Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
AGAIN DEBATE ON
PHILIPPINES BILL
L0NGW0RTH TELLS OF VISIT
TO THE ISLANDS
Beet Sugar Industry a Feature Of the
Arguments-Measure VIII Prob
ably Be Disposed of Next
Tuesday
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Press,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-Interest
was injected into the Philippine tariff
debate in the house Of representatives
today by a Massachusetts idea" tariff
expressions by Mr.. Mccall of that state,
by character study of the Filipino
by Mr.. Longworth of Ohio, and by de-
fense of President Roosevelt by Mr.
Pou, a Democrat from North Caro-
lima. Besides these, there were num-
ber of speeches delivered on the mer-
its of the bill, nearly all of which were
in opposition to the measure.
During the day an agreement was
reached whereby the debate is to con-
tinue for two days more. The house
Is to meet at II o'clock tomorrow and
Monday and to close debate at o'clock
on the latter The measure will be
taken up for amendment under the s.
minute rule Tuesday and doubtless
disposed of on that day.
MIR. Broussard of Louisiana opened
the debate on the Philippine bill today
in the house. He figured the Philip
pine treasury would receive $S.64 on
every ton of sugar shipped from those
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BILL that the shipper would make a
profit because of the tariff concession
of $10.50. With this situat ton the Phil
ippines could well afford to ship here
their entire product and buy sugar
for their own use from Java or other
sugar countries.
MIR. Broussard asserted with great
emphasis that to reduce the tariff on
raw sugar as contemplated in the bill
would benefit the sugar trust" more
than any one else simply by providing
1t with raw material at less than cost
Speaks for Beet Sugar Men
Asserting that the beet sugar indus
try was the essential factor in the sue
cess of the irrigation projects of the
west, Mr.. Brooks of Colorado charac-
terized as bad craftsmanship any move
to cripple it. If let alone, in ten years
the sugar beet would furnish half the
sugar consumed in the country. In
six years the industry in Colorado has
increased her production to $4,000 tons
annually with a Vaue of 81, $50 900.
Mrs. Brooks provoked good natured
applause by applying Mr.. Dalzels ar
gument addressed to the beet sugar
industry:
You need no protection; what you
need is improved Methods to the iron
and steel industry of Pittsburg.
The statement of Mr.. Dalzell that it
would cost Sab hundred to lay
Philippine sugar down in New York
was disputed by Mr.. Brooks, who
placed the figure at $3.55. The friends
of the bill, he said, claimed that under
il but 100000 tons of Philippine sugar
would come here. Beet sugar men were
not afraid of that amount. They were
afraid of the amount they themselves
believed would come, from 100000 to
100000 tons. The Filipino laborer,
who would produce the sugar, Mr..
Brooks said wear for clothes a breech
clout; he gets his brea kfast from a
tree his dinner from the same tree,
and works for 15c a day. This is the
labor that will be placed in COMPETE
ton with the America laborer.
Mr.. Lamar of Florida asserted that
an effectual repeal of the Chinese ex-
clusion act would be accomplished so
far as tobacco industry is concerned by
the passage of the bill. This, he said,
would benefit only the American To-
bacco company.
Opposition was made to the bill by
Mr.. Howell of Utah on the ground that
it was not only a menace, but threat
ened the very existence of the beet
sugar industry. lie reviewed the in
Ception of the beetsugar industry, at
which time the Republican party voted
bounty of two cents Il pound to en-
courage it, Now that party, he said,
was about to destroy it,
A brief speech against the bill was
made by Mr.. Mccall of Massachusetts.
Mr.. Mccall said from a tariff St, Id
point he saw no difference to this
country between free trade with the
Philippines and any other country in
the world.
AS to the tariff Mr.. Mccall announced
he was in favor of Il judicous revision
of existing schedules. Now there was,
he said. popular sentiment that the
tariff schedules arranged nine years ago
had grown inadequate to the best in
terests. He predicted that New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states
would join I'm this demand
IF the tariff cannot be revised when
two-thirds of the membership of both
houses are Republican, when is revision
to Gomez
Longworth Tells of His "Trip
In a fifteen-minute speech MI Long
worth of Ohio gave the house his i'm
preston of his Philippine trip last sum
mer. Mr.. Longworth was greeted with
applause and marked attention was
given him. He favored the bill as the
best means of developing the Filipino
into a condition of self government at
which moment he would be more than
glad to drop the islands.
The passage Of the bill, he said, would
not damage one iota any American i'll
dustry or American labor employed in
that industry.
IT for one" continued Mr.. LOngWorth,
"am not in favor Of holding the Philip
pine islands as a part OF the United
States moment longer than we have
to-"
This statement was met with general
applause, but peculiarly Democratic.
II am in favor of turning those
islands over to the Filipino people,
continued Mr., Longworth, ITO govern
themselves at the very first moment
that they have proved that they are
capable of governing themselves, How
soon that time may come Providence
alone knows, but say the sooner the
better"
In "A brief speech Mr.. Pou of North
Carolina declared that the ST 900, 900
campaign fund of the Republican party
at the last election had made it sure
that there would be no satisfactory
railroad rate legislation nor any re-
vision of the tariff.
Turning his attention to the Incl