The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Dan Anthony Goes After Square
Deal Papers.
Says He Has Been Misrepre-
sented on Tariff.
FOR FREE LUMBER.
Voted Five Times and Cites
Page and Chapter.
Plenty Of Stubbs Men in Reno
County.
FOR FREE LUMBER.

Congressman Anthony is getting
. peevish over what he calls the contin-
ual and deliberate misrepresentation of
his votes in congress on the tariff by
square deal papers in Kansas. He was
accused in certain papers last week OF
voting against free lumber during the
consideration of the Payne bill in con-
gress. The congressman makes sharp
and emphatic reply to these charges
and cites the page in the Congressional
Record where five different votes were
taken on the lumber schedules, and be-
hold, Dan Anthonys name led all the
rest on the free lumber side of the
ledger. Mr.. Anthony, in an editorial in
his paper, the Leavenworth Times, dis
cusses his position on free lumber as
follows:
1.-The latest offense of the square deal
papers is the following editorial utter
ance from a Saturday mornings paper:
Congressman Anthony defends his
tariff views by saying that he is stand
ing by Taft.
Was he standing by Taft when he
voted against free lumber? When or
where did Mr.. Taft. either before or
since his election, favor the duty on
lumber? Kansas is paying tariff graft
prices for lumber. Kansas and the
whole middle west were known to be
against the high tariff for the benefit
of the lumber trust and the California
and Minnesota and New York owners
of Canadian as well as American tim
schedule was submitted to a special
vote in the house Anthony voted
against Kansas, while Murdock ana
Madison alone of the Kansas delegation
voted for cheaper lumber!
why any paper would desire 20
make statements like these quoted
above which are absolutely false and 50
easily disproved by the records of con-
gress is beyond our comprehension
1.-The facts are that Mr.. Anthony did
vote on every one OF the separate rec
ord votes on the lumber schedule. dur
ing the tariff debate. for free lumber:
There were five different motions and
five different roll calls had on the lum-
ber schedule in the house.
1.-The first vote on the lumber sched
ule was on a motion of Mr.. Tawney
(Rep) of Minnesota, to strike out para
graph 1856 of the Payne bill relating to
timber hewn and squared. The roll call
in the Congressional Record of April Q,
page 1.174, shows that Anthony voted
for this motion.
s"rhe next vote on the lumber sched-
uIe was on a motion by Mr.. Tawney
to strike out and amend paragraph
1877 of the schedule reducing the duty
on planed or finished lumber. and Mr..
Anthony voted for this motion. This
vote is found on page 1174 of the
Record.
'eThe next vote and roll call on the
lumber schedule is found on page 1175
of the Congressional Record of April
on the motion of Mr.. DeArmond of
Missouri (Dem.) to admit free the
lumber products of South America or
Central America or any island in the
western hemisphere, which would
have had the effect of putting mahog
any and other expensive hard woods
on the free list and believing these to
be luxuries and we'll able to stand a
small duty, Mr.. Anthony voted against
this motion.
1.-THE next record vote on the lum-
Der schedule is found on page 1176 of
the Congressional Record of April on
the motion to strike out Paragraph 1877
Of the lumber schedule proper. sawed
boards. etc. and Mr.. Anthony voted
for this motion, which, if carried,
would have put lumber en- the free
list.
"The last record vote was on the
motion of Mr.. Tawney to strike out
paragraph 7OS- relating to sawed
boards, planks and other lumber of
white wood. etc, including pulp woods.
etc, and Mr.. Anthony voted for this
motion This vote is recorded on page