Arizona republican., 1916-08-26
REVENUE BILL
 BRINGS CLASH
 DURING DEBATE
TRepubIlcan A. ?. Leased wirel


 WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-Thc first clash of the session between so-called old llne and progressive republicans occurred in the senate today during debate on the emergency revenue bill Senator Gallinger. the minority lead CT. criticised progressive republicans for the overthrow of former Speaker Cannon and attacks on the late Sena tor Aldrich. drawing a vigorous reply from Senator Gronna.
 Senator Gallinger declared that cer- tain republicans who had sown seeds Of disconteut over the DinEley tariff chose former Speaker Cannon as the jonah" on whom to heap the burden Of blame, and that they preached the false theory that the high cost of living was due 10 inc Dingley tariff. Senator Gronnah Insisted that the tariff had nothing whatever 10 do with the overthrow of Cannon and that hc vas attacked only to end an era of atrocious domination uf the house. He also hotiy denounced in- ferences that progressive republicans had at that time demonstrated free trade tendencies. and charged that republicans of the ~old guard" had sought to encourage the farmers of tho country for free trade
 "The history of the ten months during which the Underwood act hecame operative under normal eonfi- tions." said he 'is sufficient to justify our predictions and tO further put the stamp Of disapproval unon law which but for tho war would have ruined most of the industries of the United States. and which. if stil in effect al the close of the war. will make this country the dumping ground for all tho surplus products of foreign labor. Tn the first ten months of the Underwood law there was m increase of SSS.000 GOO in imports and decrease of s342 0e0 GOO in exports Sugar factories closed down or were operated under reduced condi- tions steel mills drew their fires wooden mills retrenched many cotton mills were forced out Of business | factories that remained open reduced i their output. stocks reduced. 3.000.0oe workers were out or employment, the 1 largest percentage since lS94 freight l cars 10 the number of 350.Ne0 were l idle as were the locomotives and en- | gireers freight handlers, firemen. and | others depending upon their opera ] tion. sixty ner cent of the railroad mileage of the country was in the hands of receivers dividends wcrs ! passed railroad grpss earnings I dropped one hundred millions m th' ten morfhs or s10.o00.0 .0e0 a month ] bread lines were the longest eVei known. and there was the grcates demand for charity. When we pre- | Aieted these things we were called
 calamity howlers' but I am recitine | history now.
 Disappointed and suffering citi zens grown desperate by these con ditlons when they ventured to ask fo'
 relief. were told by the president tha'
 the apparent distress was purely psy'
 chological''
 By IuSe of 1915 our trade balance
 was wiped ont and reversed show ing imports Of s25S 900 000 more thar
 our exports. The record is certainl!
 a terrible indictment against the dem
 ocratic party and it does not reduir'
 a stretch of the imagination to pre- dict that never again will such al l industrial catastrophe occur as wa brought about by this nlinority-clec d administration.
 Senator Weeks attacked the pro l Tnsed doubling of the Income taN which he said was designed orig'nall, tcontinued on Page Two.