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The Commoner.
VOLUME 11, NUMBER St
tho domocratic members of the com
mittee in revising Schedulo K and
the cotton schedule. They all do
servo well of tho house and of tho
country. I am rather inclined to tho
opinion that my distinguished friend
from Illinois (Mr. Mann) and my
self know something about tariff
bills, too. (Applauso on tho domo
cratic side.) Ho voted against tho
Payne tariff bill bless his heart for
doing it . (Applause on tho domo
cratic side.) I yielded him 20
minutes time to mako his speech, tho
best one ho over made in his life.
(Applauso on tho democratic side.)
Tho members of tho tariff board
aro, no doubt, most excellent and
learned gontlomon; but whatever
else they may bo, they are not tariff
experts. To hear certain persona
toll it, all senators and representa
tives in congress aro idiots, utterly
Ignorant of tho tariff question, and
should not be permitted to do any
thing touching tho tariff except to
register tho decrees of the tariff
board nonexperts. I throw out this
gontlo hint: If the tariff board is
to be used as tho president is using
It in this case to delay tariff revision
instead of expediting it, it will have
a short shrift as certain as grass
grows or water runs. The tariff
board, if it continues to exist, should
be made tho servant and not the
mastor of the representatives of the
people. Why do not tho little
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that congress Is composed of a lot of
Ignoramuses on the tariff, come to
congress themselves and pass a
model tariff bill? They do not come
for the all-sufllclont reason that they
can not get votes enough. Tho people
declared last November that they
desired tariff revision, and they will
not be enamored of those who block
that work.
Tho gentleman from Kansas (Mr.
Campbell) voted for this bill. What
cnange nas come o'er the spirit of
his dream? Is it the sweet odor of
the fleshpots of Egypt or not? (Ap
plause on the democratic side.)
These gentlemen supporting the
president's veto message have all
said every one of them who made
a speech that I have heard that this
wool bill is unconsidered. The stand
patters are unanimous on that propo
sition. I do not propose to have that kind
of a statement go unchallenged to
the country, because it is absolutely
untrue. What happened? We called
a aomocratic caucus of fho dm-
cratic members-elect of this house on
the 19th day of January. The pur
pose of that proceeding was to select
the democratic members of the com
mittee on ways and means that they
might go to work preparing tariff
bills. That was before anybody
dreamed of this extra session. Some
of the newspaper republican breth
ren said it was my "crazy scheme,"
but it worked like a charm. We
chose the democratic members of
the ways and means committee, and
they went to work and spent nearly
three months preparing this wool
bill. (Applause on the democratic
side.) I defy my distinguished friend
S0n.New York (Mr- Payne) to state
that he and his committee ever spent
three months on any one schedule
in the tariff bill. (Applause on the
democratio side.)
Mr. Payne. I wish to say that we
spent more than 10 times as much
time on this woolen schedule than
you did.
i,Mr;J?lark of MiBsouri. When was
it 7 When did you spend it? I will
give you a piece of history you seem
to have forgotten. A tariff bill has
J.4 scneauies in it. You and I and
the rest of your committee began
considering the Payne bill with the
14 schedules on the 11th day of
November, and you reported that
bill to this house with the 14 sched
ules on the 18th day of March. (Ap
plause on the democratic side.)
Mr. Payne. I commenced the
preparation of that bill more than
a yearJefre the committee met.
Mr. Clark of Missouri. And so did
we, bless your soul. I have been
preparing for the wool bill and other
tariff for the last twenty years. (Ap
plause on the democratic side.)
Mr. Payne. But I want to ask
the gentleman what that has to do
with this mongrel thing that comes
from the conference committee'
Mr. Clark of Missouri. After the
house considered this bill the senate
considered it. The gentleman had
to give up a good deal of his own
bill two years ago, and sulked, and
swore, and was peeved because he
had to yield. That is the truth.
. Mr-Payne. Well, he did not yield
the whole thing.
Mr. Clark of Missouri. You
yielded all you could.
Another thing, they say that we
are playing politics. Whenever any
man stands up and undertakes to do
anything for the benefit of the great
masses of people he is denounced by
the interests" as a demagogue and
is charged with playing politics. But
to stand up and advocate the cause
of the 'interests" is the highest evi
dence of statesmanship. As far as
I am inividually concerned, I sprang
from the loins of the common people,
God bless them, and I am one
of them. I labored with m.
hands in my youth, and would do it
again tomorrow if I had to dn ,
"? x ndtatingly take my stand
with the consumers of tho land
against the "interests." d a8
Ti, Pfe,sldent desires to havo
tar ff legislation postponed till hia
tariff board can tutor him . ."8
ciently to write a tariff bill, which"
.. v woxui m multifarious
and onerous duties nmi hta ,..
for long-distance traveling and fre
quent speechmaking, we must per
force conclude would be a faraway
day in the sweet by and by. We do
not want the people to suffer that
long.
The president made a famous
speech at Winona', Minn. The only
part of that speech which was any
good (laughter) was that part of it
in which he said the wool schedulo
was too high and ought to be re
duced. (Applause on the democratic
side.)
Here are his exact words on that
celebrated occasion:
"With respect to the wool sched
ule, I agree that it is too high and
that it ought to have been vpAucpA
and that it probably represents con
siderably more than the difference
between the cost of production
abroad and the cost of production
here. The difficulty about the woolen
schedule is that there were two con
tending factions early in the history
of republican tariffs, to-wit, wool
growers and the woolen manufac
turers, and that finally, many years
ago, they settled on a basis by which
wool in the grease should havo 11
cents a pound, and by which allow
ance should be made for the shrink
age of the washed wool in the dif
ferential upon woolen manufac
turers. The percentage of duty was
very heavy quite beyond the dif
ference in the cost of production,
which was not then regarded as a
necessary or proper limitation upon
protective duties."
Those words sank deep into the
minds of the American people. They
made them the basis of hope for
cheaper and warmer blankets and
clothing. Now, so far as in him lies,
the president dashes- those fond
hopes to the ground; but what's writ
ib writ, and those presidential words
are part of the history of the re
public. It is asked why we took the wool
schedule first. I will tell you. Wo
took it because the president said
that it ought to be reduced (ap
plause on the democratic side), be
cause we faced a hostile senate and
faced a hostile president. This bill
is not what r would have written if
I had had carte blanche; it is not
what the gentleman from Alabama
(Mr. Underwood) would have writ
ten; it is not what any of us would
have written; but we undertook to
get a bill that would have the best
chance possible of passing the ordeal
of the house, the ordeal of the sen
ate, and the ordeal of the white
house. (Applauso on the democratic
side.) I was 'certain that the presi
dent would sign the bill cutting
down the wool tariff; we took him
at his word. That is the head and
front of our offending in putting the
revision or tlie wool schedule first.
I never did believe he would veto it
until the last two or three days.
Then, we took the cotton schedule
next, because it, too, is a textile
schedule. I am violating "no secret
in stating that so soon as tho re
vised cotton schedule was through
the house, the democratic members
of the ways and means committee be
gan industriously to prepare the iron
and steel schedule revision, having
previously collected a large assort
ment of information on that subject.
We welcome the issue. We are not
afraid to go to the people on it. Wo
know that we stand for right and
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