The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-02
TARIFF BILL
IN THE HOUSE
Plan to Stop Debate Is
Abandoned.
GAINES DEFENDS MEASURE
DeArmond Chides Repubs for Lack
Ing Patriotism.
Declares TAst .. Refusing to ce.ssser
Anendnents Majority Menu
hers Deprive the People
Of TAeir Rights.

| Washington. April 1.-The plan Oh
the Republican leaders to close gen
/ eral debate ON the tarif4 BILL TO-DAY
having hsen abandoned, thSre was only
a slight increase In the attendance
when the House met without any
preiiminaries, consideration OF the
Payne bill was resumed.
Opening the days debate. Mr.. Can
I trill. (Ken.) In his maiden speech as
Ia representative. discussed the tobacco
and hemp schedules. Because tobacco
was the prey OF a great trust, he said.
lit needed protection. The bin. he de-
clared, offered no protection TO hemp
as It permitted the product OF great
foreign competitor to come into the
United States free. For both MT. Can
ltrill urged that the bill be amended SO
that they may not be Disseminated
against but that such a duty for
revenue Should be applied as would not
cripple those Industries In his state and
elsewhere.
| A general defense of the bill was
made by Mr. Gaines wv. Va.) q member
OF the Committee on Ways and Means.
In preparing the Payne bill, he said the
committee proceeded on the principle
that IL there was anything In the Ding
ley schedule more, than enough to pro-
ltect, and bthind which prisons could
combine and unduly hold up prices. the
Republican party were required to Top
off that excess "anj that he said. I'VE
have undertaken 20 do In this BILL"
| Answering Mr.. Hardwick. -(Ga.) who
asked II enough had been Topped off
on refined sugar to affect the sugar
trust, Mr. Gaines said that sill excess
duties on refined sugar had beeA taken
off that could be removed without
Threatening the American Beet sugar
industry.
Pleads For Patriotism.
The method of preparation, con-
sideration and probable passage of the
Payne tariff biz was the basis of a
speech made by Mr.. De Almond (Mo.)
Good Judgment, fairness and patriot
ism should be made the basis of the
formation of a tariff law, he said. and
not partisanship. The Payne bill, he
fdeclared, should have been considered
| by the ways and means committee and
not by the republican members alone.
The whole question now In the minds
of these supposed to take charge of af-
/ fairs In the House was not how to i'm
| prove the bill, but how to get the bill
Through with the least change by the
dangerous .commoners."
His sarcastic description of the
methods by which the Republican
leaders were trying to get the bill
~
from the Democrats. He declared II "a
be his right to vote on every schedule
in the bill ana protested against hf,
district being deprived of a vote as M
said was proposed by the Republican
leaders.
In the opinion OF Mr.. Mccall MASS. ]
OF the Committee on Ways ana Means
the Payne bill should be amended "by
declaring after ten years Of drfftine
! just what II means to do with the
Philippine Islands"
/ Hardy Assails BiIl.
A general assault on the bill was
made by Mr.. Hadly, (Texaa)
The Payne bill, he. declared. was as
| hard to pull out of the Republican
party as a healthy tooth from a sick
| man. The reductions In 1t he char
| acterized as emphaticaiiy pretexts
| and shams. I'm fact" he said. this
whole bill is one huge mephlstophelean
| Joke on its face"
He declared that the measure. as an
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