Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-27
Grit of Samson Will Be Re-
CURED by Leaders of
the House.
DEBATE OF YESTERDAY
OF NO PRACTICAL VALUE
Republicans Say Bill Will Give
Canada More Than
Reciprocity.

With clear stretch of twelve hours
or tariff talk in the House of Repre-
sentatives yesterday a score or more Of
members managed to get into the Con-
sressionai Record enough home con-
sumption" talk to square themselves with
their constituencies at home no matter
what happens to the Underwood tariff
Dill. The House of Representatives reek-
ed with tariff debate from IL O'Clock I'm
the morning until II O'Clock at night.
with but short respite at dinner time.
Republicans found more bad names to
give the bill than there are items I'm the
whole measure. and the democrats rush.
ed to its defense with all the oratory at
their command
The debate yesterday is Of no prac-
tical value to the ultimate voting on the
Dill. IL was but a slice of the fifty hours
OF the talk which the members demand
SO mat they may air their views on the
virtues and iniquities of the bill.
Hull and Anderson Talk.
Representative Hull Of Tennessee ex-
pounded the income tax feature Of the
Dill yesterday morning, and Representa-
tive Anderson Of Minnesota. a republican
member of the ways and means commit
tee, analysed some of the features of the
measure. calling it AN English free
trade measure
The real battle will begin about Tues
day. after the preliminary oratorical froth
mas been blown away. Then the House
VIII sit down to vote on the bill in COM
m.ttee of the whole, a small section at a
time: and the grit of Samson will be re-
qulred by the leaders to keep the parlia-
mentary situation In hand and to scare
off filibusters. Among the members who
spoke yesterday and last night were Rep
resentatives Collier. Mississippi: Helm,
alabama; Bailey, Pennsylvania: Lloyd,
Missouri; Bryan, Washington; Treadway,
Massachusetts; Shreve. Pennsylvania
Indiana; Sinnott. Oregon, and Latferty,
Oregon.
Canada Gets More.
More has been heard about the Domin-
ion of Canada and what benefits will be
derived by the Dominion's lumbermen,
cattlemen and farmers during the tariff
debates than any other country on the
face of the globe. In fact. every republi-
can who has chosen to draw a parallel
between two governments has chosen the
Dominion of Canada, and 1t is their uni
versal statement that the Underwood
tariff bill will give to Canada more than
Canada would have gained under reci-
procity.
In the speeches of yesterday and last
night republicans pictured the wheat
fields and the great lumber tracts of the
Dominion as being garnered especially for
the people of the United States-an argu-
ment which is quickly grabbed up by the
democrats In their haste to assure their
republican friends that all of these ad-
vantages will make living somewhat
easier for the great mass Of the people
who are now dealing in a protected mar
ket where prices are mountain high.
Free List Articles.
The tariff debate OF yesterday. ending
at near midnight. contained many
references to the articles on the free
list which will be expected to flood this
country from the farmers across the
northern border. Especially bitter
against this was Representative Greene
OF Iowa Although his bitterness was
directed against the tariff situation as
1t Will be under the Underwood bill, his
facts and figures are reassuring to any
Canadians who are figuring on a new
market:
Witness the effort to retain the
farmers vote by putting a duty on
wheat" he said. while at the same
time offering the consumer flour duty
leaving meats of all kinds, fresh and
cured. absolutely free. True il is that
-four is not free from countries that
impose duty upon American -four. but
the Canadian duty was simply imposed
in retaliation for ours and how long
after the enactment of this bill will il
take Canada, where duty can be lifted
by executive order. to get its -four on
the free list?
when this is done the American
miller can only pay the Canadian price
for wheat and the farmers duty will
exist In theory only and not in fact
Situation as to Cattle.
With reference 10 cattle the farmers
situation will be even worse. There is no
possible way in which this duty on cat
tie can be of any benefit 10 the farmer.
for in any event the finished product OF
his pastures must be offered for sale in
a market free of duty. The price of his
cattle and hogs when fattened and sold
will be determined by the price OF meats
to be sent in free.
This bill will expose the farmer TO
the competition OF the cheap lands and
cheap labor of Canada and handicaps
him by an addition of a duty.
Representative Anderson of Minnesota.
a republican member of the ways and
means committee predicted that Canada
would Immediately take OF the duty on
flour i'm order to take advantage of the
free -four provision of the Underwood
tariff bill.
Canada Biggest Competitor.
I'm the production OF wheat and the
manufacture of -four" he said. Can
ada is our nearest and biggest COM
petitor She will at once take advan-
tage of the reciprocal law relative
TO -four in order TO gain access TO the
tremendous market which our ninety
millions Of people afford. Ii is well
known trade fact in the mill industry
that in the establishment of a new
mill the prime necessity is a market
for the by-products of four-shorts.
bran etc. The pending bill furnishes
the canadian miller with that primary
market in the United States. With