St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-04
THIS is GETTING TIREsoME.
The House Spends the Day in Tar
iff Talk and Political Twaddle.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-Debate on the
iron schedule of the tariff bill prevailed
in the house to-day. The poStOffice APP
preparation bill, with the senate amend
ment, was submitted with a recon-
mendati0n that the amendment appro-
priating 100000 to provide a more eff
cient mail service between the United
States and South and Central America
and the West Indies and the amend
ment fixing the rate of postage on seeds
and bulbs at 2 cents pound, be not
cOncurred in. Agreed to and confer
ence ordered. The house went into COM
mittee of the whole on the tariff bill.
Mr.. McMillin moved to strike out the
clause imposing duty of S11 ton on
slabs and billetS of steel and to restore
the present rate of 45 per cent adj val
orem. Agreed to. Mr.. Mckinley
moved to restore the existing rates on
bar iron. Mr.. Bayne supported the mo-
ton, and said that he was opposed to a
reduction of the tariff. He was i'm IA
vOr of the repeal of the tobacco tax and
the tax on alcohol used in the arts.
This, he thought, would reduce the tar
if as far as it should be reduced If the
government intended to do justice to
the widows and children of the soldiers
of the late war.
Mr.. Scott charged the Republican
party with having
DESERTED IT'S PLATFORM
of 1884 for a revision of the tariff and
with going before the country in 1888 on
a principle which it had never before
advocated. That party proposed to
carry on q tariff system in this country
which would protect 100000 manu-
factUrerS as against 100000 wage
workers. Mr.. Reed, of Maine, said he
was glad that the gentleman had return
ed from his other occupations to attend to
his business as a member of congress-.
If he had been present he would have
known that these questions had all
been discussed, The gentleman based
his remarks on the belief that the Amer
lean people were consumers and none
of them producers. Mr.. Scott said he
had been absent no oftener than the
gentleman from Maine; he had not been
absent fifteen days altogether since the
house met. He criticised Mr.. Reed for
adopting his usual course of turning
SERIOUS QUESTION INTO A JOKE.
Mr.. Read said he had intended to be
kind to the gentleman and to find an
excuse for his evident lack of informa-
ton as to the course of discussion of the
house. Mr.. Scott said that in the last
week 100000 laborers of the class of
protected industries had been thrown
ont of employment. They had been
driven out because their employers had
attempted to make reduction of 10 per
cent in their wages. After further de-
bate, Mr.. Bland.o Missouri, appealed in
behalf of nine-tenths of the ''down-trod-
den members to cease the political dis
cussions and get to business. Debate
continued for an hour OF more, and
finally the mckinley motion was
lost. On motion Of Mr.. Breckin-
ridge, of Arkansas, duty of
4-l0-cent per pound was imposed on iron
or steel fiat with longitudinal ribs for
the manufacture of fencing. Mr.. Dock
cry, of Missouri, incidentally stated that
when congress assembled the surplus
was $40, 466, 900; and to-day it stood at
$40, 272.000. Hence, the 23d of April,
S26.GOO,O of bonds had been purchased