Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-04-29
Democrats Spend the Day
in Landing the Measure
While Republicans and
Progressives Attack Pro
visions.
PUBLIC NOT
IN GALLERIES.
Representative Payne, of
New York, Father of
Present Law, Has Audi
ence on Hand to Listen to
His DenunciatiOn.
ASSOCIATED PRESS pIsPATCn1

WASHINGTON, April 28-The gen.
eral debate on the democratic tariff
bin in the house wound up tonight in
a final outburst of oratory. Demo
Gratis spent the day in landing the
measure, while alternately the repub-
Iicans and progressives attacked it's
provisions.
The public. weary with week Of
tariff oratory, did not produce d
numerous attendance and most of the
speeches of the day We're made to
empty benches. However, Represent
ative Payne of New York. ranking
republican member of the ways and
means committee, father of the pres
ent tariff law, had a good sized audi
ence on hand to listen to a denunci-
alton of the bill He painted a vivid
word picture of ruined industries and
impoverished labor, which he pre-
sented as an inevitable result of the
Underwood bill The republicans
vociferously applauded when he de-
clared that the reduction of the cost
of living promised by the democrats
as result of tariff revision was
| fallacy.
; Payne criticised the ways and
| means committee for putting wool on
{ the free list While leaving on the
dutiabe list hair and angora goats.
| and intimating that it was the work
of Representative Garner. Garner is
member of the committee. Three
million goats are raised in the
| United States" he said. Il under
stand that two million nine hundred
and ninety nine thousand nine hun
dred and ninety nine of them were
raised in Texas.
| Representative Rainey of Illinois.
a democrat. declared the bill repre-
sented a new era in the governments
fiscal policy, making lighter the
| burdens of taxes and the consumers
of the country are compelling those
! of great wealth to contribute their
share toward paying the government
expenses
| Representative Chandler of New
York, progressive, advocated the re-
duction of certain tariff duties and
replied to Representative Helfin of
Ala bama. who is said to have called
Theodore Roosevelt the wild man
from Africa" and in the same breath
invoked the spirit of Andrew jackson
to guide the deliberations of the dem
ocratic congress-
jackson once killed a man named
Charles Dickinson in a duel said
Chandler and threatened to hang
Calhoun as high as Haman; he tried
to horSeWhip Thomas Benton. and
challenged General Winfield Scott to
a duel; he overran Florida and had
two eminent British gentlemen hanged
thereby nearly bringing us into war
with Great Britain and Spain when
he was president. and broke up his
cabinet by his own headstrong vio-
lence. This is the mild hammered
man whose spirit was invoked in this
house by the democratic congressman
in the same breath that is employed
, TO denounce Roosevelt as the wild
man from Africa"
Representative Murdock, progressive
, leader. criticised the tariff policy of
both the democrats and republicans
He said the Underwood bill is "un-
reliable and chaotic, a jumbie of in
consistencies, and urged the tariff
be placed in the hands of q non-par
tisan tariff commission. IF this bill
passes" he added before Christmas
: its sponsors will be offering amend
ments.'