The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-12-11
GART1E1D's 'rARfiFiF RECORD.

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He Votes to Take the TsiIfr Duties or Coal AM
to Keep Them on Tea and Coffee, and to Re
duce the Tariff Duties on Wool and on IrOr
and Steel Ten Per Centum.
On page 80, Congressional Globe, Isl
session AID Congress, will be found the
tariff record OF Foster and Garfield on
taking the tariff duties off coal and keep.
ing said duties on tea and coffee.
The resolution on the coal tariff reads
as follows:
Be ii Resolved, &c, That from and after
the passage of this joint resolution no
tax or duty shall be collected upon for
eign coal.
On this the vote of the Ohio Congress-
men stood as follows:
Yeas Beatty. Bingham, CHARLES
FOSTER, GARFIELD, Monroe, Shella
berger, John A Smith, Stevenson, Epson,
and John T, Wilson, Republicans, and
Campbell, Lamison, Mckinney, Morgan,
and Van Trump, Democrats.
Nays-Ambler and sprague, Republi-
cans.
The total vote stood 100 to 81 and 30
the rules were suspended and the reso-
luton passed.
A bill offered by Randall, Democrat,
Of Pennsylvania, was next read as fol-
lows:
Be Enacted. &C., That from and after
the passage of this act Tea and Coffee
shall be placed .on the free list, and no
further imported duties shall be collected
from the same.
The vote of the Ohio Congressman on
this law to take the tariff tax off tea and
coffee is as follows:
Yeas-Ambler, Beatty, Bingham, John
A. Smith, Stevenson, Upson and John
T. Wilson, Republicans, and Campbell,
Lamison, Mckinney, Morgan and Van
Trump, Democrats.
Nays-CHARLES FOSTER, GAR,
FIELD, Monroe, Peck and Shellaberger,
Republicans.
This record shows that Foster and
Garfield were perfectly willing to put
coal down to the lowest price, and at the
same time voted that those who mined
the coal should pay the biggest price for
tea and coffee.
In 1872 the tariff bill of June 9th, of
that year, was voted on and passed the
House. This bill made a sweeping re-
duCtion of ten per Centum in the tariff
duties on foreign woods, and on iron and
steel. We quote from its second section
as follows:
Sec 2. That on and after the first day
of August 1872 in lieu of the duties i'm.
posed by law on the articles in this Sec
ton enumerated, there shall be levied,
collected and paid on the goods, wares,
and merchandise in this section enumer.
ated and provided for, imported from
foreign countries, ninety per cent. of the
several duties and rates of duty now
imposed by law upon said articles sew
orally, IL being the intent of this section to
reduce eTi8ting duties on said articles ten per
centun of such duties, that is to say n
On all wooIs II
On all iron and steel, and on all man
ufactures Of iron and steel, of which
metals or either of them shall be the
component part of chief value, except
ding cotton machinery.
The vote in the House on the passage
of this tariff bill of June 9Th, 1872, will
be found in the Congressional Globe.
Part 9Th, I'd Session 42d Congress, Page
1862, in which the vote of the Of the Ohio
Congressman shows up as follows:
Yeas-CHARLES FOSTER, GAR.
FIELD, shellaberger, Sprague, Republi'
cans, and Morgan, Democrat.
Nays--Ambler, Beatty, Bingham, Peck,
Aaron F. Perry, John A. Smith, Steven.
son, Upson, John T. Wilson, Republi-
cans, and Campbell and Lamison, Dem
ocrats,
Not voting--Monroe, Republican, and
Mckinney and Van Trump, Democrats.
Here Foster and Garfield are on posi-.
tive record as voting for the sweeping
reduction made on woods, and on iron
and its products, of ten per centum of
the former tariff of 1870. This bill, for
which they voted, reduced the tariff on
iron and steel from 81 a ton to $3.50.
Yet in the face of all the above record
we are told that Foster and Garfield are
tariff men And the only instance, in
it all, which shows them to be any kind
of tariff men, is when they voted to con-
tinue the tariff on the poor mans tea
and coffee In all other instances they
voted to take the tariff off the produc.
tions of the country so as to lower their
prices by letting in foreign wool, coal,
iron and steel. This record is undenia
BILE, and in the face of it they are any.
thing but tariff men.--Y Youngstown Vind5'