The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-04-29
WINDS UP IN FINAL ouTBURsT
OF RATORY-PAYNE SEES
RUINED INDUSTRIES.
PROGRESSlVES ATTACK The BILL
Father of Last Bill Declares Reduction
In the Cost of Living Promised by
Democrats as Result of Tariff Re-
vision Is FaIlacy.

Washington, April 29.-General de-
bate on the democratic tariff bill in the
House wound up last night in final
outburst of oratory. Democrats spent
the day lauding the measure, while al
ternately Republicans and Progress
sives attacked its provisions.
The House, weary after week OF
tariff oratory, did not produce an un-
speeches of the day were made to emp
ty benches. However, Representative
Payne of New York, the ranking Re-
publican member of the Ways and
Means Committee, and the father Of
the present tariff law, had a good |
sized audience on hand to listen to his
denunciation of the bill. He painted
vivid word picture of ruined indus
try and Impoverished labor, which he
presented as the inevitable result Of
the Underwood bill. Republicans voci-
ferously applauded when he declared
that the reduction in the cost Of liv-
ing promised by the Democrats as
| result of the tariff revision was a
fallacy.
Mr.. Payne criticized the Ways and
Means Committee for putting wool on
, the free list while leaving on the du-
r table list the hair Of the angora goat,
: intimating that 1t was the work of
3 Representative Gardner, the Texas
member of the committee. 'There
t are 100000 goats raised in the
: United States" he said, "and under
l. stand that 2,999 ,999 of them are raised
in Texas"
Representative Murdock, the Pro
{; gressive leader, criticized the tariff pol
n icy of both Democrats and Republi
l. cans. He said the Underwood bill
J. was an unreliable, chaotic tumble,
and urged that the tariff be placed II
). the hands of a nonpartisan tariff com
J. mission.
lNCpl lAolhOy VI
J. Democrat, declared that the bill repre-
n sented a new era in the government
fiscal policy, making lighter the burd
u en- of taxes upon the consumers Of tn
is country and compelling great wealt
le to contribute its fair share towar
IS paying the government expenses"
Representative Chandler of Ne1
= York, Progressive. advocated the II
duction of certain tariff duties and r,
piled to Representative Heflin Of All
bama, who, he said, had called The,
II dore Roosevelt "the wild man frol
L Africa" and in the same breath ha
invoked the spirit of Andrew Jackso
to guide the deliberations Of a Dem
=, cratic Congress.
jackson once killed a man name
Charles Dickinson In duel" said M
Chandler; "he threatened to hang CT
houn as high as Haman; tried
horsewhip Thomas Benton; challen
ed Gen. Winfield Scott to a duel; ovt
hes ran Florida, and had two emine
on British gentlemen hanged, there
20, nearly bringing us into a war vi
Great Britain and Spain, and VIII
President, he broke up his cabinet
lelr his own headstrong violence. This
ran the mild-mannered man whose spi
and is invoked in this House by Der
oor cratic Congressman in the same bret
ght he employed to denounce Roosev
'rse as wild man from Africa"
she Representative Kindel of Colora
not Democrat, resented what he said W
charges of the Republicans that m
D. bers of the majority had been bri
Mrs. and intimated and were supporting
y to Underwood bill in order to get de
ERA able committee assignments.