Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-11
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Position in Congress on the
Payne-AIdrich Bill.
Badly Shattered While
Democrats We're More United
Than Since the Civil War.
Leader Clark.

lff fight more thoroughly united on
the question than they have 1een for
| a generation, while the reverse is true
of the Republicans, according to a
statement issued today by Champ
Clark, of Missouri, minority leader in
the House. The statement follows:
'"The old saying that habit is sec
ond nature, was never more striking
ly illustrated than by the fact that
many newspapers Repub
lican or -Repubiican-and more
| individuals keep mouthing about the
dissensions among House Democrats
and the perfect unity among House
Republicans, Notwithstanding the
truth known of all men who care to
know it, that the House Democrats
| came out of the tariff fight more
thoroughly united on that question
than they have been in a generation,
and the Republicans came out of it
worse shattered than ever before.
Some papers, either through care
| lessness or malice have gone so far
as to say that had the Democrats not
been absent in large numbers un-
paired we would have defeated the
conference report on the tariff bill.
''There isn't syllable of truth in
it, and to so charge is either unadul
terated malice or criminal negligence
Now mark how plain a tale will put
them down.
upon my motion last spring to re-
commit the Payne bill with .nstruc-
tions-which instructions constitute a
comprehensive Democratic platform
so far as the tariff is concerned. ALI
Democrats voted for it except four.
On the Payne bill itself, voted on i'm
mediately after my motion to recon-
nit was defeated, the Republicans
lost one vote and the Democrats lost
four, a net loss to the Democrats of
three-a more nearly unanimous
Democratic vote than has been cast
on tariff bill in a generation.
True that on some of the items a
few Democrats flew the track, but
, so did more Republicans.
Lets examine into the comparity
: among Democrats and Republicans.
/ On Mr.. Payne's motion to recommit
I the conference report, all the Demo
Gratis except one voted for it and
l twenty Republicans voted with US, SO
: that the Republican machine was vic
torious by only five majority, although
| they had a majority of forty7f1ve in
the House. On that vote there was
absent six Democrats and five Repub-
5 licans. Among the absentees four
Democrats were paired with four Re.
publicans, leaving two Democrats alb
sent without pairs. If the two Dem
ocrats absent without pairs had been
| present and had voted with us, we
: would still have been defeated by one
vote. On that vote to recommlt the
conference report, the Democrats
voted more solidly than they ever
voted on any tariff question since the
close of the Civil War, while the Re
publicans were worse split up.
con the vote on the adoption of the
conference report, the House machine
won by twelve majority only. There
were absent six Democrats and four
Republicans. AS on the motion to re-
commit four Democrats were paired
with four Republicans, and two Dem
J ocrats were absent without pairs and
two Democrats voted with the Re-
! publicans. If the two impaired Dem
ocrats had been present and voted
with us, the machine majority would
have been reduced to ten, and If the
two Democrats who voted with the
| IPonI1h1ioonc oil xryi4h
the machine majority would have
been reduced to six. That was a
close call for the machine, but moth
| ing could have been done to have
turned their hardly won victory into
defeat.
.HThe reason that Mr.. Chairman
Payne moved to recommit was that
he fooled himself into the belief that
: we were going to offer a motion to
recommit with instructions and he
wanted to head that off and by an
agreement with the Speaker under
took to do so; but we had no idea OF
. moving to recommit with tnstruc-
/ tions-which instructions would have
| been Democratic propositions. OF
j, course, Mr.. Payne voted against his
' own motion to recommit
= s'The full Democratic attendance
: was largely due to the fidelity, vigi-
lance and industry of the Democratic
: whip, Hon. Thomas M. Bell, and to
his two assistants, Hon. John N. Gar
ner and Hon. William Hughes. They
did all that mortal men could to have
every Democrat present.
MANY newspapers are trying to
! make it appear that the Payne-A1-
drich-Smoot bill is revision down
ward. That is absolutely untrue. The
average rates of the Payne-Aldrich-
Smoot bill is about 2 per cent. higher
than the average rate of the Dingley
bill When the maximum goes into
effect March 81, 1910, the average
rate will be about 27 per cent. higher
than the average of the Dingley bill y
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