The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-24
The NATIONAL CAPITAL

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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Congressional Proceedings and OIhel
Items Of Note.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May lS.-Randall adj
dressed the house in committee of the
whole. After quoting from the presi
J dents message he declared himself
in favor of a reduction of the internal
revenue taxes. He then entered into an
explanation of the principles upon
which his bill had been constructed,
and stated distinctly that if it could be
made to appear in any case that the
measure he had proposed conferred
more protection than was needed to
cover the cost of production, he was
ready to lower it. If in any instance the
rate was too low to cover that cost, he
was ready to raise it. Monopolies exist
ed without the tariff. The Standard
oil trust, the whisky trust, and the cot
ton seed oil trust and others
that he could mention. The
greatest trusts in the whole country
were not protected by the tariff. He
was for the protection of labor not in
one state, but in all. He was for the
| protection and maintenance of that
| Industrial system that allowed to labor
| a larger propOrtioDate share OF its
| products than was realized in any
| other country. or under any other sys-
tenn. Randall took up the schedule in
his bill relating to steel rails and
| quoted figures at length to sustain his
action in fixing the duties at the rates
he proposed in his bill. The duty on
cotton ties, he said, was one of the in
consiStencieS of the present tariff. 1t
was only fair that they should pay a
duty as hoop iron and as an article of
manufacture. The present law was
a positive discrimination against
the home manufacturer and
in favor of the foreign
producer. The rate of wages in Eng
land in cotton tie manufactures was
hardly half of the wages Paid in such
manufactures in Pittsburg. He then
proceeded to criticism of the commit
tee bill, as follows: A declared pur-
pose of this bill is to secure free raw
materials to stimulate manufactures. y
In execution of this idea the bill placed
on the free list large number of arti-
c1eS which are really manufactured arti-
cles, such as salt, sawed and dressed
lumber, glue, various oils and chemi-
Gals, china, clay, etc. These consti-
tute the produces of large and useful
industries throughout the United
States, in which many millions of CAPT.
tai are invested and employing many
thousands of working people. At the
same time the bill leaves or puts
under duty lead, iron, zinc and nicke
ore, and coal, which might be called
, raw materials. Further, the bill not
only makes SO-called raw material
J free, but places on the free list the
MANUFACTURED products of the mate
: rails. Thus the manufacture of sucf
articles is made impossible in thiI
, country, except by reducing American
labor to worse condition than that
of labor in Europe. 1t goes ever
farther and places, or leaves dutia
BILE certain called raw materials
such as iron ore, lead, coal, paper
paints ETC., while placing on the FREE
list articles made from these materials
/ such as loop iron and cotton ties, til
! lets. In other words the bill
! leaves or makes dutiable tn
, raw material. and puts Oh
l the free lists the articles manufac
tured from it. thus not only placing a
/ insurmountable barrier in the way o
2 making such articles here, but actuall
Z protecting the foreign manufacture
: and laborer against our own, and i'm
e posing for their benefit burden upol
:, the bill places lower rates on som
manufactured articles than on the ma
q terials used in making them, for in
d. stance, type and irons Is per cent; pii
lead, Al per cent; carpets, 30; yarn
used in their manufacture, 40 per cent
it leaves an internal revenue tax @
more than 100 per cent on all alcoh(
: used in the arts, amounting TO as niue
t as the entire amount of duty cOllecte
{ on raw wool articles, and enter as ma
@ terial in vast number of importan
q and needful articles. which the con
= mittee have either made free or haV
y so reduced the rates on that til
duty would be less than the tax on til
\ alcohol consumed in their manufaC
:. ture. In some cases the difference bC
: tween duty imposed by the bill on til
= so called raw material and the articl
o from them is SO small as to destrO
q these industries, except upon the col
: dition of leveling the wages of HON
I labor to that of Europe. This was s
= in the case of pig lead and red leaC
r which is made from it, and of pig iro
4 and steel blooms and steel rails. Sue
. legislation would leave the ore in til
mines, or the pig lead in the smeltin
works, or the pig iron TO rust at the ful
mace while foreigners would supply on
s market with these manufacture
a products, in large number of article
throughout. The schedules of reduC
ton proposed by the bill are SO larg
L that the effect must be to destroy {
i restrict home production and increas
> enormously foreign importations, thu
i largely increasing customs revenue il
4 stead of reducing it, as claimed by til
e advocates of the bill. Particular mel
|. ton in this connection is made {
o earthern and ChinaWare, glass, les
: tobacco, manufactures of cotton, fla
O hemp and jute carpets, brushes, leatl
+ er gloves, manufactures of India rul
l. Der and pipes.
+ Randall asserted that instead of I'll
r bill reducing the customs and re'
e enues S54, 900 900, as was elaine;
q it would he fair to estimat
n that its effect would be
: largely increase the revenue instead {
q reducing it, while the amount of MI
% terial wealth it would destroy is inca
Is culable. Those supporting the bi
held themselves up as the champion
him the protection duties on his WOO
Is vegetables, ETC., and what do the
o give him in return? They profess
. give the farmer, the manufacture
~ better rates than he now has. If tn
le be so. how is the farmer to be benefi
y ted, or where does he get compensate
q for the loss of his protective duties
a Much has been said about removiI
D. taxes on necessaries and impo
u ing them upon luxuries. What dO'
"a this bill propose? 1t Civ
fe free olive oil to the epicu
70 and taxes castor oil 81 per cent; it Civ
q free tin plates to the Standard oil col
~ pany and to the great meat canniI
OF monopolies and imposes a duty of
e. per cent on rice; it gives the sug
" trust free bone black and proposil
An prohibitiory duties on grocery grades
1g sugar; it imposes duty of 40 per &c
e. an . Garnet IF the rich: If admits +
lis fine animals emnloyed by the cent
70 men of the turf, aud makes the pair
nt in0s and of the Statuary of the railw
| L. H..Earn