Arizona republican., 1909-03-26
THE DEBATE.
Some Warm ColIoquys Over the Payne
 Tariff Bill.

Washington. March 25.-During the debate in the house, Crumpacker of Indiana discussed the tariff. charging that the Payne tariff bill ''is delib crate betrayal of the American people" and that fit is a fresh illustration of the perfidy of the republican party" Sheppard of Texas bitterly attacked the measure Amusing. indeed. were the ponderous assurances of Taft that the republican party would revise the tariff downward" he said. His vol canic predecessor realized the hopeless ness of such a proposition and evaded it to the last Is it possible that the cemplacent MT Taft will stand where the bifocal wind that recently swept from Washington to Oyster Bay failed utterly? I say to you. there is more real power in one five-cent cigar be- tween the iron lips of Joseph c. Can non, the stand-patter. than in the big stick of a whole regiment of Roose- velts and Tafts'
 Sheppard said the Payne bill was in no way a sincere and equitable revi- sion of the tariff and asserted that it was a declaration of commercial war with all the world.
 Mir Hale of Ohio made a plea for better protection for the wool indus try than is provided in the Payne bill.
 In his maiden speech as a member of the house, MT. Dies of Texas op- posed the tariff policy of the republi- can party. He maintained that the levying of any tax not for the purpose of raising revenues to maintain the government, or for temporary encour- agement of the interests of the coun- try. was an exploitation of the taxpay- CTS. Dies, in particular. attacked the provisions of the bill relating Y farm implements.
 Custermann of Wisconsin. opposed the countervailing duty on oil which he argued. had enabled the Standard oil company to sell oil in England at from three to four cents a gallon less than in the United states. He declared that he had received positive assurance that this feature of the Dingley bill would be omitted from the Payne bill. But, he said. holding up a copy of the measure. here is the little joker standing before me in all it's wicked ness ready to take at least s15.O00.000 pul pl lllt pbNhtNo 'i 'uA lNDbAN add it to the vast profits of the great est trust on earth"
 While asserting that he was not de- lending the Standard Oil company. Smith of California said it had no ad- vantage over others in refining oil. The trouble he said. was in the transpOrta- tion of oil. He cOntended that if others could get the same price as the Stand ard as to transportation. they could distribute oil. and in fact. were distrib- uting it. He argued that the produc- tion of crude oil in the United States was the business of the comparatively small capitalist. The producers, he declared. needed the duty in order that they might realize a fair profit In- deed. he said. if the Standard oil com pany were represented on the floor of the house and had the decision of the question. it would strike out the pro- vision with reference to the counter vailing duty. Not Russia. but Mexico. he said, was the competitor of the United States, and Mexico was the place where the Standard would go to buy oil if the duty were taken off, and leave the American producer with his wells shut down.
 MT. Vreeland of New York, said that