode Island senator senat r last nighton night nigh on that schedule I I I desire to avoid any harsh criticism I cism of what has been done done lie U saJdI said I in opening his remarks but I am sm not notable able to avoid a plain strai straightforward ard statement of what this committee now now asks the senate to doMen do Men len are asked asked continued Mr Ir Dolliver to cast their their votes bere not here not upon te testimony but hut upon authority of ofa a 3 committee and it becomes my duty to inquire into the sacredness of th that t substitute for facts and figures Saying he had no opportunity to Jea real read the speech of the senator from Rhode Island Islan Mr Dolliver commented on t this the statement that only 10 per t the cotton cloth schedule had been chan changed ed Denying this by a counter statement on the authority of Se ator Smoot that only 30 per cent rent were ore unchanged un an- changed he was quickly interrupted by Mr Aldrich Aldrich Is Authority I I said interposed the tho senator from Rhode Island that less than 10 per percent tr cent of the cotton importations which amount in the aggregate ate to were aff affected by Q- these provisions Accepting the correction Mr Doller Dom Doll t- t tv v ver er declared that thirty that thirty ye years rs ago he het t fv i had gone everywhere carrying in m. his f satchel speeches of df f tho the senator from Rhode Island on the tariff so 50 that he ho could refer to his statistics in which lie said he be then h had d faith which was gradually slipping awa away a Mr Aldrich aos arose to leave the ham cham ber ben Begs Him to Stay I hope the senator will re remain ain to to fo hear what I have to say suggested the Iowa senator in an appealing t tone n I had an engagement said Mr Ir Aldrich smiling and hesitating Well Ve I you u have haye an ln engagement here retorted the T Iowan Towan wan It I I 1 say you rou will not turn your back upon what fou I have to say without taking the moral consequences that will naturally arise in In such a case Mr r. r Dolliver then exhibited a t cop copy of ofa a petition of merchants of New ew lork which was a a. declaration against rn any increase increase in crease of the tariff duties Responding to a request by the s senator from Rhode Island Mr Jr Dolliver read the names of the merchants Which Are Importers Please state which of them are importers im urn- porters said Mr Aldrich Well some lome of them are leading merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants of ot this country responded Mr Dolliver A cross fire of criticism and defense followed Mr Dolliver Mr Aldrich and Mr Flint participating It pertained to the interests of the signers of the tho petition Aldrich and Flint contending contending con con- tending that they importers nud interested in lower duties while the Iowa senator continued to urge their general representative petition Its a strange e thin thing declared Mr r. r Dolliver to find the leaders of of- the Ii Republican party part reproaching s the mer merchants mer- mer chants of the country y with extravagances extravagances gances ances which have grown up in ill connection tion with the protective tariff Lodge Also Leaves Referring to cartoons of himself represented represented rep rep- resented as exhibiting samples in the senate he declared that since that exhibition exhibition ex- ex others had adopted his method method meth- meth od of reaching the intelligence of his hearers Jie He referred pointedly to also shown Senator Lodge as having haying his Isis samples but while the Iowa senator sena- sena tor spoke his his Massachusetts colleague walked waed out of the chamber without appearing ap ap- ap to notice the allusion Declaring that the cotton duties had I been increased in the tho pending bill over those of the Dingley law Mr Dolliver read from a speech by Mr Smoot lie He said that senator told tho the people the duties of the cotton schedule had been equalized but that the rates had bad hadnot hadnot not been lowered Likewise the senator seas sena tor ton from Rhode Island had come to the senate to sa say the rates had not been raised raise Two Dingley Laws the of Ridiculing possibility equalizing equalizing equal izing the rates without raising sonic or on lowering others Mr Dolliver er laun launched bed upon a comparison between I tho the Dingley law and the Wilson bill He Ire commented on tho the Dingley law as interpreted b by Mr 11 Aldrich and aud by the tho appraisers Then wo we have two Dingley laws law interposed Mr r. r Tillman Yes responded the Iowan lowan ono one on the the- statute books bools and one in in- inthe the ima imagination of tho the senator from Rhode Island S Mr Dolliver ridiculed the attack on the above rates when some rates ac o bad been increased I The equalization that had been effected he said had leaving the hi high h rates up and brin bringing iu the lower ower ones nearer their Ic level I. I Speaking Sneaking of the need for accurate information he said bald aJ 4 Senators S 'S s ca cannot not convert om-ert the senat- senat 3 o ot of the United States from a great reat de deV r 1 1 Continued on page 6 G. i SMOOT SHOOT Continued from froni page 1 body to an aggregation of I I come t I Responding to side expressions of I prise b by some senators near him he e ed d. d that is a green reen goods J u spoke of various people who ho had with the New York custom it had been suspected that ose 1 rase tise saying 4 1 l had bad agents on the pay roll roIl engaged en en- in the administration of the cus- cus J ms laws p. p i L. L e declared the the Dingley law was Wilson law aw plus a few amendments a by Governor Dingley in the house e Dingley ley l law lawhe w. w he be bel declared l' l lared d with Colonel and he hehe 1 i he be had positive proof that the law lawf f contemplated bringing cotton der the cla classification of cIa ela 1 4 9 1 a loosely woven cloth |