The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-18
Claims Underwood Made
 "EgregiOus Blunder"
END GENERAL BEDATE
Democrats Unable to Carry Adjourn ment Motion Over Monday But Underwood Is Preparing
 His Steam Roller

discussion The blll VIII De cdlieu up usder the five-minute rule Tuesday and will be placed upon it's passage before adjournment of that day. There Is little doubt that 1t will pass the House on a straight party vote.
 A night session was held to complete the discussion, inasmuch as the democrats were forced, because of a temporary lack of votes to devote Monday to consid- eratlon of the committee discharge call endar.
 Accusing the democrats of having aban- doned their free trade principals in the framing of the wool tariff revision bill the wool tariff revision bill and de- and declaring they are as much one-man ruled as they ever charged the republicans with having been, Representative Se- reno E. Payne of New York made the principal speech In the wool bill debate today.
 With the intention of closing general debate on the bill, the House held a night session tonight and representa- tives favoring and opposing the bill were given a chance to speak. Cha1r- man Underwood hopes to reach vote on the measure probably Tuesday or Wednesday.
 Mir. Payne, chairman of the commit tee which prepared the Payne -Aldrich tarif measure, accused the democrats of having gone back on their free trade principles in the woolen bill. Referring 10 the farmers free list bill, he said:
 "No such crude measure ever before was brought into this House by any committee. There is not man on either side who can tell within s15,000, 900 to S50000 900 what difference 1t would make in the revenues"
 Representative Foster of Illinois and Representative Mays of Florida spoke in favor of the bill.
 Mir Payne declared MT. Underwod in his opening speech on the bill had made an "egregious blunder," a mistake of $S5.0G0, GOO in his explanation of the treasury statement whereby he defend- ed the partial duty kept on wool in the bin as due to the necessity of revenue.
 ''Do you ever remember ask ed MT. Mann when an opening speech on g tariff bill has not appeared in the rec. ord within a few days after its de- livery? Mir Underwood's speech has moi l yet been printed
 In deefnse of MT. Underwood Rep resentative Harrison. of New fork sai1 tl,c reason the speech had not beer printed was because Mir. Underwood ! duties were SO heavy he had not had tirne to go over 1t. In regard to the wool schedule of the Payne-Aldrich law, MT. Payne said q wanted to re- wise and equalize the wool schedule and eoualize the duties. But I was not able to carry it through" He made a de- fense, however. of the bill as a whole.
 Mir Payne declared the real reason the democrats had not put raw wool on the free list was because some gen tleman at home had said 1t would ruin t1. Haf, ofo a duty on wool"
 Man Power
 As to one-man power he said it makes no difference whether 1t Is one man who enforces the rules in the speakers chair, and who appears in the open. whether he pulls the wires that control the caucus. You are about as free as the white slaves we hear so much about"
 At the night session Representative Martin of Colorado, a democratic mem Der from a sheep growing state, de- clared he was being attacked by the re- publican press in his district for yield ing to the pledge of the democratic cau- GUS on the Underwood bill.
 "Down here in Washington" said MT. Martin, "the republicans are abusing the democrats for selling out to the sheep states and out In the sheep states the republicans are abusing us because the | Representative Dyer, Missouri repub- lican attacked the bill, declaring it would work great harm to the sheep industry of his own state.
 "Free raw wool would wipe out the sheep industry altogether In Missouri he said.
 | Representative Cullop of Indiana, sup porting the bill ,assailed the republican argument of protection for American workingmen. "The great danger to American labor
 he said. ''Is not in the importation or foreign goods, but in the foreign iaborers shipped into this country annually by our great captains of industry to take the places of American worlSlngmen at | lower wages. . Delay in the smooth progress of the democratic legislative programme and the vote on the wool tariff revision bill will be accustomed Monday because the democrats of the House, for the first time since the beginning of the special session today were unable to muster enough votes to support a motion to adjourn until Tues day and avoid consideration or the com mittee discharge calendar.
 Ever since the opening of the session the democrats have successfully dodged peril in this calendar, the dollar a day" pension bill, but they must face the issue Monday. ajority Leader un- derwood said tonight the caucus had hound the party not to extend the legis- lative programme into pension matters or anything else except the tariff, and for that reason the democrats would vote down any motions to. discharge com mittees from consideration of bills with which the calendar has been filled by members of the republican minority.
 The only way the democrats can avoid vote on the pension bill Monday is by House convenes. The democratic whips have sent out an appeal to the mem bers who are out of town, and by noon Monday Mir. Underwood hopes to have sufficient strength to enable him to run his steam roller over the republican op- position.
 While the House is facing the problem of shutting off eager orators. the Senate was forced to remain idle today because senators had not prepared speeches on the Canadian reciprocity bill. This con- ditlon will be remedied Monday how ever for a half dozen speeches, prac- tieally against the agreement, are in course of preparation and some sen ators even will devote several hours to- morrow to rounding off periods and pol ishing the rough places in their argu- ments.
 There were no committees of import ance in session today at either end Of the capitol, the House committee investi- gating the two great industries of steel and sugar having adjourned until Mon- day.