The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-06
Characteristic Speech of the Witty and
Eloquent Missourian in the
House.
GrosVsno Daze Payne and the Rest Pored the Great
Delight of the Other Members Roosevelt the
Subject of Few Remarks.

! sition for free hides coupled with a re-
duction on leather prOducts?' asked Mr..
/ Gardner of Massachusetts.
So quick it would make your head
swim" replied Mr.. Clark.
Crack at Speaker Cannon.
Speaker Cannon had taken a seat di-
rectly in front of Mr.. Clark, who, look
ing directly at the speaker, said:
Inc newspapers say President Roose-
Velt and Speaker Cannon have entered
into a mOduS Vivendi by which the
speaker will permit or facilitate railroad
! rate legislation during this session if the
! president will not send in a message In
| favor Of tariff revision
Does the gentleman believe that
statement" asked Mr.. Grosvenor after
the laughter had quoted.
I am not on the witness stand" was
/ the answer. but President Roosevelt en-
/ tered into a mOdus vivendi with Presi-
dent Morales of SantO Domingo, and
vivendi and al" CLaughter).
Asserting that the attitude of Germany
and other European nations on the tariff
question meant a general tariff war
against the United States, Mr. Clark said
/ 1t all meant that the price of products
/ in the Mississippi valley would at once
! depreciate in value.
Made Them Squirm.
I Mr.. Grosvenor asked if therefore. Mr..
/ Clark would advocate that the American
people should be dictated to by every
foreign nation that undertakes to fix our
/ tariff for US.
If we can rob the whole world, then
We might be in a position to dictate"
/ answered Mr. Clark.
! Other questions from Mr. GrOsvenor di-
Verted MIR Clark into a comprehensive
account of the tariff history Of the cOun-
/ try.
! When Mr.. Clark asserted that the Ding
/ ley bill was not producing enough reve-
nue. TO run the government he brought
Mr., GrOsvcnor and Mr.. Payne to their
! feet with denials
1T is producing a deficit of 81, 10000 a
day declared Mr.. Clark. Then, turning
to Mr.. Grosvenor, he shouted:
Now want 20 ask you question:
/ Are we going to have any river and har-
/ Dor bill this year?'
Fun fer the House.
Mr.. Grosvenor at first asserted that he
/ dld not know Whereupon Mr.. Clark pic
| tuTed him for the amusement of the
house as one Of the great triumvirate
/ of the house"
1T consists Of the speaker Mr. Dali
zen and General GrOsVenOr." Mr.. Clark
! declared. When Mr.. Payne arose Mr..
Clark held out his hand and said:
/ Now l want To ask you question.
Are we to have a public building bill
/ this session.
/ 4 don't know"
We'll, why don't your"
Because I am not interested"
That's just it. You have got yours.
! laughter.
Mr.. Clark then addressed himself to
/ the kindergarten" members of the house
| and advised them to take notice. If there
was necessity for an appropriation to
! carry on river and haTbOr work already
/ begun it might be had but not a cent
/ for new work on public buildings.
An exhaustive refutatiOn that present
/ prosperity was due to the Dingley tariff
was made by Mr.. Clark.
Republican Confidence Game.
Led by questions by Mr.. Grosvenor to
! review the monetary issue of the cam
! paign of 1896, Mr.. Clark declared the Re
/ publcanS played what he called "a con-
/ udence game on the country in declar-
ing for btmetalhsm as soon as the other
nations of the world would agree to take
action and then. ne said, Lyman j. Gage,
! secretary of the treasury. "bam-strung'
/ the international monetary commission
and that ended all efforts in that direc-
ton. He had no aoo'o6y to make for fol-
4 lowing Bryan.
Mr.. Watson of Indiana wanted to know
what kind of a Democrat Mr.. Clark was.
I am a Champ Clark Democrat he
rejOined, amid hearty laughter.
But the gentleman in 1897 said he
! wished all the customs houses in the
country were ~estroyed,' persisted Mr..
Watson.
Well I refuse to have that speech
/ injected in here" answered Mr.. Clark.
/ Il said it."
Roosevelt on Free Trade.
First asking any Republican if he con-
sidered free. trade crime and getting
! an affirmative answer from Mr.. MahOn
/ of Pennsylvania Mr.. Clark asserted you
I are Just the man I am looking for; I
want to pump something into you He
/ then read paragraph praising Thomas
H Benton for his efforts to put salt on
the free list.
is that free trade doctrine?'' he
asked.
No" interjected Mr.. Grosvenor.
on, you know who wrote it" rejoined
! Mahon, is the man 1 am after. He viii
have to admit that the man who wrote
! it is a criminal"
Mr. Grosvenor said that President
Roosevelt in his younger days had writ
| ten the sentiment
II am not defender of the presi-
dent" said Mr. Clark.
Nor /, interjected Mr. GrOSVenOr.
well I am glad of it." continued Mr.
Clark. for / do not think he wants to
be defended by having the baby act plead
for him He would not do that himself"
/ Neither can any Republican repre-
sentative call him a criminal. for if he
did the president would cut off his pap,
Qaughter) and a Republican congressman
/ without pap is nothing
Mr.. Clark, IN closing, after holding the
floor for three hours, predicted that the
frank discussion of the tariff which he
believed would result from the consider
alton of the present bill, would be of
great benefit to the country.
Mr.. FOrdney Of Michigan opposed the
measure. He expressed his disgust that
! the bill was made to represent move
ment under the name of reciprocity
Mr.. Fordney read the Republican ma
tional platform and the presidents let
/ ter accepting the nomination. both he
said, pledging the party against tariff
legislation, and asserted that he consid-
cred the bill under discussion direct
violation of those pledges. He reviewed
/ exclusively the sugar beet industry ana
/ argued earnestly for its protection
against competition with the Philippines
Mr. Fordney concluded at o'clock, when
the house adjourned until tomorrow.