The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-27
Representative Stringer
Asks Third Party to
Stand by Platform
NON-PARTISAN
TARIFF FAVORED
Debates Enlivened First Exhibition of
Feeling Between Majority and
Minority Leaders-Income
Tax Discussed
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
SEN AfI,N.

SEN ATE.
Not in session. Meets Monday
Prominent woman suffragists address
suffrage committee, arguing for con-
stitutional amendment giving women
the right to vote.
Fisheries committee decided to rec
ommend confirmation of nomination
of Hugh NJ. Smith as commissioner
of fisheries.
Kern resolution for investigation of
West Virginia coal strike ordered fa-
vorably reported.
HOUSE,:
Met at noon. Resumed general de-
bate on tariff bill. Representative Hull
analyzing income tax.
Representative Curley introduced
resolution for constitutional amend
ment to give Congress power to make
uniform hours of labor throughout
country.
Special committee which investigated
assault upon Representative Sims by
c. c. Glover. Washington capitalist.
found Glover guilty of contempt of
House and recommended his arrest
Representative Campbell introduced
bin to create bureau of public high
ways and appropriate s24,0o0,0o0 for
use among states.
Representative Bartlett introduced
bill TO reduce first class postage to
l cent an ounce
Recessed at 5:1s p. m. until 7:so
p. m.
Adjourned at 11:o7 p. M, until II
a. m. Monday.
washington April 2s-Confronting pro-
gresslve members of the House with a
plank in the national platform of their
party pledging them to immediate re-
vision OF excessive tariff schedules, y
without waiting for their proposed nom
partisan tariff commission, Representa-
tive Lawrence B. Stringer, new demo-
crat from Illinois, called upon the third
party representatives in the House to-
night to support I e Underwood bin i,
they wished TO carry out their party
declarations.
First defending lac lrolIessiges against
onslaughts of both democrats and re.
publicans and declaring that they repre-
sented more than 100000 voters, and had
the right to claim that their party was
'the second party in this nation" the Il
lnois democrat emphaticaly denied that
they represented a .'protection party"
''You tell me that the progressive party
favors a non partisan tariff commission
declared Mr.. Stringer. THAT Is true, but
that plank in the progressive platform
concludes by saying: The work of the
commission should not prevent the I'M
mediate adoption of acts reducing those
schedules generally recognized as excess
sive.''
Urge Joint Passage
Waving aloft the quotation and ad-
dressing himself to Victor Murdock, pro-
Kressive party leader in the House, Mr..
Stringer continued:
81 call the attention OF the gentleman
from Kansas to the statement that il ne
and the progressive, members OF this
body who he leads desire to carry out the
declarations of their own platform, and |
believe they do. they will be compelled
by the logic of those declarations to join
with us in the passage of this pending
measure
"That platform denounces the Payne
Aldrich bill as unjust to the people, y
the speaker continued. 1T declares for an
income tax. and say to the gentleman
from kansas his conferees have already
with the people and fail to carry out
the pledges which they nave made they
will meet the condemnation which they
deserve"
Debates Enlivened
The days debate further was enlivened
by a first exhibition of feeling between
majority and minority leaders in the tariff
discussion, when Representative Dixon of
Indiana, democratic member of the ways
and means committee, attacked the re-
publican tariff law, declared 1T was in
effect an increase over the former Ding
ley tariff In that the average rate of the
Payne law was /. n per cent higher than
the Dinrley law. with the statistics of 1907
as basis.
THE statistics that the ways and means
committee present today show the gentle-
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