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Show I MR. L0N0W0BTH ON THE TARIFF BB.' Br Mr. LotiRWortli said: I hnvo no BBj doubt of tlmt; but it wo aro to Jud- BBj ce by tlio report of tho mnjorlty of BBt I tho Cotnmlttco on Ways and McanH B tlio fact iiocnm nlnln that nono of B I them hnvo hnd tho tlmo, or at least B i th j Inclination ovon, to read tho re- vi j port of tho Tariff Hoard. I am for- BBfl. ' od, then, to assumo that they havo BBl . not had tlmo to oxnmlno thoso samp- i j ! Mr. Mondell. Havo they read their BBli I own report I" I Mr. I.ongworth: As tho gcutloman V from Wyoming (Mr. Mondell) bur- BBj Kets, It seems very posslblo Hint ..icy BBl. huve not oven read tholr own re- BBj Mr. Dalzoll: If tho gentleman from ' Ohio will allow mo to Interrupt til tn, B j I would say to him to no onu of tho BBf i2 men whoso nnmo aro append- BBf cd to that report had anything at all BBj ; to do with tho writing of It. I was BBJ J written by n newspaper correspondent BBC i of tho Now York Journal of commcr- ce, who enjoys tho title of professor BBw ' of political economy In Uoorgctown BBmi I University, and I doubt 'whether nny H ' ono of tho 14 Domocrntic gentlemen BBl of that commlttco havo road It. (Ap- BBJ j plnusu on tho Republican side.) K I Mr. Longworth: N'ono of them BBV' ' hnvo sud that they havo read It, and BBV th Bpcechca wo havo hard would not Mi servo as an Indication that they havo BBA1 received any Information from any sourco whatover, oven from tho report re-port kindly written for thorn by tho Individual referred to by tho gentleman gentle-man from Pennsylvania. Thus tho wholo Democratic theory that tho tariff on a competitive artlclo Is a tax which is paid In full by tho American consumer falls crumbling to tho ground. No wonder tho report of tho Tariff Doard displeases tho majority. It has actually undermined tho entlro structure of tholr policy of tariff making. Tho bill which tho majority of fcr to reviHo tho wool schedulo ind tho bill which we of tho minority offer" of-fer" for tho samo purposo nro perfect examples of tho relntlvo position of tho two partl.m today upon tho tnrllf. Ily your bill you repudiate tho Tarltf Honul; by our bill wo endorse It. In your bill you u.sregard all of Its fi.iuinsb, iir bill Is niado In exact accordance with Its findings. Furthermore, Further-more, wo submit to tho American people that tho report of tho Tariff Hoard on tho wool schedulo has completely com-pletely Justified tho necessity for Us continued existence Wo think that no more reactionary stop could be tnken at this tlmo than to nbollsh tho Tariff Hoard; that no moro reactionary reac-tionary step could bo taken than to cut oft thu appropriation that Is lie-cesary lie-cesary to cnabU it to carry out its functions, We go further than that. Wo believe be-lieve .that truo progress demnnds tho creation of a permanent tarltf board or commission or whatever you may choose to call It. A board nonpartisan nonparti-san In character, removed as far as posslblo from tho domain of actlvo politics, which shall Investigate every schedulo from A to N of tho tariff In tho samo thorough way that tho present pre-sent board has Investigated Schedule K, and report to Congress Us findings. find-ings. Tho proposition contained In sever nl bills introducd by gentlemen on tho other sldo of tho House that such n board shall bo appointed by yio chairman of tho Ways and Means Commlttco Is a. mero sham and a bogging of tho question. Wo bellevo that a tariff commission ougu to rank In dignity nnd Importance with any commission in tho Innd. To make it a mero tool of tho chairman of the Ways and Means Commlttco would bo to utterly destroy Its runl. useful-noes useful-noes to tho American people. Wo demand tnat mnmlcrs of tho Tariff Board shall ho appointed by tho President Pre-sident of the United States, so that Its findings may be removed as tor as possible from any suspicion or political bias and can bo accepted as facts by tjio American people. Th. avowed object of this Democratic Demo-cratic wool bill is to surrender tho American market both for wool und woolens to tho foreign producer. The object of our bill Is to retain tho American market for .uo American Ameri-can producer. "" Our bill Is designed to bring prosperity pros-perity to tho American manufacturer tho Amorlcan worklngman, and tho Amerlcnn farmer. Your bill Is designed de-signed to bring prosperity to tho European manufacturer, tho European workmnn, nnd tho farmer In South America and Australia. Both bills substantially rcduco tho duties In Schedulo K. Tho Democratic bill, In some respects, reduces tho duties more than our bill, but, on tho other hand, our bill reduces somo of tho duties moro than does tho Democratic Democrat-ic bill. Thoy aro both downward revisions re-visions of Schedule K. Dut thcro Is ono substantial difference between tho two bills, and that is that tho Democratic bill retains nil tho old concealed duties in th. wool Bchdulc nnd our bill wipes them out altogether. altoge-ther. Tho issue presented by these bills Is plain nnd clear. Stripped of oil misleading mis-leading arguments and unnecessary verbiage, It Is Just this: Shall wo or shall wo not havo a downward revision revis-ion of Schedulo K nt this session of Congress? This House is Democratic, but the Senate is Republican, nnd we have, thank God, a Republican President lu tho White Houso. You know and tho American people peo-ple know that this Democratic bill can not becomo a law during this administration. ad-ministration. You know and tho American Am-erican people know that our bnl can become a law durlng"thls administration. admin-istration. It you will only allow us to tako our bill to tho President, ho .will gladly sign it. If you stubbornly stubborn-ly Insltjt on your bill or nothing, you will got nothing. You say you want a downward revision of Schedulo K. Wo point tho way to get It. Tho way Is clear and tho tlmo Is here for you to show tho slncerctty of your professions. pro-fessions. A voto for tho Democratic bill Is a voto to leave Schedulo K as It stands today on the stntuto "book for two years moro, A voto for our l bill Is a voto to revise downward the I duties of Schedule K nod mqko it ef-1 fectlvo In two months. To vote for our bill is to progress. To voto for tho Democratic bill Is to stand pat. Wo welcome your support even though you bo standpatters. Wo urge you to cas aside petty party politics and, facing to tho front Instead or to I the rear, to Join us In enacting speedily speed-ily Into law a measure which, whllo ' It will allow Amorlcan sheep to live on American soil and will allow Americans Am-ericans to make clothing for their "fellow Americans, will noverthless bring nbout that consummation devoutly de-voutly to bo wished a downward revision re-vision of Schedulo K. That Is tho question chat confronts us, and my closing suggestion to my frfends on the other sldo of tho aisle Is to either put up or shut up." |