The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-05-22
CHAMP CLARK ATTACKS PAYNE.
ALDaIcH MEASURE IN W.T..
RioLlc SPEECH.
TRANSPARENT HUMBUC"
Representative From Missouri Takes
Bill to Pieces in House and Arraigns
Its Authors-Taft Is Also Touched
Upon-Address Is Supposedly Key.
note OF Campaign.

Washington. May 2i-Dcnounclng
the Payne Aldrlch tariff law as a
transparent humbug." attacking the
tariff views of its author. Representa-
tive Serene Payne. republican. New
York, and vigorously assailing Presi-
dent Taft for his support of that law,
Representative Champ Clark, of Mis-
souri, leader of the democratic mi
norty. today delivered In the house
what IL regarded M the democratic
keynote speech of the coming congress
sional campaign. Mr.. Clark had pre-
pared his address with great care AMI
spoke at length. giving facts and fig
ures In support of his contention that
the tariff had not been honestly re-
vlsed and that the republican majority
In congress had endeavored to trick
the people. Mr.. Clark also paid his
respects incidentally to the $250,0o0
item In the sundry civil appropriation
bill for the creation Of tariff board
lie said In Dari:
His Speech.
During this debate we have wit
messed spectacle perhaps without
parallel In the annals of congress.
First we heard the gentleman from
New York tMr. Payne) chairman of
the ways and means committee and
the republican floor leader make a
vitriolic attack on the speech OF the
Hon. Jonathan Prentiss Doliiver. "a re-
publican senator from Iowa. recently
delivered In the city of Des Moine,.
both speeches being upon the subject
of the tariff. "A subject which viii not
down at any mans bidding. and
which. like the poor, we have WIN ns
always. Nobody appointed me TO de-
fend Senator Dolllver. This nlnca.
however, will say for him. have
for years regarded him as the greatest
orator in the republican party. would
travel far to hear debate on the
stump between him and the gentleman
from New York when II was over.
| am certain that the country, for q
considerable distance around, would
nc 80 fairly saturated with oil that
IL would be dangerous to strike a
match In the neighborhood. AMI II
would not be oil out of Mr.. Do lters
coporosity.
THE next day we heard the gentle
man from Michigan tMr. Fordney)
who Is republican of high ,iegree
deliver most bitter and vicious assault
upon Senator Beveridge. the rerubli-
can Of Indiana. on account Of a speech
delivered recently mt INDIANAPOLIS. A
stump bedate between those 40 enl-
inent republicans would double dis
count I'm interest an. vaudeville Snow
ever pulled off In America. Listening
10 the attack of the republisah gem
tleman from New York upon the re-
publican senator from Iowa. and the
attack of the republican gentleman
from Michigan upon the repubiichn
senator from Indiana. recall the
words of the Psalmlst: Behold. how
good and how pleasant It n for breth-
rem to dwell In unity and then comes
tn my mind the question now ringing
through the land What Is republic
cam
I'm making. n speech In defense OF
his tariff bin Mr.. Chairman Payne
appeared to be performing a disagree
able stunt. He did not exhibit his
usual enthusiasm or his old-time fe-
licity of expression. He appeared TO
he in about as cheerful n frame OF
mind as lawyer appointed by the
court, defending without fee man
that he feels certain Will be convicted
and hanged. Clearly II was to him
repulsiYe job but II had to be gone
through with some way. He appeared
to be in the frame of mind of Mac
beth when about to murder Duncan:
II 1t were done. when Ills done then
'twere well it were done quickly
"Mr. Chairman Payne was evidently
In q very fretful state. He also seems
to be afflicted with new disease,
Intermittent forgetfulness.' He re-
membered with great yividness the
soup houses of 1893 and 1894, but when
II came to the soup houses of 1907.
n very recent occurrence and the soup
houses of 1873 his memory failed hin
utterly. II does not need a psycholo-
gist or phenologist to account for this
state OF mind on his part. the reason
being that the soup houses OF 1879
and 1907 were under republican admin
istration and under tarf, Jaws passed
by the republican party, while the
soup houses of 1893, through the out
; growth of panic caused by repnb-
lican tariff bill. sprang up when a
democratic president was in office.
THE gentlemen declared they put
up the tariff on hosiery and as con-
sequence the price OF hosiery has gone
down. He declared they put up the
tariff on wines and as consequence