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The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1911-12-02
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The Menace. Aurora, Mo.
Dear Sir. We had an election
here yesterday. Rome has been
planning 70 spread her wings
ever everything Of importance.
politically, In this county for
quite = while. Yesterday she
cot her wIngs bcaufIfuIly
scorched. and 4 aoodiy portion
Of the credit Is due The Men.
ses. resrs, etc.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1911-12-02
YOU roo. cHAMPf

The Buffalo Evening News says:
Speaker Champ Clark Of the house OF
representatives has promised 10 send
a me plump turkey from his farm a.
Bowling Green, No. 70 HIS friend ReT.
w. J. Kerwin. rector Of Holy Angels
church. Porter avenue. for the annual
Thanksgiving tombola (whaiever that
is-Ed) Of Holy Angels parish. which
opens az the church school on West
avenue on Monday evening, Noyem-
Der a."
There IL no question now but what
Clark Is In the presidential race for
fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
STILL AFTER BOARD
 OF EQUALIZATION

Montgomery, August 2-(Special- Legality of the board of equalization of Montgomery county is likely to De tested by the county at an early mo- ment On Monday of this week the county board of revenue. the majority of the board of equilization, held that the board was unconstitutional, order ed it dissolved and set to work to pass upon the assessments of the back tax collector. The city of Montgomery
 which selects two of the board of equal ization, has taken no steps to test the law. hence the county will probably ferret out its legality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Weather Conditions

Birmingham, August 2.-Weather con- 6ition at p. m.
 The low barometric pressure prevailing over the southwest and much of the plains states has caused rains through out the eastern half of the Mississippi Valley and the east gulf states. The low in conjunction with high" in the northern Rocky mountain states has caused showers along the eastern Rocky mountain slope and in the upper Mis-. sour valley.
 Rains were general in Alabama and continued at p. m.. in the northern part of the state. Thunder storms were gen. eral in the southeastern quarter of the country.
 Temperatures remained nearly station- ary in the cotton belt, and, in fact. nearly all sections experienced only slight changes In the temperature readings. A few isolated places reported local rises or falls of 10 or more degrees Readings are low for the season nearly everywhere. Summary of observations made at United States weather bureau stations August ?, 1911:
 Temp'ature Tnwest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03

Commissioner James Weatherly' asked if he had any answer to make to MT. Beddow's "sneering strictures
 on his position on the liquor question, said: .,,o
 "No Let Pete perform. He IS 'he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03

Underwood and a large majority of my
 colleagues were right" Applause and cheers on the democratic side)
 Mr. Underwood then said MT Speaker, Will detain the House but a few min utes more. l want now 10 say a few
 words that are personal 10 myself. In
 the first place, that article charges that
 there is a difference and has been a difference between the SIPaker of the House and myself with reference to the legislation that has been brought before the House. That statement is absolutely
 false. (Applause) We have been in &C., cord from the beginning, we are in ac- cord now, and I predict without hesita-
 ton we will be in accord at the end. (Re-
 rewed applause).
 Connection With Iron Business
 Now. as to my connection with the
 iron and steel business. l am stock holder in the Woodward Iron company,
 located near Birmingham, Ala. It pro- Guces nothing but pig iron. It makes no ether commodity My brother-in-law, who Is the vice president and general man. ager of that company. stated to me very short time ago that the company was making pig iron as cheap as, or little below S750 a son. including all costs
 Of every nature and description. In times
 rast they have made pig iron as cheap as Si a ton. That was some years ago when the labor costs were cheaper than they are now. l. say without expectation of contradiction that the furnace company in which l am interested can make pig iron cheaper than it can be made any
 where in the word. (Applause) Yet, the gentleman from Nebra ska Mir Bryan, says that my personal interests are inz fGencing my position on this question.
 He may say that if l am not personally
 ir terested, it is my constituents that are influencing me. MT. Speaker. when the free list bill was presented to this House by the democratic party. I presented it. sustained it in the caucus and I sus- taned it on the floor of this House, and
 what did it do? One of the greatest in-
 dustries in my district is the manufacture
 of cotton gins. The free list bill placed
 cotton gins on the free list. Applause }
 The greatest industrial plant in my en- tire district Is built for the manufa cture Of wire. The free list bill placed wire on the free list Adjacent to the county ir which I live, having it's offices In my home town. is manufactory of cotton ties. The manufacturer protested to me against any reduction in the rates. I did not believe that they needed the protec- tive tariff. I brought in a bill that was passed by the Senate yesterday placing cotton ties on the free list fappause on democratic side). and when that bill came before this House, when a great indus trial corporation in my district shut down its plant to coerce me Into voting against that bill and I refused to be coerced, this same gentleman from Nebraska. MT. Bryan. sent the telegram that I hold in my hand to one of my colleagues on the committee. and which I send to the desk and ask to have read"
 The clerk read as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
'sBEDDOW TRICK ELEPHANT /
 TN BLIND TIGER CIRCUS" 1"

