The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-05-01
UNDERWOOD BILL
IN SPOTLIGHT
NEW TARIFF MEASURE is NOW
OCCUPYING CENTER OF
THE STAGE
REPUBLICAN POSITION IS GIVEN OUT
And of Course the Minority ~Disagrees
With the Democrats-Champ Clark
And Bryan Bury the Ratchet
(From Our Washington Correspondent

tFrom Our Washington Correspondent.)
The Underwood tariff bill occupies
the center of attention in congress
The republican position is set out in q
minority report signed by Representa-
tives Payne of New York, Fordney OF
Michigan, Gardner of Massachusetts
Green of Iowa, Moore of Pennsylvania
and Anderson of Minnesota. There is
no excuse for the radical change in oul
revenue system proposed by this bill
the report declares. THE bill aims al
a complete reversal of the economic
policy of the government. During a
period of nearly fifty years We have
had a protective tariff in this country
Under it VIC have built up manufacture
ing industries not approached by those
of any other country" The report
g~lowingly ~recounts the blessings OF
protection whereby large families have
been raised, while at the same time
farmers have blossomed out into
triumphant prosperity, all of which
the democrats % threaten to blow
to smithereens.
Mr.. Payne has reintroduced his tariff
board measure of 1911, and Good OF
Iowa, has resurrected his measure OF
1912. Lenroot of Wisconsin, in an ap-
peal to the republican caucus, said
that the progressive republicans had
"come more than half way and he
wanted the party to stand by the
Payne bill. Moore of Pennsylvania,
put up a fight against any republican
bill being offered in opposition to
the Underwood bill, and Fordney OF
Michigan. inclined to some such pro
gram, with the result that he and
Payne had a tilt in the conference; but
Payne ruled the roost, and substitutes
will be offered by the republicans to
schedules of the Underwood bill. Mr..
Hinebaugh of Illinois, offers a solution
in one of his progressive measures,
which declares that inasmuch as the
two minority parties outnumbered the
democrats in the popular vote, that
the tariff bills be submitted to the PEG.
pie of the United States in referendum.
In the meantime the Honorable Oscar
Underwood of Alabama, having re-
covered from his recent indisposition,
is in charge Of the tariff bill bearing
his name, and having whipped practi'
cally all opposition in his own party
into submission, can be depended
upon to deliver the measure through
the house in record time.
It is little wonder that people are
buying automobiles to reduce the cost
of living" in view of the Investigations
relative to the cost Of raising horses,
just completed by the agricultural de-
partment. The average in the United
States is found to be $104.06 for horses
up to three years of age. However the
cost varies, the amount being but
$69.50 for the Wyoming three year
Odds; $S2.47 in Texas, and reaching up
to $156.60 in Rhode Island.
The flag of truce Travelled back and
forth between the department. Of state
and the speakers office, and the result
was that Champ Clark and William
Jennings Bryan have issued notices
to the world that on account of the
common love they Deal for Miss Demo
crazy, that the t%omahawk is buried.
And since that eventful day the sun
has been shining brightly in the ma
tional capital.
The boosted whiskers of J. Ham
Lewis, the new senator from Illinois,
have to take a back seat whenever the
new senator, Thomas J. Walsh of Mon.
tana, brings his mustache in-o the
chamber. No sage brush hero or stage
william ever produced it's equal, and as
an argument that the grazing land OF
Montana is unexcelled the evidence is
incontrovertible.
Warren X. Mooorehead, a member OF
the board of Indian commissioners, has
recently issued a report in which he
goes into detail regarding the methods
employed in Oklahoma and elsewhere,
by which Indians are separated from
their property. The analysis by Mr.
Moorehead is as old as Adam, simply
verifying how it is possible for the
strong-minded whites to worst the
weak-minded red men. One practice
recounted is that of taking the titles
away from the Indians under the tax
laws. In this connection it Is inter
esting to recall that Colonel Zeveley OF
Muskogee, while in the capital recent
ly, made an emphatic denial that Okla
homa titles were bad, but the Colonel
did not trace the troubles to the whites
who were engaged in the gentle art OF
separating the reds from the Big Chief
Governments gifts, but to Jealous
Texans, whom he declared kept this
sort Of talk a-going in order that the
people buying real estate would &c
right through Oklahoma to the Lone
Star state.
If a bill introduced by Senator Ken
yon prohibiting e~x-senators and ex
representatives from acting as lobby
lists, should become a law, a large army
of ex-statesmen would become ex- lob
byists, and a great occupation would
become extinct. The calling has be
come so popular that many congress
men never think Of going back home
after they have finally been defeated
but use their connections to remain
right on at the capital.
For a long time there has been gen
eral dissatisfaction among homestead
ers az to the practice Of the genera