The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-07-31
SEES PANIC PLOT
IN TARIFF DEBATE
Stone Accuses Republicans Of
Trying to Upset Business.
LEADS TO HOT. EXCHANGE

Senator Mclean Declares Democrats
Broke Their Campaign Pledges and
Betrayed the People.
Washington, July 31.-Shaking his
fist at Republican senators, Senator
Stone, of Missouri, charged in the de-
bate on the tariff that every Republi-
can speech he had heard had been de-
livered with the deliberate attempt to
cause panic
The Missouri senator spoke in reply
to Senator Mclean, of Connecticut.
He declared it appeared TO him that
the Republicans through their speech
es were sending messages to the coun-
try with design of creating fear and
distrust.
Senator Clark, of Wyoming, chal-
lenged Stones statement and asserted
that if any distrust were being engen-
dered it was through statements by
President Wilson, Secretary Redfield
and Secretary McAdoo. Stone replied
with charge of conspiracy among
Republican senators to create public
distrust
Name the senator's" demanded
Clark
Every Republican I have heard
speak," responded Stone. He finally
named the Wyoming senator himself.
81 have not delivered a speech re-
torted Clark
Stone read mercantile agency re-
ports showing good business condi-
TONS Senator Penrose declared that
not textile industry in Pennsylva-
mia east of the Susquehanna river was
running three days a week
Senator MARITIME replied by reading
from a newspaper an article headed
''Steel Earnings Up" and referred to
the tariff bill as 'the dawn of hope
for the American people"
sit isn't the dawn of hope for the
1000 men already thrown out of en-
ployment in Lebanon, Pa" retorted
Penrose
In his speech which aroused the ire
of the Missouri senator, Mclean &C
cused the Democratic leaders of
breaking their tariff promises to the
working people of New England
Recounting the campaign in Con-
necticut, directed particularly against
Representa- i've Ebenezer Hill, long
member of the ways and means COM
mittee, Mclean quoted from speeches
made by Representative Underwood,
Secretary of Commerce Redfield, Rep
resentative Reilly and Governor Bald
win, whom he quoted as assuring the
mill workers that the Democratic
tariff would look after the differences
in cost of production here and abroad.
'The protection Democrats have
tried to compromise with the free
trade Democrats and this, of course,
is impossible" he continued. you can
not compromise with the arithmetic or
the compass. You are either there or
you are not there. If 20 per cent does
not protect, 10 per cent will not pro-
tect.
my complaint is that the Demo
cratic party has broken it's sacred
promise to the people of Connecticut.
This I have shown from the lips of
those Democrats who alone had au-
thority to do the promising. If ade-
quate protection is found in any rate
contained in this bill, it is there by
accident only.
'In Connecticut Mr. Underwood In
person solicited instructions to reform
the tariff upon the cost of production
theory and he got what he asked for.
Now the Democratic party in congress
repudiates those instructions upon the
ground that it received mandate
from the people to do what it proposes
to do
Contending that the banana is the
poor mans food" and as such ought
not to be subject to any taxation un-
der the new tariff bill, Representative
Gordon, of Ohio. called at the White
House and served notice on the presi-
dent that he intended to fight the 20
per cent duty on bananas when the
tariff bill comes back to the house.