The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-03

everybody knows t,lat Mars Aldrieh is go- ing to write the bill
 He pictured MT. Payne coming on Mon- day with the backing of the rules com mittee and making ready to put the bill through.
 'T suppose" he added, "Dr. Cannon will stand by the bedside, and he will say privately something to the rank and file of his party who want committee preferment next December, a power we tried to take from him, and I wish we had taken 1t away, and if we had done that we would have your republican party now in state of .betweenity.'
 The Iowa Idea.
 MT. Clayton referred to the Iowa idea" when he was interrupted by Mir. Kendall of Iowa with the remark that there was mo idea in Iowa that did not indorse protection.' This led to an exciting col- loquy in which MT. Clayton referred MT. Kendall to Senator Cummins, and advised him to wrestle with the senator over the difference between a republican tariff and the senator's idea of lowering that prohi bition wall so that competition from abroad may come in and drive the trusts to shelter and enable the consuming Americans to buy what they need in the daily walks of life at a reasonable price,"
 Mir Clayton said further he had been told that Senator Cummins had made the statement that that same tariff had robbed the people of more than hun- dred million dollars a year" He asked MT. Kendall to correct him if he was wrong.
 T challenge the statement" replied MT. Kendall.
 Challenge doesn't go,' MT. Clayton ex- claimed. He said that if Mir, Kendall
 
 meet outside and fight it out. "Is it so, or is it not so?' he demanded to know.
 Now, confess that 1t Is so, that 1t Is not so. or that you don't know
 MT. Kendall declared that while he had no authority to speak for Senator Cum mins, he has too much confidence in his good sense to believe that he made the statement imputed to him by the Ala baInian.
 Tariff Robbery.
 Mir. Clark of Missouri declared that Senator Cummins had said that ''al1 the robbery committed by all the insurance companies for all time has not equalled one-twentieth the amount that the Amer ican people are robbed of every year under the high protective tariff system" The Alabama member after speaking an
  chair refused a large number of others who were to speak, most of whom he said "were on the democratic side"
 MT. Clayton took the suggestion in good grace and after talking a short time longer yielded the floor.
 Chafing under Mr. Claytons references to their respective standards of ethics, MT. Burke of Pennsylvania called atten- ton to the population of his own district and that of MT. Clayton, and sought to show that in the Alabama members dis triot 12,000 persons had been disfranchised. What does that indicate as to the standards of ethics?' he inquired
 MT. Clayton, he said, had complained that the Payne bill was imperfect, but the Pennsylvania member desired any one to point to the time when any party measure was perfect. He declared that the business world was losing S10,000,000 every day the bill was before Congress
 From his experience with tariff revision, MT. Townsend of Michigan said he was not so sure but that satisfactory tariff bill could be prepared by commission of high grade, intelligent men for presenta- tion to Congress. He said that with the constant introduction in the south of vari- ous industries the time was rapidly ap- preaching when the democrats of that section would be In line with the policy of protection.
 Tariff Commission.
 MT. Morse. republican of Wisconsin, gave notice that if permitted he would introduce an amendment to provide for a permanent tariff commission. He an- nounced that if the rule which the re- publican leaders intend to bring in Mon day does not provide for vote on the duty on petroleum he would vote against the rule, believing the proposed duty was in tuif fha
 MT. Cullop, independent, denounced the Payne bill as the embodiment of 'tgi- gantc struggle of its beneficiaries to see who can plunge his hands deper into the consumers pockets" He warned the re- publicans that in the preparation of the bill they had written their death knell
 Mr. Chandler of Mississippi attacked the bill as containing higher average of tax ation than any tariff law, not excepting those enacted to meet the exigencies of the civil war. He declared the greatest outrage that has been committed in the bill directed immediately against the breakfast table,"
 MT. Chandler said the deficits which it was desired to meet by the unequitable taxation were due solely to the unpar- donable extravaganza of republican ad- ministrations.
 MT. Chandler declared that agriculture had been ignored in the bill. He made a plea for that industry. In a general de- fense of the protective tariff policy of the republicans, MT. Hamilton of Michigan pointed out that the American manufae- tured started out with handicap owing to the higher cost of his plant as against those of the English, French, German and Belgian manufacturers. That hand icap, therefore, he argued. had to be overcome by protection of the home products.
 Men Out of Work.
 Mr. Hamilton discussed the conditions existing from 1893 to 1897 and said that during that period times were hard and Samuel Gompers had estimated there were 100000 men out of work. There fore, he said, men out of work bought less and less at the stores; the stores bought less and less at the factories; the fac- tories paid out less wage and the farmer sold less to everybody. The usual recess at o'clock was then taken.
 Praising William Jennings Bryan for having published democratic campaign contributions prior to the recent presi- dential election. Representative Heflin of Alabama, the first speaker at the night session, contended that the Payne bill was framed to satisfy the trusts, which, he said, furnished the campaign funds of the republican party. MT. Hefiin having yielded to him, MT. Clayton of Alabama, referring to the formers remarks regarding the republic an party, and the trusts, quoted from the Bible "the OK knoweth his owners and ] the ass knoweth his master "The republican," said MT. Clayton, 'has as much knowledge as an OK or as a iackass"