The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-13
CALLS TARIFF
BILL AUTHORS
PIRATE BAND
G. O. P. Measure Breaks All
Records for Conspiracy,
Says Pat Harrison.
CHARGES RATE TRADING
Mississippi SoIon'S Fiery
Denunciation Features
Debate in Senate.
CHARGES RATE TRADING
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staf Correspondent

WAOr14NG 1OIH, OSpb. ID ne
Republican tariff bill was character
lied by Senator Pat Harrison Dem,
Miss as the worst conspiracy ever
concocted in the legislative annals of
this government" in a speech today
opening the second day Of senate de-
bate on the measure.
Harrison said the Republicans
permitted Senators Reed Of Pennsyl-
vania, and Edge of New Jersey to
write the steel and earthenware
schedules; Bingham of Connecticut,
supervise the fixing of wooden and
cotton rates, and Chairman Smoot
handle the sugar schedule, lin which
he has been vitally interested SO
long.
No band of pirates ever looted
victim better than these distin-
guished gentlemen in the secrecy of
their subcommittee chambers
robbed the American people" Har-
rison said.
ut was a case of trading and
traf1cking among themselves in the
interest of the already bloated
favored ones of their particular
states" Harrison added.
High Light of Day
Harrison's speech was the high
light of the day which showed also
the increased interest of the senate
in international affairs. Senator
Furnifold Simmons, ranking Dem
ocratic member of the finance COM
mittee, read newspaper accounts
from Europe stating the nations
there were falling in line with
French Premier Brands idea of a
commercial United States Of
Europe"
Simmons said the dispatches con-
firmed his predition that the ma
tionS Of the world would band to
gether against the proposed Amer
lean tariff policy embodied in the
present bill.
The Shearer naval lobby case was
injected briefly into the limelight,
when Chairman Hale Of the naval
affairs committee told the senate
his subcommittee composed of
Shortridge of California, Allen of
Kansas, and Robinson of Arkansas
sis a strong committee, which will
have the confidence of the people of
the country"
Friday the thirteenth was an
ideal day to discuss the Republican
tariff bill, Harrison said at the out
set Of his speech.
Harrison Wakes Vitriolic
THE forked tongue of hypocrisy
misses through every paragraph" he
added. IF snares were thistles, this
bill would look like the Mexican
cactus landscape.
The title reads to provide reve-
nue., TO regulate commerce with for
eigr countries, to encourage the in
duStrieS of the United States and to
protest American labor
You never can deceive the people
with that. 1t should read. An act
to destroy revenue, to Stif1e COM
merce with foreign countries, to dis
courage industries of the United
States and to ''flim-fam" American
labor and fleece the American
farmer"
The increased burden Of indus
trial rates will fall heaviest upon
the laborer and the farmer, he said
To disprove the contention that
labor would profit, he said the aver
age wage of industry was only a
small cost of the materials used for
manufacture.
The percentages of wages to ma
terials in the boot and shoe indus
try. Harrison continued, was SO per
cent with boots and shoes on the
free list and in the manufacture OF
agriculture implements As per cent
with irnrnlernents On the free list.