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LaFollette elected; my daily paper did a 
great deal for him in his campaign. If I 
can get LaFollette to pledge me person¬ 
ally to see to it that we can have a square 
deal, you can bet your last dollar that we 
will get it. If I can get Kenyon to do 
it, we will get what is fair under the new 
conditions. Let us proceed, not by res¬ 
olution, but by manipulation; by the sci¬ 
ence of pulling wires to make them give 
us what we should have. It can be done 
if you play your cards right. It is a 
game, this political business. 
Mr. Hamlin: Just one word more. I 
have statements and correspondence with 
our Senators and Representatives, that 
it would be simply folly for them to go 
up against the Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee and the commission that has 
adopted this schedule. They propose to 
railroad it through, no matter what any¬ 
body says, and our people cannot afford 
to butt against this engine with what 
knocks they could bring. j 
But they say the Ways and Means 
Committee did not intend to reduce the 
tariff on citrus fruits more than 50 per 
cent. They intended to reduce it to 28 
cents, based upon the number of cubic 
feet in the Florida box. 
The letter I received from Senator Bry¬ 
an yesterday asks for the adoption of 
some such resolution as this. This justi¬ 
fies them; puts them upon their mettle. 
Two of the Representatives who work 
with Bryan have agreed to the same 
proposition. I have talked with Senator 
Fletcher personally, and I know he will 
not oppose it in any way, and I believe he 
will fall in. this does not stand in the 
way of anybody doing something else or 
something more. This resolution does 
not ask that just 50 per cent, be adopted, 
and that we be given no greater protec¬ 
tion. 
Mr. Goodwin: I have tried to call at¬ 
tention to the pineapples. I have been 
fearing that possibly this tariff discussion 
would not be called up this session. 
Our Representative in Washington is 
supposed to be here tomorrow; he is to 
read a paper. If we are going to have a 
resolution made by this Society, I would 
like to have pineapples included in some 
way, but there are not enough of us 
here to go into that matter. 
Mr. Hume: Let me make a sugges¬ 
tion in connection with it, to dispose of 
the matter. Suppose you pass this reso¬ 
lution as it stands; then if you care to 
bring in a supplementary resolution in or¬ 
der to protect pineapples, we will see that 
it is put with it, and handled. Mr. Ham¬ 
lin, does that meet with your approval? 
Mr. Hamlin: Yes. 
Mr. Bond: Mr. Hamlin has criticised 
that process which he calls “railroading.” 
It means nefarious methods, and is a slur 
on the man who does it. Now, Mr. Un¬ 
derwood is the chief man on the commis¬ 
sion. He carried the State of Florida 
last year, and we all knew well what his 
views were. He had been in Congress, 
chairman of the Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee. We all knew what was going 
on, yet the State of Florida endorsed him. 
His associates are honorable gentlemen, 
and I object to the term “railroading” 
being used in connection with those gen¬ 
tlemen. 
