The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17
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WAsHNeToN, April 16-BaIls report
ed favorable and placed on the ealen-
dar:
By Blair, from the committee on ed
ucation and labor, TO provide commits
sion on the subject OF the alcoholic liquor
traffic.
By Ingalls,, from the committee on In.
dian affairs, with amendment and bin
for the relief Of the Nez Perces Indians
Dawes called MP the bill to divide q
portion OF the great reservation Of the
Sioux Nation Of Indians in Dekots into
separate reservations. and to secure re-
linqaishment of the Indian title TO the
remainder.
Dawes moved to amend the bill so as
to make the amount Of land to be given
In severalty to the Ponca Indians four
teen sectionD. Agreed to, 40 to 3.
Pending action on the bill the bank
Fuptcy ball was taken up and pending
its consideration the senate sdjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Morrison moved to 90 into CON-
mIttee Of the whole for the considera-
ton of the tariff bill. There was no di-
vision and the motion was agreed to,
Aar. Cox, Of New York, being called 70
the chair. Immediately upon the COM
mittee's assembling Mr.. Elliot objected
20 the consideration of the bill, and the
objection was reported to the house. By
q vote of 40 yeas 70 1873 nays the com.
mittee decided 70 consider the measure.
Mr. Morrison spoke in faS0g OF the
measure. He said the year 1850 was
time of plenty. The lsborer for wages
was ct least as well and the grower of
grain better paid than they were in this
year 1884, and in the year 1850, of boun-
teous plenty, our importation of foreign
goods was less to the person or 10 pro-.
portion to the population than in the
years 1880 and 1892. To the list
of articles now imported free of
duty, amounting to nearly ONE
third of all our imports, it 10
proposed to add salt, coal, wood and
lumber. In ten years, under tbs pretense
of taxing wool and lumber to secure
81 ,0O0, COO of revenue, we have COM
PEELED the people to pay $500, OOO, zoe in
bounty 70 encourage the destruction of
our forests and the telling of trees, and
| in the same time have given more than
Il, 1900. 900 acres Of land under the timber
culture act as bounty to encourage the
planting of other trees and other forests
The present rate on the finest cotton is
40 per cent, and yet 1t is an unquestiona-
BILE fact, as shown by the Invoices and
payments made, that duties exceeding
100 per cent, "exceeding first cost" are
exacted and paid on cotton goods, the
duty upon which, in the estimates re-
ferred to, are stated TO be less than 30
per cent.
This is true of iron and steel IN q diff
ferent degree. In the wooden schedule
these abuses are most glazing. In all
they result from enormities hidden and
concealed, both as to classification Of ar
ticles and rates of duty. The only secu-
rity from agitation and change is to con-
| fine the taxing power to its rightful pur-
pose Of obtaining Q revenue limited to
| the necessities of the government. When
| no more revenue Is need by the govern
ment of the people it has attained the
limit of its power to tax. Estimates
based on census statistics will show that
| the few who profit most from the labor
of ali contribute little under this sYs-
tenn of unequal taxation-not more
than two per cent of their saviRgs-While
dependent poor, pay the bulk of taxes.
The amount required from customs is
dependent upon what may be received
from national revenue.
The abolition of internal revenue
means free and cheaper liquors, but
with heavier taxes and higher priced
sugar and other articles essential in
every household. It is insisted that the
wages are so much higher here than il
countries seeking our markets that the
revenue duties viii not equalize the diff
ference in cost Of production. Conced-
ing the truth Of what is not true, that
foreign rival must pay for the privilege
of selling in our markets sum equa
| A, ~. Al -, ArN hi h
home producer to sell with reasonable
profit, let rs see II the revenue rate
will compensate for that difference. The
census value of menufactors for 1881
was $5,369, 579, 191. The wages psiC
in making them were $947, 953 ,595. Ths
difference in cost of goods is said to bs
the diffeAerce IN cost of wages, but sup
pose the difference between the cost herr
and the cost abroad amounts to all thu
wages paid here, then these manufac
lures would cost abroad $4,421 ,625 1896
Suppose the average rate OF duty, which
the bill before the house leaves at 30 pc
cent was reduced to % per cent, and a
that rate this "a, 421 ,625, 1896 in value o
goods was imported, would cost the i'm
porter at the rate of % per cent $972,
757 ,587, which not only makes up fo
the difference in wages but exceeds al
the wages paid for making all the goods
Kelly made the opening speech In op
position to the bill. He did not believ
! any chespening of goods could reliev
any American Industries. The evil wa
not that goods were not cheap enough o
that America could not produce them
The truth to be considered by all mel
was that the power of production tn
world over had cut grown the power 9
consumption, and that the market va
1 -. Ia~1 Ia
and industrious people are idle. Afle
describing the Wretched condition of tn
laborers in Birmingham, England. an,
: surrounding towns, he said, "Go1 forbi'
that American labor should ever be EN-
bodied in any production that should b
cheap enough to be sold" Much wa
heard shout free trade. He denied tbs
the free trade of the Democracy Of III
country, as represented on this moo
J was In favor of raw material. b
abolishIng the duty on quinine the lare
est manufacturer in the country ha
, been obliged TO send all his stock abroa
and TO employ cheap German Il
Z Dor and cheap raw material in II
manufacture. By paying q duty OF q
10 cents per pound on tin plates tn
] | United States had succeeded in estal
! fishing manufactures. He could BE
but two means by which the market
: could be increased In the future. Sto
; all importation of cheap labor, or SEN
+ back 10 whatever country they cam
from men or women who had signe
contracts in foreign lands or on shiI
board To- work at lower wages than %
D wages of American labor. GApplsuse
= He said that wages were kept so hiR
] that the public schools might be We
: sustained and children reasonably We
e educated. Let not American women b
9 come degraded.
# Pending debate the committee ros
t and the house adjourned.
!. Kansas Camp Meetisg Association.
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