The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-24
BREEDS BRIBERY
AND C0RRUPT|0
Minority Leader Declares Even
He Has Been Indirectly Ap-
preached by Sirens.
SALARIES OF AMBASSADORS
Representative Longworth Makes
Plea for More Adequate Com
pensation Of Diplomats.
SALARIES OF AMBASSADORS
lBy Asaoclated Press.)

WASHINGTON, May 23"-The Issues
destined To be uplsrmost between the
two great parties during the coming
campaign are already being joined II the
speeches now being made In the House
OF REPRESENTATIVES, are a snfe Index SeV-
eral weeks ago Mr.. T,ainey, OF Illinois,
mndc n carefully prepared speech on the
watch trust, asserting that the Watch
manufacturers OF the United states had
one price for watches ut home ana q
lesser price abroud To-day In the House
Mr.. Charles g. Landis. Of Indiana, IN
q sense answered Mr.. Eaincy, frankly
admitting that American manufacturers
had ono price at home ana hnother
abroad. und no defended the practice as
in accord with good business methods.
insisting that all countries sold their
wares for less prices abroad than at
home.
Mr.. Lands also paid some attention to
e. speech made by Mr. Bourke Cochran
New York;, wherein the latter denounc-
ed the policy Of protection as one OF
public plumber; the fountain aource OF all
conception and the cause OF total de-
moralizaton 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 rcfute 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
II I thought about 1t as the gentleman
from New York. ! would resign my seat
in this House. sell out my belongings
and move to some other country nearer
in harmony with my political notions"
Reply of Williams.
Mr.. Williams, Of Mississippi the minor
ity leader, In answer to MIR. lands, spoke
of the conditions leading up to the ap-
pcarance OF General Co1cy's army on
the grass about the Capitol. He stated
that he had walked through Coxcys army
WHILE 1t was encamped on the grass in
front OF the Senate entrance to the
Capitol, and at that time the Wilson,
German bill was under discussion 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 he was encouraged
IN the fight the Democrats were making
in favor Of tariff reform, because OF the
number Of Republican leaders who we're
dashing to the relief Of the protective
tariff. He said the sledge hammer de-
batter. Mr.. Hepburn. of Iowa. the chaste
and brilliant Boutell, and even the hu-
morist of the Republican SIDE Mr. Cush-
man Washington) had all been COM
manded to support the protective theory,
and he inferred from this that the Mt
lacks were having effeGt.,y t
It was Mr. W-illiams's solemn belief
that the worst thing Ibout the protcc-
i've tarir was that 1t brides and COR
rupts the friends of good government
lie said the Republicans would come into
the Democratic party and saw to the
friends OF free trade: 1--WE will protect
you against frost; we will protect YOU
against hail." and so the Democrats
yielded. and even he had been indirectly
approached along some similar lines, hut
ne mad been thus far able to say: Get
thee behind me. Satan
LongWorth Speaks.
ne days proceedings in the House were
crossed win speech by Mr. IIongworth
,ohio), who talked on the merits of the
diplomatic and consular bill itself, a fact
70 which he called attention as being
somewhat unusual as general debate'
meant anything else but debate on the
bill.
Mr.. Longworth, who showed large ia
miliarlty with his subject, contrasted the
salaries paid our ambassadors and min
listers and those paid by foreign govern
ments He said our system was to COM
pensatc our ENJOYS by paying them d.
rectly, While foreign governments paid
both directly and indirectly. The Ameri-
can ambassador to Paris receives S17.5oO;
the British ambassador to Paris receives
$4,000. an official residence, an appro-
priation for the establishment, 5000 for
official entertaining. and at the close OF
twenty years he Is pensloned at $4,000 per
year for life. He made a strong plea for
the purchase of buildings by the Ameri-
can government in foreign countries, and
said:
"Then the men of moderate means. the
men who most truly represent the bono
and sinew of this republic. would not
be placed at n disadvantage as compared
with another man who had moro money.
No longer then would condition exist
under which these offices OF the highest
responsibility and dignity could be given
only to rich men and no longer would
there be single office In the gift Of the
American people which would not be
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