Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-11
NEBRASKANS GIVE
REASONS FOR VOTE
Register in Favor of Demo
cratic Protection Bill for
Sake of Principle.
SLOAN TAKES LEADING PART
(From a Staff correspondent.) }


Washington, July l0.-(Special Tel.
gram.)-Democrats are jubilant to.
night over the passage of the SO.
called emergency revenue measure,
which is planned to raise an addition
al $200,000,000 of revenue to take
care" as they say, "of the extraor-
dinary necessities of the army and
navy" The bill creates tariff COM
mission, imposes a protective tariff
on dyestuffs, repeals present stamp
taxes and provides for new taxes on
incomes, inheritances and war NUM-
tions profits.
No Complete Bill Offered.
This was rpobably the first in
stance in a decade when democrats
brought into the house a revenue bill
with protection efatures written all
over the face of the measure. The
minority members of the ways and
means committee failed to counter
with an outright tariff bill drawn
along protection lines, including pro-
visions for a tariff commission, tax
on munitions, on anti-duinping and
the repeal of -the.-stamp tax. a., ,7sse- Ia
Y Although they had been advised
months ago that the democrats were
considering an emergency revenue
measure, the minority members of the
ways and means committee too late,
awoke to the realization Mat many
republicans would vote for the bill in
the absence of anything that repre-
sented their own party platform or
principles.
Position of Nebraskans.
This position led Representatives
Sloan, Reavis and Kinkaid to vote for
the measure. Mr.. Sloan during the
course of the consideration of the bill
under the five-minute rule offered five
amendments as previously outlined in
the bill briefly explaining their pur-
port which were as quickly voted
down by the majority.
Reavis Gives Reasons.
Representative Reavis in given his
reasons for voting for the bill said
that its features were strongly en-
dorsed by his constituents, namely,
tax OH munitions, the income tax, the
tariff commission and the repeal of
the stamp tax.
IF the republicans had presented
a measure as a substitute for the
democratic bill contemplating this
legislation l would have been found
shoulder to shoulder with my repub-
lican brothers, but the ways and
means committee hadino substitute to
offer, except a motion to recommit
with instructions (for which | voted),
and that being lost | voted for the
BILL"
Kinkaid Votes for 1t.
Judge Kinkaid was much i'll the
same position as Representatives
Sloan and Reavis, and after the repub-
licans. had exhausted all their rights
and after they had sought to recon-
init the bill to the ways and peans
committee, with instructions to
amend the bill so as to raise an equit-
able portion of the required revenue
from a protective tariff" Mr.. Kin
kaid voted for the bill, as his constit-
ucncy is in favor of repeal of the
stamp tax, tax on munitions of war
and for tariff commission.
Fordney's Amendment.
The amendment offered by Repre-
sentative Fordhey, the ranking minor
ity member of the ways and means
committee, sought to send the bill
back to the committee with instruc-
tions to amend the bill so as to
raise all equitable portion of the re-
quired revenue from protective tar
iff, sufficient to protect adequately
American industries and American
labor, and to be so adjusted as to pre-
vent undue exactions by monopolies
or trusts, paying particular attention
to the conditions inevitable at the
close OF the present European war,
with a view to insuring the industrial
independence OF the United States"
OutRrowth of Conference.
This was the outgrowth of a long
conference held yesterday at the resi-
dence of Nick" oLngworth, all of She
minority members of the committee
being present, with the exception of
Representative Fairchild of New
York, who is ILL., Those in attendance
were Mcssrs. Fordney Of Michigan,
Gardner of Massachusetts. Moore of
Pennsylvania, Green of Iowa, Sloan
of Nebraska, Hill of Connecticut and
Longworth- of Ohio. And It is to the
credit OF Mr.. Sloan that the amend
ment above set forth finally came
forth in the shape it did.
While one of the younger members
of the committee, Mr.. Sloan, said that
bridge should be provided for re-