The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-02
DEBATE ON
 THE TARIFF Williams sails the
 Rep ilcanS. DeARMgs IS HUMOROUS Hepburn. Gr0Svenor and | Hemenway Reply. Ohio Man Says the House Cannot Hurry the Senate by Propos- E ing to Adjourn the Extra

hour, today adjourned until Friday. The time was chiefly consumed In q tariff de- bate. When MT. Payne had offered the motion to adjourn over, MT. VII Jams. the minority leader, suggested that they would like about thirty minute on . side for debate, whereupoh MT. Payne asked the consent of the House. The Speaker annouueing the request. said: The gem tieman from New York. at the sugges- ton of the gentleman from Mississippi. asks unanimous consent that there be thirty minutes to talk on a side"
 In terning 1t a talk inst ad of debate. the Speaker evoked laughter from both sides of the House.
 Mir. DeArmond (Dem., Mol in humor- ous vein. criticized the majority while Mir. Williams (Miss) and MT. Eaines (Tenn.) dwelt upon the tariff policy of the Republicans.
 On the Republican side, Mir. Hapburn (Ia.) Mir. Grosvenor (ohio) and Mir. Hemenway und.l replied. defendihg the policy of their party. the latter two so responding to charges of dereiiesion made by the minority against the majority.
 When the House reconvened today Mir. Cushman. (Rep.. wash.). was sworn in as a member Then Mir. Hay of New York. moved that when the House ad- journed 1t be until Friday.
 Thirty Minutes for Talk.
 Mir. Williams. the minority leader. asked that thirty minutes on a side be given for debate, -whereupon MT. Payne asked unanimous consent be given as desired by Mir, Williams. The speaker in repeating the request first used the word "debate,' '' then said thirty minutes for talk"
 The motion was adopted on q division by s7 to s2. Mir. Hull. CRep., Ia.). rising to a parliamentary inquiry. said he under stood consent was given for debate on the question of the adjournment and ask ed what was before the House. TAs speaker replied that consent was given to ''talk."" when MT De AFmond tz)e-1., Mosl. was recognized. ,4as 'E. sE .
 He amused the House for ten minutes by likening the present procedure of Con- gress to the Alphonse. Gaston and Leon scheme of politeness. . l,
 ''On she question of adjournment of the extra session. the Alphonse of the Senate is saying to the Gaston of the House:
 "'After you, my dear Gaston.' and the the Gaston of the House Is saying to the AIphonse of the Senate: After you. my dear AlphonseI' and Leon standing off al a distance Is saying, How magnificent, how magnanimous. how strenuous! Democratic laughter.) But aside. he is
 
 years of my own that dear White House at Washington. D. C. This spectacle has to be gone through with because no more important measures are to be dis posed of." Q
 Turning his attention to the subject of committee appointments, MT. DeArmond said facetiously that he was under the impression that the gentlemen on the Re- publican side had not been treating the Speaker just right in not making plain to him their desires for important chairman ships.
 Tells Democrats to Pray.
 Touching minority committee appoint ments. Mir. DeArmond suggested trouble ahead unless the just claims for proper numerical representation was allowed. He counseled the Speaker not to yield to the tempter on this point and his brethren on the Democratic side to pray" He concluded with the prediction:
 we will see the Senate Alphonse bow ing to the House Gaston and the presiden- tial Leon lending his personal misgivings, his doubts and apprehensions as to what may happen"
 Mr. Williams of Mississippi. taking up the question of tariff turned to the steel schedules and asked If the Ways and Means Committee could not agree to a T6uuCLlOu On SIcCl anu pEoAuCI1s f1e said he had been informed that four rail roads had agreed to reduce the freight rates on steel products for export 8 l.: per cent. and said further he had learned that rates on all products in interstate commerce from Chicago East had been raised.
 MT. Williams said that under the guist of sacred duty, stand pat"-the opposi- tion, was furnishing a shelter whereby the trust can extort from the American pco- pie while selling to the foreigner cheaper than the foreigner can manufacture.
 Working Mans Conditions.
 He asked if the condition of the labor ing man in the United States then was better than now.
 ''Yes; yes," came from the Democratic side. whereupon MT. Hepburn declared that 1t never was better than today. He said the influences of the country never were better.
 The Democrats should be ashamed to talk as they do. he said. in view of the splendid conditions which now exist under the Republican policy of protection.
 Replying to MT. Williams's charge that a shelter was being furnished the trust, Mir. Hepburn gave figures in connection with the steel and iron industry, compar- ing prevailing prices with those of the BI, policy had brought about the good con ditions cited. He said he could see why farmers of Iowa and Kansas spurned the gentle assurances of the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. William) that the Democrats were their friends.
 While MT. Hepburn was talking on the purpose of the tariff. MT. Baker (Dem. N. Y.) asked If he would permit a ques- ton.
 NO, sir" said MT. Hepburn.
 "I though not" said Mir. Baker.
 MT. Speaker, who was it that inter- rupted?" asked MT. Hepburn.
 ''The gentleman from New York. MT. Baker" replied the Speaker.
 ''I still adhere to my motion," said MT. Hepburn. amid aplause on the Republi- can side.
 Mir. Grosvenor (Ohio) the last speaker, replied to the cha; ges of de eliction made Inv the Democrats, saving that he believed the House stood higher in the estimation of the people than ever.
 ."It ia pretty we'll settled as to what