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the debate on the Sims resolution re-
pealing the free toll clause, to twenty
four hours. The forbidding of amend
ments is also carried with the ruling.
This was a sweeping victory for the
president and = defeat for Speaker
Clark, who headed the insurgents"
against the administration program.
When the house met the breach be-
tween the president and the speaker
almost overshadowed the repeal ques-
tion itself. The administration Demo-
Gratis, Adamson and Hardwick leading
attacked the speaker fiercely and re-
fused to compromise. When the
house met Henry, chairman of the
rules committee, called up the repeal
situation. Adamson opened the de-
bate, vigorously defending it. Gard
ner, Clayton, Church and Hardwick
defended the proposed rule limiting
the time of the debate. Murray, Hone
baugh, Macdonald and Underwood at
tackled it.
Hardwick referred to Clark's elev-
enth hour attack on the Democratic
president, criticising sharply the
speakers attitude.
The previous question was called
for, the house voting 200 to 176 to
close the debate on the proposed rule.
The rule itself was Immediately
adopted. This indicates the admins
tration will have a majority on the
repeal resolution itself.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 27.
"A ''call to arms" to all Democrats,
as well as patriotic Republicans and
Progressives," to support the presi-
dent in repeating the Panama free
tolls exemption was made in the house
today by Chairman Adamson of the
house interstate commerce committee,
the administrations spokesman, in
the fight for the Sims repeal resolu-
ton.
"The president has come down and
told us, in order to assure successful
conduct of the foreign affairs of this
government that this repeal should be
made at once," Adamson declared.
"Yet he had been talked about as
though he was cheap trickster or
trader, dickering in wares and seek
ing to impose on credulity of custo-
mers. He has been requested to d.
vulge state secrets and lay bare to
the world danger points.
81 would not be impolite enough to
accuse anybody of reasonable con-
duct, but when the president of any
party emphasizes the dire extremity
of the government by going in per-
son to congress and describing an OBJ
stacle to the safe conduct of foreign
affairs, no man can escape by quib-
BILE or sophistry.
"Whoever fights this repeal now
not only fights the honest equality
and domestic economy of his people,
but he fights the administration on
the foreign policy of the; government
and if disaster results he must share
the odium and responsibility.
Cheap and vulgar criticism has
been indulged in about the presidents
motives. He has been charged with
out foundation with dickering with
governments and trading for help and
peace. Nations do not do business in
that vulgar way. England's attitude
in any crisis in which we may become
involved will depend on the honesty
and fairness of our treatment of Eng
land.
"There is more clap-trap, poppy
cock and delusion about this jingoism
against England than any other fea-
ture of the ship trust propaganda
which is fraudulent from beginning
to end"
That the free tolls declaration in
the Baltimore platform was lndemo-
cratic and was slipped in under false
pretenses that majority of Demo-
Gratis favored free tolls was asserted
by Adamson.
go ask the chairman of the plat
form committee and see if he will
deny it." he continued. "He was busy
watching Tammany Hall and Wall
street for the protection. of the peo-
pie, but it seems he watched the
wrong man. If that sentence stands
the Democratic party must stand as
the apologist and champion of special
privilege and subsidy.
"There is no warrant in morals for
us to give us away $2,OOO,00O in tolls
of the peoples money to few capi-
talists who control the ships and rail-
roads,"
Analysing the Clayton-Bulwer and
Hay-Paunsefote treaties as American
diplomatic victories, giving this coun-
try every privilege in Panama with
the only provision that all ships
should be treated equally, Adamson
said:
"The pretended haters of England