The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-25

described As the "most cordial and intel
leent witness before the committee.
FINALLY | got hold OF him. said Mr.
Clark, "and asked him II he were CIV
en- free hides be would ho willing that
boots and shoes 20 on the free list
AIR. Jones replied that he would rather
have a five or ten per cent duty, but
II he could not get free hides any 9th.
er way, he was wiling that the entire
duty on boots and shoea be taken of
1 believe, Continued Mr.. Clark, shat
every man on the committee breathod
sigh OF relief when he said that, We
thought knotty problem was settled,
| went so far as 60 compliment Mr.
Jones a. being the more candid and IN.
telligent witness we had heard But
when | came back later, and when he
resumed his testimony, | had TO look Al
him half dozen times 90 see If Il
was the same man. When he went
home the brogan shoe men, under the
leadership OF my friend Augustus p,
Gardner got hold Of him and terrorized
him and would give him no peace until
he came back here and took back all
he had said"
Mr.. Clark then proceeded 70 quote
from a letter OF the Sorosis Shoe cow.
panys OF Lynn, which he said, gEvScd
that boots and shoes did not need oae
particle Of protection.
Representative Tirrell Of AIassachu.
setts arose 20 inquire II Rice a Hutchin.
son took any such position. "Are you
not sure. be asked. shat although they
are connected with your party they are
to be opposed 10 their positiOnf And
George N. Keith Why do YOU say that
Mr.. Jones represents the boot and shoe
Industry"
III Is the plainest thing in the world'
shouted Mr.. Clark in reply. because he
came here and said SO, am going by
the testimony at the hearings"
IL tell you, gentlemen" he went on,
addressing the members of his own
party, "the only time YOU can get the
duties off boots and shoes is when you
take II of hides"
Mr. Clark announced that he should
address himself 10 only one more de,
tail Of the tariff. the wooden schedule
which he proceeded TO do. Mr. Clark
outdid himself in his description Of vii.
liam Whitman OF Boston. ct was al
Ways said OF Charles Dickens" he said,
shat all his characters were carciatures
but il he had walked into the ways and
means room when Mr.. Whitman was
testifying he would have rushed up and
grasped him BY the hand and said,
How do you do, Mr.. Peckniif' l am
the only man on the committee that got
him 10 give a direct answer to single
question. He fenced with anybody
Mr. Clark read extensively from the re.
port OF Mr. Whitman's testimony in the
support Of his statement.
From the outset MIR. Clark's remarks
commanded attention. At times he in
iected humor into what he had TO say
and frequently was interrupted by ap.
plause. As 4 preliminary to his set
speech, he provoked the House to great
laughter.
Calling attention to the colloquy
Tuesday between Mr.. Payne and Mr..
Garrett Of Tennessee, which grew out
OF an inquiry by the latter whether the
Payne bill was not revision upward. Mr..
Clark read some comparisons between
the Dingley and Payne bills prepared
by a government expert in the commit
tee These. he said, showed that the
average rate Of the Dingley bin was
4416 per cent. while under the Payne
bill they were 45.72 per cent. showing
i.56 per cent worse than the Dingley
BILL" He declared that no man of bad
temper or bluster could conceal that
fact from the American people, Many
Of the reductions in the bill, he main
tanned, were more apparent than real.