Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-06
More Bondage Than Free, n Pro-
posed Measure.
SEES NO EQUALITY AT ALL IN IT
Denies to One Glass what it Will Give
to Another.
ENGINEERS OPPOSE CABLE PLAN
General BiNby Transmits Report say
inE Proposed Method of Handling
Missouri is Return to Tenn
pOrary Measures.

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WASHINGTON May 5.-tspecial Tele.
gram mJ-Representative Sloan this afternoon
was accorded close attention by a large
majority of the members of house when
he defined his position on the so-called
farmers free list bill now before that
body
Your bill for which you ask support :"
said Mr. Sloan addressing the majority
side, rs charged on this side and prac-
tically admitted on the other to be the
means Of redress for wrong or damage Of
the Canadian pact. A sort of hush money
for injury committed. What are its
claims?
ut will deprive the treasury Of $4,000 600
of revenue that Is scarcely virtue The
real claim OF every speaker on your side
seems to be that 1t will save money for
the farmers, hence II is called the farmers
free list bill II It stands that test in the
interest Of my district, / shall vote for II
There seems to be but little reciprocity in
this bill. however, but It is reciprocity like
fish giving its body to the barbed hook
for toothsome angle worms.
There is more bondage than freedom in
that farmers free list bill. There is some
ALTERATION which seems to help the sound
but II ALTERATION is all you want. prefix
the word fraudulent to the name and make
it read fraudulent farmers free list. and
you viii have more ALTERATION and in
cidentally more truth.
II must decline to vote for this bin in
its entirety. / do not want to violate the
pure food law which requires the label to
correspond with the goods"
Referring to the recent Baltimore love
feast' where ii was declared that the con-
templated tariff changes would be schedule
by schedule, Representative Sloan said
Il have asked by bills now before the
ways and means committee for free lurn-
her, free shoes free sat free wire. and
free sewing machines, and shall ask the
benefit of schedule by schedule treatment
OF our grains and live stock products as
well We do not want to be tried with
those shoe fellows and thought the marty
which said equal rights to all and speciai
privileges TO none. would not deny farme,kg
and stockmen what you propose giving tS
wool and steel people
You can eliminate by amendment. meats
and cereals from the bill and redeetn your
Baltimore promise. You cannot refuse to
do 30 without violating that pledge. You
can cd this also without embarrassment AZ
defenders of other schedules have not to
my knowledge asked separation"
Representative Sloan spoke at consider
able length. his time being extended on
several occasions, and he opposed most
vigorously proposed free listing OF meats
because in point of value and volume this
schedule most vitally affects his section
OF Nebraska, excepting of course grain and
it's products
When Representative Sloan began his
on the floor, but by the time he got fairly
started in his criticism of the democrats
he had attracted the attention OF tbe
smoking room. the Hobbies and press gal
I lery and throughout his anaIytcal exposi.
! ton of the farmers free list bill he was
! accorded most generous applause inter
spersed with laughter from his republ,cap n
colleagues.
Mr.. Sloan, in all honesty, was accorded
better treatment than has fallen to any
new member in this congress
General W. Bixby, chief of engineers
today transmitted report to congress
ADVERSE to the cable and sand method for
prtecting the channel and banks Of this
Missouri river which Henry T. Clarke and
others about Omaha wished to have tried
on the river. The report states that the
special board provided fer by the act NJ
June % 1910 determined by trial the prac.
tcaoility Of the cable and sand plan 10,
the protection of the channel and hanks NJ
the Missouri river. II Investigated IN,
question quite thoroughly. visited localitie,
where this method Of Improvement baf
been tried, hsld public hearings a, Omaha
to which had been invited ali person,
known to be interested. and examined sew.
eral reports OF the chief of engineers con
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