The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-02-15
THE TARIFF.
A Lively Debate In the House u Repre-
sentAtlves.

80 NiS1 sAVuF1 - NSpsNFSsse~sSss1V - 49,
ington, on Monday, Fob. q. Mr.. Kelley
r,a..d - .u,,.na IN. r,,les aud ndont tho
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IoiiowinR rosolutiohs
That on tho nth at February, or on my
day thereafter. the COMMITTEES 1T tho whole
tion Of tho House Tariff bill, IL hereby eni-
powered To order tho bill and amendment
thereto To the House for tts action, With
such recommen,lation IN innv be deter
mined upon by tho majority OF tho votes OF
mni. In tho committee Of tho whole to
riso and rcport the hill to tho House shall
take nreccdrnce az a motion 10 amend.
The, motion wne secondcd. 10 10 sA
MI. Kelley aaid tho country expected this
Congress to revise tho revenue system, and
to reduce tho cxceH,Aye Hirplue income.
The tnctics which had DELAYED tho Internal
Revenue bill until near the close of thu last
AOslfun md had forced down itA nropOrtiunK
were now being rosortcd 10 In connection
with the pcntinr Tariff bill If tho House
was ID pass tho Tariff bin Il must have pow-
or To esrnpo from tho distiuruishcd leader
shin of fhc other sisio-no lcriti,nntc LEADER
shin: not the lcadorship of distinguished
vcnticmcn who renrescntpd that etdo on
the COMMITTEES OF Ways and Means. but
that lcnslcrshin which proposed amend
ments 10 that which no man on tho
fioor wanted amendments. which called
FOR divisions and tellers. md which. unhnp-
nily. found sunport enough TO obtain them;
that lcndershin frcferrtnv Ia Mr. Wheeler. ot
Ainhnmnl which wonld have rallied tho cot
tom states In favor of nuttinu cotton seed
oil on the free list; that leadership (rcferring
10 Mr. Snrinrcr) which on tokc mistook 4
snecimcn nf Americnn ceramic art "a d GUS
nidor md lccturcd the House on the cxtrnv-
nvnnce M American workinrmen liz nroyid-
inv thcmsclves with euch costly enittocnN
The House must oscape from that leadership
and bring tho bill under tho control of its
friends
MI Morrison said ono naramouAt duty OF
Congress- was Us revise tho tariff, and 80 re-
wise IL as 10 reduce taxation This the hill
prevented The bill was 10 deprive tho Gov
ernment " revenue hy increasing taxation,
and It was thus proposed 10 forestall any re-.
s. once nassed * hi Il would he claimed hy the gen
tleman from rennsylvania tMr. kellcyl and
his friends that Ii was Il revision of the tariff
and therefore a settlement Of the question,
and that the question must not he again
be disturbed, The raritf Commission has
been revising the tariif for six months;
the Iommitt,o on WNys and Means for six
weeks. the Finance Committee af thu Sen.
ate and tho Senate itself for several weeks
and none uf these four rcvsions was alike
posed Ia ask ~. men IL take the work II tho
Committee on Mays and Means when II did
not agree with tho work of tho other re-
xiscrs N The r"ntieman knew Il was imros-
sih.e IL consider hall III. hin In tivc ,lavS
Mr Carlisle said tho nou>e Ind only been
coms derinw thr Tariff hin for one week, and
nov at the iirst onnortunitv il was proposed
"a limi, its reconsideration ta one week more
The House had not M yet cpunleted two
schedules AMI they hy no means the NEST
imnartant IN the end of the week tho
metal schedule. wo,lld have hecn passed. hut
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