The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-07
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Continued from the Fourth Edition.
Mr.. Schenck stated that after consultation this
morning in the Committee OF Ways and Means, he
had been instructed to move to strike out OF the
bill all relating TO cigars, AID to leave the law as it
is at present The clause as reported In the Dill was
reported in hostility the cigar interest of the
country, but because the committee was satisfied
that the cigar interest would be advanced by some
further lowering OF the duty on foreign cigars.
STILL as the cigar Interest, or the members repre-
senting it, seemed TO be OF an opposite opinion, he
would move to strike out the paragraph, thus re-
newing motion made yesterday, pro forma, by the
gentleman from pennsylvania (Mr. Myers, and
which he believed was, on the whole, the best mo-
tion that could be made
After considerable discussion Mr.. Schenck with
drew the motion, and MIR. Myers renewed it, aud the
whole paragraph was struck out, leaving the duty
on cigars as it is under the existing law.
Mr.. Brooks On. ~ moved to amend the subse-
quent clause relating TO cotton manufactures 80 as
to make 1t read ION all manufactures OF cotton and
on all other articles manufactured of cotton, the
act of March 9, 1861, Is hereby restored" 1t would
be recolected, he said, that the Congress OF 1861
thought the Tax bill then passed for carrying on
great war was ample for all the expenses of the
MIR. Kelley said the Government was not preparing
tor war in 1861. he war had not come on.
MIR. Brooks-What was the Loan bill for?
Mr.. Kelley--It was to supply the deficiency cre-
ated under the administration OF James Buchanan
and under the free trade tariff OF 1857.
Mr.. Brooks-That kind OF talk is good enough for
the stump, but is out of place here
MI. Kelley-ltis Is good for the House and for the
country. Truth is always good for mems souls.
MIR. brooks-I VIII meet the gentleman in the
back wards OF New YORK or Philadelphia on the
stump but mere we are 70 be governed by reason,
not by stump speeches.
Mr. Brooks went on TO argue that under the high
tariff, American cotton manufactures, which
formerly could be found in all parts OF the world,
could not now be exported the expectation having
fallen OF from eleven millions TO three mi lions.
Mr.. Kelley denied that the Tariff bill OF 1851 was
passed by Republican Congress. The subsequent
tariff OF Aug. 1861 was passed by Republican Con-
gress He claimed that the existing tariff was reve-
nue. measure More revenue was being collected
under II than under any previous tariff, and the Inn
| pOrtations were greater than ever before
The discussion was further carried on by Mr. Mar
shall against high protective duties and by Messrs.
| ONeill, Kelley, and Dawes in favor OF them.
Mr. Dawes said that n the manufacturing towns
OF Lawrence, Lowell, or Manchester were set down
on the Western prairies the farmers Tor hundred
miles around could not be made to believe In Tree
| trade theories.
| MIR. Marshall declared the gentleman from Massa-
chusetts very much mistaken II he thought that the
farmers of the South and West did not understand
the protective swindle. They were being robbed by
1t, and would no longer submit to such spolia-
| tiOns.