St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-08

osition2 The gentleman quoted England as
an example. Did not gentleman know, did
not everyone know that American free trade
meant Britishprotectiona Applause, prin-
cipally on the Republican side. Did not
everybody know that when the tariff on wool
was cut down, so much money was put into
the pockets of the Britishers in Australia
His colleague was entirely mistaken when he
talked about the fibre of wool. There
was was finer fibre produced in Aus
tralia, but super or more elastic
fibre could be produced within the states of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michi-
gan and Vermont. The wool farmers had
sent more petitions to congress than had
been sent by all the other industries put to-
gether, they had represented, that if the
wool tariff was not restored the industry must
necessarily go into decline, for the reason,
that in Australia, where they had perennial
pastures hundred square miles could be
rented for 800 year. The question was
not whether there should be cheap wool and
cheap clothing, but whether the industry
should be preserved for our own people. In a
few years, if the tariff could be kept at what
it was in 1857 the United States would be
able to control its own markets, without a
tariff, but in the present
condition of things, our woollens
must be driven necessarily from
the market. In the past year they had lost
81, ,000, 900 on account of the reduction Of
duty, and it did not affect the price of cloth
ing. The money was taken out of the pock-
cts of the farmers for the benefit of nobody
except the speculator, trader and 10000
WOODEN manufacturers of the country. His
colleague said, the manufactures could work
up 600 million pounds of wool, and he want
ed the machinery put in motion, while the
two million men who were to furnish the raw
material were to be deprived of their rights.
This theory of free raw material was a
fallacy. The motion was then lost, yeas 119,
nays 126.
Mr.. Thompson, Kentucky, moved to sus-
pend the rules, and adopt resolution, de-
claring it unwise and unexpedient for the
present congress to abolish or reduce the tax
on spirits distilled from grain. In a brief
debate which followed York and Cox, of
North Carolina offered a motion, and adyo-
Gated an entire repeal of the internal reye-
nue. laws.
Mr.. White, Ky, also opposed the motion,
and favored the reduction of tax on distilled
| spirits after January /, 1887, to fifty cents
per gallon, and change the existing law so as
| to provide that the tax shall be paid within
| sixty days after the spirits have been put
| in bond.
Mr.. Willis supported the motion, saying
he did not sympathise with the gentlemen
who wanted to reduce The price of whisky.
He stood here for dear whisky. 1t was a lux
ury and proper thing for taxation. He did
not think the threat of repeating the tax
should be held over the distiller, disturbing
| their business.
| Mr.. Kasson favored the motion, on the
ground that the whisky industry was liable to
a serious financial disturbance, so long as
the question remained in doubt The last
internal tax to be taken off, should be the
| tax on whisky.
| Mr.. Springer thought the great mass Of the
people desired to have whisky taxed, and he
wanted congress to give notice that this tax
of seventy million dollars would remain on
the statute books until the public debt was
paid, and the people could get cheaper
blankets and cheaper necessaries of life.
Motion was agreed to and the resolution
adopted. Yeas 49, nays 33.
Mr.. Kellogg introduced the following bills,
which were referred to the committee on
commerce: For the improvement of the
Bayou Placquimine and for lock at its
mouth, $4,000; for improving the bayou
Teche SO, 900; for bayou Terrebonne, $4,000
for Atchifalaya river and channel, $4,000
for Calcasion river, 100000; for Bayou Car
| lin, $4,000; including survey and estimates
Bayou La Fourche, $4,000. Adjourned
At Louisville, KY, a sharper, while pre-
tending to buy stove in store, watched
the combination of the safe, and when the
proprietor's back was turned, opened it and