Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-30
GENERAL DEBATE
ON TARIFF BILL
lanes Of Kentucky Asserted
Payne Measure Goes a Step
Further in Pillaging.
REP. cUsHMAN DEFENDS IT..
Pleaded for Better Protection 60
American Lumber aud for a
Duty on Coal

Washington. March 1g What prob
ably wil b. he last week of general de-
bate ou the Payne toirn bin WIS begun
in the house today
Declaring that The Payne bill goes
ONE step further Goo the p.lagng OF hu-
manity.' Mr.. James of kentucky asked.
What is reasonable proht?' that the
Republicans claim the measure would
allow
who shall decide?" boz asked. shall
it be- left TO Andrew Carnegie pricSod
by a conscience that has allowed him to
loot for many years."
Mr.. Carnegie. De said. commenced 20
establish in tho various cities ana
towns OF the country libraries where
hungry. ragged men may read of feasts
they could not attend and of come
forts they could not have.
PROTECTION OF LUMBER
Mr. Cushman of Washington. the new
Republican member OF the committee
on ways and means. plead for better
protection 90 American lumber and Tor
"a duty ou coal The Democrats, hg
said, had characterized the bin as ini-
luitous. bus while there were some
features not entirely Co his liking. ho
ala NOT condemn 10 as "a whole. IL would
boz. hc declared. au interesting contri-
button to the political literature iu the
nation to have printed "iu deadly par
allcI columns exactly What bin the
Democrats proposed J~ Ga substitute ior
Che Payne BILL
Mr. Cushmau's declaration that the
conditions were FAR better today than
they were under Democratic rulC was
disputed by Mr. WDissa of Wisconsin
Mr.. Weissc declared that bon the last rs
months 90 per cent of the l1horiug mon
of the county had been out of work,
ind that there had been failures 90 the
amount of SfS90ooO00 In the last tVo
years.
Mr Cushman replied that laboriug
folk were not only getting the benefit OF
decent wages now. but were Well
dressed and well fcd which Doc said.
was not the case when Democracy was
n power.
Mr. Cushmau got vocferous applause
when Doe said 1.-THE laboring man has
travelled a. mighty distance since you
and your party were In." addressing
himself 90 Mr. Wilson of Pennsylvania.
who had Interrupted him.
THE laboring man. De continued.
has travelled am the WAY from q dime
worth of liver on credit 60 dollars
worth of porteIhouse on cash. and that
represents % mighty and uumea sured
distance in the chart of domestic econ
ON and national prosperity 10 was.
he said, the wage scale and not tho
price Ist that was the barometer of
American prosperity.
Mr.. Cushman declared free coal was
not @ Republican doctrine. He quoted
from some remarks made by Mr. Payne
when "a bin was up providing for flap
coal and said 10 did not Die with Nr
Payne 60 criticize him because he said
When ] raise uy voice today for
tarin ON coal ] ann preaching tho doc-
trlue which Doe himself taught me-.
Mr. Cushman referred 60 the increase
in the value of farm and other prod
ucts, and also Of land during recent
years, and said the advance In the
price of lumber had not been am UNI
fair one 100 comparison.
Mr.. Cushman entered upOu oulozis-
tic defense OF the lumbermeu. when Dee
said the minds of the public were iu-
famed against thF lumber manufactur-
ers 4 say 90 you beware. YOU are SOW
Ing the wind and you viii some daS
reap the whllwind. Some day a spasm
of popular reform viii attack your par
ticuiar industry and then the seeds OF
disanri and malice which you have
soNu win spring up like the crop THAT
grew from the dragons teeth"
Mr. Cushman spoke for two hours
and fifteen minutes, and received am
ovation when he sat down.
Mr. Kennedy of Ohio spoke for aH
hour
Claiming that the provisions of th.
Dmgley BIN for the free entry of m4-
| teral entering into the construction
and repair of vessels built iu America