The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
WILLIAMS TO THE RUSCUE,
Pledges Minority Outright for Reduction to
the FiIipinos.

pine tariff bill the democrats will be
found for it, according to fatfooted
declaration in the house by the ma
nority leader, John Sharp Williams,
this afternoon. Chairman Payne Of
the ways and means committee served
notice that unless the tariff debate
closed on Saturday by unanimous con-
sent he would move the minute
rule on Monday.
The feeling grows that the beet
sugar insurgents will be unable to de-
feat the Payne bill, altho ugh they do
not cease to assert that they have
things in very satisfactory shape, and
although there is still some apprehen-
sion on the part Of the speaker as to
the possible adoption of the amend
ment repeating the refined sugar diff.
ferential.
The statehood bill is another mat
ter. In spite of the speakers asser-
tion that he would not call on the
president for help it is evident that
the white house is doing q great deal
Of pulling to get the statehood insur.
gents back on the reservation. But,
with all that work, the insurgent
leaders continue to report gains. Yes
terday they had forty seven names
signed to their agreement, and today
they report sixty signatures. The
stalwarts allege that several signatures
have been obtained by mislepresenta.
tion and will not hold.
Gen. Grosvenor today delivered the
regulation republican tariff speech,
salted here and there with scatter
ing of sentiment for the Filipinos,
and peppered with Interruptions.
principally by Champ CLARK. When
Clark asked what Grosvenor thought
would be the chance of passing the
bill without democratic votes Grosve-
nor replied:
4 think it would be very good -
"Well, you had better get pencil
and go to ciphering on that gang over
there on your side who are trying to
defeat it," retorted Clark.
CLARK made it so lively for Grosve.
nor after while that Payne under.
took to come to the rescue. They had
got around to talking about salt, and
the effect Of the duty in increasing its
price. Payne wanted to show how
the price had come down.
when / was boy on the farm, I"
he said, my father always thought
he had to have Turks Island salt to
cure his meat with
But that was three-quarters of a
century ago. injected CLARK, and the
rest of the Payne argument was lost
in the roar of laughter.
Grosvenor wound up his speech
with q loud SNAP cf the party whip:
mo one man III the republican
party he declared, knows more
about the tariff that the consensus of
the whole republican party, with it's
distinguished membership Of states
men, and we ought not to be led astray
BY the sophistries of the democrats
This. is no time in the very heyday of
a glorious record to foIsake the re-
publican party on minor question Of
politics. -
Mr.. Williams followed Grosvenor
He said:
"We have just listened to another
Of those well-known republican
speeches, which remind me of the old
Datin proverb, Whoever walks in the
shadow is ignorant beforehand Of the
point at which he is coming out The
latter part Of that speech demonstr ates
that whenever tariff fails it benefits
the American people.
This bill IS not republican meas
ure 1t is good old democratic doc
trine; good old American doctrine.
We are glad to welcome to the sup
port of such doctrine the nestor of the
republican tariff men, Mr. Payne; the
old Ulysses, Mr.. Grosvenor, and the
young Archilless although with the
vulnerable heel, Mr.. Dalzell.
"What strikes me as singular is
that there are some men who, when
we are getting the republicans at last
into our own attitude, want to quit
driving Let no democrat deceive
himself.
"You can't vote against this bill
without voting for the existing tariff
between the United States and the
Philippines. wonder how TIE deli.
cate constitutional conscience Of the
gentleman who cannot swallow 25 per
cent. of the existing rates will be able
to explain to his constituents how he
managed to swallow the present rates
entire in preference.
IN house organized as this Is,
where il is impossible for the minority
to originate or pass legislation, con-