Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-08
DONOVAN AROUSES
 IRE OF UNDERWOOD.
House Leader Accuses Connecticut Representative of Wandering from Democratic Side of House-Dono- vans Stinqinq Reioinder.
Especial to The Bulletin )


 Washington, May Hate on Mon day evening after Representative Aus tin of Tennessee had caused to be read statement from the bureau of sta- tistics showing the exports of domes- tic cotton goods from the United States to China he turned to Representative Donovan and asked him if he had not on May 2. asked of a member of the ways and means committee if the statement that eur exports of cotton goods to China had not fallen from $29, ,000, 900 in 1906 to $7,00o. GOO in 1912, and if the member of the ways and means committee had not denied the statement, adding the statement that our expectations to China were in- creaSing2 MT Donovan replied that he so understood it. MT. Austin asked that the statement of the chief of the bureau be made a part of the record for the information of the ways and means committee.
 MT, Donovan then asked Represent ative Kitchen of North Carolina, a member of the ways and means com mittee, what the tranSporta ton rates were from Galveston to Liverpool. MT. Kitchen said he could not tell. MT. Donovan then asked him to state if he could the number of yards of cotton print that could be made out of a pound or cotton or 8 bale of cotton. He could not tell Then. asked MT,
 
 a member of this great committee find inteiligently the difference between the cloth on the other side and on this side, not knowing how much it cost the manufa cturer on the other side to take his raw cotton from this country over there or to return the manufac- tured goods here. How do the com 'mittee," he asked, 'intelIigentIy find the difference in order to fix the tariff upon cotton fabrics? That is the question ?"
 Taken to Task by Underwood
 Chairman Underwood interrupted to say that the gentleman from Connecti- cut had wandered from the democratic side of tine house. That the democrats levy tax from revenue and not as the members of the other side, who at tempt to fix their rates on the differ ence in the cost of manufacture.
 MT. Donovan remarked that he thought the chairman was going to answer his question. or ask one. He said he did not think the chairman would take up his time as the amateur tariff tinkerers were doing. T will say to the gentleman from Alabama" he continued, that when the whole force of his tongue is turned on it becomes shock1ngly mixed with fiction. He as chairman of the committed ought to be able to say, or some member of the committee ought to be able to say, why they fix the rate upon cotton, be- cause unless they know the cost of transporting the cotton from this to the other side, manufacturing it there and returning it here, there must be something wrong when, according 10 the statement of the gentleman from Tennessee, they can send s65, ,OO0, 600 Of their product here. Now you have re- duced that to 25 per cent. If under the present conditions we can import $65, 600, 900 and you reduce the duty practically 50 per cent, it necessarily means that the importations will be at least double under your bill. Surely these things ought to be explained in- telligently.
 Donovan Hands 1t Back to Underwood
 E'I find that this great expert at re- partee is one of the cleverest members that ever came over the pike, but when you undertake to pin him down and ask him an abstract question he turns the answer over to some other mem ber''
 At this point the republican leader, Mr. Mann interrupted to say that as the gentleman from Connecticut had asked two intelligent questions the gentleman from Alabama verN nat 1rally told him he was on the wrong side of the house.
 Mir. Donovan asked MT. Mann if he would answer the two questions, but MT. Mann said he could not. and addGd that if l was writing Il tariff bill I would know
 The amendment offered by MT. Aus tin that gave rise to the discussion was rejected and the incident was closed
 Only the Greater Can Tell
 Late yesterday afternoon Congress man Donovan took the floor to answer a question put to him by Republican Leader Mann the night before Mir. Donovan stated that he did not know that the question had been asked until he saw it in the Record and he said