Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-11

luNlOiSs III PAOlGSllAlS against IHe APP
parent discrimination against the farm
err by the Underwood tariff bill. which
is now a law. Senator Brady in
speech delivered in the senate on Sept.
8, 1918, said:
IF you mean to be fair with the
farmer and the people of the west. you
should give them the same considera-
ton that you give to the manufacturer
of the east; but in this bill you have
left the manufacturer of the east with
an average protection Of 1857 per cent.
and with a few exceptions, have placed
on the free list all the articles which
are produced by the farmer"
He voted for an amendment to the
tariff bill to give the farmer free grain
bags.
He voted for personal income tax.
He also voted for the Norris amend
ment providing a large inheritance
tax. whereby the state and nation
would share in the large fortunes left
by American millionaires.
Currency Bill.
Senator Brady was active in his en-
deavor to secure a currency bill that
would be beneficial to all classes He
voted for numerous amendments to
throw greater safeguards around the
public interests, notably an amend
ment offered by Senator Hitchcock to
guarantee bank deposits. This amend
ment. If adopted, would have made
safe the deposits of thousands OF
poor people who have found their saw
! ings swept away by recent failures in
all parts of the country He also
sought more liberal loan provisions for
the farmers. He insisted upon amend
ments that would enable the farmer to
secure some of the advantages of the
currency bill. The Democratic ma
jority refused to adopt these amend
ments and since the passage OF the
bill Senator Brady has endeavored at
all times to have rural credits sys-
tenn beneficial to the farmers enacted
into law. He favored making the
new currency system a peoples sys-
tenn allowing public subscription to the
federal reserve banks. Contending
that the bill as finally perfected was
framed in the interests of Wall street,
he voted against 1t.
Voted to Restrict immigration.
Senator Brady voted in the Sixty
second congress to restrict immigra-
ton by the establishment of a literacy
test which would exclude from this
country undesirable aliens from south
eastern Europe. This bill was vetoed
by President Taft and Senator Brady
voted to pass it over the presidents
veto. Senator Brady's position on that
question today is unchanged.
For Department of Labor.
Senator Brady voted for the estab-
lishment of a department of labor.
He voted for the LaFollette seaman's
bill designed to end the intolerable
conditions under which sailors work on
American ships. and which also pro-
vides for greater safety for travellers
at sea.
He voted to investigate the charges
of outrages in connection with the
strike in the West Virginia coal fields.
He voted for an etghthour law for
women wage workers in the District
of Columbia
American Honor In Mexico.
Senator Brady voted for the resolu-
ton authorizing the president to use
armed forces If necessary to protect
the honor and dignity OF the United
States in Mexico, conceiving It his
plain duty to lay partisanslip aside
and support the president in Il ques-
ton so clearly involving the honor OF
this country.
Favored Free Tolls.
Believing the presidents demands eoI
the repeal OF the law exempting Amer
lean coastwise ships from the pay
ment OF tolls through the Panama
canal un-American, Senator Brady
voted against this bill.
Government Railroads in Alaska.
Senator Brady supported the bill APP
! propriating funds for the construction
of government railroads in Alaska
convinced that this was the best
means of developing vast coal fields OF
that territory In manner to con-
serve the interests of all the people