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Show Y MONDELL ASSAILS ,1 PHIUPPINE BILL Declares Removal Tariff Means Death-Knell Beet Suar Industry. HILL OF CONNECTICUT SJj SUPPORTS MEASURE Eastern Representative Details to House Knowledge Gained , by His Visits. ioiT WASHINGTON, Jan 6.-In a session of , flj five hours today the Hnuss placed on rec- Drai 0rd a spcech ,n favor of tht Philippine frat ' tariff bill, one ftgnlnst It and twenty min utes' talk for tariff revision, according to the Republican demand nf Massachusetts. Hill Explains Things, Mr. Hill of Connecticut occupied three hours and was listened to with the greatest great-est Interest In detailing the knowledge he gained from two visits to the Philippines the last as a member of the party of Secretary Taft last summer. He paid particular par-ticular attention to the tobacco feature of the measure and explained away much of the misapprehension as to the enormous . i products that might be expected from the Islands. Their territory, he cjald, was Pr4 small, and their fertll- lands still fur- tl.er limited any. Mondell Attacks Bill. , Mr. Mondell iWyo . who has led the . f A flghl against the bill in the Interest of Jgxh'- hci-i sugar lndusir of this countty, , V Fs'"k'- lKnrousl against th' niKiHur.- unO iiy UK&lnM th- policy of helping the Filipino people by granting them open markets In the United Btates He said the passage of this bill would be the death-knell of OUT 'he beet sugar industry in the United ? I :i '-' T The abolition of thn tariff on hides was jjrieade.l for b Mr Lawrence nf Maasa-W Maasa-W .jwthu'8ei ts who presented the position taken la- f by th. Republican t h i i Str.tr Wants Braun's Report. Information regarding Immigration from Austro-Hungar contained In reports by Marcus Braun was asked for from the Secretary of tjymmerce and Labor b tho House on convening today. Hill Has Exhibits. A map showing the quality of the land In the Philippines was brought Into the i) hi "House and Mr Hill also hud several sam- I , .i i pies of the tobacco raised there The i 1 Country, he said followed in a remarkable I nw decree the physical features of Japan, where the tillable area was only something some-thing more than 12 per cent The census reports give 9Vi per cent of the total area jfk i . ii th- agricultural land of the Philippine?.. ) he said In describing the population, he i I f w.ld that slavery . xlsted among tho (III Moros. It was a mild form of slavery, but slavery, nevertheless. No Filipino People. There were, he said, no Filipino people Th.re are eighty-seven tribes speaking over nfty languages. There Is no means of communication, no roads About 14 in let p. r cent can read. 3 per cent read Span ish. Under these clreumstances. Mr Hill tsnld. a high order of intelligence could not fit i . expec ted PJ Predicts Large Growth. t feet . , Mr Hill visit. .! the Islands with Sfecre- njfl t.iry Taft and his party lust summer, and his information was 1ms .1 on personal Ob-... Ob-... rvation. Ho predlct-d that in fifty years th. population would be i.rpfi,njn Instead of T.Mw.iXM) as at present. The whole ambition am-bition of the population was to simply wm subsist if a native were paid is cents a d i he would work long enough and no 'Oflt h lig. r than in make enough to last during the week if the wage was doubled the time of work would i.- halved fit Primitive Methods Prevail. Substantially all of the export Lobacoo BBS ,, the Islands 'm.-s. h. raid from a Sin gh ullev of the Island of Euzon. The ill. y Is tWO miles wide and about fifty a HH miles long. No human being can compre hend he paid, the primitive methods which prevail In th.- making of all crops In the Islands, unless through personal II1 observation, it was the wildest inwKina tion to suppose that at auy time would Filipino Industry ever be disastrous to PC"8 American Industry Reverting to Mr Hill's statement about Slavery Mr. Clayton of Alubama asked: Hi'.' Wonts to Know About Slavery. ( Ife ,K it true, did 1 understand the gentle- W.sVjf n. n tlJ BUyt that slavery still exists SOW. ;, nonc the Moros the traffic In human be- nt-'s where men and women are sold for ni'C to flflO?" KK5 ' A I did not s- e an ot this traffic.' re- plied Mr Hill, "bill I believe slavery ex-AiH ex-AiH IMS These people are bavage and there l A4 1s no civilization." While he was a protectionist from the |