The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25


 to private life.
 He would prefer, he said not to retire, "but the time will come sooner or later, and when l do go out, l intend to do II with my mental integrity and my self respect intact
 NH1r. Clark next devoted his attention 10 Speaker Cannon, who occupied a conspic- uous place on the floor, and was paying marked attention to what the minority leader was saying. He dealt with the speech made by MT Cannon at Joplin and other places in Missouri during the cam- paign regarding zinc and other Missouri products.
 The allusion brought the speaker to his feet. He declared that while in Missouri he had been told by members of both parties that deep zinc mining had gone out of business, that the rich ore only was being mined, and that deep mining was giving them smokeless chimneys and idle workmen.
 He also had been told that the coming into the United States of free zinc from Mexico affected their industry. He de- clared that he saw the smokeless chim- neys and idle men, and that former Rep resentative Hackney, a democrat, had been represented to him as saying that while he stood for the Denver platform, zinc should be protected.
 ''I said to my audences' the speaker remarked, that they knew in the Joplin district and elsewhere whether a duty on zinc that came in competition with their production was necessary.
 Paying High Price.
 Replying. MT. Clark insisted that his position was that the people of the United States were paying a high price, that we may have the society of my friend Char lie Morgan in this House MT. Morgan is the Republican successor to MT. Hack ney.
 A statement by Mr. Clark that certain persons in Joplin tried to deceive the committee with regard to the necessity for a duty on zinc bro lght denial from MT Morgan.
 The speaker again took the floor to make an explanation, when Mir. Clark said that the speaker had gone to the White House to discuss the tariff ques- tion with President Taft before the bill was reported. MT. Cannon admitted that lie went there at the invitation of the President, and said that he had found Senator Aldrich and Secretary MacVeagn there. He denied that the tariff was dis cussed or if it was he did not know 1t.
 What was discussed he said, was the general condition of the treasury and the desrability of good administration, and so far as possible an organization and an administration of that great de- partment that would tend to bring the expenditures of the government within the revenues.
 Cannon's Defense.
 Mr. Cannon remarked that he rarely corrected misrepresentation but it seemed in the present instance he could do so with propriety In former years, he de- clared, he had sat in the chair and on the floor, and heard misrepresentations "abounding in absolute falsehood that have been taken for truth by the muck raking newspapers and even written in the Democratic platform
 MT. Clark protested that he was not trying to misrepresent the Speaker.
 T sometimes think,' suavely replied MT. Cannon, "that he (Clark) is not clear as to the matter of difference between the suggestion Of that which is error and the letting alone of that which Is true, as he might have been in discussing the public questions touching the revenues"
 Resuming his argument, MT Clark an- nounced that if given the opportunity, he would vote to put boots and shoes on the free list, and, he said, they can bel low about free traders as much as they please"
 Never he said, would the tariff be taken off boots and shoes unless it was done when it was taken off hides.
 Much attention was given by Mr. Clark to wool and woolens. "The woollen sched- ule," he said, lis most complicated of all the schedules. It is a monstrous oppres- sion of the poor"
 MT Clark predicted that when the Sen ate got through with cutting and carving the Payne bill, MT. Payne would not rec ognize his own child when he met it In the road.
 Senate on the Tariff.
 "The senators over there' he said, "are engaged right now in making tariff bill of their own" He maintained 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 disa greeable in Washington 'that fellows will vote for any kind of bill to get out of town.'
 In reviewing the testimony of William Whitman of Boston on the wool schedule. Mir Clark gave his estimate of some of the men who figured in the hearing.
 "I hate no man." said MT. Clark. in speaking of MT Whitman but 1 have more contempt for him than any other man I ever clapped my eyes on." He de- clared that MT Whitman had great in- fiuence with the committee on finance of the Senate when the Dingley bill was be- ing considered in that body.
 The oil schedule was diverted to when Mir. Burke of Pennsylvania said he re-
  countervailing duty would not affect the Standard Oil company; that 1t would be absolutely fatal to the independent pro- ducers for the reason, stated that S9 per cent of the oil produced in the coun- try was produced by ind>~s ndents.
 Free Lumber.
 MT. Clark declared himself unqualified ly in favor of free lumber.
 A roar(of laughter went up when MT. Cushman of Washington emphatically CO., incided with a statement by MT. Clark that had it not been for tariff on lumber the whole northwest would have gone democratic MT. Clark, amid democratic applause, closed with a reiteration 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 of Massachusetts lave notice that should an opportunity be afforded he would sub init an amendment striking from the bill l the provision for an inheritance tax. It's i imposition, he declared, meant an extra | ordinary burden on the country. i general attack on the protective poll l cy of the republicans was made by MT. | Adamson of Georgia. What they called | protection. he said, simply meant fixing | duties so high as to deny all the market i of the world to the people of the United States and denriVe them of the OpDOr.