The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-25

taken o6 boots and shoes unless 1t was done when 1t was taken off hides.
 Much attention was given by Mn Clark to the subjeet of wool and wool ems.
 most complicated of all the schedules. It Is a monstrous oppression of the poor"
 MT. Clark predicted that whom the Senate: got through with cutting ana carving the Payne bill Nr. Payne would not rScosnlxe his own child when he met 1t in the road.
 The Senstsrs over thers." he said. ''are engaesd right now in making tarir hill of their own" He main- tained that the Senate would strike out all after the snacting clause. When the bill reached conference. 1t would be dog days end the weather would be so disagreeabie in washington "that fel- lows will vote for any kind of bill to get out of town"
 In reviewing the testimony of Will liam Whitman. of Boston. wool sched- ule. Mir. Clark gave his estimate or some of the men who figure In the hearing. A
 "I hate no man." said Mir. Clark, in speaking of Mfr. whitman, but have more contempt for him than any other man ever clapped by eyes on." He declared that Mir. whitman had great influence with the committee on Finance of the Senate, when the Ding ley bill was being considered in that board.
 The oil schedule was adverted to when Mir. Burke, (Pennsylvania), said he had received Information that re- moving the countervailing duty would not aftect the Standard OH Company. hut 1t would be absolutely fatal to the a~A Ax lA~ hA Ao son as stated. that ss per cent of the oil produced in the United States was produced by independents. A roar of laughter went up when MT, Cushman. (washington), emphatically coincided with a statement by MT. Clark that had 1t not been for tarin on lumber. the whole Northwest would have gone Democratic. MT. Clark, amid Demo- cratic applause. closed with reiter- ation of his statement that the Payne bill. instead of lowering the Dingley rates raised them. He was on his feet five hours and seven minutes.
 In a brief speech. MT. Washburn, Massachusetts). gave notice that should an opportunity be afforded. he would submit an amendment striking ing from the bill the provision for an tn- l heritance tax. Its imposition. he de- cIared, meant an extraordinary bur. den on the country.
 A general attack on the protective policy was made by Mir. Adamson, (GaO What they called protection. he said. simply meant fixing duties % high as to deny all the marke.s os | the world to the people Of the Uniteo states and deprive tham of the oppor- tunity to sell to all the world their multi millions of wealth.
 Touching the failure of the consumer to appear before the committee. MT. Clark said that there were two reasons | for this; one, that in the beginning. the public looked upon the hearings as a stupendous confidence game, ana second. that the consumer felt that possibility of having his tariff burden substantially reduced. was so remote | that he did not think 1t worth travel ing expenses, hotel bills. neglect Of business and loss of time. While that applied to the fairly well-to-do ulti- mate consumer. he said there were millions of ultimate consumers who bills for q trip to Washington and other millions who could scrape to- gether the expense money could not afford to use 1t that way.
 | 50 that" he said, "the ultimate consumer really speaks in the hearings only through questions propounded by members of the committee in an hon. | eSt enQeaVOT 10 dbCSENhiI tHo U ubhs Most of the cross firing among wilt nesses, he said, was where one set of manufacturers felt afoul of another be- cause the "tariff pie was not evenly distributed and each one wanted the biggest piece" ..,. re | To. MT. .Fordnsy, of Michigan. MT. Clark extended his; assurances of his ''profoundest consideration as a fight- er He would put game cock to l ~u1o AA aat | Fordney were given carte blanche to write a tariff bill. 'ft would be short, if not sweet and would be in these words: 'If an article can be produced in this country. by any process. or at any cost whatsoever. nothing like 1t shall be imported
 First Aid To Wounded.
 All through the hearings he said, Mir. Fordney was on hand with first aid for the wounded. He said that the rest of the Republicans. first or last.
 "came over to our side" on different subjects and in various degrees. but that Mir. Fordney never lowered his colors. Neither Leoniias at the pass nor Horatius at the bridge was a
 marker to him." he said.
 Discussing the situation in which the
 ways and means committee found it.
 self. he said 1t was unprecedented. be- cause pOtn pHItlcb ndu lhNOTtQ ItuuC- ing the tariff rates of the Dingley bill.
 "Of course," he said. 'the Republi-
 can platform was equivocal" but he aided in that connection most of the
 Republican members of the committee
 came at last to construe it as re- vision downward. The Democrats so
 construed 1t and he said the better part
 of wisdom and patriotism would have
 been for all the members to have col
 laborated in the work of preparing the
 bill after the hearings closed. We
 are all American citizens, equally in-
 terested in the prosperity. glory and
 happiness of a mighty people," he ex-
 claimed. Not one of us had the
 slightest desire to injure in any way or
 to any extent whatsoever any legiti- mate American history"
 Tn addition to the peculiar coinci-
 dence Of both parties being under orders to revise the tariff downward 1. he said. all were stared in the face by large and increasing deficiency ir the revenue. There were, he said but
 three ways known among men b, which a deficiency may be cured, GU,
 down expenses. increase taxes and Is
 sue bonds To issue bonds, he de.
 clared was no remedy at all. 1t wa, simply postponing the day when the,
 must be paid. principal and interest Taxes. he contended. never should bt
 increased where possible to avoid it.
 Cutting down appropriations. he said
 where 1t could be done without stint.