Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-20
TARIFF DAY.
YESTERDAY SPENT on THE THRIFT
BILL BY THE SENATE.
Lengthy Debate on the Protection Issue
h Measure to be Brought to "A Vote
Next MISUNDERSTANDING but Routine Bus
mess Transacted in the House..
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Kansas.
Mr.. Harrison from the committee on
territories, reported a bill authorizing the
county of Yankton, Dakota, to issue bonds.
He said the majority Of the committee
we're satisfied OF a desire on the part of
the people of that county to have such leg
~islation as will enable them to refund their
debt and get rid of the faint of repudia-
ton. He would ask the senate TO consider
the bill at an early day.
Mir. Garland gave notice that three
members of the committee disapproved
the bill, and would oppose its passage
most s~trenuously.
Mr.. Hale presented Mr,Frye's credentials
of reelection. Filed.
On motion of Mr.. Coke a joint resolution
was passed authorizing the purchase of
steam launches for the use of the harbors
of Galveston and Mobile.
On motion of Mr.. Sherman a bill passed
authorizing an increase of the capital
stock of the Second National bank of
Xenia, O.. The postofice appropriation
bill was then taken up.
Mr.. Plumb said he would ask the senate
to dispose of it to-day.
Debate ensued on the clause proposing
a reduction of letter postage to two cents,
and at the close of the morning hour the
postofice bill was laid aside and the senate
resumed consideration of the tariff bill.
Mr.. Miller offered an amendment to
make the duty on filed bottles IL cents a
pound instead of 3 per cent. ad valorem, as
in the bill. Lost, ayes 26, nays 81.
And the duty was left at 80 per cent. ad
valorem.
Mr.. Vance submitted a calculation to
show that the duty collected on imports
of window glass in 1882, was $1,114,0O0,
and that as a result of the tariff about
49, 0 1000 was added to the price of glass
of domestic manufacture. He was ct a
loss to know the reason that could be CIV
en- for imposing this burden upon the
people, unless it were put on the ground
of protecting American labor, and the sim
cerity of those who gave that reason was
illustrated by the conduct of the great In
diana glass manufacturer De-
paw, in importing cheap Belgians to take
the place of his American workmen. He
was also informed that he had been al
lowed to import his machinery free of
duty.
Mr.. Harrison said that since the previ-
Gus mention of this matter in the senate
he had communicated with Depaw,who de-
MED the statements of the witness quoted
by Vance.
Mr.. Voorhees, was surprised to hear that
Depaw's machinery had been imported
free of duty. He never heard of it before
and he did not believe it was true. AS to
the importation of foreign workmen to
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news to him; and, having some knowledge
of the New Albany works and the people
employed there, he doubted that statement
also.
A lengthy debate ensued on the la Dor
question. Mr.. Williams said that Mr..
Dawes assumed there was no other labor in
this country but manufacturing labor, and
that the manufacturing laborer ought to
receive 50 a day while the farm laborer
gets only rs cents, and that the farm
laborer ought to be taxed for the benefit
of the other.
Mr.. Dawes denied this and said if fac
tories closed and operatives were turned
out upon the farms, ii would reduce the
compensation of farm laborers so per
cent. at one blow. The factories, by fur
nishing a market for the farmer, enhanced
the value of his labor and his land.
Mr.. Williams-Why, Mr.. President, that's
all bosh. Laughter. There are not
more than 5 per cent. of our people en-
| ployed in manufactures. Pennsylvania,
Mr.. Williams said, not only raised enough
farm products to supply her manufactur-
ers but she shipped some to Europe, and
he could select two counties III Illinois or
Kansas that could produce more provis-
ions than all the factory operatives in the
county could consume.
Mr.. Vance discussed the question of
wages paid factory operatives in Europe
and America, respectively. and argued that
the tariff far more than covered the differ
| ence.
Nj. Dawes, replying to Vance, asked
why no Lowell or Lawrence or Holyoke
grew up around that great water power of
Roanoke river, and answered the question
himself by saying: There was no reason
except that the people preferred to tap
trees and make turpentine and buy what
they required of foreign producers rather
than produce for themselves.
Mr.. Morgan, replying TO Dawes re
marks about the failure Of the South TO
| engage in manufactures. said: The cap
ildliStS u Lhc LCAhh WCAO NOAO
to control laborers by the compulsion
arising out of their necessities. The capital
lists of the South controlled laborers who
were held in bondage by law but the labor
ers of the South were not adapted to
manufactures, so the capitalists of that
region employed them in agriculture. If
those laborers had been equal in talent
and capacity to those controlled by North
ern capital the South would long ago have
outstripped the North in manufactures.
Mr. Maxey suggested that another rea-
son was the paucity of capital and labor in
the South and West and its abundance in
the Eastern states.
Mr.. Morgan accepted the sug-
gestion and said the pioneers
of the South and West had lone
more to develop and beautify their coun-
try than any other people on earth had
ever lone in the same length Of time. In
connection with the tariff question he sent
up and had read by the secretary a state
ment of a Connecticut farmer (Goodwin)
before the tariff commission which was
an argument againt high tariff.
When the secretary had read for some
time, Mr.. Morrill, suggested that Morgan
had better let the remainder be printed in
the record without being read. Mr.. Nor
gan preferred to nave it read. It was a
production of great ability. He would be