The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-29
Democrats Spend Day in
Lauding the Proposed
New Law
RAINEY MAKES
REPLY TO HEFLIN
Republicans Unsparing in Their At
tack on Measure-Applaud When
Revision Programme Is
Stamped a Fallacy

Washington. April 2S.-Genera1 de-
bate on the democratic tariff bill in
the House wound up tonight in a final
outburst of oratory. Democrats spent
the day lauding the measure while al
ternately republicans and progressves
attacked its provisions.
, The House. weary after week OF
tariff oratory. did not produce a num-
erous attendance and most of the
speeches of the day were made to
empty benches. However. Representa-
tive Payne of New York the ranking
republican member of the ways ana
means committee and the father of
the present tariff law. had a good
sized audience on hand to listen to his
drnunciation of the bill. He painted a
vivid word picture of ruined Industry
and impoverished labor which he pre-
sented as the inevitable result of the
Underwood bill. Republicans vocifer-
ously applauded when he declared that
he reduction in the cost of living
promised by the democrats as a result
OF the tariff revision was fallacy.
Payne Offers Criticisms
Mr.. Payne criticised the ways and
means committee for putting wool on
the free list while leaving on the duti
! { BILE list the hair of the angora goats,
intimating that 1t was the work of
Representative Garner. the Texas mem
her of the committee. There are g.
100000 goats raised in the United
States" he said. land | understand
that 2,99s,999 of them are raised in
Texas"
Representatiee d4ladoei. the progressive
leader. criticised the tariff policy OF both
| democrats and republicans. He said the
! Underwood bill was an unreliable, cha
otic jumble," and urged that the tariff
| be placed in the hands Of a non-partisan
tariff commission.
| Representative Rainey of Illinois, demo-
crat, declared the bill represented a new
era in the governments finance policy,
making lighter the burden Of taxes upon
| the consumers OF the country and com
pelling great wealth to contribute it's fair
share toward paying the government ex-
penses."
Blow for HefIin
Representative Chandler of New York
progressive, advocated the reduction of
certain tariff duties and replied to Rep
TSSSHldtlNe HELM OF Alabama, VINO, lie
said, had called Theodore Roosevelt "the
! wild man from Africa" and in the same
breath had invoked the spirit of Andrew
Jackson to guide the deliberations of a
democratic Congress-
Jackson once killed a man named
| Charles Dickinson in a duel" said Mr..
Chandler He threatened to hang Cal
houn as high as Haman: tried to horse
whip Thomas Benton; challenged General
| MipfiaId Scott IN a d11el. n Elnridn
and had two eminent British gentlemen
hanged, thereby nearly bringing us into
a war with Great Britain and Spain, and
when President broke up his cabinet
by his own headstrong violence. This
is the mild hammered man whose spirit
is invoked in this House by democratic
congressman in the same breath he en-
ployed to denounce Roosevelt as wild
man from Africa"
The debate finally closed at night
session with a lively defense of the
Underwood bill by Representative
l1ardwick of Georgia and short state
r,ent by Leader Underwood, after
speeches by Representatives Burnett of
Alabama. Dupree of Louisiana and Nc
Kellor of Tennessee, democrats; Tower
OF Iowa and Farr of Pennsylvania, re
publicans and others.
Mir. Burnett referring to the Burnett
Dillingham; immigration bill vetoed by
President TAFT, read a teleEraphic re
port Of the proceedings of the vice
commission of Illinois of April %. re-
garding conditions at the Springfield
factory of the International Shoe com
fpany. which he said showed that the
republican party is not only in part
nership with the trusts but in partner
ship with the white slave traders"
An exchange between Republican
Leader Mann and Democratic Leader
Underwood enlivened the last 5 min
utes of the night session. Representa-
tive Mann commented on the Provision
for a per cent discriminating duty in
favor of goods Brought In American
vessels and the discrimination of 10
per cent made in another paragraph
against foreign bottoms. declaring that
they conflicted and really constituted
thorough ignorance or carelessness of
the tariff bill Trainers. a discriminat-
Ing duty of Is per cent In favor OF
American bottoms.
Representative Underwood replied
that the republicans were confessing z
now an ignorance which they would
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