trick performing elephant in the blind tiger circus. He. with his followers, will vote first dry then wet on one and the same ballot. thus executing the world renowned feat of standing first on his snout. then on his. tail"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
UNDERWOOD FIRES VERBAL
 ROADSIDE AT BRYAN IN
 DEFENSE OF HIS DEMOCRACY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE D

 -----~-----~-~-~-------~-~ -----~-~~~-~-~-------o in the manufacture of iron, l stated that the committee would relieve me from my embarrassment if they would first. take up the iron and steel sched- ule. Loud and continued applause).
 My colleagues on the committee sit on the floor of this House. They are here to sustain me in that statement"
 Payne Interrupts
 Mir. Payne: MT. Speaker, will the gentleman allow me-"
 The Speaker: Does the gentleman from Alabama yield to the gentleman from New York;"
 MT Underwood: With pleasure"
 Mir. Payne: When the gentleman re- fers to the committee he refers only to the majority members, of course, not to the full committee"
 MT. Underwood: "Of course; l did not mean the full committee. I meant the majority members in their caucus
 MT. Payne: The gentleman spoke of the full committee
 MT. Underwood T did not refer to the full committed. of course It was a party question and was determined by the democratic members.
 The reason why the committee did not take up the iron and steel sched- ule was that the country was demand ing a revision of the textile schedule schedule .K'-in relation to wool and manufactures of wool, bearing an average duty of 90 per cent and which had rot been revised for many years. Schedule r, the cotton schedule. bore . duty of 53 per cent, covering all cotton goods, and was proportionally equally high.
 ''The iron and steel schedule had been cut by the Wilson bill, cut by the Dingley bill. cut again by the Payne bill, and although it needs, and will have further revision (applause), the committee in it's wisdom, not myself, decided that it was wiser to consider these other schedules first.
 Southern Manufacturers
 "Mr. Speaker, we went into the con sideration of the woolen schedule, but during the writing of the wooden bill by the majority members of the committee / 1t was suggested, not by myself but oA another r1epnher the committee. tla
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

LOST-Yesterday probably in Ferd
 Marks store umbrella with my name
 cut in handle. Return and get re-
 ward. Hill Ferguson. 2l2o 1st ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Weather Forecast

Washington, August 2.-Weather fore- cast: For Alabama and Mississippi-Lo- cal showers Thursday and Friday, light to moderate variable winds.
 Tennessee: Local showers Thursday and Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Kitchen Defends Underwood

