The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-05-27
GINGER IN SENATE
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
HAVE SPICY DEBATE ON
TARIFF BILL.
BAILEY RAPS GOV. JOHNSON
Texan Declares Minnesota Executive
Was Reckless Of the Truth In In
terview-smoot Disputes Clay's
Word-Discuss Chemicals.

Washington, May 20.-Democrats
and Republicans yesterday used at
times strong language i'm a good.na.
tured way, taunted each other with
the degree of disser 'ons each party
has suffered during tne consideration
of the tariff.
The debate was precipitated by Mr.
Bailey, who charged the Republicans
with entering into a conspiracy by
exaggerating Democratic dissensions
in order to hide their own difficulties
He said he had by careful observa.
tion recently become convinced that
a deliberate and systematic plan had
been inaugurated to obscure the diff
ferences on the Republican side by
exagserating and even misrepresent.
ing the differences on this side.
Hale Replies to Bailey.
Mr. Hale assured the senator from
Texas that there was no reason for
such suspicion and he added that the
fact was that the newspapers, seiz
ing upon dissensions In either party
display them prominently as pictur.
esque features. He assured the Texan
that nothing beyond that in his opin.
ion existed in respect to his suspicion
Of conspiracy. Mr.. Hale declared that
here would be no failure to enact
protective tariff bill and he declared
hat when II was all over all the Re-
publicans would support II and all the
Democrats would oppose II.
Mr.. Bailey. resuming referred to a
published interview with Gov. John.
son of Minnesota, criticising the mi
nority in the senate in its attitude
toward the tariff bill
Says johnson Should Study.
'If this represents the views of Mr.
Johnson" Mr. Bailey said, when he
might better be at home studying the
tariff question than seeking Demo
cratic favor in other states. If this
interview was authorized or sane.
toned by Gov. Johnson he was utterly
reckless of the truth and is disquali.
fled for any station. His explanation
is that the railroads of the south have
interested themselves in this legisla.
ton and have overcome the con.
sciences of some senators. He ought
II he knows that, in the cause of truth
to specify who are the men to whom
he refers"
Defining the Democratic attitude
toward the tariff question, Mr.. Bailey
declared that the day when Democrats
should favor free raw material had
passed and said that doctrine was ex-
pressed by Democrats in the past who
had hoped by such favor to attract
northern manufacturers.
To Vote for Free OIL.
Mr.. Bailey said he proposed to vote
to place oil and its products on the
free list because, he said,- duty on
II would produce no revenue and
would only increase the price of oil
to the people who use 1t.
"And yet" he said, two excellent
gentlemen recently called on me and
spent an hour trying to convince me
that the Standard Oil Company wants
oil on the free list"
Referring to the antitrust law, Mr..
Bailey said that If he were attorney
general with competent assistants he
could break up all unlawful combina.
tion. 1t would only be necessary, he
said, to put few of the violators Of
the law in jail.
Declaring that Joseph F. Smith, the
head of the Mormon church, every
year fixes the price OF 5eets in the
interest of the beet sugar factories Of
Utah rather than in favor of the pro-
ducers of beets, Senator Clay called
forth characterization of his state
ment as absolutely untrue" by Sena-
tor Smoot, himself an official of the
Mormon church.
Senator Clay declared that Mr..
Smith, as president of the beet sugar
factories OF Utah. received $4,000 an
nual salary. "He is always In favor
of the factories and against the grow
ers," said Senator Clay.
The senate to-day took up the
chemical schedules of the tariff bill
that have been passed over.