The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-05
ORATORY LET LOOSE
REPUBLICANS TO ENTER FIELD
OF ARGUMENT TO SECURE
TARIFF CHANGES.
THREE MONTHS OF DEBATE
Country Will Be Obliged to Get
Along on Payne-AIdrieh Tariff Until
the Brown October Days and Per
haps Longer.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

! BY GEORGE CLINTON.
: Washington.-It was originally tn
. intention of the Republican senator
to say little or nothing in debate O.
the customs measure which Is now i
the sepate's keeping. It was only
day or two ago that the Republican
seemed to get second thought u
the matter and to agree that it woul'
be good plan to enter into the feel,
OF argument and to make some at
tempt to secure amendments to thei
liking. The fact that six Democrat,
senators expressed a desire for pub
lie hearings on the bill gave the pro
lection Republicans some hope tina
by a combination with these Demo
Gratis on certain things in the bill II
would be possible to force changes
When the Democrats who spoke ir
FAVOR OF public hearings changed
their minds under the power of ma
jor1ty persuasion, some of the Repub
leans re-adopted their old plan OF
saying only enough ON the various
schedules to get party record of op-
position with which to go before the
| a OAA0 yOoA AAOM ucAI kd1I III
case the law, as the Democrats pass
1t, shall prove to be Injurious to the
country's business
The finance committee Is taking its
| time to discuss the measure before it
Is reported to the senate. Eight
weeks will be taken up with the de-
bate In the open chamber, even If the
Republicans check their oratory. If
they fail to check it there probably
will be three months of debate, and
should these various Ifs" have their
way the country will be obliged to
get along with the Payne-Aldrich tar
III bill until the brown October days,
and perhaps longer.
"PauperIzed Labor" Again.
From the nature of the discussion
preliminary to the settlement of the
public hearings question it is per-
fectly evident that during the debate
on the various paragraphs of the bill
"pauperized labor Is to be used for
all 1t Is worth. Labor as a pauper
under reduced tariff conditions has
walked through the senate chamber
on many an occasion before this. It
knows every entrance and every exit,
and it knows the place in the senate
aisle where 1t must stand while high
protectionists point to it as the ghost
of the horrible example as to what
Is to come in the flesh IF the down
ward revisionists have their fell |
way"
II the tariff bill now in the senate |
provided for the destruction of every
custom house In the country and for
the placing upon the free list of every
article now imported or likely to be
imported into the United States, no
more CHASTITY picture of the future
would be drawn by the protectionists
than that which is being drawn to-
day. The bill, however, it is claimed
by the Democrats, is not a free trade
nor anything like an ap.
proach to one save in some instances.
It Is, however, a bill which in the
few free trade cases in point may
work hardship to some industries.
This Is admitted by good many
Democrats privately, but even those
who make the admission, except in
one or two cases, will vote for the
Dill and trust that 1t will do enough
general good in the way of reducing
he high cost Of living, to save the
Democratic party from defeat even If
some injury Is done to an industry
lere and an industry there,
The debate in the senate is bound
o be interesting throughout from the
POLITICAL point of view, but there is
10 present prospect that any argu.
nent will be advanced by any oppo-
lent OF the bill powerful enough to .,
way the Democratic majority of the
enate from its determination to pass
ne measure as 1t Is, or virtually as
Is. Senator Works of California
nay talk a week on the measure. Mr.
Works Is a near-Progressive but his
ar1h views probably will not be those
the Progressive party.
LaFolIette viii Talk.
Robert M. La Toilette also intends g
talk at length on the tariff bill 40 -
ls understood. He may "go It =.
lone for he has in his head a we'll -
etined personal idea of just what a :.
lrih should be, whether it affects =
mons, wool or diamonds Mr.. LaFol- =,
tie Is certain, it is said, to bring :,
ol1t1cs into his discussion or the tar
[, and it Is virtually assured that he
Ill have some things to say about
le political developments of the last =,
EAR developments which seemingly =
ere not all to the liking of the wis ~
'nsin senator. -
There never has been a tarifr de- -
tie yet which politics as politics did ..
IT cut very much of a figure. There =.
9 now three parties represented IN -.
e senate. There have been MI -
nds of political happenings within
e last twelve months. The two chit
go conventions and their outcomea g
III be discussed when wool is SIM :. -.
sed to be the one subject for do ~ ~
tie; the Baltimore n,,vont. >. Ill