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APRIL 2, 1909
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tionlst ntandpolnt, and sold that on
the steel rail question ho pinned his
faith to the laird of Sklbo.
Tho Speaker's Good Nature
Mr. Clark good naturedly remarked
that tho democrats had scared Mr.
Payne at tho last session Into admit
ting that thero would bo tariff revi
sion. But at the bottom of tho move
ment for tariff revision, ho said, was
President Roosevelt. "I never had any
delusions about that man," ho said,
amid shouts of laughter. "Ho is
gone," he said in mock tones of sor
row. Addressing tho republicans, ho
said:
"Some of you hope ho will never
come back. But my regret is that he
left at all, because if ho had stayed
here you would have been in such a
row within ninety days that you would
not know whether you were republi
cans or democrats.".
Some further obrervations regard
ing Mr. Payne moved tho house to a
storm of laughter. Mr. Clark, said ho
sat in the house yesterday and heard
Mr. Payne say he had been in tho
house twenty years preparing tariff
bills. "My God," ho exclaimed, "What
a set of lies he must have heard in
that time." If, he said, Mr. Payne
would make up an Ananias ciub from
the witnesses ho heard on the tariff,
no building in tho United States would
hold them.
Calling attention to the colloquy
yesterday between Mr. Payne and Mr.
Garrett of -Tennessee, which grew out
of an Inquiry by the latter whether
the Payno bill was not revision up
wardj Mr. Clark read some compari
sons showing that the averago rato
of the DIngley bill was 44.10 per cent,"
whilo under the Payno bill they were
45.72 per cent, "showing 1.56 per cent
worse than the Dingley bill." Ho de
clared that no man of bad temper or
bluster could conceal that fact from
the American people. Many of the re
ductions In the bill, he maintained,
were more apparent than real.
Discussing tho reduction on refined
sugar, Mr. Clark said it was held out
as a great boon to the consumer.
''When the sugar trust received that
tremendous blow between the eyes,"
he said, "Instead of seeing stars It
saw a stream of gold flowing Into its
coffers every' year of the continuance
of the Payne tariff bill."
He could not understand, ho said,
Why such tenderness was shown the
sugar trust, which he characterized as
a criminal.
An to petroleum, Mr. Clark said the
bill contain "tho same . old Joker."
'While ostensibly on. the freo list, he
insisted thKt petroleum was given pro
tection orTfrom 150 to 250 per cent.
If, Mr. Clark said, the Standard Oil
company wtf6"not, as ho believed, the
sole beneficiary under tho bill he would
not object to the crudo oil producers
gcttinn- a revenue tariff.
Asked by Mr Scott of Kansas, to
give his reasons for belioving as he
did regarding' the Standard Oil com
pany, Mr.- Clark asserted that tho
Standard compels the crudo oil pro
ducer to take its price and tho con
sumer of-oil to pay its price. "I assert
' 'without any fear whatever," he- ex
claimed, "that tho Standard .Oil com
pany is1 tho greatest aurora that the
sun ever lookod down on during its
- 6,000 years of journeying through the
heavens."
" -"Would -that condition be changed
' by eliminating this countervailing
duty?" inquired Mr. Scott.
Mr. Clark replied in the affirmative,
explaining, that if tho Standard put
up tho price of .refined oil too high
somebody else4Jwould ship refined oil
to tho United States.
Answering Mr. Simms of Tonnessoe,
the minority leader declared that as a
choice between the ovils it would be
' Infinitely." better to repeal tho counter
vailing duty on petroleum and put a
straight ad valorem duty on crudo oil
even of 20 or 25 per cent.
Speaking generally Mr. Clark said
he would not- object to a good stiff
revenue tariff on anything except salt.
WIH Not Assist In Oppression
"I want In this connection to an
nounce a general principle," ho said.
"And that is that I will not help any
living ,human ' being to oppress the
great masses of tho people in this
country." All plunderers, ho said,
looked alike to him. On account of the
attitude ho Was taking, ho asserted,
he might bo retired to private life.
