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| souri,, the democratic floor leader. last
| night gave out statement commenting
| upon the accomplishments of the ses-
! sion.
| The republicans" he said 'have at
/ last begun their old game of claiming
| everything. 1t is another case OF Whis-
| Ting TO keep up their courage while going
| through a graveyard.
| "They are now Dragging that they have
| fulfilled their promises Certain of their
! minor promises they have fulfilled to a
certain extent. Their biggest promise
| l. e., the promise to revise the tariff
| downward-they utterly failed to fulfill.
People Think Otherwise.
"On the contrary, they revised 1t upward
and for SO doing are in for good
| trOuncing. All the hired arithmeticians
| they can set to figuring will never con-
vince the people that the Payne-Aldrich
Smoot tariff bill is an improvement upon
the Dingley bill, against which the pro-
| test was made.
Everything that people consume is
| higher The most ridiculous document
ever published by men holding high
position since Gutenberg invented movable
| types is the Lodge committees Senate
report on the cost of living, which leaves
cost. Nothing better could be expected
from the man who. in 1903, declared that
| the ultimate consumer is a myth
AT Winona. Mimi, President Taft de-
clared that the wooden schedule is too
high and ought to be reduced. 1t is
nearly eleven months since the tariff bill
was signed by him and yet no step has
been taken to lower the cruel rates of
that schedule.
They can whoop it up as much as
| they please about fulfilling promises. No
body will believe them SO long as that
schedule remains unreduced-
And there are others almost as bad
They started into this session with loud
wound up. as usual. by increasing the
total of the appropriation bills.
As to Rate Bill.
'The most important bill. perhaps. pass
ed at this session was the railroad rate
bill. The bill as passed is different and
much better bill than the Wickersham or
administration bill.
THE interstate commerce committee bill
is an Improvement on the Wickersham
Dill; the House bill is an Improvement on
the committee bill. Almost every i'm
provement was forced into that bill by
the democrats and insurgents in the
House and Senate.
Three times we came within one vote
in the House of knocking out the COM
merce court, an utterly useless and most
extravagant provision. Most that is good
IN that bill we claim. What is bad belongs
to the regular republicans.
But whether that bill is good or bad,
or whoever is responsible for it. or
whether 1T carries out any promise made
by anybody. the fact remains that the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES tariff bill is the
worst ever passed by the American Con-
sress and utterly fails to fulfill the cam
paign promises of the republicans.
Changes of Rules.
"At the beginning of the extraordinary
session much sport was made Of demo-
Gratis and insurgent republicans because
they proposed to liberalize the rules of
the House and emancipate the members
thereof. But time at last sets all things
even. March 10. We forced through a
resolution to elect an enlarged rules COM
mittee, of which the Speaker should not
be member. A few days ago. by
vote of POI to I. the House adopted rule
to prevent committees from smothering
or pigeOnholing bills.
Certainly the regular republicans
cannot claim any sort Of credit for the
new rule of March 10, for every moth
er's son of them not only voted against
it, but fought it tooth and nail. The
regulars cannot, with straight faces
claim that they are responsible for the
anti-smothering rule, lately adopted,
for they gave in their adhesion to it
only because they knew we had the
votes to adopt the rule. whether the
regulars voted for 1t or not.
'They were simply trying to save
their faces.
I'm passing. it may be stated with per-
feet verify that since March 10 the pro-
ceedings in the House have been conduct
ed I'm manner different from what they
were prior to that time For example.
the railroad rate bill and the Porto Rican
bill and other great bills were debated
fully. section by section, with full power
of amendment
"Other reforms remain to be effected.
Therefore, Cannonism remains as an
issue on which the people will pass in
November"