The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-02-07
THE n. c. RATE CASE
Referred TO House Of RepTe.
SGntdliYcS
BY CONGRESSMAN THOMAS
State VlOdIGated Its RIght to En-.
t0fCe Its Laws

The Action III &orth Carolina, lie
bald, Makes ihe Old Question Of
state Rights one OF Great Inter-
est-PoiitIcuI Debate Continued in
tfle House-fayne Directs His Re
marks at the DemOcratS-SubjeC
OF the Tariff Discussed in the Sen
ase.
Washington, February 5.-Senator
Reveridge, OF indiana, today addressed
tho senate in advocacy OF his bill to
create d permanent tariff commission
Jhe senator was accorded q careful
hearing by both the republican and
democratic sides of the chamber, and
aaso by the crowded galleries.
Senator BeVeridge spoke for an hour
and a half and when he had cOnclud-
ed his remarks Senator CulbersOn, of
Texas, remarked that the Senator from
Indiana sWas to be congratulated be-
cause in some degree, at least, he had
joined tho army of tariff revisiOnists.
He said that it had been announced in
the newspapers that a decree had been
issued on the republican side that the
tariff could not even be inquired into
at this time.
MI. CuIDcIaO calleu attention 10
wA~. Ao o.4lu " a5 tL4e ldCL tnat the
ay>-.al,c cDI. ,,,IoI ca taIlI I5 14UW 10
pG. cent, tnat IL is greater than the
ut4-ureuCe between the cost OF labor
neIo and abroad; that many articles
mtt.lLIaGJuIed III The United States are
sU.,. aDruau gAeaper than III this Coun-
try AKA Tat protective Tariff en-
couIaSos ,.usts. tie asked to have IN
serted in record an article from BOOK
he exhibited.
MI. Beveridge asked the name o.
the book.
1t is the democratic campaign book
replied Mr.. CulDersOn.
Il thought so,' responded Mr. Bev-
eridge He expressed his regret that
partisanship should be injected into
the debate. Such tactics he said,
may be worthy Of the senator as
leader Of his party, but it is not Wor-
thy OF any man appearing IN the cap
acity of a statesman in this country.
InaL Is pE6ClSSly lIc ulLlCulIS VIC 1uuoS
get over We must get away from in
jectlng politics into every great Ques-
ton here" He said that so far as he
was concerned he had always been a
tariff reformer, but he had never be-
longed to the class that would reduce
such reform to partisan basis. Eng
land, he said, was about to abandon
her tariff for revenue policy for pro-
lection and all the great nations had
first adopted a tariff system and then
a double tariff system involving a
maximum and minimum tariff.
Senator Newlands then discussed the
general subject of the tariff, declaring
that the law should provide for grad
ual reduction of the tariff so that no
duty should be over As per cent
Mr. McLaurin declared that the tar
iff would always be a political question
"The fact" he said, that we are told
the tariff must not be revised before
an election is an admission that it is
political" .4fa
Senator Scott pronounced himself to
be a stand patter." He believed the
present DllSI6S ldI III 1Glu doLIC IIAoA =
for this country in the past ten years
than any law ever enacted.
MIR. Stone Of Missouri declared that
when William Jennings Bryan is elect
ed president and when congress is in
control of the democratic party then,
and then only would a conservative
and genuine revision of the tariff be
begun.
The senate then at 81 o'clock ad-
journed. ~
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The political debate which has
been on in the house under the or
der of general debate on the Indian
appropriation bill for several days
was resumed today.
Serene Payne, of New York, the
majority leader, directed his remarks
to the democrats and remarked that
their political speeches were but in
pursuance of their course each win
ter and spring preceding an election
with renewed exuberance of sp1r-
it, he said, with prophetic sight
during this season Of the year they
carry the next election, inauguarate
their candidate and divide up the
offices. We hold our elections In
November and we will be there next
November"
Mr.. Payne referred to the address
OF Nr. Cochran Monday and said