The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
NO YANKEE TRICKS ON UNDERWOOD Calm Alabamian Master of
 the Situation SHERWOOD SPEAKS Ohio Representative Defends His Pension Bill and Hull of Ten
 nessee Attacks Tariff
 Board Ruse

Washington, July @-''You can't put any Yankee tricks over on me- declared Representative Underwood of Alabama, chairman of the ways and means com- mittee, during the debate in the House on the cotton schedule revision bill.
 The democratic leader had asked 8 question of Representative Moore of Penn- sylvania.
 'I answed you in Yankee way by asking you another question shouted Representative Hill of Connecticut, who had quickly risen to help out, as he thought, his republican brother.
 ''No you dont.' said Mr. Underwood. q refuse to yield for any Yankee ques- tons. I want somebody on that side, prob- ably MT. Moore, to answer my question" "
 MT. Underwood had inquired whether the "custom house tax did not affect the price of goods. MT. Moore finally ac- knowledged that it did, but that it was for the benefit of the people, whereupon MT. Underwood smiled and said he was satis- fled, and the democrats applauded.
 An unqualified defense of his dolar-a- day pension bill was made in the House today by Representative Sherwood of Ohio, as 'the closing speechNof day set aside to general debate on the cotton schedule tariff bill.
 Instead Of a pension bill based, on age, such as was enacted by the republicans in 1907, or as proposed by the Subway Anderson bill, the Ohio representative de- clared that the only equitable bill from the point of view of the men who really saved the union was measure based on service and sacrifice ste He scathingly arraigned General Keller of Ohio. General Hall, also of that state. and John McElroy, editor of the National Tribune, for opposing his bill. .se General Hall" he told the House, did not win his stars as a brigadier general in the war, but by gallant conduct in the G. o. P. 70 years afterwards" MT. Sherwood filed a protest against the pensoning of spring pulIets.'' whom he explained were girls who marry old soldiers on their last legs" n- At the same time he expressed the be- lief that the present House could pass a pensiorf bill which would pension the widows of soldiers without working a fraud on the government by pensoning those who married just to get pension Attacks Tariff Board Representative Hull of Tennessee dis- cussed tariff revision and scored the tarim board as a political hypocrisy designed to delay tariff revision. MT. Hull said former President Roosevelt stayed the tariff storm by throwing firebrands into the air so the people would not notice those falling on their heads.' He said that with republican promises for restoration of protection rates, there will be the greatest fat frying next year in the history of the country Republican promises to re-raise the tariff, if restored to power will agaln be made pawn for enough millions 10 buy the American electorate, 1T possible. Representative Hull of Tennessee, dem ocrat, denounced the republican party at titude toward the tariff. "I desire" he said, ito brand this latest tariff board device as premeditated hypocrisy and az gravated false pretenses He contended that the board was political life line to delay tariff revision.
 ''J shall recount certain facts" said MT, Hull, proving beyond controversy, first that the republican party never has given the people material tariff reduction and never will do so, and. second, that this same party has always. bluntly, sneering- ly and contemptuously dismissed the sug- gestion of the creation of tariff board or commission at such times as 1t sought to delay honest tariff revision and at the same time to avert impending political disaster.
 Denouncing the Payne-Aldrich tariff la as an 'abominable iniquity," and "ghast- ly abortion" Mir. Hull said that when il was passed each lobbyist. in ecstatic de- light, departed, saying:
 Y care not for the stars that shinA
 only know that I've got mine.'