Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-03
Mr.. SCHEDULE X
COMES UP TODAY
MuCII DISCUSSED WOOL TARIFF
WILL COME Up FOR DE-
TIRhINAIION.
field DAY FOR ORATORS
Political History of the Past Twenty
Years Thrc~hcd out BY the
Spcllbindcr-.

WAsuNGTON May Tariff re-
vision with an obligato Of inspiring
political oratory carried tho house too
night up to the much discussed
schedule "k.' the wool schedule
which Will bo disposed Of tomorrow
When the house adjourned IT had
completed the agricultural wines
and spirits, cotton ana flax, hemp
and lute schedules The democratic
majority had rolled steadily on nom
chalauty downing every one of doz-
ems of other amendments presented
by the republicans and progresslyes
1t was field day for orators on
both sides of the house and the vet
Grams in the chamber Wed with the
orators among the new members in
their clocutionary efforts The uni-
quites Of the protective tariff theory
were lashcd In ringing periods by the
democrats and the dire days OF the
panlcs of 1898, with It's soup houses
and ruined industries, were discover
ed By the republicans as the buttress-
exempliticd the Wilson bill
Killed All Amendments.
When the political past for 20
years and the political future for "A
century had been thoroughly threash-
ed Of all oratorical material and rep
rcscutatycs Barnhart of Indiana and
Moore of Pennsylvania had gotten to
the point of reciting original poetry
about goats, Representative Under
wood called a halt. lie insisted upon
conhning the debate thereafter TO
the merits of the proposition under
consideration, and with the mercury
Ia the house thermometers going up
at midsummer gait, hurried through
the flax schedule in record time. The
monotonous rolling chorus of demo-
cratic noes" swamped amendment
after amendment as the schedule
went through unchanged.
Man Got Hot.
Many Of the speeches really dealt
with the tariff, but general politics
and partisan personalities featured
of Kentucky had few things to say
about the republicans personally and
the debate for a moment promised
interesting developments when re-
publican Leader Mann, stung by Mr..
Thoms' reference to him as the be
whisllercd gentleman from Illinois"
retorted that while it was true he
was "bewhiskered," at least he was
not "bewhiskled."
Representative Thomas called the
progressive party "A patent medicine
advertisement scheme" and criticised
Representative Payne Of New York
for rcflccting on President Wilson be-
cause the president went to New
Jersey In connection with state lesis-
lation.
Representative Heflin of Alabama.
declared that people did not realize
that the real tax on the American
people under the present tariff law
was $1,000, 100000 instead of $780,
OO0, ,OOO Of revenue tax, and arraign-
ed the republican claim that the law
protected the American farmer and
laborer
Several committee amendments
were agreed to, changing the bill in
minor particulars. including one de-
signed to put the sweetened varieties
OF chocolate and cocoa on tho list of
the higher basis of confectionery,
Minority Was Split.
split in the republican minority
of the ways and means committee on
the question of offering a substitute
for the cotton schedule was evidenc-
ed during consideration of the cotton
tariff Representative Moore of
Representative Moore Of Pennsylya-
MIA and Fordney of Michigan, insist
ed that minority substitutes We're
waste Of time. but Representative
Gardner Of Massachusetts offered a
substitute for three paragraphs Of
the cotton schedule, compromise
between the Underwood and the
Payne tariffs This was voted down,
along with all other amendments
from the republican side.
Before the night session was well
under way the democrats had voted
down score of republican amend
ments and had disposed Of the cotton
schedule with only one schedule
flax-to be disposed Of before wool
was reached. Democratic Leader I'M
derwuod contemplated finishing the
much discussed schedule "K' tonight.
one wing Of the republicans con-
tended for the Gardner-G Greene sub
stitute for the cotton schedule. mod
cled along the lines Of the republic
can substitute offered for the Tn
derwood bill in the last congress.
Representative Lenroot Of Wisconsin
made vigorous speech supporting
the amendment, declaring that it was
In, unnnrllnnn .t,Ith tho rnnort Of the