Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-08-04

w fAoIlINhl O+N, Aus - oldlLN-
ing upon chairs, waving handker-
chiefs and yelling loudly, democra-
tic representatives yesterday ac-
claimed Representative Oscar w.
Underwood of Alabama, democratic
leader of the house. when he at
tackled William j. Bryan for criti-
cisiag his position on extension OF
the tariff revision program. 1t was
tn most remarkable scene in the
l.ousc since the beginning of the
extra sossion of congress.
Excofiating William Bryan, Lead
er Underwood denounced his state
ments as false, deferred his own
| 7ttitude as to revision of the iron
and steel schedule, and said Bryan
HAD placed upon every democratic
member Implications unfounded in
: fact He called on his democratic
colleagues Ct the ways and means
committee for corroboration of his
attitude III committee and caucus.
Nj Underwood was backed NJ
ii .imiarly striking speech by
Representative Kitchin Of North
Carolina long a devoted friend OF
Bryan Mr.. Kitchin expressed sur
prise that any democrat should SC
malign Mr. Underwood and the par
ty. Not a voice was raised in de-
fense of Bryan.
1t all came about from pub
lished interview, WHICH purported
! to be authorized by Mr.. Bryan
declaring it was time Democratic
Leader Underwood was ''un.
masked.
The action of Chairman Under.
I wood in opposing an immediate eff
fort 30 reduce the iron and stee
schedule reveals the real Under
wood, said the Bryan interview.
Speaker Clark and other tariff
reformers tried to secure the pass
age of a resolution instructing the
WAYS and means committee to take
up other schedules, including the
iron and steel schedule, but Under.
wood and Fitzgerald, the Fitzgerald
who saved Cannon in the last con
gress, succeeded in defeating the
resolution"
'The unmasking of Chairman Tn
derwood will serve useful pur
pose" added the interview, ''if il
arouses the democrats to ali under.
standing of the mistake made in
putting Mr.. Underwood AT the head
of the committee, il he solidfies
his policy of delay"
The house listened intensely tc
publicans, applauded it. Word Of
i the answer that Mr.. Underwood was
W HdhS w pl al ltetu pftooSu dlOhs
democrats and almost full mem
bership of the democratic side greet
ed the tariff leader.
AS the clerk finished reading the
Bryan interview, Mr.. Underwood be
gan to speak If Underwood's at
tack was remarkable for its bitter
ness and vigor, it was not more
than the genebal applause which
greeted his sarcastic reference tt
the Nebraska leader. and his specific
and complete denials of the charges
made by Bryan,
i, He declared that because of the
iron and steel mills in his owl
state, Alabama, he had urged the
ways and means committee at thu
very beginning of the session tt
save him embarrassment by takins
up the iron and steel schedule a
once. This had not been done b,
the committee, he said, because i
had determined that the teXtil,
schedules, over which there is tn,
greatest complaint from the public
, should be the subjects of earlies
revision.
His oposition in the recent eau
Gus to a resolution calling for {
: revision of the iron and steel sched
ule, he said, had been due to tn,
: fact that it had been determined
no further tariff program should b.
: worked out until it was found wha
would be done by the president
Mr.. Kitchin confirmed Mr. Under
woods statement in every respec
and declared that Mr. Bryan ha,
Launched his criticism without hav