Ho would prefer, he said, not to retire,
"but let the time come sooner or later,
whenever I do ,go out, I intend to
depart with my mental integrity and
Mr. Clark next devoted his attention
to Speaker .Cannon, who occupied a
conspicuous .place on the floor, and was
paying marked attention to what the
minority leader Avas saying. Ho spoke
of the speeches made by Mi. Cannon
at Joplin and other places In Missouri
during the campaign regarding zinc
and other .Missouri products, rfe de
clared that while in Missouri he had
been told by members of both parties
that the' deep zinc mining had gone
out of business, '.that the rich ore
only was,-:helng minea, and that deep
mining. LvAs "giving them smokeless
chimneys and idle workmen. .He also
had ' beeji lolfl that the coming into
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tho United States of free zinc from
Mexico affected their Industry. Ho de
clared that he saw the smokeless
chimneys and the idle men, and that
former Representative Hackney, a
democrat, had been represented to him
as saying that -while he stood for tho
Denver platform, ainc should be pro
tected. "I said -to my audiences," the
speaker remarked, "that they know in
tho Joplln district and elsewhoro
whether a duty on zinc that came in
competition with their product was
necessary. I said also that action was
louder than words, and that should I
l)e re-elected, they being experts, their
action would control my vote."
Morgan Successor to Hackney
Replying Mr. Clark insisted that his
position was that the people of the
United States were paying a very high
price "that wo might have tho society
of my friend Charlie Morgan In this
house.'' Mr. Morgan is tho republican
successor to Mr. Hackney.
A statement by Mr. Clark that cer
tain persons in Joplln tried to deceive
tho committee with regard to the ne
cessity for a duty on zinc, brought a
denial from Mr. Morgan.
The speaker again took the floor to
make an explanation when Mr. Clark
said that the speaker had gone to tho
White House to discuss tho tariff ques
tion with President Taft before the
bill was reported. Mr. Cannon admit
ted that' he went there at the invita
tion of the president and said that he
had found Senator AldrJch and Secre
tary MacVcagh there. He denied that
the tariff was discussed, or if It was
he did not know it. What was dis
cussed, he said, was me general con
dition of the treasury and the desira
bility of a good administration "and
so far as possible, an organization and
an administration of that great de
partment that would tend to bring the
expenditures of the government within
the revenues." Mr. Cannon remarked
that he rarely corrected misrepresent
ation. In former years he declared
ho had sat in tho chair and on the
floor and heard misrepresentations
'"abounding in absolute falsehood that
have been taken for truth by the
muck-raking - newspapers and even
written in tho democratic platform."
Mr. Clark protested that he was not
trying to misrepresent the speaker.
Resuming hlB argumont, Mr. Clark an
nounced that If given the opportunity
ho would voto to put boots and shoes
on tho freo list, "and," he said, "they
can bellow about free traders as much
as they please." "Never,'' ho said,
"would tho tariff be taken off boots
and shoes until it was dono when it
was taken off hides." Much attention
was given by Mr. Clark to the sub
ject of wool and woolens. "The wool
en schedule." he said, "is the most
monstrous thing in this bill. It is the
most complicated of all the schedules.
It is a monstrous oppression of the
poor."
Mr. Clark Makes Prediction
Mr. Clark predicted that when tho
senate got through with cutting and
carving the Payne bill, Mr. Payne
would not recognize his old child when
ho met it in the road. "Tho seniors
over there," ho said, "are engaged
Tight now in making a tariff bill of
their own." He maintained that tho
senate would strike out all after the
enacting clause. When tho bill reach
ed conference it would be dog days
and the weather would be so disagree
able in Washington that "fellows will
voto for any kind of a bill to get out
of town."
In reviewing tho testimony of Wil
liam Whitman of Boston on tho wool
schedule, Mr. Clark gave his estimate
of some of the men who figured in tho
hearing.
"I hate no man." said Mr. Clark In
speaking of Mr. Whitman, "but I have
more contempt for him than for any
other man I ever clapped my eyes on."
He declared that Mr. Whitman had
great Influence with the committee on
finance in the senate when the DJnglcy
bill was being considered In that body.
The oil schedule was adverted then
When Mr. Burke of Pennsylvania said
he had received information that re
moving the countervailing duty would
not- affect the Standard Oil company,
but' that It would bft, absolutely fatal
to 'the independenr'hrqducers for the
reason as was stateu'tbat, go per cent
o the oil produced in tho United
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