The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
STRIKES CARNEGIE
N ATTACKING THE
NEW TARIFF BILL
Congressman James Talks of
a Conscience Pricked
After Years of Loot"
REVISION A DELUSION.
Declares Payne Bill Goes One
Step Further in the Pill
Laying of Humanity.
REVISION A DELUSION,

WASHINGTON. March %. -whs
probably will be the last week o
general debate on the Payne tariff bill
was begun In the House OF Representa-
tlves to-day. The session convened a
10 o'clock with every prospec, o, bus,
day Of speech-making.
Declaring that the Payne bill "goe.
one step further In the pillaging Of
humanity" Congressman James, OIL
Kentucky. asked what Is a reasonab
profit that the Republicans claim the
measure would allow. who shall de.
cide?"
Shall 1t be left to Andrew Carnegie
pricked by a conscience that has al.
lowed him to loot for many years."
Libraries for Hungry Men.
Mr.. Carnegie, he said, began to estab.
lish in the various cities and towns OF
the country libraries where hungry,
ragged men may read Of feasts they
could not attend and OF comforts they
could not have. He asserted that the
so-called reasonable profit was to be
upon watered stock and fictitious values.
Mr.. James characterized the tariff on
farm products "a delusion and a snare
and most consummate fraud"
He attacked the maximum.mini.
mum feature OF the bill. He declared
that the plan OF the tariff was 10 pun.
ish consumers because the govern
ments across the sea vii! not DIAL
fairly with American manufacturers
Your whole vision" he said. ''only
includes the manufacturer"
Mr.. James announced his intention
OF offering an amendment to authorize
suspension OF import duties on com.
modities of articles of merchandise Of
foreign make where the value Of SIM
ilar articles Is enhanced in conse-
quence OF any trust or monopoly.
He insisted that wherever the max.
imum rate is applied it would wipe off
the free list at least fifty articles. He
'Vs''N' 'hV sugar ana Tobacco
trusts and advocated an income tax.
MIR, Cushman (Wash.) the new Repub.
lican member OF the Committee on
Ways and Means, pleaded for better
projection to American lumber and for
a DUTY on coal. The Democrats, he
said, had characterized the bill as in
iquItous, but while there were some fea-
lures not entirely TO his liking. he did
not condemn 1t as whole.
From Liver TO Porterhouse.
Mr.. Cushman's declaration that the
conditions were far better to-day than
iaey We're under Democratic rule was
disputed by Mr. Weisse wis. Mr..
Weisse declared that In the last eighteen
months forty per cent. OF the laborlng
men OF the country had been out Of
work and that there had been failures
10 the amount OF &6Sg, OCO. 90 in the last
two years.
Mr.. Cushman got voclterous Republic
can applause when he said THE labor
Ing man has travelled mighty distance
since you and your party were in" adj
's=ss6tHs himself. 10 MIR Wilson tPa.J J,
who had interrupted him. The labor
ing man. he continued. has travelled
al the way irom-a dimes worth OF liver
M credit TO a dollars worth Of porter
house In cash, and that represents a
mighty and unmeaslred distance on the
chart OF domestic economy and national
prosperity II was" he said, the wage
scale and not the price list that was
the barometer OF American prosperity"