Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-24
OUTLINING CAMPAIGN ISSUES
Political Discussion Occupies Day in Lower
House Of Congress-.
lands DEFENDS PROTECTIVE TARIFF
Indiana Member Replies TO Speeches
of Rainey and COckran-Re-
tOinder by Mr.. WILL
Itama.

WARRINGTON, May 23-The issues des-
tined TO be uppermost between the two
great parties during the coming campaign
are already being Joined. If the speeches
now being made in the house Of representa-
tives are safe index. Several weeks ago
Mr.. Rainey OF Illinois made a carefully
prepared speech on the Watch trust, say
ing that watch manufacturers Of the United
States had one price for watches at home
and lesser price abroad.
Today in the house MIR. Lands of In
diana, In a sense answered Mr.. Rainey
admitting that American manufacturers
had one price at home and another abroad
and he defended the price as in accordance
with good business methods; insisting that
all countries sold their wares for less
prices abroad than at home
COckrRn's Assertion Challenged.
Mr. lands also paid some attention to a
speech made by MIR. Bourke Cochran IN.
", wherein the latter denounced the plan
Of protection public plunder, the foun-
tain source of all corruption and the cause
of total Generalization of the American
republic This Mr.. Lands denied. He said
that every poor but ambitious emigrant
who landed here during the last ten years
would refute that allegation. Referring to
Mr.. Cockran's speech, he said:
This is the best country on earth and
not the worst country on earth. And If
1 thought about It as the gentleman from
New York l would resign my seat in this
house, sell out my belongings and move to
some other country nearer in harmony with
my political notions"
Mr.. lands displayed a number of pic
lures of Coxeys army and commented on
| its appearance In Washington and the de-
mand of it's members for work.
That was the condition in the last years
of democratic rule" said MIR. Lands.
Williams Replies to Landis.
In reply to this Mr.. Williams the mi
nority leader. stated that he had walked
| through Coxey's army while II was en-
/ camped on the grass in front of the senate
entrance to the capitol and at that time
the lson-Gorman bill was under dis
| cussion in the senate He insisted that
| the government was still operating under
| the Mckinley bill at that time and that
| revenues were being collected under that
republican measure.
Mr.. williams said - was encouraged ir
the fight the democrats were making ir
| favor of tariff reform because of the mum.
Der of republican leaders who were dash
ing to the relief of the protective tarin
He said the sledge hammer debater. Mr.
| Hepburn OF Iowa, the chaste and brilliant
Boutelle and even the humorist of the re-
publican side Mr.. Cushman CWash), hal
| been all Communicated to support the pro
teotive theory and he infer - from thi,
that the attacks were havr,g effect i
was Mr.. Williams solemn benef that tn,
worst thing about the protective tariff
was that It bribes and corrupts the friends
OF good government. He said the re
publicans would come into the Democrat,
party and say 10 the friends of free trade
I'VE will protect you against frost W,
will protect you against hail" and so tn,
democrats yielded, and even he had beei
approached along some similar lines. bu
he had been thus far able to say, "Ge
thee behind me, satan"
Hinshaw Makes Few Remarks.
Mr.. Lands took up the assertion o
Mr. Williams that corn was so low in 1S9
and 1891 that the farmers were compelle,
to burn Il for fuel He said he came fron
corn belt in Indiana and denied tina
farmers were compelled to burn their corr
because IL was drug the market
Mr.. Williams insisted that he was righ
in his statement. This brought Mr.. Hin
shaw Of Nebraska into the arena TO sa
that while he did not know what Kansa
did in 1880 he knew a Nebraskan tina
corn was not burned in his state. MI
Reeder of Kansas followed to repudiat
the statement that the farmers of tn
Sunhower state had burned their corn.
When Mr.. Iandis concluded the repuh
llcan side rose and accorded him an ovs
| tion