Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-13
INTERESTING SPEECHES ON FRIDAY,
Massachusetts ''Idea" Tariff Expos
ition==-Filipino Study by Long,
WOrth===President Defended.

was made by Payne whereby the House
agreed to close general debate on the
bill Monday at 5 o'clock and that the
sessions tomorrow and Monday shall
begin at IL instead Of IL o'clock.
Asserting that the beet sugar indus
try was the essential factor in the sue
cess Of the irrigation projects of the
West, Brooks, Colo, characterized as
bad craftsmanship any move to cripple
1t. If let alone in 10 years the sugar
beet would furnish half the sugar con-
suined in the country.
Lamar. Fla. arraigned the Repub-
lican party for departing from its
foundation principle of protection. 1t
vas, he said, this protection that had
built W. the tobacco industry of his
state. BY employment of Chinese in the
cigar factories Of the Philippines, La
mar asst rted an cffectual repeal Of the
Chinese exclusion act would be accom-
plished so far as that industry is con-
cerned. This he said would benefit only
the American Tobacco Co. Lamar de-
nounced the Democratic position on the
bill. if it stood for treating the Fill
pinos as American citizens.
A brief speech against the bill was
made by Mccall. Mass. He said the
policy of the bill Was inauguratcd
| seven years when the Paris treaty was
| ratified. Following the inevitable, free
! trade with the Philippines must fol-
| low the Inauguration of that policy.
| For that reason he had no particular
| Sy mpathy for those gentlemen who
were the original advocates Of annexa-
re
| the threatened destruction of Amcri-
| can industry. They We're now paying
the price for indulging in beautiful
| rhetoric about the flag, how it should
| ever be hauled down. no matter for
what purpose it had been run up. He
| had established his attitude against
| free trade with the Philippines when he
| opposed their acquisition and had not
| changed. The present bill, he consid-
| cred one of the vices of the Philippine
policy. Members of Congress, he said.
| We're the stewards of the American
| people and had no choice but to sub
| serve their interests and vet here they
| were confronted with the necessity of
| sacrificing interests to those Of the Fill
| ipino. Mccall said from a tariff stand
| point he saw no difference to this
! country between free trade with the
philippines ana any other country in
| the world. But when the American
| Congress undertook to represent both
sides to a trade. he saw great diff
| Guilty as to the result.
| Mccall defined his position to be that
when the Philippine islands became
American territory they were entitled
| to that uniformity of tariff duty pre-
| scribcd by the constitution. He was
| aware the supreme court had decided
otherwise by a majority Of one. Nc
| Can then reviewed the decision of this
court on the Porto Rican cases and
drew the conclusion that members Of
the legislative bodies had the same
| privilege to division as the court.
| As to the tariff. Mccall announced he
was in favor Of a judicious revision Of
existing schedules. But he added. u
am not in favor of changing the tariff
by grating on our polite tropical para
sites which may absorb our Vita!
| forces"
| Mccall came TO the defense Of his
state against Grosvenor's assertion that
''She had been brought up by hand
| from infancy by the policy of prOtec-
| ton If that was true it was because
she had been torn by force from the
| breast of her natural mother, the sea-
he added. He detailed the colonial
prosperity Of the state and her acquies-
| ence in losing that through tariff pro-
lection. Now. there was, he said. a
popular sentiment that the tariff
schedules arranged nine years ago had
grown inadequate to the best interests.
He predicted that New York. Pennsyl-
vania. Ohio and other states would join
in this demand. He was weary of the
Ioft-repeated cry IF the tariff is to be
revised. let it be revised by its friends"
IF the tariff cannot be revised when
|two-thirds of the membership of both
houses are Republicans when is revis-
ion to Gomez"
II say to you he concluded. "that il
you do not treat protection as a ma
tional principle instead of a castiron
immutable system Of schedules. then
we are liable to have the Democratic
party and possibly the deluge"
+ Tn a 15-minute speech Longworth Ohio
gave the House his impressions of hi:
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