Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-05-15
F EGGS ARE NOT FRUIT, WHY |S
 4 COW? MIR. GOOD WAS EXTREMELY ANx- IoUs TO GET INFORMATION
 ON THE TARIFF DOES TARIFF AFFECT CONSUMER? WILL NEW BILL REDUCE COST OF FRESH EGGS, MIR GOOD
 WANTED TO KNOW AFTER MUCH QUESTIONING, HE DECIDES THAT MIR RAINEY KNOWS AS LITTLE OF
 THE RESULT OF
 TARIFF AS DO
 OTHERS

Special to the Yuma Daily Examiner)
 WASHINGTON, D.. C., May 13.- During the debate on the tariff bill the Democrats have repeatedly eX pressed their individual and their par ty opposition to the Progressive stand for a tariff commission which shall provide full information on all subjects before a tariff revision is undertaken. The following quotation from the Con- gressional Record of a colloquy be- tween Mr. Good, of Iowa, and Mr. Rainey, of Illinois, furnishes an il- lustration of this opposition. In jus tice to the other Democratic leaders, it should be said that they have usual ly shown more suaVity and courtesy toward their interlocutors than. did MT. Rainey. MT. Rainey has posed as an expert on tariff matters ever since he entered the House of Representa-. tiVes, ten years ago. He is a mem- Der of the Ways and Means Commit tee and was in charge of the prepara- tion of the agricultural schedule, so that he was the proper person of whom to inquire on the subject which interested MT. Good. The colloquy follows:
 MIR. GOOD. MT. Chairman, I should like to obtain some information with regard to this agricultural schedule I should like to get some information as to the theory on which it is con- structed, without being accused of playing politics. In all earnestness, 1 want to ask the gentleman how much he proposes to reduce the cost of eggs to the consumer by the reduction that is proposed in this bill-both dried eggs and fresh eggs. If the gentleman can not answer the question, here is the handbook of the Democratic party in 1910 on the subject, if he wants to refer to it.
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 MRR. GOOD. The gentleman in his handbook of 1910 said that the price of eggs was 10 cents a dozen.
 MIR. RAINEY. I will state, if the gentleman wants me to answer his question
 MIR. GOOD. And that the tariff had increased the price to 30 cents dozen.
 MIR. RAINEY. If the gentleman will permit me to answer his question the gentleman knows about as much about the tariff as the average Repub lican tariff maker. Dried eggs are not used in food at all. They are used in the industries.
 MIR. GOOD. Will the gentleman an swer my question as to fresh eggs? How much does he propose to reduce the cost to the consumer?
 MIR. PAYNE. Let us see what he knows about it.
 MIR. GOOD I want to see what the gentleman knows about 1t.
 MIR. RAINEY. How much do you think it will reduce it?
 MIR. GOOD. The gentleman said I did not know anything about it. am coming to the source of all infcrma tion.
 MIR. RAINEY. The gentleman can wait and see We will all find out
 MIR GOOD. Well, does the gentle man know how much it will reduce the cost of eggs?
 MIR. RAINEY. If I did not know more about the tariff than the gentle | man who is interrogating me does, I would not disclose my ignorance.
 MIR. MANN. Keep still then.
 MIR. GOOD. It is because l do not know that I appeal to the gentleman from Illinois.
 MIR. RAINEY. It is not my fault l