Show I fAILURE TO o PASS PASSi PASS I I I DOWNWARD REVISION TO CAUSE TROUBLE i And Senator Cummins Says Payne Bill ilI Raises Duty Duty Schedule W WASHINGTON May Mar 0 O. Predicting ti that hat a failure to pass palla a tariff bill providing pro pro- viding viding- lower ditties on in imports would provoke a political contest for another revision of 0 the tariff Senator Cummins of f Iowa lows delivered a a. notable speech in inthe in inthe the senate toda today H The The bill no now before tie us A said Mr dr f r. r Cummin ine will will not bo be accepted by hy those who have hav favored ored a revision of the tit tariff either all as asa A a fulfillment of the party pledge pled or as a settlement nt of the controversy If U this bill 1111 or anything like it becomes a law 1 predict that a a. campaign for lower lowr duties will b begin th the moment the tho extraordinary ex IX session of congress reM adjourns adjourn and will continue with increasing zeal until the tho judgment entered in the court of public conscience e is also entered in inthe inthe inthe the journals of con congress rt l It Hit gives me no pleasure to utter this prophecy for fr I have hac earnestly hoped the tho revision sion now v in progress would end Ind the dispute for or years ears to tom come and that the business of the country country coun coun- try tn would ouM enjoy nio the peace and tranquil it ity which is ill impossible durin during the existence existence exist exist- ence of A movement materially to change duties upon imports import Like Thousand I 1 have heard beard it said over o and over since we began this discussion not discussion not of course in public debate but in private conversation that Conversation that there arc are but few people comparatively who were interested interested inter inter- ested in a reduction of duties I know that tho the voice oice of l those who are aro clamoring clamoring clam clam- oring for nn an increase of custom house taxation ore are more distinctly heard beard in inthe tho the corridors and anel committee ommittee rooms but there will vill come ome a time presently when the clamor of the millions who want relief relief re reo re- re lief will sound Mund like the roar of a thousand thousand thou thou- sand from one ocean to the other Mr r. r Cummins said he had bad heard it sail said man many times that the people who were insisting on tariff revision did not know whether duties were too high or too 10 low This skepticism of the tho judgment of the common men is a fundamental mistake mistake mis mis- take often made and always atoned for forin forin forin in in sackcloth and ashes ashe Continuing Mr r. r Cummins Commute said Part of Big Program The last administration will be remembered re reo re- re so Ion long as the history of our country is preserved ed for its victories in inthe inthe inthe the strul struggle le for rate regulation and for corporate fair dealing The The work has just begun beJ and I sincerely sincerely sin sin- hope the present administration will be be no le less s distinguished than the thelast thelast thelast last ono for its ener energy v in dealing with these perplexing problems Ono One part er howl however of the program was WM assigned by common consent to this administration and it its conspicuous leader assumed without the task of tariff revision revil The people I know what they want with respect t to I revision just as well aa as thc they knew what they wanted with respect to railways ays and to industrial combinations and their intelligent educated du patriotic instinct in is just lust as c certain itu ith respect to the tariff as it was with respect to transportation as monopolies May Postpone Justice ustice If we fail now substantially to reduce re reo re- re duce the duties upon the important schedules we wo but postpone the justice due to the people a justice which thanks to the genius leDius of our institutions they the have ha the power po to and which h in the fullness of time they ther will Passing Passin to the tho consideration of lumber lumber lum lum- ber schedules he said it made little dif dif dif- ference ferenee whether there was a duty or not so far as the tho preservation of forests is concerned on With respect to the cost of production in the greater reater part of the United States at least he said the American merican had the advantage of the Canadian and a duty was only necessary necos- necos sary to equalize a disparity in rates of transportation |