The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-08-04
Mr.. BRYAN
SCORED
UNDERWOOD TAKES A CURL OUT
OF THE NEBRASKAN'S LEA.
DERSHIP
KITCHIN ALSO REPLIES

Washington, D. c., Aug. Oscar |
W. Underwood. chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee that has |
IN hand the direction of tariff legis- |
lation for the purpose of raising
revenue for the government admins
tered a scathing and well merited re-
buke to the Nebraskan yesterday,
whose NEEDING and criticism has
been one of the menaces that has
stood in the way of effective legisla-
ton and incidentally the development
of Democratic ideals since the Demo
House. Our Congressman, Hon.
Claude Kitchin, also a member of the
committee, endorses what Underwood
says.
It all came about from a publish
ed interview, which purported to be
authorized by Mr.. Bryan, declaring
derwood was ''unmasked."
"The action of Chairman Under
wood in opposing an immediate effort
to reduce the iron and steel schedule
reveals the real Underwood" said
the Bryan interview. Speaker Clark
and other tariff reformers tried to
structing the Ways and Means Com
mittee to take up other schedules, in
Guiding the iron and steel schedule,
but Underwood and Fitzgerald, the
Fitzgerald who saved Cannon in the
last Congress, succeeded in defeating
the resolution.
"The unmasking of Chairman I'm
derwood will serve useful purpose, .
added the interview, eff it arouses
the Democrats to an understanding
of the mistake made in putting Mr..
Underwood at the head of the com
rnittee if he solidifies his policy of
delay
The House listened intently as the
entire interview was read from the
clerks desk. Word of the answer
that Underwood was to make to Bry.
an had been passed among Demo
Gratis and almost a full membership
on the Democratic side greeted the
tariff leader. Cheers and applause
that lasted for several minutes greet
ed him as he arose to speak.
AS the clerk finished reading the
Bryan interview, Mr.. Underwood in
calm and even tones, opened the vials
of his wrath If Underwood's attack
was remarkable for it's bitterness ant
vigor, it was not more so than the
general applause which greeted hi.
sarcastic references to the Nebraska
leader, and his specific and complete
denials of the charges made by Mr.
Bryan.
He declared that because of tn
iron and steel mills in his own Stat
of Alabama, he had urged the way
and Means Committee at the very be
ginning of the session to save hin
embarrassment by taking up the irol
and steel schedule at once. This ha'
not been done by the committee, n
said, because it had determined tina
the textile schedules, over wh1cl
there is the greatest complaint from
the public should be the subjects
earliest revision. This opposition L
the recent caucus to resolution cal
ing for revision of the iron and stee
schedule, he said, had been due t
the fact that it had been determine
no further tariff programs should
worked out until it was found VIVA
would be done by the President.
Mr. Underwood had read the put
1ished Bryan statement, an speakln
very deliberately, said:
Mr.. Speaker: The statements COZ
tanned in that paper are absoiutei
false. If the reflections which ths
article contains rested only on m.
self, I would not take the time
this House to answer them. Bu