Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-09-22
OUT OF THEIR OWN lMOUTHS.
II is PrOcen That General Garfield
is q Protecti0nist.

is a Pyotecti0Rist
On page 24S of the Campaign Text
Book of the National Democratic Com
mittee, under the head, Some OF Gar
fields Votes" tile following ap-
pears:
GARFIELD'S TARIFF RECORD, AS PRE-
PARED BY THE NATIONAL DEMO
CRATIC COMMITTEE.
June +, I864.-Mr. Garfield voted
against an am ndment to the pending
tariff bill to admit free of duty dr.
a period of one year any ma"',..
designed for and adapted to '''" aaa4-
facture of woven fabrics fso.n he ti3ef
of fax or hemp, etc -Gioje. .'GU ,,
LIST Session, 38M Co4g., p. 275).
June 81, lS54.-Mr. Garfield voted
for Senate amendment 10 the tariff
bill fixing duty of sixty cents per one
hundred pounds on all iron imported
in bars for railroads and incline planes
made to patterns and fitted to be laid
down on such roads or pla"es.-Gl05e,
Il {. I. - gCrSS.- '5Dt'f COItJ-. r. %
July 10 ls6a.-The tariff bill being
und,r coi.iIeration, Garfield voted
agairs; reducing the duties on all rail
road IRON to 80 cents per hundred
pounds, and then voted to make it 10
cents per hundred pounds.-Globe, Pt.
4, 1st Sess., 18Th Cong, p. 1928.
December 8, 186S.-Garfeld voted
for a bill increasing the duty on i'm
ported copper and copper ores.-Gtobe,
Pt. l, 3rd Sess., 4Oh Cong, p. Is.
February s, 1S69-The bill went
back to the House from the Senate
with the rates of duty largely increas-
ed, and Garfield voted for the Senate
amendments.-Ibid, Pt, 9, p 960
May 90, 187O.-Garield voted
against motion offered by Mr.. Judd,
of Illinois, to suspend the rules and
pass bill to reduce duties on sugar
molasses, iron, etc.-GIobe, Pt. End
Sess., 4lst Cong, p. 1927.
June 6, 1670.-An internal revenue
bill being under consideration, Mr..
Schenck offered an amendment impos-
ing increased duties on tea, coffee, su-
gar, and other neccssaries Of life. In
fact, it was regular tariff bill injected
into an internal revenue bill Garfield
voted for it.-I5id, Pt. 5, p. 1906.
June 20, l870.-The House had in
the above bill raised the duty on live
animals from 90 to 80 per cent. al "a
lorem, and had so increased the duties
Oh potatoes and fish that they were
almost prohibitory. A resolution was
offered directing the Ways and Means
Committee to reduce the duties on po-
tatoes and fish to 30 per cent. Gar
field voted for its reference to the Ways
and Means Committee without instruc-
tions, and thus practically defeated it..
Ibid, p. 1903.
February 26, I872.--A resolution de-
claring it to be the judgment of the
House that the duty on pig iron should
be reduced to five dollars per ton or
less, was rejected Mr. Garfield voted
against it-Gl0be, Pt. 2, End SesS.,
42nd Cong, p, 1917.
January %, lS65.-Mr. Z. B. Wash
burne introduced for passage joint
resolution to reduce the duty on print
ing paper unsized, used for books and
newspapers exclusively to per cent.
al ralorem. Mr. Garfield voted to lay
the Joint resolution on the table He
also voted against ordering the main
question, and fought it at every stage
down to the final passage He wanted
the rate of duty put higher.-Globe,
Pt. |, 2ud Sess., 3Sh Cong, PIP. 1863
and $40.
March 8, 1SG5.-The above bill was
returned from the Senate with an
amendment increasing the duty to
! fifteen percent Garfield voted for that
amendment. He also voted against
tallying the bill, which the friends of
cheap paper desired to do.-Ibtd, Pt.
3, p. l4l6.
DUTY ON SUGAR.
April 90, 18G4.-An Internal Reve-
nue. bill being under consideration, Mr..
| Garfield voted for an amendment in
creasng the duty ON sugar from one to
two cents per pound.-Globe, Pt. 2,
Isl Sess., % Cong, p. 1912.
DUTY ON COAL.
June 6, 1870.-Mr. Garfield voted
against n resolution directing the
Ways and Means Committee, at the
earliest practicable moment, to report
bill abolishing the duty on coal,
which was to secure that important
article of fuel to the people free from
all taxation.- Globe, Pt. ., End SeSs.,
4lst Cong, p. 4l0l.