Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-02
Aftor oxpyAuatlopgtho bill pasggd,

| After explhuatioDsthe bill passed. r LFTTET
M JUt!AN irom the ~ taee eompr!lsstee. reported
'iss before tSe reading Of tho bin vas completed the
morning hour expired, and the bill went over till
NJ ASHLEY, Of Ohio, from the committee On
Territories reported the House bill toproyide tenn
porary government for the Territory OF Lincoln,
which was ordered TO pe printed and recommitted.
ON motion Of Mr.. ALLEY the Senate bill to aid
the construction Of telegraph lines and TO secure
10 the Government the use Of samefOr postal, milf
tary and other purposes was taken from the table.
read twice and referred to the Postoice committee
Mr. RICE, Of Mane, introduced bill for the es-
tablishment and maintenance Of . public park in
the District Of Columbia, which was read twice and
referred 10 the COMMITTEES on Public Bnildings. z T
The House then went into committee Of the Whole
on the State Of the UnOn-Mr. .eSchOheld in tho
chair-and resumed the consideration Of the Tariff
a 4 molten was made by Mr.. AMES to increase the
duty on steel and iron squares for measuring from
Mr.. HARDIN, Of Illinois spoke in opposition. He
sgid IL would be better topiy OO0 90 out OF the
Treasury TO those Tor whose beneht this bill was de-
Mr. AMES' amendment was withdrawn aud T--'
Mr.. M0RRILL moved that the duty be nine cents.
Mr.. HARDlN objected to taxing the people Of the
West for the benefit of Eastern manufacturers.
Mr.. KELLY, of Penns lYsnia, Ssaid q at the pro-
tectiin proposed was more for wheat growers than
Mr.. MOORHEAD, Of Pennsylvania, argued that
mport duties did not have the effect to increase the
Mr.. : HARDIN ridicuIed the assertion he insist
cd upon reduction of duties in behalf of the West.
Cut nailscOuld be made cheaper If the duty was
Mr.. DAWES, Of Massachusetts,. said that under
had fallen in price,. The people of this country be
pkohted bv protection Competition had sprung up
aad we were no longer dependent upOa England. -
The tariff bill could be framed only on one of two
principles :'sying the duty on the raw material or
bring in the manufactured article on The libo or
himself. Tee article mu t be manu- actured OF this
side Of the, water or upon tue other. IL On
nnos more than any other State. II Illinois wants
wealth she must have laborers, and she can only
have them by giving them employment. Mr.. Nor
ribs amendment was adopted
Mr.. MORRILL, moved an amendment taxing rail-
road iron one cent per pound. y
Mr.. WILSON. Of Iowa, moved to amend the
amendment 30 as to make the duty seventy cents
per hundred pounds. He said that ne was almost
disposed to recommend Mr.. Kelly Of Pennsylvania,
as the head Of the Agricultural Department, owing
to the ideas he hi d put FORTH He referred 70 the
reduction of the internal revenue tax on railroad
iron and thought that ought to satisfy the iron roll
Mr.. GRlSwOLD said that manufacturers Of rail-
road iron had been losing money for, three or tOuI
years, was blow at the manufacturing interest of
prosperity speaking Of the Free Trade League, be
said that not of its members was identified with
the industrial interests Of the country and most of
| Mr.. RAYMOND save some statistics and figures
showing the effect Of the proposed Rmendmen'.- He
wanted TO see the time como when manufacturing
establishments could protect themselves de did
not desire to see the railroads sadded with enor.
| Inaus protection TO benefit the iron rollers.
| Mr.. GRISWALD declared toat competition wai
| the surest way TO cheaper productions. The pro-
ductiOns of American rolling mills had been greatly
reduced becauselow grades Of English iron could bC
sold cheaper than AmeTicsT iron. he, appealed Z
| his colleague, Mr.. RAYMOND not TO allow his judg
ment to be marked by the spacious arguments Of
| railroad mon or foreign manufacturers.
Mr.. GARFIELD, Of Ohio, faid the iron interests
OF the country should not be destroyed by the inter
| ests of foreign manufacturers. Those who desired
| to- see the iron trade forever secured TO England
vote for the Of the gentlemen from
America to be demoishek. and itlacked only Thirty
two votes Of being carried was
hammer erected to be run bp water power in Amer
| lea. The colonies might produce the raw materia
ana ship il to England There was the same sort o
Mr. DODGE spoke in favor Of the increased pro
teotion for railroad iron. and predicted that unde
%e "a 1S y Il. duty
The iron interest ought to be satisfied with the pres
Mr.. BINGHAM spoke on the same side. ~.
Mr.. STEVENS, Of Penn, regretted that tn,
South had not taken away the FIRE trade doctrine
that now seem to be located along the Mississippi
Ss
the article imptr:ed from Engsni was more thai
three times what 1t was Eve years ago--betore th
| war. The reduction was caused simply by protect
ing American interest, and yet gentlemen cauno
see it or understand it. They are blind TO every
thing but theory, which cannot be reduced to prac
tce without crushing all the interests of the coun
try. England can send her iron heae. because tht
price of labor there Is only onethrd what it is here
The price Of iron consists of onetwenteth capita
and nineteen -twentieths labor II is at lahOr. there
FORE that the opponents of the duty striking.
is labor which the free trade league is trying +
crush, n .I ..u-fuolr .. % .Tr uAg ,J