The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-26
JEFF DAVIS FLAYS
TARIFF SCHEDULES
Declares Colleagues Are
Voting Strictly for Their
Own Interests.

Hot as was the weather today In the
Senate chamber, Senatvr JEFF Davis or
Arkansas made It still hotter by a
burning speech in which he attacked
the pending tariff bill in bitter fashion.
Not only the tariff, but the pools,
trusts and combinations and the male
factors of great wealth came in for
strenuous lambasting.
Moreover. to add to the interest of
the occasion, Senator Davis SHE'D few
bricks at some of the Senators. espe-
cially Senator Aldrich, Senator SmoOt,
and one or two others. He cOntrasted
the action Of Senator La Toilette of
Wisconsin, who Lad interest In lead and
would not vote on it, with the course
taken by Senator Smoot, who told the
carded wooden men to quit that bust
ness, like he was going to do, and go
into the WOrSted business. He recalled
that Senator Scott of West Virginia had
said on the floor Of the Senate that
certain Senator had told him when II
was proposed to reduce the duties on
window glass ne had Iost S25,O 900 in the
window glass Industry last year More
strange STILL" said Senator Davis, this
statement is not contained in the Rec
ord.
Articles Justified,
Have you any wonder then, Mr..
President" asked Senator Davis, that
there are continuously being published
articles In the metropolitan press of
this country that the Senate is honey
combed with Senator'S who are voting
strictly in their own interests?
4 am willing to stand with the Sena-
tor from Wisconsin and turn my poe
kets before my constituents every Satur-
day night, if they require it
Declaring she bill was virtually the
product OF Senator Aldrich OF Rhode
Island. who was selected by a Legisla-
ture chosen by Il per cent of the votes
in that State, he said.
SO IL is, sir. that this bill today. with
all Of its iniqufty and all of its enormous
burdens. is imposed upon the Anne riCan
people by the representative Of the will
of II per cent of the people of the lit
tie State Of Rhode Island
Chairman Supreme.
Members of the Finance Committee
acCede to the dictates of the chairman
of this committee to such an extent
that it is patent to all Why, sir, the
Senator from Utah, Mr. smoot. has SD
long been under the influence of this
environment. that he has copied the
HanneTisms, the mode of speech, and
the other Senatorial paraphernalia of
the Senator from Rhode Island. -
Senator Davis declared he was aston
DUTY was under consideration to see
Senator Scott plead with Senator Aid
rich to be allowed to offer an amend
ment to the pending schedule.
He was nodded down with the tao
tics Of schoolmaster, said Senator
Davis, and to such an extent. sir, that
it called forth an impassioned resent
ment from the Senator from Idaiio Mr.
Hepburn who served public notice upon
the chairman of The Finance Commit
tee, the senior Senator from Rhode Is
land, that no such schoolmaSter tactics
would be tolerated by him
As 20 the platform promise of the Re
publican party &c revise the tariff the
Speaker said:
Platform Jugglery"
by artihce and cunning, and by plat
form jugglery they led the American
people TO believe that they intended 10
do just what they cid not intend TO do,
tighten the burden Of taxation upon the
consumer They dared not disclose their
real purpose. They dared not let IL be
known that they intended to make the
possibilities Of the American protected
industries yet greater, and to still swell
their already colossal fortunes and 10
take from the poor man the last Vestige
OF hope and from their helpless families
their means of sustenance.-
But, sir, the American people are
awakening today tu the full realization
Of the fact that they have been tricked
the promises of the Republican party
are as but broken reeds and smoking
UaNs ana today sir, IneN are turning
their faces in hopefulness ana glad ac-
claim TO the great Middle West, where
a small cloud has arisen, not larger
than a mans hand, but which is gath
ering IN strength and volume, led on by
the insurgent forces of the Republican
party in this body, that assures, sir, the
downfall and destruction of the OLD
Bourbon element, that old dominant
party planted by Hamilton. In which
there yet repOses the spirit Of kings
and the belief that one crowd was Gre
by their masters, and that when they
call for bread they should De given a
stone and when their children cry for
a FISH they should be given a serpent"
False TO Trust
Every line of the bill proved, said
Senator Davis, that the Republican lead
crs had proven false to the people and
the Finance Committee had the "brazen
efrontery" to say the object of II was
10 give a select class yet greater priv
ileges.
floor no longer conceal their real pur-
poser Why do they exhibit their mailed
hand ard cloven hoOf Ia this transac-
tion2 Sir, they are drunk with power.
Upon temporary glory. Upon passing
success. They feel that these protected
industries whose 'slush fund and whose
blood money has kept them in power
for the last quarter of a century, pos
sess now such omnipotent power that
pie cannot be IoOsened, and their power
to rob them further cannot be de-
strOyed."