The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27
ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN SAYS
THIRD PARTY is PLEDGED
TO LOWER DUTIES.
He Puts Them SECOND.
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Praise for the Bull Moose Is Supple
mentsd With Demand That Plat
form Promises Be Carried out-Re-
publican Party Gets Hard Knocks
Throughout Strenuous Debate.

Washington, April 26.-Confronting
progressive members of the house
with plank in the national platform
of their party pledging them to i'm
schedules" without waiting for their
proposed non partisan tariff commits
sion, Representative Lawrence b
,Stringer, new member from Illinois,
called upon the third party represent
atives in the house tonight to support
the Underwood bill if they wished to
carry out their party declarations
First defending the progressives
against onslaughts by both democrats
and republicans, and declaring that
they represented more than 100000
voters, and had the right to claim that
their party was "the second great
party in this nation the Illinois DEM
ocrat emphatically denied that they
represented protection party"
You tell me that the progressive
party favors a non-partisan tariff
commission" he declared, that is
true, but that plank in the progress
sive platform concludes by saying:
1.-The work Of the commission should
not prevent the immediate adoption of
acts reducing these schedules gener-
ally recognized as excessive"
Waving aloft the quotation and ad-
dressing himself to Victor Murdoch,
progressive party leader in the house,
Mr. Stringer continued:
Il cali the attention Of the gentle
man from Kansas to the statement
that If he and the progressive MEM
bers of this body whom he leads de-
sire to carry out the declarations of
their own platform, and l believe they
do, they will be compelled by the
logic of those declarations to join
with us in the passage of this pending
measure. That platform denounced
the Payne Aldrich bill as unjust to
the people, 1t declares for an income
tax and l say to the gentleman from
Kansas his conferees have already
said to us that if they fail to keep
faith with the people and fail to carry
out the pledges which they have made
they will meet the condemnation
which they deserve"
Somebody Wrong.
The days debate was further enliv-
ened by the first exhibition of feeling
between majority and minority lead
ers in the tariff discussion when Rep
resentative Dixon of Indiana, demo-
cratic member of the ways and means
committee, attacked the republican
tariff law. He declared it was in eff
feet an increase of the former Ding
ley tariff in that the average rate OF
the Payne law was Ill per cent high
er than the Dingley law with the sta
tistics of 1907 as a basis.
The statistics that the ways and
means committee present today show
the gentlefnans statement is utterly
unfounded and false!" shouted Rep
resentatiye Payne.
Both participants in the colloquy
announced they would bring reports
prove their contentious.
Representative Collier of Missis-
sippi majority member of the ways
and means committee, arraigned the
republican party.
The income tax was the subject O
prolonged discussion early in the day
Representative Hull of Tennessee, au.
thor of that section. explaining it II
detail He was kept on his feet more
than two hours, scores of member.
Questioning him on the proposed tax.
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