Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-12
TARIFF AND POLITICS.
WHAT THE HOUSE DID YESTERDAY WITH
THE MILLS BILL.
Willy Wally Phelps Makes an Addls Drained
Attempt and Gets Called Down-fhs Cen
asmsn Make Political Spsschss--
The Wool Schedule.

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The Wool Schedule.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The House
went into Committee CT the Whole on the
tariff bill. The pending amendment was
that offered by Mr., Phelps, Of New Jersey,
fixing at forty per cent. ad valorem the
duty on fax or linen thread and all other
manufactures Of fax. He did not, he said,
expect that anything he could say would
change the vote upon his amendment. He
recognized the fact that he was speaking to
a court which had already made its de-
cision. The committee hsd refused to let
any laborer or any manufacturer tell them
about the facts. They had refused to let
any representative of the people make
arguments, and then the msjority members
had gone into the dark and prepared q
bill.
Mr. Wilson, OF Minnisota, "Do under
stond you to say that thiss of the House
imposed either an oath or a promise on the
Democratic members that every one of
them would favor the Mills bill as it
stood?n
Mr.. Phelps-"I cannot say how binding'a
caucus resolution may be on the consciences
OF theD emocratic gentlemen who attended;
but am here to say land I defy any gen.
tlemsn to contradict it, that resolution
was introduced, and q resolution las am
informed and believe) was unanimously
passed, that amendments offered in the
House should receive the support of Demo
ocratie votes, unless it was an amendment
frs. passed upon and approved by the
Democratic caucus. Am I right? Does
the gentleman deny that resolution was
introduced in that caucus and unanimously
agreed to-"
Mr.. Wilson-"That is
SIMPLY UNTRUE.
| stand on my personal honor to say that
it is not true"
Mr.. Wesver, Of Iowa, expressed his sur
prise to find the gentleman from New Jer-
sey advocating an increase of duty on
thread and exclsiming in the next breath
that he WAS the friend of the workman.
He sent to the Clerks desk and had read
portions Of the interview with Mr..
Phelps published soon after the Chicago
Convention, in which Mr.. Phelps states
that it was not polite to select granger
Misunderstanding to Senator Allison.
Mr. Weaver commented on the interview
and said that the farmers of Iowa had
been spurned in the Convention aud they
would not in November ratify their own
humiliation. The New York candidate
had also said in an interview that Allison
had not been endorsed because be was
from State whose legislation was un-
friendly to railroads.
Mr.. Weaver said that Senator Allison
had been punished in Chicago because he
lived in granger State, which passed laws
unfriendly to railroads 1t was the
UNkINDEST CUT OF ALL
for the gentleman who had been candi-
date for both President and Vice President
("0aly Vice PRECEDENT" interposed Mr..
Phelps) to say before the American people
that he and those with whom he associa-
ted-the railroads of the country-had
punished Mr.. Allison because he happened
to live in Iowa. He did not know what
his colleague, Mr.. Henderson, would think
of this kind of treatment of his distin.
guished candidate He would like to hear
whether Mr.. Henderson endorsed what
the gentleman from New Jersey
had given as the reason for the
rejection of the distinguished Senator.
Mr.. Henderson said he thought the
knew the reason for the defeat, not only
of Senator Allison, but Of that equally dis
tinguished and noble gentleman and, SOL
dier Judge Gresham, and while he was not
here to entertain his colleagues with the
incidents of the Republican Convention,
ne was here to say that he did not believe
and to him it was absolute knowledVe)
that the attitude of Iowa in respect to rail-
road legislation had lost Senator Allison
single vote in the convention. Iowa, as in
the past, would this fall, in spite of rant
ings and Misrepresentation, plant itself in
the front rank of the Republican States
for Harrison and Morton. Applause.
Mr.. Henderson said he would also give
the House little literature. He then
sent to the clerks desk and had read
numerous extracts from speeches delivered
by Mr.. Weaver '66 to ~, in which he Bit
Democratic party as Q party full of stench
and poison, which should be blotted from
the vocabulary of a civilized land and
hand over to the barbarian which it 50
fitly represented.
Mr.. Weaver said that the speeches
which had been read had been uttered by
him in times past, when the situation was
entirely different from what it was now.
Laughter on Republican side.
He had nothing to take back in regard
to his course on the issue then presented.
He had followed the standard of the Re
publican party until he was
FORCED 10 ABANDON IT
by reason of its vicious financial policy.
He had then turned to the despised Demo
cratic party and had found that it was OPP
posed 10 the demonstration of silver and
that Democratic House had remonetized
it. He had found the Democratic party in
favor of Furnishing the Star Route thieves
and of returning TO the old Jeffersonian
and Jacksonian pathways, and his heart
was with them. He had never Joined the
Democratic party. He was q member OF
the Union Labor party and it was his duty
70 affiliate himself with the Democratic
party because he believed il was nearest
the party he represented.
Mr.. Phelps amendments were rejected.
An amendment was adopted changing the
rate Of duty on bags and bagging from Is
per cent ad valorem to cent per pound
Other amendments were offered and re-
jected.
The third section Of the bill, that relat-
ing 70
wooLsAND WOODEN MANUFACTURES,
being reached, Mr.. Mills proposed that the
entire sixty-one lines of the section be read
and considered as one paragraph, rs In the
case OF the sugar paragraphs, amendments
to be in order at any place.
Mr.. Mills tried to reach an agreement as
to the time to be allowed for debate on this
section, proposing two days, bat Mr.. Reed
objected to fixing any time before the de-
bate had been fairly started.
The entire section was read without OBJ
lection, however. :.
Mr.. Buckhsnnon, of New Jersey, offered
an auendment trebling the duties on i'm
ported made convict goods which was de-
feated.
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