The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-03
W0RDY WAR WAGED
 UPON TARIFF BILL
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CTS of Mississippi, did not honestly re- deem the republican pledges. He said cer- tain favored interests had been cared for while the necessaries of life had been taxed out of proportion.
 Maintaining that he was protection ist, even to the point of the standpat- ter, MT. Langley of Kentucky declared he was still unconvinced that all of the provisions of the Payne bill were in full accord with the doctrine of the republican party
 'srhey have failed to convince" he said, that the proposed reduction of the duty on lumber is in accordance with those doctrines" He asserted that Chairman Payne would be unable to ''deliver the goods"
 That the reduction in the lumber sched- ule would increase the wages of labor ing men, MT. Langley denied.
 cIsyton's Address.
 "The republican party" said Mir. Clay ton of Alabama. has debauched the manufacturers of the country by holding out to them, by preachment and by pol fey, that the government has the right to abuse the taxing power so as to hand out special favors to them. The govern ment, he declared, had no right to tax
 
 He said the Payne bill was sectional in that 1t gave to New England free hides, coal and lumber. He urged that while such favors were being handed out, jute bagging, cotton ties and kain- it, the German fertilizer, should be re- stored to the free list in order that the baggng trust might not have the benefit of a tariff on jute. The grain farmer of the west, he said, had his binding twine free by republican Legislation and there was no reason why jute bagging and cotton ties should not be free.
 Characterizing the Payne bill as full of riotious inperfections, Mir. Covington of Maryland said that manufacturers and others had written him that unless the Dingley rates are maintained they would be forced 10 go out of business.
 Secret ConcIaNe.
 Mr. Clayton charged that a distinguished senator from Rhode Island, "a state so small that we democrats in Alabama who chew tobacco can spit across" and who dominates the whole republican party, is in secret conclaVe with a. select few, and is making more tariff bills which all re- publicans swallow than Congress conn., bined.
 The chairman, MT. Curry of New Hampshire admonished MT. Clayton not to violate the rule about referring to the other branch of Congress.
 "Is 1t not a fact interjected MT. Burke of Pennsylvania, that while re- publican members of the committee are conducting their investigation. the minor ity members of that same committee are pursuing the same course on the same lines?"
 q hope they are in self-defense if nothing elsen retorted MT. Clayton, which was accompanied by democratic plaudts
 MT. Clayton said that when lot of re- publicans got together in some conspiracy against the welfare of the people as a whole, 1t behooved the democrats to get together themselves anywhere and at any time.
 Pursuing his inquiries MT. Burke asked if MT Clayton was charging that such a conspiracy was being enacted. That is my deliberate judgment" answered the Alabama member.
 "4it Dog HowIs."
 MT. Burke wanted to know by what rule he excluded the democrats from that category, which caused Mir. Clayton to remark that he was not going to open up a school of ethics. He said it always happened that a hit dog how1ed.
 Whenever you talk about the abuses of the republican party" he said, "and bring the country face to face with asrealizing sense of what the machinery of your party is doing to the people, the iniquity that 1t has heaped upon them and what it proposes to do, you get up and howl and suggest questions of ethics that are wholly unethical.'
 'Is that the reason the gentleman from Alabama is howling?' queried Mr. Mad den of Illinois.
 Amid democratic applause and general laughter MT Clayton declared that he was doing his best Ito elucidate a subject
  of the gentleman from Illinois"
 The Payne bill was dead, said MT. Clay ton. "Of course, 1t will pass here,' he said land you will all save your faces so far as the House is concerned, but