The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-12
CAMP PAIGN THUNDER ROARS IN THE HOUSE Grosvenor Speaks on the Philip
 pine Tariff Bill COLLOQUlES ARE FREQUENT MT. Williams Reviews Democratic At- tltude on the Tariff and Predicts
 Day of Reckoning for the
 Republicans.
COLLOQUlES ARE FREQUENT

Washington, January 1.-The Philip pine tariff debate in the House today consisted more of party maneuvering for advantageous campaign material than of
 discussion of the question at issue The tariff was the text of a speech by
 MT. Grosvenor of Ohio, who began the | debate, and of an extended reply by Mir Williams, the minority leader. The speech | of Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, was spiced with witticisms and enlivened with in- terruptions from Champ Clark, to whom
 MT. Grosvenor aimed most of his argu-
 ments MT. Williams outlined again the specific tariff doctrine of the democratic party. and held that the republican tariff
 was not, as so often claimed, responsible
 for the prosperity of the country. The debate on the bill undoubtedly will close with the session of Saturday. and
 the measure be put on It's passage Mon day.
 MT. Grosvenor of Ohio, took the floor
 in favor of the Philippine bill He re- viewed the cause of the Spanish war and declared that as the American people could not then shirk their duty, no more can they now shirk the consequences of that war
 Placing a part of this responsibility on
 the democratic party MT. Grosvenor re-
 counted the influence of MT. Bryan in securing the ratification of the treaty of peace
 Spirit of Bryan. "The spirit of Bryan" he said. ''perme- ated the democratic party today as no democrat has permeated the spirit of that party since the day of Andrew Jackson" However, MT. Grosvenor repudiated dem ocratlc votes for the pending bill. He did not want such votes, especially when they were given on the ground that it
 was step in the direction of free trade Let them ride in the Jim Crow car and not in the first class compartment with me-" he said.
 What would be the chances of passing
 this bill without our votes? queried Champ Clark.
 q think they would be very good
 replied MT. Grosvenor
 "If all the democrats voted against it?"
 q think so."
 Well, you. had better get down to ciphering on that gang over there, who
 are trying to defeat it. concluded Mr. Clark.
 "Oh. I don't cipher" retorted Mir. Gros- venor, who explained that he believed
 that those of his colleagues who were l to vote against the bill woui~ do so
 from an impeding force against their
 better judgment"
 "Is not that impelling force the ma l Icbf Of house?' asked MT. Clark. "Oh, mo-" declared MT. Grosvenor. T said those who were to vote against the l bill. The gentleman has got his impelling force at the wrong end of the room
 Webster Said Worse Things.
 Reviewing some of the things which have been said against the Philippines in the debate, MT Grosvenor said none Of them equalled the things said by Daniel
 Webster against the inhabitants of the four states and the territories acquired 1 by the Louisiana purchase. 1 T believe" he continued, "the Philip pine islands will become one of the great l est jewels in the crown of American l achievement.
 l MT. Grosvenor declared his intention of devoting the remainder of his speech l to the democratic wall for tariff revision.
 Turning to Massachusetts, MT. Gros- | | ing the cry for free raw material there
 was now in Massachusetts a fiood-tide of prosperity.
 MT. Sullivan of Massachusetts inter- rupted to mention a number of iron and glass works which he said had gone out
 of business under the Dingley tariff l There were plenty of these works which had grown immensely wealthy under the tariff, along the Monongahela river, re- piled Mir Grosvenor. Massachusetts, he said. should remember the adage,
 Never go back on them that brought
 you up by hand"
 What hand?" interjected Minority Leader Williams.
 "The hand of God, and the republican
 party" was the quick reply. | When the laughter had quieted Mir Will Hams said:
 | T want to recognize the unusual mag
 nanimity of the gentleman in naming God | just once as the senior member of the firm" Laughter).
 Colloquy on Salt Question. | In answering the reference of MT. Clark to President Roosevelts eulogy of Thomas II. Benton for his fight to put salt
 on the free list MT. Grosvenor claimed .hat Benton was hitting only at alum salt A general colloquy followed in which MT. Clark and other democrats claimed |
 bate on foreign salt with which they cure 1 their fish, whereas the western meat pack CTS have to use protection" salt. The answer was made that the freight rate
 on salt made things equal but this was
 denied by MT. Clark. l MT. Grosvenor spoke for two hours l MT. Williams, minority leader, followed Under the pending bill he welcomed to l the democratic party the republican Orestes, MT. Payne; it's Ulysses. MT. Gros- venor, and the young Achilles, MT. Dal- zell Discussing our presence in the Phil | ippines, MT. Williams said: | "Curse the hypocrisy of the fellow who | tells me that God put us in the Philip
 pines. Nobody but hypocrite would say | it. and nobody but a fool would believe l it."
 | 'American greed, American cupidity for prestige, and conquest, and to become a world power went there' he added | MT. Williams asserted that it did not need prophet to see that the republican party was not going to revise the tariff l "rhe republican party in its present de- | cadent condition has neither the brains
 nor the courage to remedy the tariff, and that is the reason why you are going to l have democratic House of Representa-A tives at the next electlon,' he said.
 Predicts Day of Reckoning.