Arizona republican., 1910-05-20
4 DAY DEVOTED
 MAINLY TO TARIFF CHAIRMAN HAMILTON DEFENDS
 PRESENT LAW His Speech Regarded As Keynote
 of Campaign.

Washington. May 19.-Five speeches were made in the house today on the
 subject of the tariff Three were made by Democrats who assailed the republican party and it's position on the tariff question. and two were delivered in defense of the ma jorty
 party.
 Major Hamilton. of Michigan. by epigram and figure. portrayed pros
 perity as rampant and submitted sta tistics he said he had gathered him self to demonstrate that prices in his own district were lower than in free trade Windsor. ont
 He pictured nine months of increas ing revenues and encouragement of American industry under the Payne Bill IL drew on the legitimate spells of trade and the policies and declara tions of foreign statecraft as the jus tification of the protection policy. IL attributed the high cost of living to increased gold production. to demand crowding supply. to extrava sance of feverish generation and to almost everything else but the tariff. Mir Hamilton's speech is likely to figure conspicuously in the next re- publican national campaign propa- gands He favored the creation of
 bureau in the Department of Com merce and Labor to permanently car ry on the work now being done by the tariff board supplementinS ! it with corps of foreign speaking experts. the reports of whose investi- gations of selling prices and laobr costs at home and abroad would fur nish d standard of measure of con flicting claims in thief raming of d tariff law.
 He contended thatt he tariff plank
 in the republican platform provided
 both upward and downward limits
 and that by so much as you raise duties above the difference in cost of production at hoem and abroad. after due allowance for the foreign custom of selling goods cheaper abroad than
 at home. by so much you permit domestic monopoies to oVercharge
 domestic consumers"
 Discussing unscrupulous dealers and the segregation of food supplies. MT.
 Hamilton declared the cold storage system made it possible. if not GUS tomary. for the frozen remains of an ancestor to remain in cold suspense
 until it's progeny had grown to mid-
 dle age and then for them to meet in fricasseed reunion on some bill of
 fare. both strictly fresh. The un- maternal incubator had become the mother of the chicken.
 There shall not grow up among us" concluded Mir Hamilton, "a priv ileged class above the law This gov
 ernment shall wisely control men and associations of men The government
 shall not fail of it's mission among
 men"
 Mir LongwOrth of Ohio asserted
 that the duties under the existing
 tariff law were justified in the main.
 though he admitted personally he
 thought some of them too high. He said he was not committed to the
 sanctity of the tariff schedules, but
 he believed in being shown
 MT McLachlan of California spoke about the military preparedness of
 the nation.
 The democratic speeches were made by Messrs. Byrd of Mississippi. Dixon of Indiana and Borland of Missouri
 Each denounced the tariff and de-
 claimed against repubicanism and
 republican insurgency.
 Mir Dixon attacked the majority
 party as opposed to petit larceny,
 but standing for grand larceny" He characterized as politically acrobatic" the attitude of the republican factions in Indiana.