Evening star., 1914-07-12
Republican Orators spelIbind
at Session Of the House
Yesterday Afternoon.
CRITICISM OF TARIFF
IN PEPPERY SPEECHES
President Wilson's Alleged Domi-
nation of Congress Also Text:
Hours of Campaign Talk.

War clouds on the republican side OF
the House yesterday burst without
warning in all their fury, and the
democrats appeared to be washeo OIL
their feet in the storm of bitter cFlu
cism directed against the tarin ana
. the way business has been going since
the Underwood act took effect HAN
dozen republican campaign orators
piled the record thick with denunlca-
tion for the administration in care1uilS
prepared speeches of the most peppery
style. while scarcely man on the
democratic side raised his voice in
answer. OF all the afternoons given
over the purely political fefild day ef-
forts the hours from to yesterday
afternoon seemed to be filled with more
woe and distress for the democratic
party (as far talk goes) than any
since the day of Andy Jackson
Scarcely a democrat made sharp re-
ply On the other hand, RepreSenfatlVe
Gillett of Massachusetts. one OF the
mildest hammered of men. made
of the House by the President. because
the President knows the members OF
his party are incompetent. Represent,
ative Humphrey. who has never missed
a chance declared he would call for
an investigation of the Department or
Agriculture to find out about twenty
men on a pay roll which he said was
a fake; Representative Roberts. re-
publican. of Nevada, IN a minstrel show
speech which made every one laugh sus-
gested the erection of a statue of Sec
retary Redheld in Statuary Hall, in
honor of the official blower Of the ad-
ministration.
Knocks the Tariff Bill.
i. Representative Hamilton of Michigan
for twenty minutes lambasted the tariff
bill. The democrats were pictures OF
--woe and distress as they waited vainly
for some leader to make reply. when
. Hamilton hkened the party to a caval-
cade that had reached the halfway
.inn-"having half destroyed business.
of dreams and finds the road leads
down hill all the way to a signpost
marking November, 1914"
He continued: You went about talk
ing OF glbbet for business men who
protested being driven out of business
by a bad industrial policy. Was there
anything more puerile than to suppose
"a men would stop their business and go
81. into bankruptcy for political effect?
Clearly there never was a time when
: IT was more the duty of legislators scien-
. lists and philanthropists to help to in
crease our farm products; to encourage
American agriculture; to keep business
booming. and to keep labor employed at
good wages: but you democrats met the
lean farmer, by prating about the repub-
lican tariff being the sole cause Of high
prices and by forcing down the level Of
american citizenship to the level of for
eign citizenship.
"You have made the American farmer
poorer and the Argentine farmer richer.
scheap labor on cheap land displaces a
bushel of American corn. and the whisky
dstillers. the glucose trust and the starch
trust take the profit. The consumer pays
N>ze aa6 thA 70 rto md 70
Obviously you regard whisky and corn
meal as legitimate and corn as Alegtt1-
mate"
Discussion Of "Blowers.
Following him Representative Roberts
made light Of Secretary Redfeld. He de-
ciared the Secretary Of Commerce is in
terested in a concern which manufa ctures
blowers, and added:
II, is proper that during these torrid
days of business depression some
one thoroughly familiar with the pre-.
vailing atmospheric conditions should
be on hand to regulate the fans and
blowers in the various industries OF the
country; indeed, why should We not
put the weather bureau under the De-
partment of Commerce."
Mr. Roberts said that the Secretary
of Commerce has long been engaged
in the business of blowing. and the
President made no mistake in taking
member said he understood that Mr..
,Redfieid's firm really made excellent
blowers and fans which will blow hot
or cold at the option of the operator.
Suggests Monument.
Mr. Redfield is a gentleman and a
scholar and is loyal to the administra-
tion," continued Mr.. Roberts. II have
no fault to find with that. but any man
who can present facts and figures to
the business men of the country at the
present time and make them believe
that times are prosperous is certainly
90 entitled later to have his statue placed
in Statuary Hall
When the Secretary's statue Is
placed there l suggest that the pedestal
be marked with this inscription: This
statue was made in foreign lands and
chiseled by foreign artisans"
DEPRESSING from his observations
anent hard tines. Mr.. Roberts referred
to the Wilson administration as "the