Show HW FE MEMBERS PRESENT WHEN DEBATE BEGAN seless Discussion of Tariff Rates Proceeding in the Lower House SENATE WILL FINALLY MAKE THE SCHEDULES REPUBLICANS TAUNTED WITH THAT FACT BY flY MR KITCHIN IN Ill A SPIRITED SPEECH Washington March 30 The tariff debate waxed warm in the house to today today today day A revival of or the discussion of or the oil and lumber schedules was wa like set setting tiTS ting a match to both products for the subjects proved of absorbing Interest to the members who entered generally Into the debate To Mr Vreeland of or New CV York was accorded the privilege of explaining the position of or the inde independent Independent pendent refiners refiner who want the coun countervailing countervailing duty on crude petroleum re retained retained tamed while Mr Ir Kitchin of North orth 1 Carolina In an exhaustive treatment of the question pleaded for free lumber At 6 C the usual recess for two hours bour was wad Wa taken The lagging interest in the tariff dis discussion was WaR made manifest when but buta a It dozen members were in their seats I upon the convening of the house and for the most part these were the ones scheduled to speak There was such an emptiness that when the speaker pro tern tem Mr Perkins called the body to order the sound of his gavel echoed and reechoed throughout the chamber Cox Opens the Ball debate was opened by Mr I ox of Ohio who pleaded for a reduction reduction reduction tion In the duties on sewing machines bicycles and arid computing machines He argued that by reason of the favored nation clause Germany was enabled to manufacture and ship sewing machines and bicycles Into Russia France and other continental countries at about I alf talf the tariff imposed on on the same ar articles tides of American manufacture Be Because cause ause of this fact the American manu manufacturer lecturer was handicapped in extending I his foreign trade Unless the tariff was reduced he said the manufacturers of the products mentioned would be forced to build factories f abroad which would result in throwing out of employment in n this country many man skilled workmen The maximum and minimum feature of If the bill he declared to be worth the th paper It was written on Referring to various arlou witnesses before the ways and means committee Mr Ir Cox said 1 An Emphatic Opinion A protective tariff Inspires such a aJust lust Just for gain and gold that these men come ome here and swear their souls down downto downto to the gates of hell In iii order to get the government license to rob the people Mr lr Cox said there waa was a large rf of f public belief that President Taft would follow policies quite contrary to the Republican leaders The action of the committee in re removing moving the duty on hides was dyed oved by Mr Ir Sterling Sterlin of Illinois Mr K Weisse of at Wisconsin replied d that the 13 1 per cent duty so o discriminated against the American tanner and leather man manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer that they lose 5 1 worth of business on every eVer hide and ani an labor loses Jl 50 on a days das work bill does not remedy the situa situation situation situation tion said Mr Sterling He charged that Mr Ir Weisses proposal was to fo c jen en the floodgates and let in cheaper i blOcs from South America and other coun countries countries countries tries and cause the American farmer to suffer Mr Hughes HUghe of Georgia Ge contended that the history of tariff legislation was one continuous performance of at trag tragedy tra tragedy edy cd for the farmers John Ds Man Reiterating that he was partly re responsible for retaining the countervail countervailing ing lug duty dut on crude and refined vm urn Mr Ir Vreeland of New York said that while to many man people oil and Standard Oil there vcr vel ero OOoo American citizens bringing to the surface every ever day nearly worth orth of crude petroleum who had no nomore nomore nomore more to do with the Standard Oil com corn company company pany than has the farmer who ho raises rales wheat heat to do with the miller to to whom he sells it Mr Vreeland said the tin schedule was based on hundreds of petitions from In JO Independent Ind dependent d oil producers and that the tho there re u al l of or the countervailing duty would not benefit the Standard Oil company Com pan but would surely injure the business of the independents Independent M 1 Vreeland said the countervailing duty dut had resulted in material modification cation of oil all schedules of foreign coun countries countr countries tries tr cs and that Russia was not an oil all competitor of the th United States His remarks were Interrupted by br Speaker Cannon who pointed out that in his Cannons annons district and that of his tool col colleagues leagues Mr Ir Foster Foter there were thirty two farmers small shopkeepers and others owners of small tracts who Continued on Page 7 JL I I FEW MEMBERS PRESENT I WHEN DEBATE BEGAN i Continued from Page 1 were receiving royalties