The Washington herald., 1908-02-06

In both Houses members of the Demo-
cratic party served notice upon their Re
public colleagues that William J. Bryan
is To be the next President of the United
States. thar the next House of Repre-
sentatives will be "a Democratic one, and
that the tarin viii DE revised by Demo
Gratis in accordance with the wishes Of
the American people and the principles
Of the Democratic party
In the Senate. Senator Stone, of Mil
souri, was the envangel of this prophecy.
In the House. Representative Cox. of In
diana. pronounced the representation.
Senator Beveridge, also Of Indiana, but
"a member of the opposite political party
10 that TO which Mr.. Cox belongs, began
the discussion in the Senate, making an
address in support Of the ban which he
has introduced TO create a tariff commits
sion TO inquire into the question of re-
vision and 10 classify the duitable ar
ticles. The Senator made it evident that
he is unusually we'll informed on the
subject and incidentally made strong
plea for the consideration of this impor-
tant question from "a non-partisan point
OF view. in the interests of the American
people.
Line of Party CIenruge.
To this plea Senators NcLamm, OF
Mississippi. and Stone. of Missouri re-
piled declaring that there could be no
such consideration If the question since
the tariff is one of the main points OF
difference between the TWO great parties.
Senator McLauriu syuopsized the differ
ence tN stains that the Republican party
is for a tarin for protection, with Incl
dental revenue and the Democratic party
for a tariff for revenue, with incidental
protection.
Senator Beyeridge rTefaced his address
with an analysis of his BILL which, he
said, provided for a commission the du-
ties of which would not involve revision
OF the tariff or even a recommendation
for revision. bat simply that it report 10
Congress the exact status of the tariff
question. and also properly classify the
articles upon which a tariff is collected
and he quoted "a number of instances 10
show that the present classification not
only is absurd and unreasonable. bur has
been made 10y boards of appraisers which
jim classifying the articles upon which
certain schedules were To- apply per-
formed an essentially legislative function
which should have been performed by
Congress. He showed also that Congress
could not properly classify duriabIc arti-
Giles without the advice Of an expert COM
mission such as his bill proposes. The
commission. he proposed should work
along the lines Of that which worked out
the German tariff plan. and Ire implied
tho belief that it would require about two
and "a half years for il to secure the
needed facts and make the required class
iheaton for its report 20 Congress,
Outlines Gcrmau Method.
Senator Eeyeridga said. iu part.
"fow did Gemany make her tariff
classiGcattons so much clearer. simpler.
and more accurate than ourse Bv the
common-sense plan Of having an expert
commission arrange these cIassffcatons.
But thaJ was only a part of the
work of the German commission
Years ago Germany saw that only body
of experts could get the facts and ar
range tha schedules for her tariff. she
saw Llat the only work which the Reich
stag could do was che fixing Of duties
to the items which the expert commits
the expert commission fouId out and laid
before the Reichstas So Germany SCI
lectod fog this work thirty of the best
fitted men To- De found in the empire.
This commission consulted more than
2.o03 trade ana industrial experts. Il iu-
vestieated every phase of every indus
Try iu the empire which might bear upon
the tariff u carefully studied the tariffs
of other countries. lt gave due weight
90 Gcrmany's export trade. I'm short
everything tHat goes irto the making of
81 tariff was worked out To the smallest
detail by the German expert commission.
DO spent almost six years at this work.
The facts Thus gathered and the sched-
U.cd class fcations thus made were laid
before the RciehstaE. and the ReiChstag
then finally fixed the duties. after It's
committee. corresponding to the Ways
and Means Committee of our House Of
Representatives had spent ton months I'm
continuous work examining the recon-
Mendauous OF the commission
Gcrmany's Great Trade.
"The German Empire. with AN area
nineteen times smaller than the United
States, and parts OF it's land poor ana
uuproductive. and with a population less
tEe-ss exports more than one and a half
billion dollars worth cf German products.
more than two-thirds of which are man
ufactuTed articles. whereas we export
SL71IgJ30o0 worth OF products, most OF
which are raw material only Si6o GOO
GOO, on p Der cent, OF our exports are
manufactured articles. and S226 000. 900. OF
Is per cent are northumberland arti-
cles. and Of these nearly all are steel
copper. and petroleum. requiring so lit
tie skilled labor that they are nearly raw
material
We must have a system that gives Us
the same weapons that our rivals have by
which we can get for our producers the
same favors that our rivals get for their
producers. We must have a maximum
and minimum tariff, the first TO apply TO
al nations that viii not give our pro-
ducers special fayors in their markets.
and the last 10 apply to those nations
that viii give our producers favors in
their markets BY this plan German pro-
ducers are selling more German goods
abroad than any other nation. If we
consider area. wealth. history, and all
other elements Of the problem German
producers are selling more German goods
abroad than any other five nations IN the
world put together"
Cuiberson Opens Debate.
Senator Culberson began the debate
which followed Senator Beveridge's
speech. He said,
The Senator from Indiana is to be
congratulated that TO some degree at
least he has joined the army Of tariff re-
visionists. II is true the Senator has ex-
pressed no opinion OF any schedule of the
tariff. but the very fact that he .Ieens