The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-10-15

ii Dalles, has been an ardentsopposer to
H the proposed war tax. Congressman
Il Sinnott, who is getting a reputation as
4 one of the best speakers in the House
4 Of Representatives. made thesfollowing
4 remarks apropos the war tax, when the
house bill to increase the national rev.
enue was under discussion on Septem-
Der g.:
Mr.. Speaker, this war tax measure
before the House has necessarily fo-
cused attention upon the Underwood
tariff bill. Under the Democratic gag
law under which we are working, and
which ! am now speaking, it will be
impossible for me to pay attention to
but one feature of the Underwood bill
as il affects my state, the Pacific coast
and northern states.
Mr.. Speaker, the Underwood bill was
brought before the House when | was
but a juvenile, a freshman member,
when had served but a few days in
the House. On first glancing at that
bill ] noticed cotton ties and cotton
bagging were on the free list. /
glanced down toward wool sacks and
wool bagging and wheat sacks, and L
noticed that they were not on the free
list. | thought for a while, in my
simple juvenile innocence, that this
was an oversight. an inadvertence, that
it would surely be corrected by our
Democratic friends as soon as their
attention was called to this seeming
careless omission of free wheat sacks.
so !, like innocence abroad" offered
an amendment to put wheat sacks on
the free list. Being artless and unso-
phisticated, | supposed. Of course, that
my amendment would carry. | saw
myself making campaign thunder for |
my campaign in Oregon and on the |
coast, but, alas to my great dsmay, |
my amendment was defeated. Why |
was il defeated. Mr.. Speaker? Why |
was the duty left on wheat sacks and |
wool bagging, while cotton bagging
and cotton ties we're placed on the free
list? Mr.. Speaker, hold in my hand
a campaign document, the campaign
book issued by Mr.. Underwood, the
majority leader, in his senatorial cam
paign in Alabama last spring. 1t is
headed:
Democratic senatorial campaign.
The issue and the facts. The man of
the hour, Oscar w. Underwood, states
man, Democrat.
On the bottom of the first page is
this quotation from the Bible:
"And ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you Free" (Ap-
plause on theeRepublican side.)
And he gave them free cotton bag.
ging and ties applause on the Re-
publican side.) On page l3 of MIR.
Underwood's campaign book in that
campaign against Mr.. Hob
son he shows the saving to the cotton
growers, his constituents and party
friends, to be over SIS, 900. 600 on.account .
Of the free cotton bagging. Again, +,
,all the attention of the Houseito- page
'5 of this campaign book, under the
heading of "The mantle of Ananias," f"
where he says: lu
Zone of the innumerable conscious
Misrepresentation of R. p. Hobson is
With reference to the tariff tax on"- 5
And then, in large heavy type
"bagging and cotton ties. This is A
disposed of by Mr.. Underwood's speech
It CollinsviIle." T
Here is the speech quoted:
Capt. Hobson charges | took the A
AK off whisky and put it on cotton
tagging and cotton ties to tax the
And again, this line in heavy type:
THAT statement is as false as any A
'ver made in the history of mankind.
The exact opposite is true. We did not u
hange the tax on liquor, but did put '
otton bagging and ties on the free n
ist. daughter and applause on the
Republican side).
Gentlemen, would that could return y
o Oregon and say that had put wool N
agging and wheat sacks on the free
lst. tApplause on the Republican Ii
ide.) He says further in his speech al
The records will sustain me in this l.
tatement. Why any sane man, know &C
ng the record as Capt. Hobson does. lie
ares to make such a statement con- pl
rary to the facts cannot understand. pC
he facts are that when we tried to at
ass the free list containing cotton
agging and ties over President Taft's
et0, Capt. Hobson was absent and did
OF vote"
| will have to skip down to the part w
here again in heavy letters he states ha
The item putting cotton bagging h'
nd ties on the free list is in the bill oe
lat is now law mi
Yes, MIR. Speaker the item is in the
Underwood bill. Free wheat sacks and on
zee wool bagging denied to the north a
I'd the west. free cotton bagging and pii
zee cotton ties given to the constitu. res
IT'S of the gentleman from Alabama ro'
n campaign thunder and campaign 10
guments in a senatorial contest in
labama accounts, MIR. Speaker, for
'e or six million dollars of deficits in I
Ir revenue, which we must now sup ou,
y with war tax. Applause on the Me
apubican side). en-
Again referring to the front page of vol
is campaign book of our senatorial col
ndldate in Alabama, ''the man of Ch
e hour" Oscar w. Underwood, | bip
ad: ba91
"And ye shall know the truth and val
9 truth shall make you Free" (St. saw
hn viii, 32.) wo,
Yes; free from Democratic tariff dis. ple
lmination against the north and the by
,st.