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Show MAIDEN SPEECH OF SEN. YOUNG Washington, Dec. 15. Senator Lafayette La-fayette Young of Iowa, made his maiden maid-en speech in the senate todays Incidentally, Inci-dentally, he stepped on the toes of hl? colleague, Senator Cummins, aud while agreeing that tariff revision was necessary, refused to endorse the Cummins proposal to amend the rules of the senate and house to bring such a thlug to pass In closing he called on those Republicans pledged to a revision re-vision to accomplish what they can by March 4, and then "to subside with iheir acitatlon and give the country a rest" The Iowa stnator challenged any member to state his belief that the farmer was receiving too much for his products He declared it had been intimated the middleman was getting too great a share of the value of farm products. 'Tf this be true," be demanded, "why strike at the producer? Whv not go after the middleman direct? The tariff In 1909, in attempting to etrlke at monopoly, put petroleum on the free list. The refiners immediately immediate-ly reduced the purchasing price of crude oil and continued the high price to the consumer on refined oil. Thus the consumer wa6 not benefit ted. Why repeat this performance in the case of the farmer and his products? 'The tariff ought to be revised as the president has suggested, in a scientific way. one schedule at a time, I might not be willing to object to the rule proposed by my colleague, which would prohibit the ocerlng of amendments to a scheme which might be pending, were I not afraid that Ihe first schedule to be pending would be the schedule covering farm products " Such being the case, Mr. Young added, the great farming states would be attacked by the Rocky mountain states, the south and New England I'nder these combined attacks of the gTeat manufacturing ami mining regions, re-gions, the agricultural states, would bo practically helpless. Because of this condition, he said he hoped the f Cummins rule would 'not he adopted, and at this juncture indulged in a fling at his colleague "1 am surprised," he declared, "that m colleague, who lias been fighting braely and gallantly to unsharkle the members of the house from tho tvran-' ny of the rules, should undertake to' brin; the same shackles into the seu- , ate." j oo |