Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — DID ALL THEY COULD. [ARTICLE]

DID ALL THEY COULD.

C hamp Clark, Democratic leader in the house of representatives, gave out a statement alter congress adjourned in which he shows that the Democratic members had done all that it was possible for a minority to do to secure tariff legislation in favor of the people and to prevent the passage of the Payne-Cannon-Aldrich-Smott iiiiumy. lie also shows that the house Democrats came out of the tariff light more thoroughly united on that question than they have been in a generation and the Republicans came out of it worse shattered than ever before. Senator Culberson recently made a similar good showing for the Democratic senators, every one of whom with the exception of McEnery of Louisiana opposed the hill and voted against it. As the Democrats had no hand in making the bill and were excluded from the conference committee the sole responsibility rests upon the Republicans. On the question of increased duties Mr. Clark in his statement says: “Many newspapers are trying to make It appear that the Payne-Ald-rich-Smoot hill is a revision downward. T hat is absolutely untrue. The average of rates of the Payne-Aldrich-Smeot bill is about 2 per cent higher than the average rate of the Dlngley bill. When the maximum goes into efTect March 31, 1910, the average rate will be about 27 per cent higher than the average of the Dingley bill.” <3