The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-03
Wool Insurgents FIGHT for Fifteen Per
Cent Duty, which They Claim was
Judgment of Ways and Means Body
Until the Presidert Took = Hand.

Chairman Underwood championed
the schedule with all his force on
behalf Of the ways and means COM
mittee and the president.
Personalities Enter Debate.
Many Of the speeches really dealt
With the paragraphs Of the tariff un.
der consideration. but general politics
.nd partisan personalities featured the
debate. Representative Thomas Of
about the republican personally and
the debate, for a moment. promised
interesting developments when Re-
publican Leader Mann, stung by Mr..
Thomas reference to him as the be-
whiskered gentleman from Illinois.
retorted that while It was true he was
"bewhiskered,'' at least he was not
"bewhiskied.''
Representative Thomas called the
progressive party a patent medicine
advertisement scheme" and criti-
-!sed Representative Payne of New
York for rejecting on President Wiz
seon because the president went to
New Jersey in connection with state
legislation.
Representative Hefiin Of Alabama
DECLARED that people did not realize
that the real tax on the American
people Under the present tariff law
was S2.%0o.000.00o instead OF $780,
600, 900 Of revenue tax. and arraigned
the republican claim that the law
projected protected the Amsrican e faznss ana = Z
i. !. ssspssa snnmittee an,s.ndmssits
wsfs 1EieSd TO. ollng1nk the biIi il
minor particulars. including one de-
signedstn ptit the sweetened varietias
Of chocolate and cocoa on the list Of
the higher basis Of confectionery.
Split in Minority. SO
Tho split In the republican minor
ity OF the ways and means committee
on the question of offering substitute
for the cotton schedule was evidenced
tariff. Representatives Moore Of
Pennsylvania and Fordney Of Michi-
gan insisted that minority substitutes
were q waste Of time, but Representa-
tive Gardner Of Massachusetts of
fered d substitute for three para
graphs Of the cotton schedule. a COM
promise between the Underwood and
down. along with all other amend
ments from the republican side.
Before the night session was we'll
under way the democrats had voted
down nearly score OF republican
amendments and had disposed of the
cotton schedule.
One wing Of the republicans con-
tEte Tor the cotton schedule, modelled
along the lines Of the republican sub
stitute offered for the Underwood bill
In the last congress. Representative
Lenroot Of Wisconsin made a vigorous
speech. supporting the amendment
declaring that it was framed in ac-
cordance with the report of the tariff
wood bill was protected measure so
FAR as its rates and the low grades Of
cotton produced in the south were
concerned.
Underwood AppIauded.
During the debate Representative
Underwood received a storm Of an
plauso from the democrats by a renly
to Representative Farr Of Pennsyi.
vanta. who had offered an amendment
restoring the Payne rates on Not
t.ngham lace curtains. Mr.. Farr made
q plea Tor the lace curtain industry,
declaring that it had been practically
wrecked by the last democratic tariff.
the Wilson bill, had been built M
again under the Payne law ana now
was threatened with destruction un-
der the Underwood bill,
The gentleman evidently doesn't
know. satd Mr.. Underwood, that the
rate under the Payne law in equivalent
ed vaforem is fifty-two per cent, while
tho rate under the Wilson law was
nifty per cent"
Defend Cotton Schedule.
Representatives Palmer Of Penn.
sylvania, Peters Of Massachusetts and
Kitchin Of North Carolina, for the
ways and means committee, defended
the cotton schedule. Mr.. Palmer said
that against the $1,000, 900, 900 worth
Of products covered by this schedt,Is
that are produced in the United
States. the imports Of the same class
Of goods aggregated little more than
$24.000,000. s''""
Representative Mann said the ra.
publicans would offer a motion to re-
commit the bill to the ways ana
means committee with directions tx
conform to the findings Of the tariff
board. 80
The Gardner amendment. repre.ent.
tnG the vtews OF Mr.. Gardner Of Mas.
sechueetts, and Mr.. Greene Of IoTa.
OF the ways and means COMMITTEES
minority, was explained BY MI. Gards
ner. Tho amendment. offered 81 s
substitute. would have nxed \ rate
renEing from hve per cent on the
Ilainest kind Of cotton cloth 70 I2 i-s
Per cent on the very finest weayes.