The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-30
COTTON RATES
ARE DEBATED
Leader Underwood Has Col
loquy With Moore of
Pennsylvania.
HULL OF TENNESSEE
ARRAIGNS MINORITY
Representative Sherwood of
Ohio Digresses to Discuss
His Pension Bill.
RN Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July o9.-Debate on
the cotton tariff revision bill continued
in the house today. No agreement for
a vote on the measure was reached,
but Democratic Lesder Underwood said
he would insist on the vote being taken
not later than next Thursday.
''You can 4 put any Yankee tricks
over on me, declared Underwood
The Democratic leader had asked a
question of Representative Moore of
Pennsylvania.
81 answer you in Yankee way by
asking you another question, shouted
Representative Hill of Connecticut, who
had quickly risen to help out, as he
thought, his Republican brother.
"No YOU don t., said Mr.. Under
wood 81 refuse to yield for any more
Yankee questions. I want somebody on
that side, preferably Mr.. Moore, to an"
swer my question.
Mr.. Underwood had inquired whether
"the custom house tax did not affect
the price of goods Mr., Moore final
ly acknowledged that it did, but that
cit was for the benefit of the peo-
ple.n Whereupon Mr. Underwood
smiled and said he was satisfied, and
the Democrats applauded.
Hull Arraigns Republicans
Representative Hull of Tennessee
discussed tariff revision and scored the
tariff board as political hypocrisy de-
signed to- delay tariff revision, He
said former President Roosevelt stayed
the tariff storm by "throwing fire
brands into the air so the people would
not notice those falling on their
heads. -
He also said that with Republican
promises for the restoration of the pro-
lection rates, "there will be the. great
est fat-frying next year in the history
of the country
He denounced the Republican party 8
attitude toward the tariff, ~ desire, -
he said, Eto brand this latest tariff
board device as premeditated hypocrisy
and aggravated false pretense. -,
f'I shall recount certain facts said
Mr.. Hull, "proving beyond controversy,
first, that the Republican party never
has given the people material tariff re-
duction and never will do so, and, sec
ond, that this same party has always
bluntly, sneeringly and contemptuously
of a tariff board or commission save
at such times as it sought to delay
honest tariff revision and at the same
time to avert impending political dis
aster"
Denouncing the Payne-AIdrich law as
An abominable inequity' and as ga
ghastly abortion,' Mr.. Hull said that
when it was passed each lobbyist, in
ecstatic delight departed saying:
t'I care not for the stars that shinei
I only know that I've got mine" +"
Defends Pension Bill.
An unqualified defense of his dollar-a-
day pension bill was made in the house
today by Representative Sherwood of
Ohio as the closing speech of a day
set aside to general debate on the cot
ton tariff.
Instead of a pension bill based on
age, such as was enacted by the Re-
publicans in 1907, or as proposed by
the Holloway-Anderson bill, the Ohio
said that the only equit-
able bill from the point of view of
the men who really saved the union
was a measure based on service and
sacrifice.
He scathingly arraigned General Kei.
Fer Of Ohio; General Hall, also of that
state, and John McElroy, editor Of the
Tribune, for opposing his bill.
General Hail." he told the house,
did not win his spurs as brigadier
general in the war, but by gallant con
iuct, in. the 6. o. p. forty years after
Yards.''
General Sherwood filed a protest
against the pensioning of "spring pull
ets," whom he explained were Epirls
Who marry old soldiers on their last
egs. -
At the same time he said that the
present house could pass pension bill |
which would pension the widows of sol. |
liers without working a fraud on the
government by pensioning those who
narrled just to get pension.