Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-04-29
0ratory Poured Out to Empty
Benches, for Most Part Re-
pubIicans and ProgreSSiyes
Criticize Underwood Bill,
REPRESENTATIVE PAYNE
HEARD WITH INTEREST
Andrew JackSon's Name Plays
Prominent Part in Discus
sion; Congressman Rainey
Sees New Era Dawning,
NY Morning Journal Special Leased wireJ

(By Morning Journal Special Leased wire)
Washington, April 2S.-Gencral de-
bate on the democratic tariff bill in
the house wound up tonight in a final
outbnrst of oratory. Democrats spent
the day lauding the measure while
alternately republicans and progress
sives attacked its provisions.
The house. weary after a week Of
tariff oratory did not produce nu-
merous attendance and most of the
speeches Of the day were made to
empty benches. However, Representa-
tive PAYNE. of New York, the rank
ing republican member of the ways
and means committee and the father
Of the present tariff law, had good
sized audience on hand TO listen To
his denunciation Of the bill lie paint
ed q vivid word picture of ruined IN
dustrv and impoverished labor which
ne presented as the inevitable result
of the Underwood bill Republicans
vociferouslv applauded when he de-
clared that the reduction in the cost
Of living promised by the democrats
as a rule of the tariff revision was
fallacy.
MIR. Payne criticised the ways ana
means committee for putting wool on
the free list while leaving on the
dutiable list the hair Of the Angora
goats. intimating that II was the work
Of Representative Gardner, the Texas
member of the committee. There are
2 000 900 goats raised in the United
states" a. said, "and | understand
that 2.999.999 Of them are raised In
Texas"
Representative Murdock, the pro-
gresslve leader. criticised the tariff
policy Of both democrats and repuhli-
cans. lie said the Underwood bill was
"an unreliable, chaotic jumble OF
Inconsistencies" and urged that the
tariff be placed in the hands of a
non partisan tariff commission. III
this bill passes he said, before
Christmas its sponsors will ne offering
amendments
Representative Rainey. of Illinois.
democrat. declared the bill represent
ed a new era In the governments us
cal policy making lighter the burden
of taxes upon the consumers Of the
country and compelling great wealth
to contribute its fair share toward
paying the government expenses.
Representative Chandler, Of New
York, progressive. advocated the re-
duction Of certain tariff duties and re-
piled 10 Representative Heflin, Of Ala
bama. who, he said, had called Theo-
dore Roosevelt the wild man from
Africa" and in the same breath had
invoked the spirit of Andrew Jackson
to guide the deliberations of a demo-
cratic congress.
jackson once killed a man named
Charles Dickinson in a duel said Mr.
Chandler che threatened to hang call
houn as high as Haman tried to
horsewhip Thomas Benton; challeng-
cd General Winfield Scott To a duel
overran Florida and had two eminent
British gentlemen hanged, thereby
nearly bringing US into war with
Great Britain and Spain, and when
president. broke up his cabinet by his
own headstrong violence This Is the
mid-mannered man whose spirit Is
invoked in this house by democratic
congressman in the same breath that
Is employed to denounce Roosevelt as
a wild man from Africa"
The debate finally closed at a night
session with a lively defense Of the
Underwood bill by Representative
Hardwick, Of Georgia. and short state
ments by Representative Underwood,
Of Alabama, the democratic leader,
after speeches by Representatives
Burnett. Of Alabama; Pepper. of Iowa
Dupre, Of Louisiana, McKeller, Of
Tennessee; Williams, of Illinois and
Connolly. of Kansas, democrats;
Towner of Iowa, and Farr, Of Penn
sylvania. republicans and others.
Mr.. Burnett. referring to the Bur
nett Dillingham; immigration bill, We
toed by President Taft, read a tele-
graphic report Of the proceedings of
the vice commission Of Illinois, April
25, regarding conditions at the Spring
field factory Of the international
shoe Company which he said showed
that the republican party is not only
in partnership with the trusts, but In
partnership with the white slave trad
ers."
An exchange between Republican
Leaders Mann and Democratic Lend
or Underwood enivened the last fif-
teen minutes of the night session.
Representative Mann commented up
on the provision for "A per cent dis
eliminating duty in favor of goods
brought in American bottoms and the
discrimination of 10 per cent made
in another paragraph against foreign
bottoms declaring that they conflict
ed and really constituted, through ig-
norance or carelessness Of the tariff
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