The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18


 to be with the spirit of the unanimous
 consent resolution.
 i The roll call was about to be taken when Senator John Sharpe Williams of | Mississippi, himself champion of the
 cotton bond amendment. arose and arr 1 raigned his colleagues. From a posi-
 ton In front of the democratic seats
 he faced the southern senators and de-
 ciared that responsibility for the well
 fare of the entire country would rest upon them if their efforts should sue | ceed.
 IT there be democrats here" said he
 who in this threatening hour to the government will now join hands with the opposition party to defeat this flec- essary revenue Legislation the respon- sibility will rest upon them. Do you believe the democratic party will per init five or six gentlemen to stultify the party and starve te htreasury? Do you imagine you win anything for your. case by that? I warn you that you can
 not. If you attempt to hold up the best interests of the entire nation in order to get assistance in an effort for aid that already has been denied by an overwhelming majority of the Senate, I prophecy that you will be tired of your position after it has been before the country for a few weeks. It is no wise thing for a few men to overturn
 the fiscal policy of their party. It is still less wise for them to hold up the needed revenue of the country. The country will justify proper opposition
 from the republican party to demo-
 cratic issues, but 1t will not justify
 playing mere politics with the Delilan that cuts off the democratic Sampsons
 hair. This union may win but l be- lieve there is patriotism enough on the republican side to prevent it." Senators Clarke of Arkansas and Var daman of Mississippi strongly defended their positions. Senator Vardaman de- clared he wished to do nothing to starve the treasury but if the United States is going to lay Che heavy hand of tax alton on people grooming with poverty it can't lay 1t upon my people with my consent"
 Not Paramount Issue Senator Clarke said he believed the government should discharge it's obliga- tions and one of them was to the cotton farmers of the south. The matter Of pro vidng revenue. he said he did not pe- lieva was the paramount issue of the hour, and he was willing to remain in Washing ton until some legislation for relief Tor
 the south could be enacted. Senator Stone of Missouri appealed to what he termed the "recalcitrant'' demo- crats. who. he asserted. had agreed in party conference to vote for the war rev enue bill.
 If the recalcitrant democrats" said Senator Stone, 'are going to repudiate the action of the democratic conference and undertake to defeat a measure whic1 they were pledged to support, and small succeed in their effort. we shall stay here l until something else is done to relieve the abnormal and unexpected pressure upon the treasury. This democratic House and Senate would be recreant to its duty if this motion should be adopted, and we should so home whipped by coterie of recalcitrants who would hold the dem ocratc party up to contempt and bring the democratic administration, glorious in achievement up to this hour into serious 1 embarra ssment. Take your own course. gentlemen but an overwhelming number of your colleagues will stand by their guns | and not run away and leave the admin | stration. for which we are responsible, | in an embarrassing predicament Senator Pomerene criticized some of | the democratic senators for referring to | their effort as one of sectional interest, | and asked what the legislatures of the cotton states and the banks had done to aid them. He read letter from a south ern banker to other bankers urging them to Absolutely shut down on any more loans; now is the time for calling in and
 not putting out"
 TO call such man Shylock is to libel Shylock," Senator Pomerene de- clared. An amendment, proposed by Sen ator Poindexter which would have sub stituted an increased income tax for the tax on telegraph and telephone messages 1 and on freight, was laid on the table by
 vote of 36 to 16.
 Camden, October 17.-(Speciai.) )-Reso-