MT. kitchen: MT. Speaker, I regre, exceedingly that there has been this controversy and misunderstanding be- tween the gentleman from Nebraska. MT. Bryan, and the gentleman from Alabama, Mir. Underwood am suro that the gentleman from Nebraska has been misinformed (applaGse). While he expresses desire to have publicity of caucus action, II would certainly re- dound to good understanding and the truth of the situation if he would ex- press desire for publicity of his in- dormant and his information (ap. plause).
 T feel quite sure that not a singlc member of the democratic caucus could have informed MT. Bryan as is detaile ed in his interview, and it must have been by someone outside of the demo. cratic caucus, for, as the gentleman from Alabama says, there is not on, word of truth in that statement (grea, applause on the democratic side), ex. cept the statement that I, in the eau. GUS, reminded the caucus that the gen. tleman from Alabama, MT. Underwood had, in public speech in this House said that practically all the propert, ne owned, except his house and home was in the iron and steel business
 T did remind the caucus of that and took the position that not onl, was it right for the democrats to re- wise the steel schedule before adjourn. ment, but thought it would be wise politics fer us to revise it. inasmuch as the gentleman from Alabama, tns chairman of the ways and means com. mittee, who had the courage and can.
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observations taken st ?. seventynJn
 or continuous iinos pass through points of equst
 dotted ines through points of squa ms oratore they will be drawn only for reezins % and l0
 syxRoIs indicate state of weather, clesr; 0 partly e,osds: . cloudy @r"in; 0mows @ rsDosE miasinsi Arrows 1y with the wind First figure maxipum tsmperaturc for past R hours; second rainfall if 1t equais TIT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Bryan's Telegram

mckenZle Ienn., aprll 23.
 Hon ora ble Ollie James, House of Rep
 resentatives. Washington. D. c. Convey my congratulations to Un- derwood. Action of steel trust gives
 him great opportunity. Good time to investigate and to pass law punishin 2
 suspension of business when made to coerce Congress, also to punish corpor-
 aNon officials when they attempt to influence employees during campaigns.
 Your are doing great work.
 "W. ]. BRYAN" Mir. Underwood continued: "Mr. speaker the gentleman from Nebra ska,
 MT. Bryan did not think I was pro-
 tectionizing the democratic party when brought In the free list bill, nor when entered upon the programme that the democrats of that committe out lined. Not until I differed with him
 on the wooden schedule did he have one word of criticism so far IS my conduct was concerned (applause). 1 have not a sheep in my district. There
 are few in Alabama; there Is not a woolen mill In Alabama that I know Of. I had to write wooen schedule
 that would protect the revenues of this
 government, and because I did so and did not obey the command of the gen. tleman from Nebraska, Mir. Bryan, | tcries of good. good) he is endeavor- | ing to try and make the country be- | lieye that I am not an honest demo : crat in favor of an honest revenue | tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Status in Alabama

The railroad rate status in Alabama is complex, having had several try-outs in
 the United States court, as we'll as in the court of appeals. At the present time the proceedings are in statu quo, as the re-
 suit of special master proceedings which have been on in Alabama for two years These special masters, Judge w. s. Thorington and Colonel W. A. Gunter
 have been gathering evidence, pursuant
 to court order, to ascertain whether Or
 not the rates fixed by the Alabama stat
 utes, under which the railroads are now
 operating, are or are not unreasonable
 The court of appeals in its decision' held
 that this point should be ascertained be- l fore a decision could be reached. | As soon as the special masters report 1 to Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States court for the middle district Of
 Alabama, the case is expected to begin it's
 climb to the United States supreme court.
 no matter what side the decision might | favor
 Under the administration of former Governor B. B. Conner the proceedings
 were diligently pushed and will be as diligently pushed by Governor Emme, O'Neal and Attorney General Brickell | Counsel for the state has been retained
 as good faith of Alabamas intention to
 wage the war to bitter or sweet end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Will Ignore Interview

We decided to do it months before that
 interview, and in the caucus I wanted to notify the country, I took the position thai
 we ought to notify the Senate, the presi- dent and you republicans that before you could adjourn this Congress we must re-
 wise, and intended to revise, the steel schedule, the rubber schedule and the sugar schedule. But large majority of the democratic caucus thought it unwise until further action of the Senate for us to notify at that time the Senate of our tariff programme. because it might af- feet the action of the Senate in the bills pending before it. I submitted to a ma jority of the caucus. but now believe in view Of the action of the Senate on the wooden bill and on the free list bill, that was wrong (applause), and that Mir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Particulars Are Scarce

