The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-12
RESIGNS PLACE
AND SCORES THE
PARTY IN POWER
Representative Anderson of
Minnesota Declines to
Serve on Ways and
Means Committee.
CLIMAX TO DEBATE
ON CURRENCY BILL
Republican Member Declares
System of Legislation Es-
tablished by Democrats a
Farce and a Fraud"


WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-As the
climax Of the vigorous Republican CON
demnation of Democratic legislative
methods which has marked the cur
rency debate, Representative Sidney
Anderson Of Minnesota, on the floor OF
the house, resigned late today as a
member Of the powerful ways and
means committee. In speech bitterly
assailing legislation through caucus ac
ton, partisan consideration of the I'm
dcrwood tariff bill, and the Glass cur
rency bill in committees, Represen ia
tive Anderson declared that the 'ssys-
tenn Of legislation established here"
made his efforts on the committee a
farce and fraud Throughout the
day the Republicans had criticised the
means employed by the Democrats in
framing the currency bill, denouncing
the secret sessions Of the banking and
currency committee majority, and the
secret sessions of the caucus which in
dorsed the bill. This evening Repre-
sentative Anderson secured the floor
and sent his resignation to the clerk g
desk to be read.
Explains His Course.
The house listened in silence, and
when the clerk concluded Mr.. Ander-
sou in lengthy speech explained his
reasons for resigning
81 am induced to resign my member
ship in the committee on ways and
means" he said, "because the rules Of
this house and the system of legislation
in vogue here deprive me Of my oppor.
tunity for service to the country on
that committee and because my contin~
uance on that committee must be con-
strued into an acquiescence in fraud
upon those who have right to believe
have some part in framing the legis-
lation reported by that committee. The
rules Of the house, written and unwrit-
ten, deprive me of my opportunity for
service and the system Of legislation,
visible and invisible, which obtains
here, strips me Of my prerogatives as
representative Of the people. If the
present system continues the inevitable
result must be that men of industry
and ability no longer will seek member
oL;n IN the houeA ~
Reviews Tariff Legislation.
He reviewed the course Of the tar
| iff bill through the ways and means
committee and the house and said:
81 have had no part in the framing
Of the tariff bill which passed the house
and the senate. shall have none. /
am overwhelmed, discouraged, dis
heartened. by the uselessness and fruit.
lessness of II al"
In analyzing the operation OF the
caucus system Mr. Anderson declared
that fourteen southern states, Alabama
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Kentucky
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North
Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina
| Tennessee, IPHdS anu fIRluld, dlOne
send l29 Democrats to the house
enough to control the legislative policy
of the caucus and hence Of the house.
Throughout the day the general dis.
cnsgion of the currency bill continued
Democrats lauding the measure Repub
Ecans indorsing parts Of 1T and con
demning most strongly the provisions
forcing national banks into the pro.
noscd new system and making the new
reserve notes government obligations
Lindbergh's Speech.
Representative Lindbergh Of Mime
sota Progressive member Of the bank
inc committee, attacked the bill. He
declared Il would continue the power
of the nmoney trust and would en-
shIa Tseveral monopolists TO necumu
Late IN q generation, all the property
nossessed BY the plain people and in
The meantime take all the profits from
theIr labor above the amount required
for bare subsistence.
'nIt is perpetuatiug system, the
ra,v nurpose of which is to enable the
money lenders, rent collectors, dividend
honefciaries and spectators generally
to take advantage of the actual pro
5ucsrs so as to control production and
fix prices. =, u,,,,
eotts Republican. declared tonight tha'
tbe Democrats OF the banking ana cur
:, | rencv committee were but IA rniable anna
| ,I,rs., on currency "and yet they are
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