The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
THE MARKET BASKET
DEMOCRATS INSIST upon REDUC.
TL0KS In TARIFF

BREACH In PARTY line
When Representatives From Louis
lana and New Jersey Attack tn
Rates on Sugar and Live Stock
After Four Days Debate No Den
Was Made in Democratic Plans.
All efforts of the opposition in tn
House of Representatives at Wash
ington to disturb the market bas
ket" reductions in the Democrat
tariff bill failed in the House Thurs
day, despite the fact that Republican
orators sounded warnings of ruinet
| industries, enforced idleness ant
empty cupboards to follow the enact
ment of the Underwood >bill. Still
championing the bill as the creates
that ever has been written for th'
benefit of the people Of the country
the Democrats were deaf to the plea
! of representatives of the beet ant
cane sugar constituencies agains
| free sugar in three years; unmovec
| by the charge that they legislated in
to the hands of the beef trust by plac
ing duties on live stock while free
listing their products; determined t
rush the passage Of the bill the ear
liset possible moment.
The first break from the sollc
front of the majority came. however
when Louisiana Democrats, led By
Representative Broussard, appealed
to Mr.. Mann. Republican leader, fol
share Of time in which to SPEAK
against the sugar schedule, and wher
Representative Kinkead, New Jer'
sey Democrat, uttered prediction
that the senate would strike out the
ways and means committees 10 pei
cent. rates on live stock.
When Representative Sloa. CT Ne
braska introduced an amendment tc
increase the rate on cattle from 20 te
Is per cent, after 25 per cent
amendment by Mr.. Fordney OF Michi'
gan had been rejected. Mr.. Kinkead
declared that he believed that the
ways and means committee had kept
the platform pledge to the people
when they had reduced live stock
rates to 10 per cent. but he felt that
the committee should have placed
live stock on the free list along with
meats.
"I believe and hope" said Mr.. Kin
kead, "that when it comes back to Us
from the senate the duty will be cut
of and that every Democrat on this
floor will support it,
This aroused prolonged applause
from the Republicans, who earlier
were stirred to enthusiastic cheers
when Mr.. Broussard declared that
the sugar rates proposed by his party
would rebound only to the benefit Of
the sugar trust. The test vote on su-
gar came on an amendment offered
by Mr.. Mann to strike out the pro-
vision placing sugar on the free list
in three years. 1t was lost, SS to
1856. Representative Hardwick OF
Georgia defended the rates for the
majority, describing Americas sugar
Industry as of the dollhouse" varie.
ty, unable to stand on its own feet
and exacting excessive taxes from the
people to support it. Representative
Mann opposed the rates, and Repre-
sentative Underwood closed the de-
bate.
"No man is so ignorant that he
does not know" said Mr.. Mann, "tha1
the price of sugar in this country
would be 100 to 200 per cent. higher
than it is were it not for the beet su-
gar supply produced in this country
and yet you intend to strike down
this industry in the United States.
make the most of your opportu'
ity, the country is ready to say your
tariff legislation is failure, and the
first opportunity the people have viii
be the last opportunity you viii
have"
Representative Underwood analyz'
ed the sugar rates in the proposed
bill, described the Louisiana cane In
dustry as one that could not survive
and asserted that the rates in the
bill would not affect the beet sugar
industry. "Beet sugar in this coun'
try can be produced on an equallt!
with European rivals with no pos
sibility Of competition within a rea'
sonable zone" he said. What the
Western beet sugar people seek is tc
tax the American people in order tc
bring their beet sugar to the Allan
tic seaboard and drive out all compe
tition. T. is simply a question o1
freight rates"
The Japanese question was touch
ed upon during the debate on the
wood schedule, several members pre-
dieting that reductions on shlngle:
and other wood products would turr
the lumber camps of the West into
Oriental labor camps. Representa-
tive Falconer (Progressive) of Wash
ington, alluded to the Democrats a:
"Hindu-C -Chinese-Japanese lovers ane
told them "your Democratic secre
tary of state is coming back from Cal
ifornia to tell your Democratic presl
dent some facts about Oriental laool
that he does not know"
The agricultural schedule precipl
tated prolonged discussion thougf
Mr.. Underwood held it down Will