The Cairo bulletin., 1910-05-22
HELD ATTENTION OF HOUSE
YEsTERDAy-sEvERAL WARM
SPEECHES MADE.
CLARK WAS APPLAUDED
During Speech in Which he Scored
Republican Party-Foss, Of
MasGac chusetts, Makes
Maiden Speech.

Washington, May 21.-Party issues
, held the attention of the house today
while the proposed appropriation OF
$gJ0,000 in the sundry civil bill to
enable Taft's tariff board to collect
information for him. was pending
theoretically The general debate
closed. The discussion which center
ed on the tariff, was featured by
speeches by minority leaders, Clark,
Boutell, OF illinois, Speaker Cannon's
lieutenants on the ways and means
committees, which framed the Payne
law, and Foss, Of Mas achusetts.
Clark's remarks were full Of fig
ures Of speech and anecdotes, and
We're frequently appiauded.
Mr. Clark took the matter of the
tariff on stockings and said that the
raise in tariff rates on that article
was not for the purpose Of aiding un-
employed women, as Mr.. Payne had
put it, but for the purpose of giving
the American manufacturers a
monopoly on the stocking trade.
"The gentleman from New York,
declared Mr.. Clark, further says
that he only raised these cheaper
grades is cents per pair and that he
/ would be ashamed to LOOK an honest
working woman in the face if he had
not stood for that increase This
sounds well as an excuse but Is very
misleading. The book of imports gave
the unit value for the 29,000,000 pairs
Of the cheapest hose or Stockings at
| ninety-six cents per dozen pairs or
! eight cents pair. The DINGHY tariff
on these 29,000,000 pairs was 4.87
cents per pair, or Gill per cent ad
valorem. The raise of 1.S cents OF
| the Pane-Aldrich.Sm .Smoot bill will make
these same stockings cost cents
pluss 4.,78 cents, plus is cents or
145S cents per pair, or 1915 per cent.
The gentleman from New York
boasts that while raising the tariff
on hosiery he also raised the tariff
on whiskey and wines. oh, yes? You
raised whi2key and other spirits from
1869 per cent to 1915 per cent while
you raised the cheapest stockings
| from GIL per cent to 1915 per cent,
and the next two grades of cheaper
stockings to still higher per cent"
Mr. Clark declared that the Payne
| tariff had not reduced the price of
| clothing, but had increased it ami
resulted in shoddier class of goods.
The speaker then turned his atten-
| tion to fre:id Taft.
| Il will now drop the gentleman
from New York." exclaimed Mr.. Clark
and go after bigger game, to wit,
the president of the United States.
He is not only the chief traveller
but is the chief spokesman for his
party He deserves to be treatel
with candor and respect, but have
a perfect right to discuss his utter
| ances as | would those of any other
public man. | wish to call attention
L
president said Oh the 5th of August,
1909, that the bill is not a perfect
bill or a complete compliance with
the promise made, strictly interpret
ed submit that that declaration OF
the president Is flat contradiction
OF the assertion of the gentleman
from New York that his bill is per.
feet compliance with the promises
made prior to the election Of 1908
In September 1909, the president
went on an extensive gpeech-making
tour, beginning with speech in Bos-
ton, in which he eulogized Senator
i AldIrich to the skies. That was the
first serious wound which the pres
ijent inflicted upon his own popu
larity, for right or wrong, and think
right, the, American people hold Sen
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