The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-03

 YS BRYAN
DEMOCRATIC LEADER TAKES Is- SUE WITH NEBRAsKAN AND
 IS LOUDLY cHEEREo.
Denounced Bryan's Tariff Statements as FaIse-Representa kitch- en Backs tip Leader in
 Speech From Floor.

Washington, D. O.. Aug. D. Standing upon chairs, waving handkerchiefs and yelling at the top of their voiNs. democratic represen- ltatives today acclaimed Representa- trre Oscar w. Underwood of Ala bama, demoe'atic leader of the house when he fired a verbal broadside at William Jennings Bryan for criticis- | ing his position on extension of the tariff revision Program. It was the mos; remarkable scene in the house since the beginning of the extra ses- sion of congress.
 Excoriating the three times eandi- date for presidential honors, Leader Underwood denounced Mir. Bryan's sras~lhenrs as fSfse, defended his, un- derwood's, attitude as to revision or | the iron and steel tariff schedules and said Bryan had placed upon ev- cry democratic member implications unfounded in fact. He called on his democratic colleagues of the ways and means committee for corrobora- ton of his attitude in committee and | in caucus.
 MT. Underwood was backed up in a similarly striking speech by Rep> resentatiye Kitchin of North Caro- lima, long devoted friend of MT. Bryan. Mir. Kitchin expressed sur prise that any democrat should SC malign Mir. Underwood and the par ty and through all this arraignment not a voice was raised in defense of Bryan.
 It all came about from published Interview which purported to be "au Ithorized" by MT. Bryan, declaring Ii was time Democratic Leader Undef' wood was ''unmasked.
 'The action of Chairman Under wood in opposing an immediate ef- fort to- reduce the iron and stee ! said the Brya--s interview. 'speakeE Clark and other tariff reformers tried to secure the passage of a resolution instructing the ways and means com mittee to take up other schedules, including the iron and steel schedule but Underwood and Fitzgerald, the Fitzgerald who saved Cannon in the last congress, succeeded in defeat ing the rgsolution.
 "The unmasking of Chairman Un- lderwood, will serve a useful purpose adds the interview, If it arouses the democrats to an understanding of the mistake made in putting Mir. Under- wood at the head of the committee fl he solidifies his policy of delay"
 The house listened iutently as the entire interview was read rom the clerks desk. Republicans ap- plauded it. Word of the answer thai Underwood was .o make to Bryan had passed among democrats and al most full membership on the demo lcrotic side greeted the tariff Ieac.r. Cheers and applause that lasted fol several minutes greeted him as he arose to speak.
 As the clerk finished reading the Bryan interview, Mir. Underwood 1T calm and even tones opened the viais lof hfs wrath. If his reply was re. markable for it's bitterness and it: vigor, it was not more so than tn, general applause which greeter m sarcastic reference to the Nebrask, leader and his specific and complies ldenals of the charges made by Mir Bryan.
 He declared that because of tn, iron and steel miiis i'll nis own stat, of Alabama he had urged the way and means committee at the yer.
 beginning of the session to save hin embarrassment by taking up the irol and steel schedule at once. This ha.
 not been done by the committee, h lsaid, becanse fr had determined tha the textile schedules over whic
 there is the greatest complaint fror the public should be the subject Q earliest revision.
 His opposition in the recent eau
 GUS to a resolution calling for re Ivision of the iron and steel scbedul ne said, had been due to the fa< that it had been determined no fur , r-f tariff program should bt slz
 ed out until 1t was found what woul
 be done by the president.