Attorney General Robert C. Brickell, or this city. who will leave Montgomery to- morrow morning for St. Louis, is re- ticent in regard to the work before the conference, refusing to give any particu- lars whatever regarding the session' From various sources, however, 1t Is gathered that important action is eX-
 pected to be taken. which vii undoubt- edly have a great bearing upon the fur ther litigation.
 In some circles it is whispered that the attorney generals who will gather in the Missouri metropolis may agree upon some uniformity of action, especially as to the method of handling the cases when they are carried before the highest judicial body of the United States. In addition to Alabama, Minnesota, and Oklahoma, there are about ten or twelve other states that will be vitally interested in the su- preme courts final stand, hence the re- suit of Saturdays conference will be of great interest throughout the country. Moreover all states that have not had the railroad litigation are troubled with it in some variety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
|BR|CKELL ATTENDS ST. LOUIS MEETING Important Conference of
 Attorney Generals ON RAILROAD RATES Attorney Generals of Country May Seek Uniformity of Procedure in
 Cases Carried Before United
 States Supreme Court

Mont gomery, August 9.-(SpeoiaD. Fol lowing upon a suggestion made in Salt Lake City at the June session of the Ma tional Association of Attorney Generals or the United States, 1t has just developed in Montgomery that an important con- ference of some of the attorney generals has been called to meet in St. Louis on Saturday of this week. At this confer ence nearly all of the attorney generals and special counsel of all the states in- volved in railroad litigation will be rep resented, the delegates from this state consisting of Attorney General Robert c. Brickell and Special State Counsel H. c. Selheimer, of Birmingham.
 The object of the conference. it is un- officially stated. is for the attorney gem erals to formulate some uniformity of nlan in the further railroad rate proceed inps which may now be in court. or, which may ultimately go to the supreme court of the United States for g. decis- ion. It is generally understood that the decision of the supreme court in one of the cases will have material bear ing upon the other cases
 At the Salt Lake session of the attorney generals the status of the various raii- road rate cases was discussed at length by the delegates present, the result or which was the appointment of com mittee of three. consisting of Attorney General West, of Oklahoma; Attorney General Simpson. of Minnesota. and At torney General Brickell, of Alabama 10 call for a conference of some of the states most deeply involved in the pro- ceedings.
 The St. Louis session of Saturday IS the direct result of the appointment or the committed
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dor and maniiness to make that state ment on the floor, that that would be taken as an occasion by our opponents
 to islander and libel the gentleman from Alabama, and islander and libel the po- sition of this democratic House; but l
 never dreamed that any democrat in this country would attempt to malign the gentleman from Alabama. MT Un- derwood, or the democratic party (ap- DlauSe).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
What Have We Done


 What have we done? number of years ago MT Bryan was member of the ways and means committee of this House He joined with his committee In passing a bill in reference to the woolen schedule that put an average tax of 47.S4 per cent un the American people. We brought into this House and passed a bill putting an average tax in our bill of 42.55 per cent, five per cent lower than the tax that the gentleman from Nebraska stood for himself.
 "Is that protectionizing' the demo- cratic party?
 "ln that same Wilson bill the gentleman from Nebraska stood and advocated a tax of 43.76 per cent on an average on the cotton schedule, a tax that was so high that when our friends on the other side of the aisle came to pass the Dingley law they did not increase 1t in material particular, but left the Dingley. law and the Wilson law upon about the same hssis of taxation in that respect. Yet when we reported the cotton bill to this House-and, mark you, have cotton milss fin my district and many cotton mills In my state-we reported bill to this House fixing the tex on cotton goods on the average of 276 (applause), reducing the tax to nearly half of what the gentle man from Nebraska, MT. Bryan, stood fer. (Applause) And yet he says that as the leader on this side of the House am trying to lead the democratic party into the ranks of protection. My friends, I would not have occupied your time. would not have occupied the time of the country in this statement, but we are en- titled to have the truth (applause), the whole truth and nothing but the truth (applause) placed before the American people.
 'It has been done; you know the facts The facts now stand in the Record. The statements I have made have been sus- tained by the members of my committee leave to the country 10 say whether am more in favor of honest tariff re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Bryan Not Responsible

