Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01
Benefits for Corporations.

| ana scrap iron were not higher than
| those in the Payne-Aldrich bill
| Nobody knows better than the gentle
man from Connecticut shouted Mr..
Underwood. that the iron and steel bust
ness has been revoutionized since the
Wilson bill was passed, and what was
low rate then is a high rate. now, due to
new machinery
How about the chemical schedule?"
queried Mr.. Hill.
| Il am not so familiar with that, re-
piled Mr.. Underwood.
Il suggest that there is a profitable
| field for investigation for the gentleman
| from Alabama retorted Mr.. Hill.
Mr.. Underwood contented himself, win
| ming the applause of his democratic col
| leagues. by declaring that the Payne
! Aldrich bill raised the chemical duties
above those of the Dingley law.
Taft's Barren Victory.
He made fun of the flight of the Presi-
dent to redeem the pledge of the republic
can party for downward revision" The
victory which Mr.. Taft won, he said,
was to preserve the present rate on
gloves, to prevent a 20 per cent In
crease on hosiery. and to give free IRON
ore and hides to the big manufacturing
interests of the east.
why didn't the President turn his at
tention to the wooden schedule and fight
for cheaper clothes for the people," de-
manded the Alabaman.
Mr.. Hill asserted that there was a >
per cent reduction of the cheaper grade
goods.
Il congratulate the country on being
given in all the range of duties a per
cent reduction on one article" shouted
Mr. Underwood, amid much laughter on
both sides
| Mr. Underwood then turned his oratori-
cal guns on the corporation tax. 1t was
| unequal in it's burdens, lie held. and in
4 hot fy,f.n Ynnr ah
| income tax, which falls on man accord
| ing to the value of his property which
the government protects and according to
his ability to pay The enactment OF
such legislation lie also held to be an In
vasion by the federal government of
the rights OF the states to control the
corporations chartered by them.
Democrats Applaud Mann.
Representative Mann of Illinois then
took the floor to explain his reason for
voting against the adoption of the con-
ference report. AS he left his seat on
the republican side and walked down the
aisle to a position of prominence in front
of the Speakers desk. Mr. Mann was
loudly applauded by the democrats
Mr.. Mann was the chairman of the rebel
committee, which reported before the last
general election in favor of a reduction
of the tariff on print paper from SIS to 81
q ton.
He bitterly attacked the wood pulp and
print paper schedule. He asserted that
Canada was now and would i'm the future
continue putting restrictions on the OK
pOrtation of wood pulp and pulp wood.
Tariff War With Canada.
1.-THE maximum rates of % per cent ad
valorem additional, as they are contained
in this bill, not it passed the House,
but as it came from conference. are as
sure to go into effeos against Canada as
God made little apples exclaimed Mr.
Mann.
Prolonged democratic applause greeted
this statement.
! Mr.. Mann said it was absolutely neces-
sary for the paper mills of this country to
have pulp wood from Canada. With the
| Payne-Aldrich bill in effect, this country
would soon find itself going to Canada,
he said, not for the pulp wood, but for the
paper itself, for Canada would sit back
and prevent the expectation of the pulp
to the United States.
| The result would be a greater rise than
ever in the price of print paper. and
greater tax than ever on the newspapers
of this country.
| when that time comes gentlemen in
this House who vote for this conference
report will regret their attitude. But
they cannot say they were not warned"
he said impressively.
| Opposes New England Domination.
| He insisted that he believed in the doc
| trine of protection, together with the
| other republicans, but he could not con-
sent to vote to protect few manufac-
turers and owners OF pulp wood in Maine
and New Hampshire when it would mean
an increased tax not only to newspapers,
but to their readers everywhere else in
the land.
He closed his thirty-minute speech with
a severe arraignment of the House con-
ferees for yielding Ito the wishes of
few New England senator's. who said they
would not vote a certain way.
Let them vote as they please. shouted
Mr.. Mann. land let the representatives
of this House stand by what they know
, to be right
AS Mr. Mann took his seat there was
lively storm of applause on the demo-
cratic side of the chamber, and not
little on the republican side.
Malby Speaks for Paper Mills.
A strenuous reply to the wood pulp
argument of Mr.. Mann was then made by
Mr.. Malby of New York, who comes from
a district where $375,OOO.OOO is invested in
paper mills He said Mr.. Mann didn't
know what he was talking about, and
oughtn't to set himself up against the men
who are acquainted with the paper bust
ness from start to finish.
line last paper mil mas DeeH Duut III
this country by any man who ought not
to be in an insane asylum, shouted Mr..
Malby. II didn't think any district
could be treated as my district has been
treated he added.
Mr.. Malby called base the appeal of
Mr.. Mann for votes against the confer
ence report because of the opposition of
the newspapers to any duty on wood pulp
and print paper.
The newspapers have no terrors for
me-" asserted the representative from
New York.
The maximum rate would not be i'm
posed on these articles against Canada,
| he said, unless the restriction imposed by
Canada We're directed only against the
| United States. He said it was "discrimi-
| nation that was meant by the bill. and
that Canada was not doing that and prob
ably would not.
Worst Tariff Bill, Says RandeN.
The next speaker was on the democratic
side. 1t was Mr.. Randell OF Texas. to
| whom Leader Champ Clark yielded "all
the time he wanted" Mr.. Randell con-
| fined his remarks chiefly to an arraign-
| ment of the maximum and minimum pro-
visions of the bill, which he claimed made
it the worst tariff bill ever made by a
Congress. The rates set out in the bill.
he asserted, we're nearly all blinds and
would be increased by % per cent ad