The Washington herald., 1913-04-25
TARIFF DEBATE
IS Continued
Democrats and Republicans
Fight Word Battles on the
Merits of Measure.
|DONKEY'S TAIL PULLED
Bull Moose Member from Pennsylva-
MIA Says Progressive Party Is
Bound to Live.


| public discussions or the tarln 1ormeu
the subject of speech in the House
yesterday by Representative Hamilton OF
Michigan. Republican Debate was re-
sumed on the Underwood BILL which was
denounced by Republicans and Bull
Moose as embodying everything bad In
| the way of revenue legislation, and COM
mended by the Democrats as the nearest
thing to perfection ever evolved in a
legislative body. Representative Hamil-
ton aroused the disabilities of Republicans
by quoting from public speeches by Presi-
dent Wilson, in which the Executive, ac-
! cording to Mr.. Hamilton INDUCED in
| high wounding generalization without
expressing any specific views
Representative Fordney, also of Michi-
gan, and likewise Republican. one Of the
apostles of high protection, delivered an
old ia shioned tariff speech, in which he
pulled the tail of the Democratic donkey,
and predicted dire disaster to the country
| under the new revenue laws.
Representative Hulings of Pennsyl-
| vania, a Bull Moose, devoted his speech
| in the main to a political discussion in
which he prophesyed the downfall of the
Democratic party and the elevtion Of
| the Progressive party TO power.
Dwelling on the virtues of the Under
wood bill, Representative Hammond Of
Minnesota, Democratic member of the
| Way and Means Committee, defended
| the low rates of the agricultural sched-
| uie, declaring that the farmers would
| prosper it despite the calamity bowls
of members from agricultural states. De-
bate on the bill will be continued to-
morrow.
Hamilton Lamhasts Democrats:
Representative Hamilton lambasted re-
| cent utterances of President Wilson and
| Vice President Marshall.
I'm his inaugural address," said Mr..
| Hamilton, leaning down from the
| heights of altruism and talking down to
his followers in a language that none Of
them understood, the President explained
! to them that the nation was intending
them for a large and definite purpose.
| This gave general satisfaction until it
was explained to them that il did not
involve their employment in official ca
| pacty.
The Postmaster General however. as
the connecting link between altruism and
appetite, Is understood to be giving
diligent consideration to a method of sim
plified civil service, designed to give the
government an opportunity to use the
brethren more largely for definite pur-
poses. In this way the carnal man Is
being sustained while his rudimentary
past 10 DtiiiS " ny
homeopathic suggestion. Next to the last
election the most interesting CONFUSION
of nature is the Democratic rush for Of
fee"
Representative Fordney discussed the
sugar and wool schedules. He charged
that the trust was behind the agitation
for free sugar.
You propose to do as the Irishman
did with his dog when he wanted to
fro ,nf Sai6
| addressing the Democrats You want
| to take off little of the duty on sugar
at a time, so II won't hurt so much.
That's the way the dogs tail was cut
off,
Mr. Underwood said his bill would
not injure any legitimate industry" de-
clared Mr. Fordney. us wool a legiti-
mate industry? Apparently the Demo-
Gratis believe it to be illigitimate, for
they have placed wool on the free list.
Free wool has never benefited the in
dustry. 1 remember when it was placed
on the free list before, the farmers Of
fered sheep at seventy-five cents a head.
The trouble was no one had the seventy
five cents
HulIngs' Maiden Effort.
I'VE know that on both sides of the
| chamber there are men who sneer at the
belief that each of the old parties is
dominated by reactionaries," said Rep
resentative Rulings. These old party
leaders think the Progressive movement
is the dream of a day, and that it will
soon disappear in thin air. The new
party has come to stay. Four million
voters left the Republican party last
year to join the Progressives, and with
them went the heart and soul that once
made that old political organization
great and glorious The Progressive
party stands for a principle. 1t repre-
sents the striving of humanity for bet
ter living conditions
1T is not true" said Representative
Hammond, a Democrat, of Minnesota,
that the wheat and -four industry of
this country have been put in the hands
Of the enemy by this BILL
Mr.. Hammond framed the schedule of
the bill dealing with these two articles.
THE flour of this country he con-
tinued, lis being manufactured by the
millers of this country and sold abroad
and these millers and four-makers are
able to grind wheat, make the flour, in
wade the markets of the world pay
tariff duties in those foreign countries,
and compete with the millers of the
world. Fifty million and over of the
product exported in 1912, We found, too,
that there was a considerable revenue
derived from wheat imported into this
country under the present rate of Is
cents a bushel. In view of that fact we
did not care to deprive ourselves of
revenue unnecessarily, and also because
We purposed to make a strong cut any,
how, we put wheat not on the free list,
but let it remain at 10 cents a bushel,
cut of so per cent