Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-02

to prevent consideration OF the iron and
steel schedule OF the tariff at this Con.
Rress That statement IL false. I intend
to prove that this morning to the House
and to the country.
when the ways and means committee
organized to prepare Legislation 1or .ne
House, as its chairman 1 said to the
COMMITTEES I should be willing to take up
any schedule first, but that, coming a.
did from an iron and steel district, and
being personally interested In the manu-
facture of iron, l begged leave 70 ask
them to relieve me from embarrassment
by taking up the iron and steel scheouie
first"
Old Friends Lead Applause.
Again the racket broke loose, Mr..
Bryan's erstwhile followers leading the
applause.
My colleagues Of the committee sit on
the floor of this House." Mr.. Underwood
resumed. land they are here to sustain
me in my statements. The reason that
the committee did not take UP the iron
and steel schedule first was that the
textile schedules-the wool schedule with
its 90 per cent of protection that mad
not been revised for years and the cotton
schedule with its IS per cent OF protec-
lion and proportionately as high.
The iron and steel schedule had been
cut out by the Wilson bill. again by
the Dingley bill and again by the
Payne bill. and although this schedule
needs and viii have further reduc-
lions, the committee decided 1t was
wiser to consider the other schedules
first.
I'VE went into the consideration OF
the wooden schedule, but during the
writing of that schedule by the MAORI
~ members of the committee the sug-
gestion was made-not by me, but by
another member of the committee-that
the wooden schedule related to manu-
facturers In the north, so that In JUS
tice to ourselves we should follow it
with revision of the cotton schedule,
affecting manufacturers in the south.
THAT schedule was prepared, and when
we disposed of wool l laid the cotton
schedule before the committee. The sug-
gestion was then made to lower the duties
on cotton machinery, and 1 asked again
that the iron and steel schedule be taken
up Immediately. / requested that cot
ton be laid aside until iron and steel had
been revised on an honest revenue basis.
I see all my colleagues here. They will
sustain me. And yet the gentleman from
Nebraska says that this committee was
being led by me in a dishonest direction.
Tells Of Caucus.
Now as to the caucus to which he re-
fers. When we took up the cotton bill 1
had no notice that resolution would be
introduced directing the ways and means
committee to revise other schedules.
But a resolution was introduced to re-
wise the iron and steel schedules, the rub
Der schedule. the schedules affecting
chemicals and dye stuffs and some other
articles. l opposed the resolution at that
time. stated to the caucus that had
no objection to the revision Of the iron
and steel schedules: that 1 had already
stated l wanted these schedules taken up
next. But l said in that caucus that
at that time the Senate had not acted on
the wool or free list bills. and that there
was no telling what the Senate or the
President would do. I therefore thought
1t unwise for the democratic party to
pledge itself to the course 1t intended
TO pursue the balance of the session until
we could ascertain what action the Senate
and the President were going to take.
Il said, too, that before an adjourn
ment resolution was passed. I would bring
this iron and steel proposition back to
the caucus in the light that we would
then have on the course of the republi-
can Senate and the republican President.
Ii was not an effort to sidetrack any
all the facts before it, And the caucus
sustained me.
'Mr. Bryan refers to Representative
Claude Ktchin of North Carolina to sus-
tain him. l want to ask Mr.. kitchin to
make statement whether the facts as
Kitchin Takes Floor.
Mr.. Kitchin took the floor amid great
applause. Inasmuch as he has been
known as the peerless leaders" intimate
friend, the House awaited with the closest
attention to hear what he had to say in
the row between the two party chieftains.
Il regret exceedingly" said Mr.. Kitch-
CONTROVERSY arisen o.
tween Mr.. Bryan and Mr. Underwood. ]
am sure Mr.. Bryan was misinformed."
The democratic side improved the OPP
portunity to cheer some more at this.
while Mr.. Bryan" resumed kitchin,
expresses a wish for full publicity Of
caucus action. 1 think he would do well
to make public the name of his inform
ant in this matter. There Is not a MEM
Der of the democratic caucus who could
have given Mr.. Bryan the Information as
detailed In his interview. 1t must have
been some one outside. for. as Mr.. I'm
derwOod says, there Is not a word Of
truth in that statement"
Whereupon the racket was resumed,
Speaker Clark. In the chair, nodding his
head in approval Of the demonstration.
THE statement" Mr.. Kitchin re-
sumed, that 1 reminded the caucus
that Mr.. Underwood had in a speech
on the floor said that all Of his proper
ty was in the iron and steel business
is true, and 1 also said that thought
IT would be good policy and good poll
tics to revise these schedules. 1
thought at the time that the repub-
lfcans might attempt to Islander and
malign Mr.. Underwood on account of
his interest in this business, but I
never thought there was q democrat
In this country who would do so.
Bryan Badly Informed.
'Mr. Bryan was the most badly in
formed being In the world
Mr.. Underwood did ask, as he says,
that the iron and steel schedule be taken
up first, but the committee decided to
take up wool and cotton"
Mr.. Underwood at this point. was given
another noisy demonstration as Mr.
kitchin sat down and he resumed tho
floor.
This Bryan interview" he said. de-
tween Speaker Clark and myself That
statement is absolutely false We have
been IN accord from the beginning: we
are in accord now; I predict that we will
be In accord at the end.
Il am a stakeholder in the Woodward
Iron and Steel Company of Birmingham,
My brother-in-law. who is vice president
and general manager of the company
said recently that the company was maxi
ing pig iron below $50 a ton, including
all costs. They have made 1t as cheaply
as s. ton That company can make
pig iron cheaper than II is made any.
where else In the world, and yet M.
Bryan says my financial interests are In.
fiuencing my actions"
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