American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-10-26

S'hh'ts W ~ u dutus nt cen 10 De DebfUU the
works when II Is In action. And, ut is In the In
terest OF the public welfare, that great questions OF
this sort be debated In public and decided In public,
Notice how carefully he was following the platform.
81 asked the privilege OF being permitted in the
open senate to Introduce IA Legitimate amendment
for the taxation OF trusts, and that privilege was
denied ME. asked il not for myself alone, but
other Democratic senators who 1 know TO he In.
terested In IL and who believe in my amendment,
1t has been an unpleasant sight to me, as 1t has been
to many Democrats during the last few days In this
chamber, when senators on the Republican side Of
the chamber have proposed amendments to the In.
come tax provision that appeal to the sense of JUS
tce and appeal to the judgment of senator's on this
side, and upon which we were forbidden to vote
because OF the pledge OF our caucus. l asked
simply to be left free In the open senate to offer
this amendment, and / asked II not for myself but
for others, and that privilege was denied me-"
Now my friends, l call attention to that not alone
because 1t is in contradiction to the platform, but | call
attention to it because 1t is distinctly evil of the most
lar reaching consequences TO the American people. Take
for instance, as an illustration, the Underwood bill
again. Twenty nine senators of the senate of the United
States under this system can frame a law to be put
through the congress of the United States, or through
the senate of the United States. Fifty-six members con
stitute the majority side of the chamber. Fifty-six go
into caucus, twenty mine may be in favor of the bill and
the twenty-nine can bind the others. as they have done
time and time again by resolution, and thereafter come
out In the open senate with the bill framed and compel
the hfty-six to vote in favor of it and pass it through the
senate. so IL Is reduced to that proposition where
twenty-nine men cam, where twenty-nine men have
framed important legislation and put IL through the
senate of the United States.
Mr.. Hughes has referred to the fact that all the chair
men OF these different committed are from the south
and he Is charged with raising a sectional question.
Not at all. We are simply reciting a fact. If there is
any sectionalism, we didn't put it there. 1t is in the
record, but that is not the worst of 1t not only are they in
possession of the chairmanships, to which they might
have a legitimate claim under the rule of seniority, bat
the sixteen southern states can absolutely control legis-
lation In the senate of the United States under that
system. Look at the Underwood bill amendment, say.
There Is not Il product ir0m the agricultural
fields OF the south which IN affected by the tarii ut
all which has not a sufficient duty to protect IL.
Every product from the southern fields that the far.
III could In any way affect has, under the Under
wood bill which was supposed TO be A tariff revenue
bill, u sufiSient duty to protect ID against cOmpe-
iition. Now am glad OF that so lar as the south
Is concerned. am exceedingly glad that they have
their products protected. No one feels IA kindlier
Interest In that country, In the south, and In the
southern people than do. hut object to the system
OF legislation, and the manner by which II can be- ac-
complished, where the products OF the south can be
protected and leave exposed to competition from all
the world every product which grows IN the north.
ern fields. (Applause.)
FOR instance, they put n duty upon peanuts. Pea
n % gro" IN the south; They took 1t on butter.
the brilliant senator from Mississippi, "a man of ex.
traordinary intellectual power and intellectual In
tegrity, stated upon the floor OF the senate that they
had reduced the duty upon rice as low ms they could
without destroying the Industry. That Is Republi.
canism. That is Republican protection. No Re.
publican wants more duty than to protect the In
dustry. lie does want sufficient to protect the in
dusfry, 80 that they put a duty upon rice to pro-
tect the Industry and they took Il OF wheat, OF corn,
on OF hay, and every other product which grows In
our fields. When called the attention OF the SEN
ator TO the met that he had left the corn grower Of
the north exposed, he ridiculed me very success
Iully. because he WAS capable of doing those things,
aud he says: "Does the senator from Idaho think
amy corn will ever be imported into the United
states. We are exporting corn" And yet within
SIX months after the Underwood bill was passed
more than 600 millions OF bushels of corn had been
imported into this country, and sold In competition .
with the American farmer.
rake another bill of more Importance: The Immigra-
tion bill AS passed by the congress of the United States.
II IL a measure which Affects every man, woman and
child In this country. II passed the last congress by an
overwhelming majority. and was vetoed by the presi-
dent. II came into this congress and passed the house
with an overwhelmingly large majority. 1t came into
the senate and there it lay unmolested for months.
Some Of us came to the conclusion that the hill shouId
have a hearing. We realize that when this war is ov-
err that the laboring men of this country will be brought
in direct competition with the millions of men Who 20
turn from the armies and enter into the fields of indus
try. either in Europe or immigrate to this country
when the millions of men return from these armies
they viii find their homes destroyed, their old friend
ships broken, and they will naturally seek for new
fields and they will turn their attention to the great re-
public of the west.
When the war broke out in Europe eiph, hundred
thousand working men left this country and went back
to Europe 1t viii be nothing exceptional at all for a
hililoh, or two million, ar even three million of the dis
satisfied Europeans to return TO this country at the
close of the war To bid for the places now held by
American working men. There is not ANYTHING of mora
importance 10 laboring men of this country than n
strict immigration bin put upon the statute books of
the United States. (ApplauseJ
You remember that We passed what is known n : IN.
Child Labor bill, and our good friends upon the opno.
site side have taken a great deal of credit for the pas
""e w '"' Nhhu A"iuN hll. l was IN FAVOR of il. but
suppose my friends. that YOU take the child out of the
factory. and send II home to a mother and father whose
job has been taken away 10y Il foreigner or foreign com
petitor, have YOU served that child's interestsp uava
you been protecting the labor and the Job of the father
aiu mother 50 TIA; they could educate the ch!!de II
not YOU haven't served il by taking il out of the factory
You have rather turned ii loose upon the street 10 he
come a ,agfant and enter into crime, and while | SYM
pathize With the child who may be working in the fac
tory under environments which may arrest its devotion.
ment and destroys its womanhood or manhood. as he
tween inc enid working in the factory and the child
turned lDOSa nfNn tho ~ "a and far,.a To-