Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1909 — VOTE ON TARIFF BILL ON FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

VOTE ON TARIFF BILL ON FRIDAY

Role Closing Debate Adopt* ed With Votes to Spare. MINORITY IN A COLLOQUY Following Remarks About Bryan, Representative Randell Asks Representative Clark Whether Clark Was a Cleveland Democrat and If He Stood For Doctrine of Free Raw Materials. “I Am Just a Plain, OlCFFashlonejf Democrat,” Is the Drawled Reply. Washington, April 6. —Three o’clock p. m., April 9, was the time set by the house for a vote on the Payne tariff bill. The resolution from the committee on rules closing general debate, providing for certain committee amendments and a full and free opportunity to alter the lumber and hides schedules, was reported late in the day and adopted with sixteen votes to spare. Representative Clark of Florida, denounced Bryan and Bryanism, Populists and Populism, and declared that he would support the Payne bill if it contained what his constituents wanted —a duty on Sea Island cotton and protection for citrus fruits. Clark said: “The southern Democracy nevet made a greater mistake than when it turned its back on its Democratic friends in the east that it has driven from the party and tied up with Populism out in Nebraska.” Representative Randell declared that Bryan needed no defense and asked Clark if he was a Cleveland Democrat on the tariff, and if he stood, for the doctrine of free raw materials. “I am just a plain, old-fashioned Democrat,” drawled Clark, amid laughter. Clark declared, he was “sick and tired of hearing my southern colleagues talk of the ‘poor men of the south.’ ” you no convictions T’ asked Representative Finley. “I have,” responded Clark, “no con* victions of men who represent nothing but a short bale of cotton, a nigger and a mule.”