Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-01-30
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nEMocRATs CERTAINLY WILL
s NOT CUT PRESENT SCHEDULE
/ dTo THE BONE.
pRoTEcTIoNlsTs FIGHT HARD
;Present Their Hopeless Case Fully Go
Underwoods c6nDnitfe-PenFoses
and smoot seem Alone In Fesrlnu
$ Disaster 60 Business.
By eEoReE eLINToN.

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BY GEORGE CLINTON.
washingtohARepressntatf Oscar
w. Underwood and his Democratic
colleagues forming a majority Of the
ways and committee already
have heard the pleas and the protests
son chemicals Cn9earthenRafeY glass
ware, metals and a host oil ether
things and they will go on hearing
'4he foPs' and ''the ~againsts" on other
fimports until the last day of this
month and then they WiTprspare tar
ff revision measures in@x1rtuaify the
same form as those made ready at
the last session.
It is probablys true. that the repre-.
sentatfves OF highaprotectionsWh ara
now in washington to be heard by
the ways and means committee fully
realize that their pleas win be OF no
service, for they made the same pleas
sat the last session and then the com
m1ttee went ahead and wrote such
bills as seemed right from the Demo
cratic standpoint, and this is exactly
what Is going to be done at the extra
session. The hearings have been
granted for the purpose OF giving ev-
erybody a. chance to say what he
chooses and to allow no opportunity
for anyone to Complaint 1ben The bfllf
are presented. that only one side OF
{ the case was heard.
Complaint has been made In Walsh
ington by some Of the high protection
Republicans that the foes of the
PayneAldrich bin are better organ
tied than its friends. II this is true
It is the friends fault, but there issno
{ Indication IN the rooms of the ways
and means committee that the pha-
fanx OF the representatbHasEM pgQtecs
don has been broken. The Mgh tariff
warriors are doing their duty nobly
in the field and whIlelSheyTkAbwahat
their lighting is to be vain, they seem
to have a high heart for It No one
! who witnessed the gathering of the
army 6~pPotectioni WASHINGTON
I when the Payne-Aldrich bill was un-
der discussion could doubt that such
an organization was bound to keep It's
<4trengthandk1ta aef65sRenHsS
As has been said before, the Demo
?, Gratis are not going TO cut n t&TtH TO
ELtAa bGnef THIS much H1assdrAdteHd
no one here seemsfto be particularly
scared over the sresult,gto9 business
'+Wheni theF4ewBlaws shanygonme1Anto
DforcelJTheth Observation-Disclosures
their
but few Of the members of congress
seemingly elfevg the predictions! Al
any rate the Washington Legislators
of the protection ranks II preserving
"a remarkable equanimity If they think
:, that the p%recipice is just ahead and
that business soon is to break its
n. bones at the bottom of the abyss
The tariff hearings in the house
committee on ways and means wa
end on F9dN gahdaryJM Mt
Wilson shall cali congress 9togethel
9mzextrawsesstgn agHMMarehes15xM
Underwood and his comrades viii
have six weeks time In which to pre-
pare their tariff bills. If it. were mo-
thing could be done IN a week, for
secure copying guide is to be found
In nan cases In the bills which wen
through the house last year.
Protection 20 Make Its Fight.
It will not surprise anybody Il tn
representatives get through kwitl
their tariff debaeSB Ind thu
first week in April. The time pf de
bate in the houseEwdl lnitsl. Blu
Serene q. Payne. Joseph W. Fordne.
49, ~ &A~ ~~@%AnRf0I
chieftains, will make the most of tn
time allotted them to speak in oppc
sition. The protection members Il
the house will not let tariff 1egisla
ton be enaded Quickly Hifhdht usin
every possih ekMannts o. Nme 10 &c
into the record. I'M bp1DshuHnA ID
house pro~tect1onists are utterly a
outs at present with the senate Pre-
tectionists in the matter of the wis
dom of strenuous opposittpnxtoNcut
ting the rates.
In the senate Mr.. PenfpHe,E MI
Smoot and others who hold1ha higl
wall as sacred as a temple are Of
mind to "1et the Democratstd do thei
worst and do it quickly. Mr.. Per
saea eRN @R @w0W& MSo DGRhePG ca
Sny cwo mn m mr UnTeed State
congress who really think that bus
ness is@sotngeko smash withiRsfWee
after the Undarwooh bills hedpml
dave TIE PENNSYLVANIA End III
mianSof UtAh hSnSstly believe nat
, gcoudtW q 81 broke ~instsntAr, tt
80 pefeentsa6f the w~orkeFs&of th
country are to be Jobless and ths
one year from next November a R,
publican house win be elected wit
order to put the schedules back wher
they were and IL possible to put thel
ON a shelfEsa foot or two higher.
The extra session may be over an
done for not later than June 10,
AOnparat1velx early erdtHB Ne
heemingly VI be entirely . tn s
Msfaction ofkall the members.
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