The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-07
STOOD HARD AND
FAST FOR RIGHT
Champ Clark Gives Facts and
Figures Regarding the
Tariff Bill.
DEMOCRATS PROVED TRUE
HOUSE REPUBLICANS SPLIT UP
OVER THE PROPOSITION.

Washington. Aug. 6.-ln reply 10 what
he terms the Misrepresentation OF
Democrats in the papers" Champ Clark,
leader of the minority in the house, to-
day gave out the following statement
REGARDING the course of the Democratic
members OF the house in connection with
the consideration of the Payne bill:
THE old saying that habit is second
nature was never more striklngly Illus
tratcd than by the fact that many
wspapers-generally Republican or
near Republican-and more individuals
keen mounting about the dissensions
among the Democrats and the perfect
unanimity among the house Republ-
cans. Notwithstanding the truth, known
of all men who care to know, that the
house Democrats came out Of the tar
iff fight more thoroughly united on
that question than they had been i'm
generation, and the Republicans came
out Of it worse shattered than ever be-
fore.
Absolutely Untrue.
some papers. either through care
lessness or malice, have gone so far as
10 say that. had the Democrats not been
absent i'm large numbers impaired, we
would have defeated the conference re-
port on the tariff bill. There is not
syllable of truth in it, and so to charge
is either unadulteTated malice or Grim
inal negligence.
Now mark how plain a tale viii put
them down: On my motion last spring
To rccommit the Payne bill with in
structions-WEich instructions constitute
q comprehensive Democratic platform SO
FAR as the tariff is COnCeTned-aH Dem
ocyats voted for it, except four. On the
Payne bill itself, voted ON Immediately
IL
fe1tcd, the Republicans lost one vote
and the Democrats lost four, a net loss
10 the Democrats of three-a more near
ly unanimous Democratic vote than has
been cast on a tariff bill i'm a genera
ton.
Republican Boilers.
Lets examine into the comparative
majority among the Democrats and Re
pubHcans. on Mr.. Payne's motion to
rccommit the conference report all The
Democrats, except one, voted for IL,
and twenty Republicans voted with rs,
so that the Republican party was vic
torious by only five majority, although
they had a majority Of forty-five in the
house. On that vote there were alb
sent six Democrats and five Republi-
cans.
Among those absent four Democrats
were paired with four Republicans
leaving TWO Democrats and one Re
publican absent without pairs. If the
two Democrats absent without pairs
had been present and had voted with
Us, we would have been defeated by
three votes. Had one Democrat, who
voted with the Republicans voted with
us, We would still have been defeated by
one vote. On that vote to recOmmit
the conference report the Democrats
since the close of the Civil war, while
the Republicans were worse split up.
Short Machine Majority.
Upon the vote Of 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 Demo-
Gratis were absent without pairs, and
two Democrats voted with the Republi-
cans. IF the two impaired Democrats
had been present and voted with US, the
machine majority would have been re-
duced to ten; and If the two Democrats
who voted with the Republicans had
also voted with us, the machine ma
jOrity would have been reduced TO six.
THE reason Chairman Payne moved
TO TeCommit was that he fooled him
self into the belief that we were going
20 offer a motion to TecOmmit with in
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