Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-01
PARTY POLITICS PLAYED PICTURESQUELY ASSUGAR
REPEAL BILL PASSES HOUSE; MTCHIN IS ACTIVE

down as a principle that sugar or
/ lumber, or coffee or tea, or rubber or
! raw silk should be put on the free list.
I'VE said that whenever the revenue
conditions and revenue necessities
/ permitted. the Democratic party would
put food products on the free list, pre-.
! ferrfng to tax other products either By
| internal revenue or by import duties.
In 1913, with the condition of the
treasury and with the bill which We
1 framed, We were convinced that by
| May. / we would have sufficient reye-
nue. to let sugar go on the free list,
/ without calling on sugar to put any
money into the treasury.
Couldn't Foresee Europe's War.
"We could DOT foresee this Euro
pean war We calculated that GER
tairIy with lower tariff there would
/ be the same amount OF importation un.
der the Underwood bill as there had
! been under the Payne-Altrieh act II
| the Underwood bill had increased i'm.
| portations to the same extent as the
Payne-Aldrich act we then would have
!, had, by reason of the increase of i'm
portations alone, more than $43,000,000
| in addition, so that we could give up
the $44, 100000 we got in the last fig
cal year from sugar. r..
THAT was our contention, and that
is exactly what would have been done
| but for this European war. / have
heard great many people denounce
the Underwood act, but / have not
heard solitary, single Republican de-
fend the Payne-Aldrich law You re-
pudiate the very act you passed in the
first Congress following its enact
ment. ..... T.. -. III. .s'.
"You are now repudiating the plat.
form of the Republican party in 1912,
as you promised to revise the tariff
after a commission had acted and spe-
officially declared the Payne tariff act
was too high and ought to be cut
down Every single member of the
Republican party except one, that re-
call, repudiated this act when, in the
Sixty-second Congress, they voted for
the Hill Wool Bill as a substitute for
Schedule K in the Payne-Aldrich act.
Cheers for the President.
From January to August /, 1914,
the Underwood act with its custom
receipts and Internal revenue receipts
produced in round numbers SIS, 600, 900
more revenue than the Payne-Aldrich
act Under the Wilson administration
there was more gold by $10,000,000 in
the treasury on August /, 1914, when
the war broke out, than in any year
of the Payne-Aldrich act On the same
date the balance in the general fund
was larger. by ever S15,006,000 than
on any august / of any year of the
Taft administration
1T is a great compliment to Wood
row Wilson's administration that Just
as soon as we took hold, even under
Republican laws, we enforced them so
honestly that we ran up the balance
fund from s12S,000.0 900 to $131, 000, 900
to August l, 1913"
The mention of the presidents
name by the erstwhile recalcitrant
leader of his party forces in the low
er house provoked hearty cheer from
the Democratic side. Kitchin seemed
to throw more fire into his speech
after this.
you expended under the Taft ado
ministration," he Numbered with
pointed finger at Uncle joe ''as
canal bond receipts $4,000, 900; that
is, for the four years you spent with.
out the aid of bonds $24, 100000 a year,
while under the Wilson administra.
ton, without the aid Of bonds, we ex-
pended $S2,000,GG0 a year, or an ex-
cess for the two years of $1,000, 900.
This is for the Panama Canal.
yet every time we call the atten-
tion of the Republicans to the small
balance they had they put up the Pan
ANA Canal expenditures, while we
have expended twice as much year
as their average year.
Some of these Republicans make |
me so hot that I'm going to stop and |
ask unanimous consent to put these |
figures in the Record"