Show DEMOCRATIC lEADER fOR QUICK ACTION I ClarK Clad Replies to Paynes Payne's Opening Speech I in Debate on Tariff I PREFERS DISCUSSION SECTION BY SECTION 1 ThinKs Business Interests Demand Speedy Relief I From Suspense WASHINGTON March 21 I. Declaring in ing zag that tho the present was as no time for academic discussion o of the tariff Mr Clark of Missouri said sail in the house today today to to- da day that ho had llad gone cono to Chairman I Payne and su suggested ested that in so far as ashe ashe ashe he was concerned he lie gladly would have waived nil all general debate on tho the bill I if assurance could ouM bo ho given i Cn that there would ho bo ample opportunity for amendments amend amend- meets ments and debate under tho the minute five rule of tho the entire measure section b by section It was his isis judgment that tho bill could be amended in mau many respects Touching tho the failure of the consumer eon con sumer to appear before the tho committee Mr Clark said that there were two reasons rea rea- sons soils for this one that in tho the beginning be tho the public looked upon the thc hearings as asa asa asa a stupendous confidence game and second see sec on ond that the consumer felt that the possibility of having his tariff burden burlen substantially reduced l was so remote that ho did not think it worth traveling expenses hotel bills neglect of business business busi busi- usi ness and lo loss s of time While Whilo that applied to the fairly well to do ultimate consumer ho said there were millions of ultimate co consumers rs who livid had not the tho wherewithal to foot tho the bills hills for a trip to Washington and other millions who could s scrape together to to- gether the tho expense money could not riot afford afford af af- ford to use uso it in in that wa way So that he said the tho ul ultimate to consumer really speaks in these hearings hear bear ings only through questions propounded b by members of tho the committee in an nn honest honest honest hon hon- est endeavor endea to ascertain a the tho truth Dividing Tariff I Pic Pie Most lost of the cross firing among witnesses wit wit- nesses flosses he lie said was where one set of manufacturers fell afoul of another because because be be- cause the tariff pie was not evenly distributed distributed dis dis- anti and each cach ono one wanted the tho biggest biggest big big- gest Jett piece pie c. c To Mr 11 Fordney of Michigan Mr Clark extended h his assurances of his profoundest consideration as n a ll fighter I Ho He would not put a game cock in in that regale ng If ho he said a ll Mr Fordney were given bill it carte blanche to write a tariff would bo be short if not sweet and would bo be in in these words If an article can bo ho produced in inthis inthis m in this country by any process or at any cost whatsoever nothing liko like it shall be imported All through tho hearings ho be said Mr Ir Fordney was on hand with first aid or orthe orthe orthe the woun wounded lIe IIo said that tho the rest rost of tho the Republicans first or last caine camo over to our side ou on different reut subjects and in various dc degrees ees but that Mr Ir Fordney never lowered his bis colors a Leonidas Neither Leonidas at nt tho the pass nor Horatius at the tho brid bridge e was a marker to him ho said D Discussing nc tho situation in in which the tuo ways s and means committee found itself he lie said it if was unprecedented because both parties had bad favored ored reducing the tariff rates of the tho Din Dingley leY bill i Of course courso ho he said the the Republican but he lie can platform was equivocal added addea in that connection most of oi the tho Republican members of the tho committee camo came at last to construe it as a revision downward Th Tb Democrats so construed it and ana be he said tho the better botter part of wisdom and patriotism would have e been for tor all tho the members to have havo collaborated d in tho the work of preparing tho the bill after tho the hearings closed Wo We aro arc all Amer American can citizens equally interested in the tho prosperity glory glon- and happiness of a t mighty people peo pee he ho exclaimed Not Not ono of us lIS had tho slightest desire to injure in in an any anyway anyway way or to any extent whatsoever or any an- lc legitimate American industry Yet Theres There's Deficiency In addition to tho the peculiar coincidence dence of both Parties bein being under tinder orders or ders dorms to revise tho the tariff downward ho said Mid all were stared in the tho face by b ba a large larce and increasing