The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-24
m'ncr'ty Leader Of the House Speaks
at Length Upon the Tariff
Bill, Pointing Out its :
Deficiencies.
HE OFFERS CRITICISM
Says Treasury Deficit is Sad Predica.
rent Which Dnsley Bill Hao
srought-Many Rates
Similar.

WASHINGTON, March 2S.--Champ
olark made the following speech:
Every tariff theory that was ever
hatcled in the brain of man has been
discussed repeatedly in this country
with thoroughness and splendid abil-
ny, AT late hearing only two or
three manufacturers asked reduc-
'ion in the rate on articles they man.
/ ulactured. One man admitted the tar
III On tin plate will be reduced half
cent per pound and Claus Spreckles
SAID the sugar tariff would be re.
moved
What the Public Thought
Ine reason why the ultimate con-
sumer, as he is denominated by Bon.
tell of Illinois did not appear before
the committee are: Firs. in the be.
ginning, the public looked upon the
nearing as stupendous confidence
game. Second. while that feeling wore
OH to some extent, Payne asked all
VINO had opinions to express to come
forward: scarcely one of the great
body of ultimate consumers appear
ed, because each felt that the posi-.
! bility of having his tariff burden sub
stantially reduced was SO remote as
not to be worth his time and expens-
! es.'
Respects to Fordney.
| Clark rpfprrnd Yo E,ordoo,, NTH
igan, (member of the ways and means
committee) as great fighter. He
said: IF consistency is virtue. he
is most virtuous man If he could
write the tariff it would be in these
words, if an article can be produced
in this country by any process, or at
any cost whatsoever, nothing like it
shall be imported. He said the sit
uation in which the ways and means
/ committee found itself was unpreced-
ented, owing to the claims of both
parties In the campaign favoring re.
ducing the tariff. He said the Repub-
lican platform was equivocal. Taft
constituting to mean revision down, and
many Republicans, appearing before
the committee, favoring raising the
the rates.
The Treasury Deficit.
The treasury deficit has nearly
reached hundred and fifty million
and is the sad predicament which the
much vaunted Dingley bill has
brought us. Only three ways are
known among the men by which tle
deficiency will be cured. The COM
mittee on ways and means was
under compulsion to increase the rev
enues hundred and fifty million dol
lars yearly. Clark proceeded to crit.
icize the Republican majority in the
ways and means committee for not
permitting the Democrat members to
have a part of the framing of the
tariff BILL AS result of this refusal
he said prolonged debate should en-
sue. I'm present affairs, ne said
every approximately prohibitive
rate ought to be cut yo revenue ba
sis" He said large portion OF the
rates of Dingley were retained in the
Payne bill. He cited an instance in
which steel rails. though cut two, we're
practically prohibitike. He said, An
drew Carnegie said there was no tar
iff needed on steel rails, even from
the protectionists' view point, and OF
the steel rail question ! pin my faith
to Laird Skibo."
New Rules Bothered Speaker.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-Work
ing under the new Fitzgerald rules th'
house came near tying UP the consider
alton of the tariff bill. The momen
, the reading of the journal was conclud
ed Payne arose and moved that TN
house resolved itself into committee
of the whole for the further consider
alton of the tariff bill. Gardner, o
Massachusetts. one of the leaders
the insurgents, called the chairs atten
ton of the fact that on this calenda
Wednesday it would take a two third
vote to consider the tariff bill. Gardne
made point of order and 1t was over
ruled. The speaker said: IT there !
any bill on the calendar the chal
: would refuse TO consider the motion t
take UP the tariff