Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-07-02

hostility 70 ~ peopo.fticn ~ hseonsD
uroyieiou W. mode q ~ riSGt ard haxoof
bill for surveys u thes AdvssDs lsports.
Laid on table.
MI. Holmes from ssmc committees, report
I'd back the House bill to authofia6 depart
urc from established mode Of surveying in
the Territories Of New Mexico and Arizona.
After explanation the bill passed.
Nj. Julian from the same committee, r..
ported back with amendments the Senate
iill to grant land titles in California.
Before the reading of the bill was com
plcted, the morning hour expired and the
bill went over till Tuesday next.
Mr.. Ashley, ffomcommittcc on Territories
reported the House bill TO provide temper.
airy government for the territory Of Lincoln,
which was ordered printed and fccommitted.
On motion Of Mr.. Any, the Senate bill
{, aid in the construction Of telegraph line,
and 70 secure to The 00vegnmont1ehe ~ Of
the same for poeeal and oeAsf pufpoon, No.
taken from the Speakers 49, NJ 6wiee
and relesed 70 he PED o. O001ittee.
Mr.. Rice, Of Ne !, introduced sbIR for tAe
establishment shd 0alhloinence Of public
park in the DiGeict Of Columhia. Red
twice and referred to committee on public
buildings.
lne house uneU went l0t0 C00mlyte0 81
the whole on the state OF he UnioeS 0f.
Schofeld in the chair. and resumed the con,
alteration of the tariff bill.
A motion was made by Mr.. Ames 10 in
erase the duty on steel and iron squaleD for
measuring from 8 ~ 10 cests PER poand.
Mr.. Harding. of ILL.,, spoke in oppoeition.
&c said it would be better to pay $780, 900 900
out OF the Treasury to thJsc for whose ber.
fit the bill was designed.
Mr.. Ames' amendment IVES withdf6Wn.
Mr.. Morrill, moved the duty be Q cent?.
Mr.. Hardin objected to taxing the people
Of the West for the benefit. of Eastern man
ufacturers.
Mr.. Kelly, OF Pa, said the protection pro-
posed was more for wheat growers than
manufacturers.
Mr.. Morehcad, of Pa, argued that import
duties did not have the effect TO increase the
cost OF articles.
Mr.. Harding ridiculcd the assertion. He
insisted upon reduction Of duties In hehalf
Of the:.West. Cut nails could be made cheap
er if the duty WAS taken of.
Mr.. Dawes, Of Mass, said that under she
influence ofthe protection principle. cutnaib
had fallen in price The people o.. this country
had profitcd by protection. Competitionhad
sprung up and we were NO longer depend
ent upon England. The thrift bill could to
framed only on one Of two principles-hy.
ing the duty on raw material or on the man.
featured articles.
Nj. Wilson, of Iowa, moved to amend the
amendment 30 - 70 make the duty TIC per
hundred pounds. He said be was almost de
posed 70 recommend Mr.. Kelly, Of Pa, ~
the head Of the Agricultural Depastmeet
owing to the ideas be had put forth. Hefe-
ferrcd to the reduction of the internal reve-
nue. tax on railroad andpig iron, and thought
that ought to satisfy iron rollers.
Mr. 0riswOld declared that competit1on
was the safest way 70 cheaper productiooA
The production Of American rolling uille
had been greatly reduced because low grades
Of English iron could be sold cheaper than
Amera an iron.
Mr.. SrsvEHs, Pale regretted that:the
South had not taken away with il the free
trade doctrines that now seem to b lOc1teo
along the Mississippi. Thirty yean 40
before there were any rolling mills -
Pennsylvania for iron bafs Of this klpd,
the price Of the article imported ffo0 EAg.
land was more than three times whak Il
was five years ago Before The waS The 70.
duction was caused by protecting Anefican
interests. yet gentlemen cannot See II or I'M.
derstand It. They are blind 70 everything
hut theory which cannot be reduced to
practice without crushing all the interests d
the country. England can send her iron
here because the price of labor there Il only
one-third what it is here. The price Of iron
consists of one twentieth capital aud nine
tecn.twcnticths labor. II is at labor that
the opponents Of duty are striking; it Is labor
which free trade leagues are trying to crush.