Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

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in the committee. These. he said.
SHOWED sha. the average rate OF me
Drgley bill was 44.16 per cent
While under the Payne bill they
were 45.72 per ceat. showing
is5s per cent. worse than the
Dlngley bill. Re declared that no
man of bad temper or .blus.er
could conceal that fact srom the
American people Many OF the re-
ductions in the bill. he maintained
were more apparen. than real.
RIDICULOUS SUGAR REDUCTION.
Discussing the reduction on rein
Ell sugar, Mr.. Clark said It WIS
held out as a gre.,- ben TO thu
consumer. wien tho sugar crust
received that treI1s,iouo blow be-
tween the eyes" 80 sid Instead
OF seeing stars { saw stream Of
gold flowing into ia Golfers every
year of the col.'Rdancs OF thu
Payno tariff bill"
He declared nat n raa1 must eat
sugar at top speed for hftesa
months in order to lind nickel In
his pocket at the end OF that time
as the result OF any benefit that
might accrue to him from the bill.
and II he ais Ell dap he would
not get the nickel H. could ant
understand, he said. aty such ten
derness was shown size Eugar srus..
which he cha .cfenzed as erin
lnal.
II Mr, CLARK saiL. lie standard
Oil Company was not rs ne believ-
ed, the cole beasaoiary uader tho
bill he would not object 10 shs
tcrude oil prod ieete getting revc.
nue. tariff.
Speaker Cannon took the floor To
make an explal tim, when Mr.
Clark said he had gona ., The 'shste
House to discuss the tariff question
with President Taft before the bill
was reported. Mr.. Cannon admit
led that ne went there at the invl-
tation OF the president, but denied
that the tariff was discussed, or II
Il was he did net know OF 1t. Mr..
Cannon took occasion TO remark tina.
he rarely corrected misreprecenta-
tion, but It seemed In the present I'm.
stance he could do SO with propriety
In former years, he declared. he had
eat in the chair and on the floor and
heard mi representations abound
ing in absolute falsehood that have
been taken for truth by She muck
raking newspapers and even written
in the Democratic platform"
Mr.. Clark protested that he was
not trying to misrepresent the speak
err.
II sometimes think" suayely re-
piled Mr.. Cannon, THAT perhaps he
t. not clear as to the matter OF the
difference between the suggestion Of
that which is error and the letting
alone of that which is truth as he
might have been in discussing tho
public que tions touching the rev
enues."
Resuming his argument, Mr.. Clark
announced that IL given the oppoi o.
tunity he would vote 20 put boots
and shoes on the free list, and
he said, they can below about free
traders as much as they please. {"
Never, he said, would the tarlff be
taken off boots and shoes unless Il
was done when 1t was taken of the
hides.
Mr.. Clara predicted that when The
senate got through with cutting and
carving the Payne bin. Mr.. Payne
would nos recognize his own chile
when he met st in the road. "The
seniors over there" he said "are
engaged right now Ia making tar
im bill OF their own" He main
tanned that The senate would strike
out all after the enacting clause.
When the bill reached conference It
would be dog days and the weather
would be so disagreeabl IA Wash
ington. that fellows VIII vote for
any kind OF bill TO get out of town %
Mr. Clark declared himself un-
qualihedly IN favor OF free lumber.
A roar OF laughter went UP when
Mr. Cushman Washington coi1ci-
ded with a statement by Mr.. Clark
that bad a not been for the tariff
on lumbcr the whole northwest
would have gone Democratic.
Declaring that the present was no
sine for al academic discussion OF
The tariff. Mr.. Clark, Missouri, said
that he had gone TO Chairman Payne
and ouggested tina: insofar az he was
concerned he gladly would have
waived Al general debate on the bin
~ arsuracne could be given that
there would be ample time for
amon8ment and debate under he
fiye-minute rule. Of the entire meas