Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-06
Takes Exception to Misrepres en-
tations iii Republican or Near
Republssa Papers.
HE PUTS FORTH A STATEMENT / 4 {: {: 1 /. I !
Declares Average Of Katcs8o IS Pa S1l nc.
Aldrlch- Smoot Bill About per
Cent Higher Than Dingley.
3 n 81 y. .

SWfldL ne SteCIflS LIE iii
of Democrats in the papers, Champ y 4
Clark, leader Of the minority in the tn
house, today gave out the following
statement regarding the course Of the
Democratic members Of the house IN
connection with tile consid erntion or
the Payne bill: sss II
sssThe old saying that habit is second
nature was never more strikingly II
Illustrated than by the fact that many
newspapers generally Republi lean or
near ublicans-and moro individ--
Buals, keep mouthing about the DIS, is,
sessions among the Democrats ana
sRepilbl Leans. not with tandi ing the truth.
known Of all men who care to know
that the house Democrats came out
$of the tariff fight more thoroughly,
united on that question than they haHl
been iii a generation and the Repulb- -
Slicans came out OF IT worse shattered
than ever before. 8
8lessness or malice, have gone so far
as to say that had the Democr rats
not been absent in large numbers un- a
paired NE would have defeated the
conference report on the tariff Dill
There is not a syllable Of truth In IT
and so the charge is either unadulter-s
ated malice or criminal negligence.
"A PLAIN TALE.
Now mark how plain a, tale Will put
them down.: OnlnN motion last spring
to recommit the Rayne bill with m
&structions-.-which instruct tons 4. corlstl
Btute comprehensive Democratic plat
form so far MS the tariff is concerned
&--all Democrats voted for 1T, except
fcp1
son immcd lately AFT ter my otion to re-
commit was defeated, the Republican
lost one vote and the Democrats lost
-four, net loss to the Democrats OF
.thpeea more nearly unanimo BUS DEM
socratic. vote than has beer cast on
"a tariff bill in a generation
5 Let's examine into the comparative:
majority among the Democrats and
Republicans On Mi. Payne's motion to-
recon1rnit the conference report all the
Democrats except one voted for II and
20 Iepubl icansg voted with us, SO that
the Republ ican party was vi ctorlous
by only five MAJ oritys although they
had a ma olity of IS in the house. 4 On
that vote there were absent six ~ Dem A.
Eocrats and five, Repttbl fcaffs. III ss
Among those absent, four Democrats
were paired with four lRepubli caHns,,
leaving two Democrats and one Repub-
lican absent without pairs. II 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 Republ icans, voted with us,
we would still have been defeated by
one vote. On that vote to reconmit the
conference report, the Democrats voted
more solidly than ever before since the
close of the Civil war; while the Res
PAIRING.
Upon the vote Of the adoption Of
the conference report the house ma
chine won by - maj ority 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 We're absent without pairs and
two Democrats voted with the Repub-
LEANS. If the two impaired Democrats
had been present and voted with us. the
machine majority would have been RE-
lduced to 10; and II the two Democrats
who voted with the Republicans had
also voted with us, the machine ma Jori-
##ty would have been reduced to six.
e "The reason Chairman Payne moved
to re commit was that he fooled him
self into the belief that we were going
and he wanted to head
that off and by an agreement with the
speaker undertook to do so but we had
( no idea OF moving to re-comfnit with
instructions, because the situation alb
SsolutelS forbade 1t, for the Republicans
who voted with us in favor Of the
Payne motion simply to recommit
would have voted with the Republican
4Inachinists against our motion to re-
commit with instruct ons- which In
struct ions would have been Democratic
propositions. s8sl
The full Demo cratic tend was
largely due to- the fidelity, diligence
and industry of the Democratic whip,
Thomas NJ. Bell, and to his two as
sistants, j ohn N. Garner and William
Hughes They did all that mortal men
could do to have every Democrat
present.
Many newspapers are trting to
make 1T. appear that the Payne and
the Aldrich- Smoot bill is a revision
downward. This is absolutely untrue.
The average Of rates OF the Payne
Aldrich- Smoot bill is about 2 per cent
higher than the average rate of the
Dingley bill. When the maximum goes
into effect March 81, 1910. the average
rate bill will be about 81 per cent high
er than the average of the Dingley
BILL.
MAY TAKE al col 0NY OF