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Show REVENUE BILL RUNS ! G.WLET0F DEBATE Republicans Criticise and Democrats Defend Measure; Mea-sure; Vote Monday. WASHINGTON, July 7. The administration's admin-istration's revenue bill ran the gauntlet ' of a free-for-all political debate in the ' house today, Republicans declaring the admitted need for more revenue an evidence of Democratic blundering and extravagance, and Democrats defending defend-ing the bill as a constructive preparedness prepared-ness measure. Kepresentat ivo London, the Socialist, attacked both the old parties, par-ties, but announced he would support the revenue measure. More than a score of representatives took part in the desultory cross-fire of campaign arguments, which occupied most of the day. Representative Collier Col-lier of Mississippi, in a review of the Democratic administration, declared it had enacted more constructive legislation legisla-tion in four years than the Republican party did in forty. Representative Moore of Pennsylvania criticized at length President Wilson's Mexican policy and described tho revenue bill as ''an uncompromising Democratic spider web." Details of the tariff commission section sec-tion of the .bill were explained by Representative Rep-resentative fiainey of Illinois, who drafted, it. He made a plea for nonpartisan non-partisan support of the measure. Representative Hamilton of Michigan Michi-gan replied with an assertion that the Democrats favored a tariff commission only because president Wilson did, and told the Democratic representatives they were "only sparks in the tail of the president's comet.1' Late today it was decided to extend general debate on dhe bill, which was to have closed tonight, to 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. to-morrow. Then voting on amendments will begin and a final vote will be reached some time Monday, under a special rule. Tho measure is designed to produce an additional $197,000,000 next year from income, inheritance and munitions taxes. |