on the production production tion of their wells welts Are the Independents In In greater need of or protection from foreign competition or from the Standard Oil lawless methods inquired Mr Ir James of Kentucky Mr Vreeland replied that until the Mexican field developed the American producer needed no protection from any spot on earth The Democrat c platform was right in demanding free lumber said Mr Kitchin of North Carolina C In opposing the bill The great beneficiaries benefi of oC the tit tariff on lumber he said were the big bl syndicates s of stumpage holders holder In the northwest and Pacific coast Mr lr I accused those favoring a duty dut on lumber n some of o his Democratic colleagues of having been scared by b Mexican Canadian Cana lan and Aus lumber ghosts He lie declared that as a a matter of or fact each of or those countries shipped to the Un ted States I Ia a little tittle over oer a million feet of oC lumber lumbera a year ear while the fhe exports Mexico by bythe bythe bythe the United States reached a total of feet a year and to Australia feet And yet ct he said sald you ou let these ghosts appear before your OUr eyes eJes and iou ou say sa Well gentle gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen men we ve demand protection Dwelling on the theory that President President dent Taft would not be intensely parti I s n on the tariff Mr Cox of Ohio de do declared declared I dared that in the future public based on the results of ot the tho tariff bi bIt Quid either be confirmatory of or that theory theor or the view would gain ground I that the administration with Theodor Theo ot i far tar away has resumed the theold th I old beaten paths of the Republican party part partIn In adopting the amendments sug suggested suggested suggested by bj him Mr Cox Cux declared that congress would show due duc consideration I Ifor for the great working masses of or our oui people w IM have had tad the th mean to o maintain lob j bios ble here herc to give ghe lavish laish banquets and conduct a systematic and expensive propaganda in tn their interest A spirited discussion among Te rl Kitchin Dies Texas Graham and Hn I Burke came C next The Tue I Texas r of being a free trader which brought the retort that those Democrats who were weT asking for protection prot Uon for their sections on the plea that it was wal for revenue only should come onte forward and admit that the Republican party part had bad been j right and the Democratic party part wrong rong Mr 11 Kitchin said that under Cleve lands free trade policy there were wen shipped to the time United States but more feet leet of or lumber than came in hi i under the McKinley law I They The dd d not have the money to buy bu buIt it interjected Mr Graham Demo Democratic Democratic cratic applause met the reply of Mr lr Kitchin that only a year ear ago even bankers and trust companies had no money He mentioned In particular Pittsburg that citadel of protection I He declared that Pittsburg Pitts burg sent to congress representatives who would 0 u III j I vote ote for tOT special interests i This utterance aroused Mr Ir Burke j who vigorously 1 denied its accuracy j Mr Kitchin declared that the final finni tariff bill would be made by four tour men two In the th house and two in the ten semi j ate You know who they the are arc IK lit h j explained facing the Republicans That is the bill you to swallow swallow swallow low he said and anil for that reason they thc j have put things tImings In the Republican j house hou bill to please those western Re Tie Republicans publicans and they the are going to take j I t off In the senate so o you ou can go be bc before tore fore your our people and say well nw now nn we ha have e done the best we e could We passed It In the tile house and that dog doggoned doggoned doggoned senate just s ripped it up Taking up the question of Oriental labor employed ed In the lumber mills Mr Ir i Kitchin Insisted that despite the con i ten lion to the contrary of or Mr Ir Hum Humphrey Humphre Humphrey of Washington there were mo mor t I Orientals employed in the lumber in an industry In Washington state than in British Columbia and that the wages I In the latter country were about as I high as in Washington i I I At the night session Mr 11 McKinley of California advocated deliberation In removing dut dutes es from articles Involving InS ing in possible Oriental competition Mr Ir Borland of or Missouri character characterized the Payne Pane bill as a manufacturers ers era measure m exclusively He de demanded demanded an honest revision of oC the tariff downward on behalf of the great arm of oC producers and consumers In the mid middle middIe middie dIe dle west He said they the had long since In Ingrown grown tired of the old Dingley b bli 11 He H declared the time bill bm not only picks the tit pockets ets of the th American consumer but it sandbags the American producers Mr Ir Byrd B rd of Mississippi advocated the tha th free admission of lumber |