St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-14
sPICED WITH PERSONALITIES
Tariff Talk Merges Into Dis
cussiOn of General Politics.
Special to the Globe.


Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 13.-The feature
of the house proceedings to-day was the
colloquy between Messrs. Spinola and
Nutting, of New York. The house
went into committee of the whole on the
tariff bill, and motion to strike out
sisal grass and other vegetable sub
stances from the free list was rejected.
Mr.. Bayne quoted Mr.. SCOTS remarks
of yesterday as an extraordinary con-
fession that the Democratic leaders
were ignorant of the probable effect of
the passage of the Mills bill on the in
dustries of the country. A motion to
strike out burlaps from the free list was
rejected. Mr.. Mcmillan, of Tennessee,
moved to place upon the free list bags
of jute for grain, which was agreed to.
Quite sharp cOllOquy ensued between
Messrs. Spinola, Weber and Nutting, of
New York; Drum, of Pennsylvania, and
Russell, of Massachusetts,, of the
Spinola commended Gov. Hill for his
veto of the bill to prevent corruption at
elections, and said there was no place
in the United States where elections
were so fairly conducted as in New
York. mo man in the Republican
party" asserted MIR. Spinola, lean de-
feat David B. Hill for governor, and
YOU have no man you can put on your
ticket who can carry the state against
Grover Cleveland"
Mr.. Nutting asked if the gentleman
did not know that there were 100000
workmen in the state of New York?
Mir. Spinola-Yes, and they
VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET,
and 7 uant1Jrp mako tho orndiatinr
that New York city will roll up $4,000
majority for the Democratic candidate.
Mr.. Nutting-DO you mean to say
that those 100000 wOrkmen are in favor
of the Mills bill? Mr.. Spinola did not
give a direct answer to the question,
though Mr.. Nutting persisted in de-
manding one, and Mr.. Russell, Of Mas
sachusetts, shouted, Yes" in the
confusion, and his reply was
greeted with applause and laughter.
The clause placing on the free
list machinery for making cotton
bagging was reached, and Mr..
Lind, of Minnesota, moved to include
machinery for making Irvine OF jute
butts. Lost.
The next paragraph was tin plates.
Mr.. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, moved to
strike it out, and made speech in favor
of protecting this infant industry. Mr..
Mcmillan opposed the motion. We
were asked to keep up the duty on tin
plate merely to force somebody to make
Mr.. Yost, of Virginia, wanted it pro-
tected. The labOring people of the
country lost S15,000,000 annually
in wages by not being al
lowed to produce tin plates.
Virginia could produce everything nee
essary to make the best tin plate. Put
the duty at 2 2-10 cents per pound and
give the South chance, said Mr.. YoSt,
and in five years time she could COM
pete with the world. The future of the
South, he said, was bound up in infant
industries and she had long enough
paid
TRIBUTE TO THE NORTH.
No man, he said, could make can
vass in Virginia this year on the basis
of the Mills bill.
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania. said
the broad question presented was
whether we could produce tin plate
here profitably. We could. and he
who discussed the matter without
reference to labor, belittled it. We
should let the wage-earner in the
United States produce what he could
produce. We have long enough drained
the country of SIG, 1000, 600 annually paid
out for tin plate, three-fifthS of which
went to great Britain. Mr.. Randall said,
with applause from the Republicans, he
was opposed to favoring foreign coun-
try at the expense of our own. With
out action on the motion to strike odt
the section the committee rose, and at
3 ID. m. the house adjourned.