The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
BAILEY GIVES HIS
 VIEWS ON TARIFF Will Be Chairman Finance
 Committee TO CONSIDER NEEDS Would Frame His Tariff Measure According to Amount of Rev
 enue Needed By the
 Government
BY wArrERsoN srEALEY

Washington, March 2.-(Special )-The fact that Senator Bailey of Texas will be the ranking democrat on the finance com mittee in the new Senate and two years hence it's chairman, if the democrats overturn the republican majority in next years election, lends importance to speech in the Senate today relative to the tariff The senator was discussing the tariff board bill.
 T frankly say" said the senator. that the only knowledge I need In framing bill, according to my conception of such measure, is the amount of revenue which the government must collect through the custom houses and a list of the imports for the previous year. or two or three. l do not conceive it to be the duty, and, indeed, I dc not conceive it to be within the power of Congress in fram- ing tariff bill, to consider the difference in the cost of production here and abroad. But that question I reserve for discus sion when the bill is on it's passage.
 'The next House VIII proceed at once, if it does its duty, and as it is democratic I must assume that it will do its duty. it will frame tariff bill and yet it must take its recommendations and its infor- nation from presidential commission, the majority of whose members are re- publicans Just exactly what wise advice a republican majority of a presidential commission would give a democratic House is one of the mysteries of modern legislation that passes entirely beyond my comprehension.
 When the democratic House takes this presidential commissions recommends ton 1t will do it precisely as the Senator from Mississippi recites that Congress has done as to other commissions and other recommendations. It will proceed to lay it on the table or proceed to put it In the desk and 1t will do its work according to it's own judgment and not according to the advice and recommendation of men who disagree with it on this tariff question as widely as the poles.
 we will introduce to the American people confident democratic majority which will not ask the aid of people who cannot be elected to Congress to help them frame a measure of taxation
 Washington. March 2.-(Special)- Champ Clark will not lack gavels for call ing the new House of Representatives A sented to him. That which the next speaker has a mind to use was sent by C. H. Smith of Tennessee. It comes from Hermitage, Tenn, and is made from limb of the old hickory which stands by the side of the grave of Andrew Jackson.
 Washington, March 2.-(Special.)-Se ator Lodge of Massachusetts, who has just been reelected for another term and is safe in the Senate for six years, took the responsibility today of killing the Sul- loway pension bill, increasing the pen sions of soldiers Tn the aggregate amount of s47,OOOoO0. The bill was offered as an amendment to the regular pension bill and Lodge made the point against 1t that it was general legislation He was sus- tained by the Vice President. This is the bill that the President had threatened that he would veto. It was feared in the Senate that he would weaken If 1t were sent him and Lodge, republican, was picked out as being strong enough to defy the old soldiers.