Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-24
HOW DEFICIENCY
MAY Be REDUCED
Cut Down Expenses, Increase
Taxes. and Issue OF Bonds,
Says Champ Clark.
DUTY OF THE REPUBLICANS
should Have Invited Democrats to a.
,ist In Framing Revenue bill
Not Question of Free Trade

Washington March 2i--Dcclarins
that tho present was mo- time for
academic discussion of the tarin, Mn
Clark OF Missouri said that be had
gone to Chairman Payne and sueg sted
that I'M So far as hc was concerned BE-
gladly would have waived AN general
debate on the bill il assurance could
bee given that there would be ample
opportunity for amendments and de-
bate under the hve-minute rule of the
entire measure. section by section. It
was his Judgment that the bill could
be- amended In many respects.
Touching the failure Of the cousum-
or 90 appear before the committee. Mr..
Clark said that there we're two reasons
for this, one that I'm the beginning the
public looked upon the hearings rs a
stupondous confidence game; and see-
ond. that the consumer felt that the
possibility Of having his tariff burden
substantially reduced was so remote,
that he did not think it worth travelling
expenses. hotel bills, neglect OF busl-
ness and loss OF time. While that ape
piled to the fairly Well-to-do ultimate
consumer. he said. there were millions
Of ultimate consumers who had nor
the WhereWithal tO foot the bills for
a trip TO Washington and other mil
lions who could scrape together me
expensc money could not afford 60 use
il In that way.
so that" nc said. "the ultimate con
sumner really speaks in these hearings
only through questions prUpounded 10y
members Of the cOmmitte ln an honest
endeavor to asce tain the truth.
Most OF the cross-firing among VII
nesse- he said was where one set OF
manufacturers fell afoul OF another be
cause THE tarif pie was not eyeu4y
distributed and each one wanted the
biggest piece
I'M addition 10 the peculiar coinci-
dence OF both parties being under or
ders To- revise the tariff downward he
said. an were stared in the face by
large and increasing deficiency In the
revenues There were, he said. but
three ways known among men by
which "a deficiency may be cured cut
down expenses. increases In taxes. and
issue of bonds To issue bonds, he
declared was no remedy al all IL
was simply postponing the day when
they must be paid. principal and inter
est Taxes. he commended, never should
be increased where possible % avoid
A.
Cutting down appropriations. he
said where d could be done, without
stinting the government in any OF IFS
proper functions, was the most ef-
hcient remedy for a deficiency, but %
he added. "our Republican brethren
seem utterly incapable of cutting
down appropriations. We favor that
remedy on the old Jeffersonian prin-
cipIe OF economy IN the public eX-
pense that labor may be lightly burd-
ened.'
lie argued that as the Republicans
cannot economics and as they were
i'm the u'aio~itv. tNo corn-0iftee ~
ways and means was under com
ruIsion TO somehow increase the rev
ouues by about S150,O0OOOO per an
num-"
There was. he declared, no question
Of free trade involved IN the revision.
In the present condition OF AFFAIRS, he
argued. every approximately prOhioi-
tive rate ought 20 be cut 10 a revenue
basis There were many Of them In
the Dingley bill large portions Of
which. he said, were retained In the
| Payne bill.