Show TARIFF REFORM ci AND W J BRYAN Missouri Con Congressman essman Expresses His Bis HisO O Opinion of Candidate and Platform for 1908 LIVELY DEBATE IN HOUSE LEADER WILLIAMS INDULGES IN SARCASM Washington Wahington March begin fling ning the consIderation of the appropriation bill bilI which was the order of business in the house today a reso resolution lution was unanimously agreed to de declarIng daring clarIng Anthony a citizen of the United States resident of flu TIU noIs and duly a member of the congress This declaration was the unanimous report of elections committee No 1 and was presented by Mann of Illinois I A bill relieving tobacco growers from aU all taxes in the sale of leaf tobacco was passed The Indian bill carryIng Was then taken up and Mr Sherman of New York explained its provIsions Mr Sherman concluded his explanation tion with the prediction that the time would come when the great eat body of the Indian people ot of this continent would be along lines of industry to which they are best adapted Debate on the Tariff Comparing the increase in the prod products prodUcts of the farm and the factory and the value of productive and Industrial property under high and low tariffs lIr Rucker of Missouri drew the con conclusion conclusion that the lower the tariff the greater had been the increase of wealth that since 1850 the tariff had hadeen been een made higher and the increase ot of production had been beon less Turning his attention to the tariff on typesetting machines c Mr Rucker said It had been deter determined determined mined that these machines could be produced for and yet et they were sold fold for because of the tariff There were publIcations in this country affected by this price Thou Thousands Thousands sands of petitions from editors had been sent to the present congress urging the removal of this and monopolistic duty Will At gentlemen heed these petitions he ked Then every Re Republican Republican publican editor In who has the backbone of an ought to unite and make the e c of Re RepUblican Republican pUblican members such that they will willry ny ry out wherever I fi fly is hell heU wherever I light is hell Bryan and TarIff Revision Mr Rucker concluded with the pre f that with a tariff revision plat 7 form and William J Bryan as its can candidate 44 the Democratic party would as asa j a cyclone sweep the country Addressing himself to those who would not stand pat Dat even in a clover J fl fielL ld Representative Lacey of Iowa took occasion durIng the debate on the Indian appropriation bill to express himself on the subject of the German tariff He took the pOsItion eally that the United States could not afford to sacrifice her commerce wIth Great BrItain in order to win German markets by means of tariff concessions He illustrated thI this by figures showing how little we sell to Germany in corn com comparison parison to Great Britain and how Ut lit tIe we sell seU to Great Britain In corn com comparIson parIson to our own home markets per cent of the product of our farms he said find a market at f home He revIewed conditions in many industries and localities and compared the present prosperity with the hard times of tariff tarIn agitation Debate Became General Yr Mr Laceys conclusion on the tariff provoked a lively running debate Clark of Missouri Weisse of Wisconsin Powers of Maine Gardner of Massachusetts Williams of Mississippi and Grosvenor of Ohio The Tho net result waS that Mr WeIsse who Is a tanner and therefore accord lug ing to Mr Laceys quotation of Shakes Shakespeare Shakespeare peare will wiil last nine nino years ears when he Is dead declared that the American farmer was losing a year because of the tariff on hides and also that many tanners were movIng to Canada be because l cause of that duty Re He also In answer to Mr Gardner declared that the alleged tanners trust controlled only 20 per percent percent cent of that trade and that Mr Armour and his Mr lIr Valentine did not notown notown own a controlling interest in It Mr Clark questioned Mr Lacey closely as to the politics of Governor Cummins of Iowa and his utterances as to the robbery under the Dingley bill Mr Lacey said he had voted twice for Cummins for governor and would do doso so 0 agaIn if he is nominated on our ticket Mr Williams of MIssissippi then took the floor for tor a general reply to Mr lIr Lace Lacey r Sarcasm of Mr Williams There are few fei thIngs began Mr lIr Williams flat at one and the same time more amusing and more pitiable than the acrobatic exploits ot of human intelli intelligence gence when attempting to prove that laws lans which circumscrIbe and limit trade tends to Increase trade Mr WIllIams descrIbed some of his tarIff revision bills and asserted in an answer answer to Mr lIr Gardner of Massachusetts who revived the free leather controversy that it was WS ft a very simple thing to get tariff 1 legislation on All that was vary Fary was first to convert the speaker then the committee on rules then Sereno E Payne and finally the Republican members of the ways WaS and means corn com committee This ought not to be hard for a Republican to do said Mr Williams to Mr Gardner One ot of his bills bUls saId Mr Ir WIlliams provIded for a reduction to per cent of all duties over that amount He had seen the speaker Quoted as saying this must be one of John Sharp Williams jokes as there are no such duties In answer to this he read this list of articles on which the duty Is greater than per cent Chalk tailors per cent of which worth was im imported Imi i ported last year on which the tariff was acid per cent vie ether per cent cotton ck over eight squa y The pound per percent cent ent cordage tin to coo fir crack crackers ers cheap spectacles cIes per pert 1 t cent c cOIn window Sf io 17 to o per pel cen cent s per cent 4 etc t He expressed the opInion that 25 pEr cent on an any article would cover the theL L difference of the Jabor in an anI article J I The speech 0 of f Mr lr concluded the debate for tor the day 1 J 4 |