The Detroit times., 1909-04-02
DEMOCRATS LINED
UP FOR SHARE OF
TARIFF CRAFT
Singing Rebuke To Party Rebels
Is Administered in the House
By Rep. Speight of
-. Mississippi.
Stocking Trust Promise" No In
crease in Price of Hosiery II
Tax Is Raised.

WASHINGTON. April 2--Represen-
tatfve Speight (Dem. Miss.), I'm a
speech during the discussion OF the
Payne tariff bill In the house today.
said he regretted that there was some
foundation for the charge that mum
ber OF southern representatives had
turned their backs to the teachings
o, lifetime and showed a disposition
TO get their share OF tariff graft
that was formerly distributed only In
other sections OF the country. Speak.
ing of the duty on lumber he said
that no protest against the lower du-
ties had come to him from consumers
and he predicted that day OF reckon
Ing would come TO members who list
ened to the voice OF the lumber trust
and advocated higher duties. He com
planned of the tax on cotton bagging
and ties as an unfair tax on an agri-
cultural product. saying II taxed cotton
n million dollars a year
House leaders were In a cheerful
frame OF mind today over favorable
prospects for securing the support OF
a majority Monday for the adoption Of
a rule limiting the time for considera-
ton OF the Payne bill. They have
been busy day and night. for the
greater part OF the week, lining up
members and feel that they now have
q majority in sight.
AS matters look today. there will be
separate record votes on only hides
and lumber. aside from the adoption
OF the bill as a whole.
After the adoption OF the rule, CON
sideration of the bill by sections will
proceed under the fiye-minute rule.
Eut no amendments will be consid-
cred except those presented through
the ways and means committee.
In a large advertisement published
In a local newspaper today. the Ma
tional Hosiery Manufacturers associa-
ton declared that there would be no
Increase in prices OF hosiery II the
increased rates of the Payne bill are
enacted into law
Hosiery manufacturers and their en-
ployes are sAeluging the committee on
ways and means with petitions for the
recitation OF the Payne bill duty on
hosiery Nearly 10000 employees have
joined in these petitions.
The unusual spectacle OF Demo
.erat pleading for protection anu
yoicing Republican tariff ideals inter
ested the majority side when KEEP.
Ransdale (Dem., La spoke for hign
duty on long staple and Sea island
cotton, along with cotton manufac-
turers. He declared that the south
should not be Disseminated againsJ
when the agricultural products or
other sections Of the country were
given protection.
Filipino Raps Tariff Measure.
WASHINGTON, April To-day
for the first time In the history OF
the government. a native Filipino Pa
blo Ocampo. one of the two delegates
from the Philippine islands, address
ed the house OF representatives. He
was a spare. swarthy man with char
acteristic Malayan cast Of features.
He was formerly one OF Aguinaldo
insurrectos. He spoke from manu-
script in broken English. that was
very difficult for the members to un-
derstand. At the close OF his re-
marks. Rep. Goulden (Dem., n. ",
who led the applause, said that he
acknowledged that the president (then
governor generaD Taft had declared
during the Philippine insurrection that
II he could secure Ocampo's assist
ance, there would be no trouble In
pacifying the instruction.
These islands are pacified, said
Goulden. bowling to the embarrassed
Filipino.
Ocampo attacked the Philippine pro-
vision of the Payne bill. declared that
it establishes a novel free trade sys-
tenn, free admission of American pro-
ducts into the islands. without limita-
ton, and restriction OF Philippine i'm
portations tn this country.
He presented resolution OF the
Philippine legislature. asking aboli-
ton of the Dingley duty on sugar, I'M
manufactured tobacco, cigarettes. ag-
ricultural machinery and apparatus
for repairing roads.
.If really the retention Of the Phil
ippines is not for the purpose Of ex-
plotting them" he said, but to up
lift and liberate them. as heretofore
declared by the American people, and
believed In good faith by the Filipinos.
this house should not pass the objec-
tionable provision OF the Payne bill"