New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-29
LOBBYISTS AT THA CAPITOL.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRlBCNE.l

WASHINGTON Jau. 2S.-Wbenever legislation is
pending ia Congress winch Is likely 10 affect any
grea, Industrial oCher interest 1t IL the fashion
for small demagOgues 10 get on END III tho House OF
Representatives and nOwl about the LOBBY"
which howl it is the fashion of certain news
papers to rc-echo with less
deunite accusations that improper mean,
are being used to influence such legislation.
1t is that there is a strong LOBBY" IN Wash
lugt0n now, ana some of the trade Democrats
i'll COngress appear shaking III tncir shoes lest
some "nIillOnnalre monopollsts" shall make an
attempt on their legislative virtue. Some
OF them really appear TO believe that this terrible
LOBBY" IS wholly composed of "tarlf robbers"
This is a great mistake. Manufacturers are here
but If poll were taken tney would be found in the
Iniuori y unless were counted with them such men
As President Jcwett AMI his associates
of the Iron and Steel Workers Association, who
represent from 10000 TO 10000 wOrkmen IN these
INDUSTRIES and the representatives of skilled LABOR
in other manufactures.
The TACT mat Mr.. Oliver and Mr. Park both
tensive manufacturers, are in " Washington Is her
aided far and wide but the fact that
John Maddox, agent of the StaifordshiTe, England
pottery maLufac 0urers. Is also here, working with
might and main TO secure su IA u reduction Of the
duues on earthenware will drive American
manufacturers 10 the wall, Is kcpJ III lne Ddcd-
ground. The agents Of the Sheffield cutlery
and other British manufacturers. who find 1t i'm
possible TO compete with American manufacturers.
are quiet but not idle. The tactics Of tho foreign
manufacturers and their agents have not changed,
nor are those gentlemen less energetic than they
were in 1861 when the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate had before them 800
memorials from the agents Of the Sheffield makers
of steel (which were sent around TO all the black
smiths III the United States to be slgned, stating
that the Tariff bill then pending Increased the
duties upon steel from 40 TO 2G1 per cent
Now, as then, there TO be seen IN
the corridors Of the Capitol and the lobbies Of the
Washing on no els the agents of foreign man
turers anI importers, to say nothing OF Messrs.
DAVID a. Wells and D. $. Moore and scores OF other
free traders whose efforts to break down the sys-
TEN OF protection may possibly lie purely unsellsh,
In the course his speecu yesterday Mr. Car
Isle tOui shcd some pieces of cTOckery. " men he
table OF every plain farmer aud wOrkingman,
and npon winch, he sad, ii is proposed 10
| increase The duty 10 per cent. Representative
Brewer, who IL a pottery manufacturer of sixteen
Years ca perence declared that not piece OF crock
cry of that Kind has Deen seen sod III tie Amer
| Ican market tor the last twenty years. American
| farmers and wOrknen demand a better article.
| The question nov " who furnished Mr. Carlls.e o
with his samplesW Perhaps Mr.. Maddox, he agent
| of the English manufacturers, might answer. Mr.
Carlisle did not say he found them in a Washing <
iDgtop or Ncw-YOrk crockrry establishment, as lie
| would probably have been quick to do had such
been the Case