The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-25
TARIFF DEBATE
MADE. LIVELY BY
PARTISAN JABs
Ali Three Parties Represented
in Lower House Come in
for Denunciation by Vari-
Gus Speakers.
BITTER ATTACK ON
SUGAR SCHEDULE
Fordney of Michigan Accuses
the Spreckels Family of
Furnishing the Money for
Free Trade Campaign.

WASHINGTON, April 24-Republi
canism was described as dead,
damned and lost forever Democracy
was accused of rushing to 'sclean its
feet on the Progressive party door
mat and the Progressive party was
characterized as a 'Fbranch shot from
the dead Republican trunk in the
three-cornered tariff debate in the
house today.
| Representatives Hamilton and Ford
ney of Michigan took up the cudgels
for the Republican minority, the latter
bitterly assauIting the sugar schedule
and the free listing of lumber and
wool as ruinous on American industry
Blames Spreckels Family.
''The free sugar provision of this
bill. - he said. ''was proposed with
the assistance of Frank c. Lowry,
press agent of the committee of whole
sale grocers which has never held a
meeting, and, so far as [ can learn,
all the money expended by Lowry in
his free sugar campaign was supplied
by August Spreckels, president of the
Federal Sugar Refining company of
New York
| Another Spreckels, Rudolph, of
San Francisco, was one of the most
ardent supporters of President Wilson
during the last campaign, financially
and otherwise. Between Rudolph
SpreckeJs in San Francisco and, August
Spreckels in New York. God help the
sugar industry.
Representative Hamilton ridicued
the Democrats and criticised the pres-
dent.
with the cocksuredness of the man
accustomed TO instruct the immature
mind of YOUTH be said, "the presi-
dent, in his address to congress. under
took to settle in eight minutes prob
lens that have vexed the minds Of
statesmen for more than hundred
wears,
Progressive Attack.
Representative Hinebaugh of Illinois
and Representative Hulings of
Pennsylvania attacked the Underwood
bill on behalf of the Progressive party
Representative Rulings declared the
bill would not curb monopoly nor re-
duce the cost Of living. He predicted
that if President Wilson could CON
vince the people that its tariff ideas
were right, "the Democratic party
would remain in power for the next
twenty years.
Mr.. Hinebaugh charged that the pend.
ing bill was compromise between
the power of special privilege and the
power of political patronage, and he
accused the Democrats and Republicans
of falling over themselves in an att
tempt to clean "their feet on the Pro-
gressive party doormat,'
Democrats Defend.
Representative Hammond of Mime
sofa and Representative Peters of
Massachusetts demanded the bill on
behalf of the Democratic ways and
means committee, asserting that it was
an honest effort to Tighten the burdens
of the people and that it stripped the
tariff of it's determinations and privi-
leges TO the favored few. New Demo-
Gratis. among them representatives As
we'll of Louisiana, Quinn Of Mississippi
and Barkley of Kentucky expressed
loyalty to their party and the bill and
defied the Progressives to create discord
IN the Democratic ranks.
Mr. Aswell declared that the Pro-
gressives were only 81 per cent bull
moose and the other 90 per cent were
merely trying to disrupt the Democratic
party by showing discord among the
new members in the house,
Plan AssaiIed.
Representative Barkley assaied the
.ariff commission proposal of the Pro-
yressives. which he described as n
imere branch shot from the trunk of
He reminded the Republicans that IL
vas too late for them now TO mourn and
leclared that their party had been
damned and lost forever - The debate
vas kept up until the house adjourned
or the Republicans to hold scheduled
aucus,
A tariff commission with power to