The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
TARIFF TALK sHAS STARTED Debate Begins in the
 House. OLLIE JAMES IS POINTED Kentucky Congressman Iambasts
 the Republicans. -s Deelares tAat Payne Bin APillages Hu- manityn-CusAman of washins- ton and Kennedy of Ohio
 Other Speakers.
OLLIE JAMES IS POINTED

Washington, March 29.--What prob ably will be the last week of general debate on the Payne tariff bill was be- gun in the House of Representatives l today. The session convened at 10
 Declaring that the Payne bill goes one step further in/the pillaging of humanity" Mir. J9fnes tKy.l added: What is a reasoHable proft?" that the Republicans claim the measure would allow. Who shall decide?" he asked. shall 1t be left to Andrew Carnegie, prfcked by a conscience that has al- lowed him to loot for many yearsT'
 Mir. Carnegie. he said, commenced to establish in the various cities and towns of the country libraries. where hungry, ragged men may read of feasts they could not have. He asserted that the so-called reasonable profit was to be upon watered stock and fictitious values."
 MT. James also characterized the tariff on farm products "a delusion and a snare and a most consummate fraud" Attacking the maximum and mini mum features of the bill he declared that the plan of the tarfn was to pun ish consumers because the Govern ments acros the sea will not deal fair ly with American manufacturers.
 Your whole vision" he said. "oniy includes the manufacturer.
 | MT. James announced his intention of offering an amendment to authorize suspension of important duties on com I modities or articles of merchandise of foreign make here. if the value of simi- liar articles isienhanced in consequence of any trust or monopoly. He insisted that whenever the maximum rate is applied 1t would wipe of the free list at least ffty articles. He denounced the so-cailed sugar and tobacco trusts and advocated an income taxs.
 | Cushman Speaks
 Mf. Cushfnan twash ]. the. new Re- publican member of the Committee on Ways and Means. pleaded. for better protection to American lumber and for a duty, on coal. The Democrats. he said, had characterized the bill as mi 'l quitous but while there were some fea- lures not entirely to hts liking, he did II not condemn itras afwhole. 1t would be, he declared. an tnterestinE contrf- button to the political ifterature in the nation to have printed 'in4deadly par allei columns" exactly what blli the Democrats proposed as a substitute for the Payne bill. ,-a
 MT. Cushnian received vociferous ap- plause when he said:
 "The laboring man has travelled q migfty distance since you and your
 
 Mir. Wilson (Pa.). who had interrupt ed him. The laboring man." he con- tinued, "has travelled all the way from ! dimes worth of liver on credit to 6 dollars worth of porterhouse on cash and that represents a mighty and un- measured distance on the chart of do nestle economy and national prosper ity."
 It was, he said, the wage scale ant not the price list that was the barom' eter of American prosperity.
 MT. Cushman spoke for two hourt and fifteen minutes and received ar ovation when he sat down.
 Mir. Kennedy (O.) took the floor fol Pleads for Pig Iron.
 Claiming that not a single ton of pig iron would be imported under the clause of the Payne bill which places duty of s2.5o on pig iron and only 50 cents on scrap iron, MT. Kennedy said that he hoped an amendment would be allowed by the Ways and Means Committee which would make the duty on both articles equal. Il unchanged, he said, all kinds of crude cast iron, If broken up in scrap form would be admitted as scrap iron under the Payne bill.
 "I have read the hearings and un. derstand 1t was the intention of the committee to permit wrought scraI steel and wrought scrap iron to come in at a lower rate of duty than pig iron to afford 8 supply for makers oi l open hearth and basic steel" said MT Kennedy, "it will be readily seen that every ton of scrap iron when reman' ufactured will displace ton of pig Iron. It would be idle and absolutely no good to manufacturers of pig iror to have duty carried apparently 1T their interest at higher rate thar scrap, as the manufacturers of mer' chant pig iron upon the continent would not put their iron in the form of pig. but would run 1t out break fl up in the form of scrap and not a sin gle ton of pig Iron would ever be i'm ported under this clause.
 There Is no scarcity. nor will there ever be scarcity of wrought iron apt steel scrap in this country:
 The railroad companies that have been compelled to buy rails in a pro- tected market from the makers of stee ought to have a protected market ir winch to dispose of their scrap.
 Claiming that the provisions of the Dingley bill for the free entry of ma ] terial and equipment going into the construction and repair of vessels built in America to be employed in foreign trade, has not had any effect on in- : rine, Mir. Jones, of Virginia, opposed } the re-enactment of these provisions He charged that a provision in the present law which declares that yes sels receiving the benefit of the act shall not engage in coastwise trade ir the United States for more than two months in any one year without pay , ing the government the remitted du- ties, was the reason why no Ameri- can ship yards are constructing ocear vessels out of free imported materials
 Wants Lumber Free.
 MT. Scott. of Kansas. declared. thai . lumber ought to be, put upon the free list, and contended that the rate oi duty on zine ore as carried in the Payne bill taken In conjunction with the duty on spelter would inevitably close the Kansas smelters.
 Maintaining that the Payne bil failed to distribute the rate of taxation equally MT. Peters, Democrat, (Mass. I spoke in opposition to it. He , argued for a genuine tariff revis. , ion that will lessen the cost of living , and be in the interests of the con l sumeE"
 Praising the Payne bill as a whole . and its maximum schedule provision IE fr.n,,2s-...A nm pnra rrhrnaN