The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09

decided. should be equally divided be-
tween the two parties.
When the recess had expired Mr.
Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, of the COM
mittee on rules, was at once recognized
to offer the rule providing for noncon-
currence in all the amendments and
agreeing to the conference requested by
the senate. He supplemented the rule
with a motion for one hour and half
for debate.
This suggestion was not entirely ac-
ceptable to Mr.. Townsend of Michigan,
who wanted the time extended to three
hours, but Mr.. Dalzells motion was
adopted.
After Mr.. DaIzen declared his be-
lief that he voiced the sentiment of
every member of the house on both
sides and of the entire citizenship of
the country when he said what was
needed now, was a speedy disposition
of the measure, Mr.. Underwood Ala,
contended he did not believe that the
country desires that the house dis
pose of the bill without careful and
various items in it.
Townsend Starts a Revolt.
The bill as it came from the sem
ate, was condemned by Mr.. Town
send, Michigan. AS it left the house,
he said it compiled for the most part
with the Republican pledges. but now
he declared, you would hardly
recognize it if you met it in the
road" He did not believe it was
ever intended that the senate should
introduce brand new propositions,
which the house had never discussed.
Mr.. Townsend created a stir when
he declared that in the course of the
debates in the senate, the house and
been insulted. He insisted that the
bill ought to be controlled by the
house. subject to such recommended
tions as the senate rightfully could
make, and not by a conference COM
The bill in the opinion of Mr.. Fitz-
gerald, was about as bad a piece of
legislation as it would be possible to
make in any legislative body. He
hoped there would be aroused
through the country a resentment
such as would make it impossible to
put some of the senate amendments
into effect.
The first open evidence of an in
tended revolt on the Republican side
was made manifest when Mr.. Mann
On.) protested vehemept1y against
the amendments fixing the duties on
wood pulp and print paper. There
were but two states, which would ben
eft by such a protection, declared
Mr.. Mann.
Mann Gives Notice.
L give notice now" he exclaimed,
amid Democratic and some Republi-
can applause. that if these two states
write the provision IN the conference
report on print paper and on wood
pulp in the interests of their states
and against the interests of the con-
sumers of paper and the manufactur-
erS of paper in the rest of nation, so
far as L am concerned. I shall swal-
low my desire to stand with the or
ganization of the house; my desire to
prove that the Republicans are able
to write a tariff bill and vote against
the conference report"
The ice having thus been broken,
Messrs. Davidson, Wis, and Douglas,
Ohio, two other Republicans, were, if
anything even more outspoken in their
than Mr.. Mann.
Messrs. Randall Texas, Pou, North
Carolina, and Henry, Texas, character
lied the measure as breaking the Re
publican pledges to the American peo-
pile. Their remarks aroused Mr.. Smith,
Iowa, who declared the American peo-
pie did not direct a Democratic re-
vision of the tariff. [s y:
Without specifically mentioning the
Mr.. Smith. facing the Demo
cratic side. said that many Democrats,
elsewhere" than in the house, had
been largely instrumental in placing
the increases in the bill. This asser-
ton elected loud Republican applause.
Answering the criticisms regarding
the proposed method of sending the bill
to conference, Mr.. Smith said that if
the members of the house were as talk
alive as those of the senate, it meant
that Is months would be consumed in |
the consideration of the bill by the
house.