The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-27
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IMPORTANT ROLE
osntleman From Alabama Is To Be
Chairman Of Ways and Means
COMMITTEES of House.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., March 27.-
Oscar w. Underwood will be the man
"a the hour In the coming congress-.
. No one, not even Champ Clark him
Ielf who takes Uncle Joe's diminished
mantle. will loom any larger In the
assembly OF the house than viii os-
car w. Underwood, the gentleman
from Alabama
But perhaps you never heard OF os-
car w. Underwood? Not surprising
a you have not. for Underwood Is
Essentially a man Of quietude, man
Of few words and of perennial calm
that broods over his person and serves
20 hide him from the vulgar gaze OF
f the multitude. But the time has
come when folk simply must hear
about Underwood. II you've never
heard OF him you might as well listen
right now, for you've got 10 hear about
him sooner or later.
Underwood Ii TO be chairman OF
the ways and means committee, the
most powerful Of the house commit.
+ tees, and thus, ex-officio he will be
chairman Of the committee on com
mittees. Also he will be floor leader
Tor the Democratic majority. In short,
( underwood will DO escapement whee.
Of the legislative cloekworks. He will
exercise much Of the authority that
; WAS so recently wrested from Uncle
Joe's reluctant fingers. Champ Clark
viii be the speaker, but his authority
will be limited Underwood will be
THE real car II this congress Is TO
have one.
And who is Underwood? Under.
wood, to quote Senator Bailey. lis the
only man In either house Of congress
who could be locked up In hermeti-
cally sealed room for a week and
emerge from 1t with perfectly good
tariff BILL
From which 1t may be inferred that
Underwood knows something about
4 the tariff, He does. He has been
studying the tariff ever since he came
20 congress from Birmingham, and
that was Is years or more ago. Now
he knows whole lot about the tariff,
and knows just what kind OF tarin
he wants.
Which Is interesting, for the kind !
OF tariff that Underwood wants Is
likely to be the kind that all OF US |
y Will nave III Tic near VI
IN his capacity as chairman OF the
committee that will report on the |
new revised tariff bill. Underwood will
have much TO do with shaping that
instrument.
And this Is the kind OF tariff Un-
Norwood favors: A tariff for revenue.
or az he calls IL competitive tarin"
high enorgh 10 prevent the flooding l
OF this country with articles manufac-
tured abroad In competition with home /
manufactures, but low enough to per
NIT foreign goods to compete with
|domestic goods on equal terms. In
other words he would trim his tariff /
With b view Of depriving monopoly or
s the defense or the wall created by a
|Drohibitive tariff --
Personally Oscar w. Underwood is
[Ealm. Nobody ever saw him RULED.
"9tntesmen about him may shout and
otutter and stammer and stamp and
squeak, beat their breasts, ring the
+ welkin. fzz. foozle and fuss, but not
Underwood" Thus saith Sam Blythe,
the fWfo's Who and Why man OF the
Saturday Evening Post. And he goes
on TO say. He remains pacific, peace
fnl and placid. and when the time
comes, rises and injects into the sit
uation few well chosen remarks. un-
emotional and imprisoned, and ordi.1
narily brings home the bacon"