deficiency in the I revenues rO f There cw wen t be he said faid but three ways known among men muon by which a de deficiency ile- ile may be he cure cured cut down expenses ex cx- increases in in taxes and issue of bonds To issue bonds he declared was no remedy nt at nil all It was Wll simply postponing postponing post post- I ponin the day ilay when thes' thes must m be he pai paid principal and arid interest t. t Taxes lie contended contended con cou- tend tended eo never noyer should be La increased where possible to avoid oid it sitting Cutting down appropriations he said where it could ho bo done without stinting stint stint- stinting t nt- nt ing the government Jo in oar an of it its proper functions was the mos most t reme remedy y for n a deficiency But But he lie added r our our Republican 11 brethren seen seem utterly incapable of cutting cut cut- cutting Wo We favor or ting tin il appropriations that remedy on ott tho old Jeffersonian principle of economy econom in th the tho public expense ex ex- pense that labor may bo ho l lightly bur bur- ur- ur Problem for Committee He ur urged that as ns the Republicans cannot cannot can can- cnn I not economize and ns as thc they wore were in the tho I majority tho the committee on ways andI and I I under compulsion to somehow somehow some some- moans was j i how increase tho the revenues rc b. b by about per annum t I Taking tho the whole situation into account ac ne- ne- ne count ho bo sai said the wil wise c thin thing would have been to invite the Democrats to loin join in preparing the bill bin Wo o would I have havo ai aided them in in their invert invert- j tt at ons mediations an and conclusions Ibo i ho bo sai said I In such joint work ho bo said no I member could have got into tho the bill or or oror out of or it all that he ho desired esin ll There j jI j was no iso danger er of our outvoting them I ho remarked for for they thoy had twelve members member to our six six fix hut but if wo we might l Continued cd on page O 2 l l' l DEMOCRATIC LEADER Continued from page l' l I 1 by mutual concessions have agreed in whole or e even evon n in part it would have havo I greatly expedited itc 1 tho the passage tE of the hill bill thereby shortening the business suspense sus stis- I pease pense now now- pervading tho Land The idea of collaboration however howo r lid did not occur to tho Republicans On tho the contrary thoy concluded to segre- segre gato lItO them themselves and go JO it alone as they bad Lad a perfect right to do o. o J Blames R Republicans Ho lie spoke of the tho rapidity with ith which the bill was reported hark hack to the tho house the timo tho-timo timo con consumed being just lust I twelve c minutes CI without a a discussion ion and without even reading tho title Ho llo warned th the tho Republicans that if a prolonged eri debate ensued and nd if the thc bus business n agony ony was wall continued for weeks or even cn months Hit it it is well Troll to n ro ro- member that the blame should rest upon tho time Republican members of tho the commit commit- tco cc and not upon the tho Democratic memo mem bers The Thi Pay PaM no bill Mr Clark assorted contained divers rs things which should have hn been omitted and omitt omitted l divers thin things s which it should have contained A. A As As confessedly its chi chief f t purpose is 18 isto isto I to increase o the rc Dut revenues he ho said it flit would appear to have havo been tho the p part rt of wisdom to have made both th the increases increases in in in- creases and the tho decreases in rates ate to that end ond and that red end Dd alone J There was ho declared no question of freo trade involved ol in in t the be revision rc In tho the pre present ent con condition of oi affairs hA hp argued every every approximately prohibitive prohibitive tive rate ou ought ht to bo ho cut to a revenue basis There Thorn were wro many man manof of them in tho the Dingley Din bill largo large p portions of ot which he be said were retained in tho the Payne bill Quotes Stool Steel Trust Tho The rate rato on steel rails had he been n cut cutin cutin cutin in two being rt reduced du eq from to 30 a ton but he be predicted that the rate rato won would prove provo just as prohibitive bi vo as th the i higher figure He referred to the tho testimony of Mr Ir Carnegie before tho committee in which he f said that no tariff tuitI was needed on steel rails even from I a e protectionists protectionist's s 's viewpoint and said 83 that on the steel rail question he ho pinned his Ilia faith to th the laird of Skibo |