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SENATE AGAINST
TARIFF HEARINGS
Motion to Instruct Committee
Voted Down Al to SO.
DEBATE ON FREE SUGAR
Louisiana Senators Call Wilson Free
Trader and Senator Jones DEFENDS
His Position.

His Position.
Washington, May 1.-THE Penrose-
LaFollette motion to instruct the sen
ate finance committee to hold PUBIC
hearings on the Underwood tarln Dill
was defeated in the senate by vote
of IL to sc.
The Underwood bill was then re-
ferred to the committee, where 1t VIII
be considered behind closed doors.
The vote was on party lines, the
Democrats, with the exception OF Sen
ators Ransdell and Thornton, OF LOUIS
lana, voting against it. Senator Poln'
dexter was the only Republican VINO
voted with the Democrats.
Senator Ollie James, OF Kentucky
accredited with speaking for Presiden'
Wilson and the administration lead
ers, led the debate and Interpreted the
Baltimore platform as committing the
Democratic party to free sugar.
His speech was in reply to declara
lions by Senator Ransdell and Sena
tor-elect Broussard, of Louisiana, ina
the platform contained no such IND
nation, much less command. In the
gallery. listening closely, was Josepf
P. Tumulty, secretary to the presl
dent. who went to the capitol to heal
the reply to the anti-free sugar Demo
Gratis, who for two days have been as
sailing the sugar schedule, on which
President Wilson has declared there
will be no compromise il he can hell
it.
Senator James declared that the Bal
timore platform approved the course
of the house in the last session OF con
gress, and that it included approval o.
the Underwood free sugar bill. He reae
a paragraph from the Democratic
campaign text book approving the
excellent record of the house in plac
ing sugar on the free list"
Senator RansdeA asked whethel
President Wilson had not declared IL
a speech at Pittsburgh that he did no
stand for free trade. Senator jane
retorted that the president was not
free trader and that the proposed bill
calculated to raise $500, 100000 in reve
nue., was not free trade bill
eff you say President Wilson is
free trader because he favors free su
gar" demanded Senator James, "dit
YOU call yourself free trader whel
you voted for free bread and fre'
shoes?"
Senator Ransdell denied that he wa!
a free trader, and asked whether thu
Democratic national committee hat
not instructed it's orators in the ives
not to discuss free sugar and alst
whether the party would not have beef
defeated If they had discussed it there
81 know the Chicago headquarter'
so instructed Representative Aswell
Of louisiana" he declared.
Senator James referred to the poin
!. made ~ the Louisiana men that Pres
|sident Wilson and the platform had de
clared against tariff reductions which
would injnre any legitimate industry
aBy Legitimate industry in the plat
form" he said. is meant Industrial.
legitimate and commercially legiti
mate industry 1t does not refer to al
industry which has had 125 years o
government aid and protection and il
yet unable to take care of itself"
James eloquently praised the presi
dents stand and said:
eff William H. Taft had half thu
courage of Woodrow Wilson he woul'
have vetoed the Payne-Aldrich bill ant
bonfires would have been burned OF
every hillside in his honor, and, in m.
opinion, he would have been reelected
President Wilson says he is il
favor of free sugar and free wool ant
wants no compromise. challenge yo'
to find anybody to whom Woodrow
Wilson ever said he was not in favo
of free sugar"
Ransdell inquired whether Jane
considered the sugar business of thu
south and west legitimate. Legally
but not economically" replied the Ken
tuckian.