The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-04-18
GRAY DOOGES VOTE
ON FREE CLOTHING
Avoids Going on Record For
or Against No Duty on
Mems and Boys Suits.
ONLY FIVE FOR 1T
Of The Thirteen Indiana
Democratic Congressman
-Adair Was Champion.
ONLY FIVE FOR 1T
palladium Specially


WASHINGTON, April 1s.-Among
those who took to the tab timber and
refused to vote on the motion sub
mitted by Representative Bathrick, of
Ohio, which called for the placing Of
mems and boys suits on the free list
was Representative Finly Gray of the
Sixth Indiana district. Other members
of the Indiana delegation who refused
to vote for or against the motion,
made In the Democratic caucus of the
House, which is framing the tariff bill
were Korbly, Moss, Morrison, Rauch
and Barnhart.
Those voting for the free mems and
boys suits were Adair, Cuilop, Cox,
Peterson and Cline and those voting
against the motion were Lieb and Dix
on.
Adair Starts Battle.
Representative Adair, who voted for
a Is per cent duty ON wool, opened the
bali by offering an amendment Of the
Underwood bill, making practically all
manufactured articles of wool free of
duty. including clothing, blankets. etc.
He supported this amendment with a
cutting speech in which he spoke of
the injustice to the consumers of con-
tinuing a high rate of duty on the fin
ished product after having dealt so
kindly with the manufacturers in pre-
senting them with free raw material.
He declared that annually wooden
goods of a value of 100000 are man.
ufactured in the sweatshops of New
York and shipped abroad and that the
export trade is SO good that branch
houses have been established all over
Europe. The people, he said, had been
promised cheaper clothing and here
was a chance to perform. Many mem
bers shifted uneasily in their seats
when Adair spoke and because the So
Ions who did not have nerve enough
to go on record we're so numerous the
demand for roll call failed because
of lack Of sufficient number to support
the motion.
Bathrick Obtains Vote.
Representative Bathrick of Ohio,
then offered an amendment to admit
mems and boys ready-made suits free
of duty.
Representative Cullop of Indiana
spoke vehemently in support of the
amendment, handling the Wooden
Trust without gloves. He recounted
that the trust was organized in 1900
with a capital of $25, 900 900, that it
bought up factories everywhere at the
owners price, and that in 1910 its cap
italization had increased to $418, 000,-
600. He declared that such healthy
concern could stand on it's own feet
and give the consumer a chance.
Representative Cox of Indiana join
ed the free clothing crusaders and ex-
pressed the opinion that since the
manufacturers demanded free wool
and got it the caucus ought to let the
consumer have a lookin.
Representative Underwood. Demo
cratic leader and operator of the road
roller. had task refuting the plausi-
BILE arguments of the Adair-Bathrick
free clothing champions. He pointed
out that duty was carried in the bill
Of 35 per cent on the cloth Of which
mems and boys suits are made and
that, after taxing the material, to put
the finished suits on the free list
would be the height OF absurdity.
Indiana Vote Divided.
This argument did not go with Rep
resentative Cline of Indiana. He said
that the country had about enough
of the sweatshop industry and that
a tariff of 35 per cent on wooden cloth
and wooden manufactures is a gift to
the sweatshop proprietors.
IN Tho roll COLL IN tho 800
ton the Indiana delegation divided.