National Republican., 1883-01-30

on wire, and had in other ways impaired the
symmetry Of the bill in order TO favor the i'm
forests of certain localities or to crafty the
whim of the moment. He would support tho
bill, because it would be still good work,
though not the work reported by the tariff
commission or by the committee on finance.
Mr.. Maxey, referring to remark Of Mr..
Dawes to the effect that wire would not be
made cheaper by q reduction of the duty,
asked why, If that were true. the manu-
facturers should desire to keep up the duty.
Mr.. Dawes said the object Of the protective
duty was TO give the American manufacturer
control Of the American market, so that home
competition might bring down prices.
Mr.. IIoar suggested that Mr.. Maxey might
as well ask why if golden eggs would be no
scarcer after tho death of the goose that laid
them than before the goose should complain
of being killed
Mr.. Maxey said the senator from Massachu
setts had stated the latest ground taken by
tho advocates of protection. Henry Clay
favored temporary protection upon the theory
that our factories which had sprung up dur
ing the war of 1872 TO meet tho demands of
the army, would be broken down after the
war by foreign competition unless they wero
protected and he said that as soon as those
industries should become able TO stand alone
he would oppose further protection. But now
ground. II was now claimed to be necessary,
not for the protection of American capital, but
for American labor-meaning, however, not
the great mass of American labor
which is employed in the cornneld,
tho cotton-feld, the wheat-fcld, or the
cattle ranch, but few persons comparatively,
engaged in certain special manufacturing in
dustries. As to killing the goose that lays
the golden egg that was exactly what the
trainers and advocates of this bill were doing,
by laying the burdens of taxation so heavily
upon the people. But the American people
the giant so long bound down by the Lilli-
putians of proteCtion-wcrc rising in their
strength, and would no longer submit to be
taxed for the benefit Of class or for any
other object than the raising of the revenue
required for the support of the government
Mr.. Dawes, replying to Mr. Beck, said he
understood the object of this bill to be to re-
duce the revenue to the lowest point that the
expenditures of the government would per-
nit, but to so reduce it that there should be u
discrimination between manufactured articles
and raw materials which would offer an in
ducement to manufacture here rather than
abroad. Whenever the senator from Ken
lucky saw an opportunity to offer premium
to labor abroad he was always in favor of do
ing it.
Mr.. Beck l rise simply to contradict fatty the
senator from Massachusetts,.
gagged III doing that. II is vain TO attempt to con-
vince him of It, but that he is so engaged Is as
plain TO everybody else as anything can be.
know the senator does not intend to work in the
interest of men abroad, but every man engaged
in manufacturing abroad Is in his interest and
takes the livcliest interest in all he does.
Mr.. Beck. The statement of the senator from
Massachusetts again repeat, is utterly and abso.
lutely untrue so far us my action Is concerned. l
am seeking to reduce this tariff III the Interest Of
the people of this country and not to put money
into the pockets OF any set of men In any corner
oft.
Mr.. Dawes. 1 do not impugn the senator's
motives.
Mr. Beck. understood the senator from Massa-
chuscils to state fatty and distinctly that my
action here was in the interest Of people abroad
That deny and deuounCe.
Mr.. Dawes. do not impute TO the senator any
intention to serve these people abroad but, some
how or other, they are highly interested in all his
efforts, and they agree with me as to the elect OF
his action.
Nr. Beck The senator from Massachusetts, can
not get out of the suggestion that ! am knave,
oy saying that am n fool, and that everybody
but ME knows that fact 1 denounce that state-
ment also as untrue. am acting, MS understand
II, in tue Interest of the great body of the Ameri
can people, and in accordance with the Views eX-
pressed by tho tariff commission in their report
Ohough not embodied in their bllD, in favor, of u
reasonable reduction OF taxation. l claim TO be
as patriotic, TO be as honest In my convictions,
and to maintain my views as intelligenty rs the
senator from Massachusetts.
Mr.. Beck said he might as well accuse Mr.
Dawes of seeking to tax and oppress the great
mass of the productive labor of the country
in order to put money into the pockets of
some of his friends.
Mr.. Dawes. The senator from Kentucky seems
TO be unusually as well as unduly angry. l have
endeavored to do Justice to his Integrity and his
intentions, and also TO show his mistake. But the
senator says he will not be justified to his pur
poses. He insists upon 1t thai he does see the ef-
feet of his propositions; he insist upon IL thai
when all the importers in the land stand at his
elbow and furnish him with the arguments and
the specimens he has presented in the senate
chamber In their own Interests, he knows what
the effect of 1t is One of two things, then, must
be true: either the men behind him do not know
or else he does intend TO make such II condition
Of thing here as will promote the interests of those
who bring manufactured articles here to sell.
Mr.. Dawes, in the course of his remarks
said that when Mr. Beck favored bringing
manufactured articles into our market at less
rates of duty than those levied on tho mate
rial out of which they were made, it would
be utterly impossible for him to make intelli-
gent men believe that that did not offer
bounty to labor abroad.
Mr.. Beck said that if he had proposed to let
tho manufactured article come in cheaper
than the material, the remarks of Mr.. Dawes
would be just; but, unfortunately for that
senator, tho duty on the steel rods out of
which the wire was made had been fixed at
$13.4l, while the duty on the manufactured
article was $44-a difference of $3144.
After u long discussion, the provision for an
extra duty on iron and steel articles manu-
iactured from them, when galvanized or
coated with any metal, was amended SO as
not TO apply to painted articles or to wire, and
the extra rate applicable to other articles was
reduced from one-half to one-quarter cent
per pound
On motion of Mr.. Allison, the rate on steel,
not specially enumerated, was changed from
3 cents per pound to 30 per cent. ad valorem.
On motion of Mr. Platt, the duty on nickel,
in one or other crude form, was reduced from
twenty cents per pound to fifteen cents
The same reduction was made as to nickel
oxide, or alloy Of any kind, in which nickel
is the ingredient of chief value; and ingots,
sheets, or other forms of iron or other metal
covered or plated with nickel, and ware made
of metal SO covered or plated" We're struck
from the paragraph.
The paragraph embracing zinc, spelter,
tutenegue being reached, Mr.. Vest declared
that while he believed in a tariff for revenue,
he also believed that inside the limits Of q
tariff for revenue the protection incidental to
every tariff should be given to infant indus
tries. This he regarded as good democratic
doctrine.
Zinc production was an infant American
industry in which the people of his state were
quito largely interested and which needed
protection. He would therefore do all in his
power to secure for il such protection within
the limits indicated, and he would not blame
any other senator for doing likewise for the
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