The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-09-17
QUITS Ways AND MEANS.
REPRESENTATIVE ANDERSON
RESIGNS FROM BIG CON-
MITTEE.
Can BE of No Service There, Objects
to Procedure of DemOcrats-SOuth-
crn States Control Policy OF Nation
He Says-Republicans Take Fling
at Democrats.

washington, sept. ll.-AS the cll-
max 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 late today resigned as a
member Of the powerful ways and
means committee. In a speech bitter
ly asailing legislation through eau
Gus action and partiZan consideration
OF the Underwood tariff bill and the
Glass currency bill in committees Rep
resentative Anderson declared that
the system Of legislation established
here' made his efforts on the commit
tee farce and a fraud"
Throughout the day the Republi-
cans had criticised the means en-
ployed by the Democrats in framing
the currency bill, denouncng the Sc
cret session Of the banking and cur
rency committee majority and the Sc
cret sessions of the caucus which in
dorsed the bill. This evening Repre-
sentative Anderson obtained the floor
and sent his resignatin to the clerks
desk to be read.
The house listened in silence and
when the clerk concluded Mr.. An
dom in a lengthy speech explained
his reasons for resigning.
II am induced to resign my men,
bership on the committee on ways and
means" he said, because the rules of
this house and the system of legisla-
ton in vogue here deprive me of my
evportunity for service to the country
IN that commit &c, and because my
j continuance Oh that committee must
! DE construed INTO an acquiescence in
fraud upon those who have a right to
believe and DO believe that / have had
or shall have some part in framing
the legislation reported by that COM
mittee.
'The rules of the house, written and
unwritten, deprive me Of my oppor-
tunity for zee and the system of
legislation, sible and invisible, which
obtains re strips me Of my preroga-
tives as representative Of the peo-
pie. If the present system continues
the inevitable result must be that men
of industry and ability no longer will
seek mmbership in the house."
He reviewed the course of the tariff
bill through the ways and means COM;
mittee and the house and said: II
have had no part in the framing Of
the tariff bill which passed the house
and the senate. I shall have none.
am overwhelmed, discouraged, dis
heartened by the uselessness and
| fruitlessness of it all''
In an analysis of the operation Of
the caucus system Mr. Anderson de-
clared that IA Southern States-Ala-
bama, Arkansas. Florida, Georgia.
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mis-
souri,, North Carolina, Oklahoma.
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia-alone send 129 Democrats
to the house-enough to control the
legislative policy Of the caucus, and
hence the house."
Throughout the day the general dis
cussion Of the currency bill continued,
Democrats lauding the measure. Re-
publicans indorsing parts of it an6
condemning strongly the provisions
for bringing national banks into the
proposed new system and making the
new reserve notes government obli-
cations.
Representative Rogers of Massachu-
setts (Republican) declared tonight
the Democrats of the banking and
currency committee were but "amiable
amateurs on currency and yet they
are to tear up by the roots the en-
tire banking system of the United
States, the country whose industries
are the most colossal and manifold,
and whose financial system is the
most complex Of any nation on the
| globe"
Representative Hulings of Penns,l-
vania (Progressive) discussed the ac-
tivities of President Wilson in con-
nection with the consideration Of the
currency bill.
Since Andrew Jackson" he said,
there has been no more determined,
astute politician occupying the presi-
dental chair than the present occu-
pant of the White House. Under his
influence you Democrats have swal-
lowed every particle Of your independ-
ent Judgment, if you ever had any,"
Deer Plentiful This Season, 81,