MT. Bryan is not responsible Qaugb- ter on the republican side) for he was not in our caucus; he must have got his information from somebody, and he was the most badly informed man In the world
 '1 want to say that the chairman of the committee, MT. Underwood, stated the facts clearly; he did state before the committee at the organization of the ma- jority of the committee-you republicans were not in 1t because the country had taken you out of it-My. Underwood did state that as he was interested in the steel and iron business it would relieve him of embarrassment If the committee would take up that schedule at once and get rid of it (applause) But it was the judgment of the committee that the most iniquitous schedule that had ever been put on the statute books the woolen schedule, ought first to be revised (ap- plauseD. And then, when reciprocity had been passed it was the deliberate iudg- ment of the committee that the free list
 bill ought next to be taken LID. and then the cotton schedule should be taken up because we had begun first on the tex tile schedule.
 MT. Speaker, we have done that to the satisfaction of the democrats, & large | number of the republican patriots on this | side, and to the great satisfaction of a | large majority of the American peonle ! (appiause). We intend, as the chairman n | says, to revise the iron and steel schedula
 but we do not want 1t to be understood
 that such interviews as has been read here today are Squirting us to ,,ndertata
 that job (applause).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Sonthern Manufacturers

MT. Speaker, We went into the con-
 sideration of the woolen schedule, but during the writing of the woolen bill by the majority members of the committee 1t was suggested, not by myself but by another member of the committee, that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Mann Is Corrected

Mann Is Corrected
 MT. Mann: Ut had acted on the wool bill.
 Mir. Underwood: q beg the gentleman's pardon. 1t had not acted on the wool bill on that day. It did act on it the next day. 1t had not acted on the free list bill. I stated to the caucus that, not knowing what action would be taken by the Senate in reference to our bill, CT what action would be taken by the Pres ident. thought it was unwise, and the part of unwisdom, for the democratic party to attempt and to peldge itself to the course it had intended to pursue the Eaiance of this session until we could first have an opportunity to ascertain what action the Senate was going to take in reference to our bills, and what action the President was going to take.
 T stated to the caucus that before an adjournment resolution was passed I would bring the matter back to the dem- ocratic caucus for them to determine in the light of the facts that they would have as to the action of the Senate and the President of the United States. (Ap- pause).
 II was not an effort to sdetrack any schedule; it was an effort to have the caucus or my party act with all the facts before Il. l thought 1t the part of wis com and the caucus sustained the position l took (applause). The gentleman from Neoraska refers to my friend from North Carolina, MT. Kitchen, to sustain him in the statement contained in that paper. Mir. Speaker, I want to pause in hlN remarks for the moment and ask my ffend from North Carolina to take the l floor and make a statement as to whether the facts I have stated are true or not fApplauSe).
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the woolen schedule related largely 10 manufacturers in the north and that if We brought in a woolen schedule, in justice to ourselves we must follow it with a schedule that affected southern manufac- turing interests. Therefore during the consideration of the woolen schedule a resolution was passed in the meeting or the majority members of the committee on ways and means, directing the char- man to prepare the data for the con sideration of the cotton schedule tap- plause) That was prepared. and when we disposed of the woolen schedule, l laid the data in reference to the cotton schedule before the committee; not py my suggestion. but by the order or the committee itself (applause).
 .'When it was first taken up Tor con- sideration, the suggestion was made py some of the members of the committee that cotton mill machinery being high. and the tax on cotton machinery being high, if we intended to lower the tax on cotton goods we should first take up the reduction of cotton mill machinery. When that question came before the committee, at the very inception of the considera- ton of the cotton schedule, I said to the members of the committee: I Will be glad if you will take up the iron and steel schedule now (applause) and lay aside the consideration of the cotton schedule until you have revised the iron and steel schedule down to an honest revenue " (applause).