The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-09
FOSTER AND GAEFlELR
THEIRlTARIFF REC
They Vote to Take the Tariff Duties OG sad
to Keep Them on Tea and Coffee, And VA
Reduce the Tariff Duties on Wool ana
and on Iron and Steel Ten Per m
Centum, r

On page 50 Congressional Globe, 1st session A22
Congress will be found the record OF Foster ana
Garfield on taking the tariff duties of coal and
keeping said duties on tea and coffee
The resolution on the coal tariff reads as fol-.
lows:
Be Il resolved, &C., That from and after the pas.
sage Of this Joint resolution no tax or duty shall
be collected upon foreign coal.
On this the vote Of the Ohio Congretsmen stood
as follows:
Yess-Beatty, Bingham, CHARLES FOSTER,
GARFIELD, Monroe, sbellabeIeer, John A. Smith /,
Stephenson, UpEon and John T. WilsG u, Republi-
cans, and Campbell, LamitOD, Mckinney, Nor.
gan and Van Trump, Democrats
Nays-Ambler and sprague, Republicans.
The total vote stood 1870 to 81, and so the rules
were suspended and the resolution passed.
A bill! offered by Randall Democrat Of Penn.
sylvania was next read, as follows:
Be II enacted, &c. That from and after the pas.
sage OF this act tea and coffee Rhsll be placed on
the free list, and no urther import 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 fol.
lows:
Yeas-Ambler, Beatty, Bingham John A. Smith,
Stevenson, Upson and John 4. Wilson, Republt-
cans, and Campbell, Lamison, Mckinney, Nor
Nays-CHARLE5 FOSTER, GARFIELD, Mon
roe, Peck and ShellabaTgeT Republicans.
This record shows that Foster and Garfield were
perfectly willing TO put coal down 10 the lowest
price, and at the same time voted that those who
mined the coal should pay the highest price for
tea and coffee
In 1873 the tariff bill OF June 6th that year, was
voted on and passed the House. This bill made a
sweeping reduction Of ten per centum in the tar
If on foreign wools, and on iron and steel. We
quote from its I'd section as follows:
SEC. O. That on and after the LIST day of August,
1872 in lieu Of the duties imposed by law on the
articles In this section eDum merated there shall be
| levied, collected and paid on the goods, wares,
and merchandise in this section eDumt rated and
provided for, imported from foreign countries,
ninety per centum Of the seveTal duties al rates
Of duty now imposed by law upon said articles
EeVeTally, 1T BEING THE INTENT OF THIS SECTION
TO REDUCE EXISTING DUTIES ON SAID ARTICLES TEN
PER CENTUM OF SUCH DUTIES, that is 10 say;
On ell wools 4 4
On all iron and steel. and on all manufactures
of iron and steel, OF which metals or either OF
them shall be the componen part Of chief value,
| excepting 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 8, I'd session 42d Cen.
| gress, page 1862 in which the vote Of the Ohio
NOuBIGebLubub buOWb up
Yeas-CHARLEs FOSTER, GARFIELD, Shell.
labarger, spragUe, Republicans, and Morgan,
Democrat
Nays Amber, Beatty, Bingham, Peck, Aaron
F. Perry, John A. Smith, Stevenson, Upson John
T. Wilson, Republicans, and Campbell and Lami-
son, DemocratS
Not vOting g. Monroe, Republican, and McKin-
ney and Van Trump, Democrats.
Here Foster and Garfield are on positive record
| as voting for the bweeping reduction made on
| wools and on iron and its rroducis, Of ten per
| centum on the former tariff Of 1870. This bill
| for which they voted, reduced the Tariff on iron
and steel from 81 per ton to Sc S0l
Yet, in the face Of all the above record we are
told that Foster ard GaI field are tariff men And
the only instance, in 1t all, which shows them To
be any kind Of tariff men, is when they VOu to
continue the tariff on the poor mans tea and
coffee In all other instances they voted to take
tn tariff off the productions Of The country so Gs
o lower their price by letting in foreign wool,
COAL iron and steel. This record is uDdeniable,
and In The face Of 1t they are anything but tariff
men,