The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-03
DEMOCRATS S ACC AIM
UNDERWOOD leader
He sEvEREIY SCORES WIN. JENs
NINes BRYAN FOR cRITlcIsiNe
HIS POSITION OF THE TARIFF
RENlsIoNi p o6RAMME.

HIS POSITION OF THE TARIFF
RENlsIo ON u n o6RAMME.
WASHINGTON. Aug. STANDING
upon chairs, waving handkerchiefs
and Yelling al the tops ofitheir voices,
Democrt tic Representatives yesterday
acclaimed Representative Oscar w.
Underwood, Of Alabama, Democratic
leader of the house, when he fired a
verbal brpadSide at William Jennings
Bryan, for criticising his position on
extension. Of the tariff revision pro-
gfamme.
Exceriaung the .three.tlmes candi.
date fort the Democratic party for pres.
idential honors, Leader Underwood de.
ilounced Mr.. Bryan's statements as
false deflded his (Underwood's) at.
tttude as to revision Of the iron ana.
steel tariff schedules, and said Bryan
\ had placed upon every Democratic
member Implications uniounded in
3 fact He called on his Democratic
colleagues Of the Ways and Means
committee for corroboration OF his at
tittide in committee and in caucus.
Friends Forsake Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan was backed up in a SINH
latly striking speech by Represents.
tive Kitchen, of North Carolina, long
a devoted friend OF Bryan. Mr.. Kit
chen expressed surprise that any
Democrat should so malign Mr.. I'm
derwood and the party, and through
out alt this arraignment not a voice
was raised In defense OF Bryan.
Il all came about from published
interview, which purported to be au-
thorizedt by MI, Bryan, declaring It
was tine Democratic Leader Under
wood vas unmarked"
Real Underwood Revealed
The action of Chairman Underwood
In opposing an immediate effort to
reduce the Iron and steel schedule re-
veais the real Underwood said the
Bryan interview. Speaker Clark and
other tariff refofmers tried to secure
the passage OF a resolution instruct
Ing the Ways and Means committee
70, take up other schedules, Including
gtlie iron and steel schedule hut UH-
terWood hnd Fitzgerald, the Fitzger-
aid who saved Cannon in the last con.
gress succeeded IN defeating the res
olntion
The unmasking of Chairman UnsI
defWood win serve a useful purpose, I"
added the Interview at aro1ses the
Democf TO understanding the mis-.
in pltting Mr. Underwood at the
bead OF tie committee IL he solldifies
his poiicS of delay
Republicans Applaud,
The house listened intenty as the
entire interyieWF was read from the
clerks desk. Republicans applauded
Id
AS the clerk finished reading the
Bryan Interview, Mr.. Underwood, in
calm and even tones, opened the vials |
OF hisEwrath.
He declared that because of the
iron and steel mills In his own State
ot Alabama he had urged the Ways
! and Means committee at the very be.
ginning Of the session to save him en-
5barrassment by taking up the iron
aud steel schedule at once. This had
not been done by the committee, he
said, because 1t had determined that
gthe textile schedules, over which there
IS the greatest complaint from the
public, should be the subjects of EARL.
est revision. HlB opposition In the re-
cent caucus to q resolution calling for
ID revision Of the iron and steel sched-
IJlej he said, had been due to the fact
that It had been determined no fur.
tber tariff programme should be work.
2ed ont until II wRs found what would
he done by the President.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Leaders in
both houses otcongress believe an
agreemnt wlllSbe quickly reached on
both the wool and farmers free list
bills, both, of which the President is
4 satd to be as determined as ever to
veto. The wool bill went to a con.
Ference committee Of the two houses
yesterday. The free list bill came
back to the house with the senate
amendments attached, and probably
Will be rejected and sent to confer
jence within a day or two. The house
will. not act, however, until the Ways
and Means committee to-day decides
what should be done.
The cotton tariff bill came to the
end of its general debate in tho house
Slate yesterday, and will be passed late
To-day.