The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-07

it there. and returning it here there must be something wrong when, ac- cording to the statement of the gen. tlenan from Tennessee they can send $65, 900, GOO of their products here. If under the present conditions we can import $65, ,0Oo, 900, and you reduce the duty practically 50 per cent. 1t neces- sari1y means that the importations will be at least double under your bill. Surely these things ought to be ex- plained inteIIigently I find this great expert in repartee 0NGr. Underwood) is one of the c1everest members who ever came over the pike, but when you pin him down and ask him abstract question he turns the answer over to some other member. daughter.)
 MT Mann of IIlinois-The gentlemen from Connecticut having asked two in telligent questions, the gentleman from Alabama very naturally said that the gentleman belonged on the other side of the House. Qaughter.)
 Mir Donovan-Wil1 the gentleman from Illinois answer the two ques- tions? Gaughter.)
 MT. Mann will not. I do not know. But if I was writing g. tariff bill would know The gentleman from Connecticut who represents a cotton manufacturing district, can. he answer his own question?
 MT. Donovan-I am here as pupil not as a teacher.
 MT. Donovan said in a further argu- ment:
 'tI desire to make the usual motion to strike out the last word and wish to call attention to the fact that the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Mann) by the Record of this morning ap- pears to have asked me a question yesterday I did not understand that [ had left it unanswered. l will an swer the question now. The question was, whether I would vote for a tar1ff board to pass upon matters or this character, etc. I will say that if 1t came up in that shape I would vote against it for this reason-I believe that the Representatives should be near the people and as responsive to their will, and as close to them as you can get them. I would vote to recall Congressmen and for the right to re- call them within 30 days. Now just a word in regard ito what has taken place here covering this bill.
 ''I wish to say that the committee has given the boot and shoe indus try better conditions than it had be- fore under the Payne act. When you take into consideration the lower duties of the thirty different articles they are better off financially than they were with the ten per cent duty under the Payne-A1drfch act. And seemingly many. articles in the bill have been treated as carefully and as painstakingly as the boot and shoe | industry.
 'tBut, for some reason important in 1 dustries have been disregarded, and 1 do not appear to have been given that 1 intelligent treatment that other arti- | cles have. Now, the cotton schedule for reasons that cannot explain, an6 seemingly the committee cannot ex- plain, has been most brutaIly treated in the opinion of the one who now ha: the floor. When you take the great est industry, possibly in this country with one exception, seemingly witt l only a horizontal reduction, withou1 1 going into the matter of the cost o1 1 labor in Europe, or the cost of ma 1 teria1 or the reason why they can seni upwards of sixty million dollars o1 products into this country, and why l we should reduce the rate to 21 pe1 1 cent flat, I cannot understand.
 1 Again, I hold in my hand a Ides 1 patch from a constituent of mine, ol l one of his establishments, relative tc another product that. has been take1 care of, think, unintelligently; vii 1 not say viciously. The gentleman whG had it in charge I do not see present It has reference to one of the ferro 1 -ferromanganese. will say 8. the outset that this dispatch is from the Crane Valve Co.,, and MT. Crane was the largest contributor to the Will son presidential campaign fund in tht last election. (App1ause.)
 | "Of course the disctingushed chair
 man of the Ways and Means commit tee may say to this esta blishment, th'
 same as he says to everyone else wht I happens to oppose him or his bill, tha they belong on the other side. I be Ifeve that the President is about tt send the head of this ab1ishment
 MT. Crane, a Republican, from thi 1 country as Ambassador to the Rus
 sian government
 Possibly, the President will thinl
 as to this great contributor and hi
 interests, that the proposed tariff vii
 not affect any honest busfn ess, ant
 maybe that hand that came as it. dit
 in the matter of the sugar schedule
 bringing relief and free sugar to tn
 people may right what they claim
 an injustice to a great industry.
 l Referring to ferron1anganeSe tn
 despatch says: t' We hope that yoI
 will use your influence to mak 1 changes in the new bill as will pre-
 vent a higher duty than $2.50 ton.'
 For reasons that time only will ex
 plain, the committee has made tha
 duty s9 to $1o a ton. The chairman I ''The time of the gentleman has ex I pired. Are there any further amend
 Tnents to the paragraph %
 l MT. Miller of Minn.: MT. Chairman