The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-12
DEBATE ON TARIFF
PARTY LEADERS OF HOUSE MAJ NOUyER FOR POSITION.
Mir. Williams of Mfssissippi welcomes Payne, Grosvener and Deiseli to the Democratic Ranks
 Ohio Member Gets Witty.

Il | -- | The Philippine tariff debate in the | House today consisted more of party l manouvering for advantageous cam l paign material than for discussion of the question at issue. The tariff was the text of speech by MT. Grosvenor | (O.) who began the debate. and of an extended reply by MT. Williams. the | minority leader. l The speech of Mir Grosvenor of I Ohio was spiced with witticisms and enlivened with interruptions from f Champ Clark. to whom MT. Grosvenor aimed most of his argument. | Mir. Williams outlined again the spe- l cific tariff doctrine of the Democratic | Party and held that the Republican l tariff was not, as so often claimed, re- | sponsfble for the prosperity of the 1 country. l The debate on the bill undoubtedly | will close with the session of Saturday and the measure be put on it's passage Monday. l have been said against the Philippines in the debate, MT Grosvenor said none of them equaled the things said by Daniel Webster against the inhabit- l ants of the fourteen States and terri tories acquired by the Louisiana pur- chase.
 | q believe" he continued, "the Phil l ippine Islands will become one of the greatest jewels in the crown of Amer ican achievement.
 Mir. Grosvenor declared his intention of devoting the remainder of his
 speech to the Democratic wall for tar If revision.
 Turning to Massachusetts, MT. Gros- l venor went on to show that notwith- standing the cry for free raw mate rial there was now in Massachusetts flood tide of prosperity.
 Mfr. Sullivan Inferrupts.
 Mir. Sullivan (Mass. interrupted to
 mention a number of iron and glass
 works which he said had gone out of Il business under the Dingley tarin. I There were plenty of these works
 which had grown immensely wealthy under that tariff along the Mononga-
 hela River, replied MT. Grosvenor. Mas
 sachusetts, he said. should remember
 the adage. Never go back on them
 that brought you up by hand
 what hand?' interjected minority leader Williams,
 l aThe hand of God and the Repubh- can Party" was the quick reply. When the laughter had quieted, MT | Williams said:
 q want to recognize the unusual magnanimity of the gentleman in nam
 ing God just once as the senior mem
 Der of the firm"
 Tn answering the reference of Mir. 1. Clark to President Roosevelt eulogy , of Thomas H. Benton for his fight 10 !, nut salt on the free list, MT. Grosve-
 nor claimed that Benton was hitting
 only at alum salt. general colloquy followed. in which Mir. Clark and oth- : CT Democrats claimed that New Eng-
 land fishermen got rebate on Iofeish Il !. salt with which they cure theif @ @nsh' . whereas, the Western meat packers I have to use protected" salt. The an- 4 swer was made that the freight rate S on salt made things equal, but this was z denied by MT. Clark.
 MT Grosvenor spoke for two hours. MT. Williams, the minority ieaoer' followed Under the pending plil ne I welcomed to the Democratic party the Renuhlican Orestes. Mir Payne; it's Uiy- q ass MT Crosvenor, and the young Achilles. Mir. Dalzell Discussing our \ presence in the Philippines, MT. Will Hams said: .s,Iv
 "Curse the hypocrisy of the fellow who tells me that God put us m M tne
 Philippines. Nobody but hypocrlte would say it: and nopody put HUI
 would believe it.
 Cupidity For Conquest. American greed, American cuplolty for prestige and conquest ana 10 pc
 come world power put us there" nc added MT. williams asserted that it did not need a prophet to see that the Repub- lican party was not going to revise the tariff. "The Republican party in it's present decadent condition has nei- ther the brains nor the courage to rem edy the tariff and that is the reason why you are going to have Demo | cratic House of Representatives at the K next election" he said
 .sOh YOU stand-patters, ne contlh- ved sswith your absolute contempt TOT nublic sentiment and absolute trust ir N inc Committee on Rules and the com noittee of Ways and Means and youl 4 little coterie here in Washington, yot . imagine that there is no outside world
 but there Is an outside world even lI
 Massachusetts, which the gentleman
 from Ohio says was brought up bS of hand on the tariff-there was bottle 7, of pap given her early and all she had of to do was to suck.
 D. Asserting ironically that he would n. show that the Dingley tariff had pro
 duced record breaking prosperity IT r. Canada, Mexico and the Argentine d: n- well as in the United States, Mir VII yy Hams reviewed the greatly increased of production and commerce of thes' 1g countries The Democratic faith upor nns which the tariff MT. Williams said of would be expressed in few words ct First, the tariff is a tax; second, | Ie Is a tax on the consumers; third ,al 's taxes ought as nearly as possible tC 6. be equal in proportion to the burder
 bearing capacity of the taxing power
 "A genuinely ideal Democratic tar -