Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

cutting down appropriations We
favor that remedy on the Ola JEFF
fersonian principle of 'eccnomy In
the public expense that lobaf may
be lightly burdened.'"
THE WISE THING NOT DONE.
He argued that as the lRepubii-
cans do not economize a7d Al they
were in tn emajority. the coinnittes
on ways and means was under CONF
pulsion Ito somehow increase the
revenues by about s150.000.00 900 per
annum." Taking the whole ssitua-
ton into account. he said, the wise
thing would have been to Invite the
Democrats to join in preparing the
bill. I'VE would gladly have aided
In their investigation. medftstions
and conclusions.
| In no such joint work. he said.
no member could have gotten into
the bill or out of It all that he de-
sired. There was no danger bf our
outvoting them. for they had Twelve
members to our six. but we night
by mutual concessions have agreed
on all the items or a. least 4 largo
part of them. Had we agreed In
whole or even In part. 1t would have
greatly expedited the passage of the
bill, thereby shortening the Business
suapense now pervadi1g the land"
The idea Of CO alteration how
ever. he said, did not occur TO the
Republicans. "On the contrary they
concluded TO segregate themselves
and go it alone, as they had a per-
feet right to do
He spoke of the rapidity with
which the bill was reported back TO
the house. the time consumed being
Just Twelve minutes. without mo-
ment of discussion, and without even
reading the tit'e." He warned the
Republicans that IL a prolonged de-
bate enzued, and II the business ag-
ony was continued for weeks or even
months, ''it is well to remember that
the blame shall rest upon the Repab-
lican members of the committee and
not upon the Democratic members. -
The Payne bin, Mr.. Clark assert
ed. contained things which shoald
have been omitted, and omitted d.
vers things which 1t should have
contained, "as confessedly IT. chief
purpose Is to increase the revenues,
he said, 'it would appear to have
been the part of widom To have
made both the increases and the de-
creases in rates othat end and that
end alone.
There was, he declared, no ques,
ton of free trade involved IN the
revision. In the present posture CT
affairs, he argued every approximate
ly prohibitive rate ought to be cut
20 revenue basis. There we're many
of them in the Ding,ey bill, large
portion of which he said were re-
tained in the Payne bill
The rate on steel rails had been
cut, being reduced from 1874 to
E$S.92 ton, but he predicted that
the Payne rate would prove just as
prohibitiye sthe higher figure.
He referred to the testimony of
Mr.. Carnegie before the cotnmdttee
in which he said that no tariff was
needed on steel rails even from a
proteotionist's point Of view and said
that on the steel rail question he
pinned his faith in the Faird OF Skibo
Mr. Clark amid great Democratic
applause, closed with a reiteration
of his statement that the Payne blu,
in tead OF lowering the Dingley rates
raised them. He was on his feet
Hiye hours and seven minutes.
A general attack ON the protect
i've policy of the Republicans was
made by Mr.. Adamron Geo, az.
What they called protection, he said,
simply meant fixing duties 80 high
as to deny all the markets of the
world 10 the people of The United
States and to deprive ths.n OF the
opportunity to sell to all tina world
their multi-milliong OF wealth, but
on which they could not real.ko on
account of the tariff wall erected.
Upon the conclusion OF Mr.. A.
amson's remark the house. adjourn
ed at 5:13.