The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
Democrats Continue to De-
feat Amendments With
Regularity
PERSONAL DEBATES
ENLIVEN ACTIVITIES
Leader Mann Resents Being Called
"Bewhiskered' Gentleman-Hef-
lin Talks on Real Tax.
Split in Minority

Washington, May 2.-Tsnff reeision
with an obligato OF inspiring political ora.
tory carried the House tonight up to the
mitch discussed schedule 'lxe the wool
schedule which will oe disposed OF tomor-
row. When the House adjourned It had
completed the agricultural. wines AMI
spirits, cotton and flax. hemp and jute
schedules The democratic majority had
roll steadily on. nonehalantly voting
down every one of dozens of amendments
presented by the republicans and progress
sives.
1t was a field day for orators OH both
sides of the House and the veterans In
the chamber We'd with the boy orators
among the new members In their eloeu-
tionary Efforts The iniquities of the pro-
teetive tariff theory were lashed in ring
ing periods By the democrats and the
dire days of the panic of 1893 with its
soup houses and ruined industry were
described by the republicans as the re-
suits of democratic tariff doctrine ex-
emplified in the Wilson bill
Underwood Calls Halt
When the political past for 20 years and
the political future for a century had
been thoroughly threshed of all oratioal
material and Representatives Barnhart
OF Indiana and Moore of Pennsylvania
had gotten to the point OF recting orig
lnal poetry about goats, Representative
Underwood called a halt. He insisted
upon combining debate thereafter to the
merits of the proposition under consid-
Grafton and with the mercury In the
House thermometers going up at midsurn-
mer gait, hurried through the flax
schedule on record time. The monotonous
rolling chorus of democratic noes"
| swamped amendment after amendment
after the schedule went through pm
changed
Washington May THE democratic
majority went ahead with tariff revision
in the House again today without a seri-
Gus hitch, There were innumerabie
amendments emanstipg from the miuori-
". hut they were voted Gown with monn-
/ toDous regularity. ~
/ The discussion opened with citrus fruil,
J in the agricultural schedule. the PacliA:
| coast growers waging an unsuccessful
/ fight against cutting the tariff on coast
I products. Efforts to increase the proposed
duty peanuts TO give better protection
| to the Virginia industry also fell through.
| The schedule covering spirits. wines and
i other bevera ges went through without
dissent, but considerable fight was made
by the representatives of textile districts
when the cotton schedule was reached
Many Speeches Made
Many Of the speeches really dealt with
/ the tariff, but general politics and par
! tisan personalities featured the debate.
! Representative Thomas of Kentucky had
a few things to say about the republic
4 cans personally and the debate for a mo-
ment promised interesting developments
when Republican Leader Mann, stung
! by Mr.. Thomas reference to him as tho
! ''bewhiskered gentleman frem Illinois
retorted that while it was true he was
! "bewhiskered," at least he was not be
1 whiskied."
| Representative Thomas called the pro-
gressive party "a patent medicine adver-
tisement scheme, and criticised Represen-
| tative Payne of New York for rejecting
ON President Wilson because the Presi-
dent went to New Jersey In connection
with state legislation.
DO Not Realize Tax
| Representative Hefin of Alabama de-
| clared that people did not realize that the
real tax on the American people under the
present tariff law was S2,iO0000,000 In
stead of 5000 900 of revenue tax and
arraigned the republican claim that the
| law protected the American farmer and
I laborer.
| Several committee amendments were
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