The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-19

owed by speech of Representative Len root of Wisconsin. progressive republi- can and close friend of Senator LaFol- lette. MT. Lenroot said the veto was based on ignorance. not information.
 At o'clock Republican Whip Dwight declared he had canvassed the demo- crats and had fallen short of the two thirds vote necessary to pass the bill over the veto.
 Interest in the debate became more
 intense when news spread that Speaker Clark would take the floor to close the debate.
 Representative Ollie James of Ken lucky denounced President Taft's veto as a bold, fragrant defiance of the will of the American people" He hu- morously described the members of the tariff commission as editors and college professors. They say" he continued, that we are trying to put the President In a hole. We are not doing that; the people will put him in a hole in No- vember 1912"
 Representative Austin of Tennessee, re- publican, said the American people should be thankful there was man In the White House brave enough to veto the destructive" wool bill. He set the House in an uproar by declaring that if there was to be a democratic presi- dent it should be Speaker Champ Clark.
 Democrats vigorously applauded when Mir Lenroot of Wisconsin declared any republican who voted for the bill and fail- ed to vote for it's passage over the veto would convict himself of insincerty or fear that he would lose republican pat ronaGe
 Representative Dazell of Pennsylvania, Republican Leader Mann and former Speaker Cannon denounced the bill. The latter said the democrats have come into power In the House by demagosuery, but that he expected to see them turned out in 1912
 we believe" he continued. that your efforts to revise the tariff have cost the people more money than would have been saved in a decade'
 Amid enthusiastic democratic cheers, Speaker Clark. calling Representative Underwood to the chair. began the final speech on the bill. He said MT. Mann forgot one of the most important ele- ments of increase in this countryside increase in population.
 Champ Clark Speaks
 Surely" said MT. Clark. mo repuh- lican here has the gall to claim that re- publcans begot that increase. It makes me sick to hear this talk about the dem- ocrats of this House wanting to destroy American industries. It is not so, IL is
 
 President, Taft in hole. God knows we dcn't have to, he has done 1t for him self
 Now. my good friend from Tennessee (Mr. Austin, got this tariff board busi- ness wrong. Mir. Underwood and n-.-- self never advocated this tariff board. We never voted for it. I will tell you what we did advocate and we did vote for, and that is to make that board respon- sible to the House in general and to the ways and means committee in particular
 q am not going to say anything derog- atory of this tariff board, but I am going to say what think, as 1 always do. That is, any member of the ways and means committee knows more about the tariff than that entire tariff board rolled .to- gether."
 The speaker challenged the statement that the wool bill has been 'unconsid- cred" and referred to the democratic eau GUS of members-elect on January 10, which, he said, had been called my crazy scheme, but it worked like charm. He defied former Republican means committee ever spent three months on any tariff schedule.
 ''I have been preparing for the wool Lill for the last 20 yeais,' said Mr. Clark. They say we are playing politics. con tinued Mir. Clark. Whenever any iuan stands up and undertakes to do anything for the benefit of the great masses of people he is denounced by the int tsrcsts. That Is demagoguery. But to8stand up