New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-26
SPEECHES ON THE TARIFF.
FOR AND AGAINST THE MILLS BILL


FOR AND AGAINST THE MILLS BILL.
Mr. pxNuM upHoLps THE "rnEMIrR's' SASDI-
woRK-GENERAL BRowSE's LOGICAL AND
PRACTICAL PLEA FOR PROTECTIVE
TARIFF
WASHINGTON, April p5.-" Premier Mills and
his Democratic colleagues to-day acceded TO the
proposition of the minority In regard to the terms
to be allotted to general debate on the tariff.
Under the agreement the minority viii DO entitled
TO eight and one-half days, OF five hours each'
and n one-half the time which may DO devoted to
tariff debate &C night sessions The majority will
occupv the same amount CT time. General debate
therefore will end about May ., unless other bus
mess is allowed TO intervene. About -FOUR hours
OF to-day's session were occupied by the INDIANA
members of Ways and Means, Mr. Bynum In
favor of the bill, and General Browne against IL.
This is Mr. Bynum's third year in Congress ana
his first as member Of the committee; he is forty
two years old, lawyer by profession and before
he came to Congress he had been Mayor OF small
Indiana town and member Of the State Legs-
lature Naturally, therefore, his speech To-Day
was full Of crudities contradictions and fallacies
and not unnaturaly, he was confident ana oog-
matte in the extremes. He is DARK hotse
candidate for the nomination lor Governor uoav, d
the Democratic State Convention tomorrow anu
his speech will be published in full IN Indianapolis
tomorrow morning - .,,ouc,
REPRESENTATIVE BYNUM AS HE 1s ooVfhp,
pretty fair idea of his speech can be gstherca
from q few of the propositions he ao'anoeo'
Labor has no interest In this question.
The tariff does not affect wages
Hinder tho protective system the rich arc GROWING cher
and the poor are growing poorer.
Ianr is commodity and Is bought and sold Ike every
o,bcr oomnody When the price Of materials advances
More than thirty per cent of tho in MANU-
factories mel Of foreign birth
Tear down houses and give American iapor
chance to compete with the world and II asks no more
The wall raised by protection shuts out foreign oompcti
ton.
In the last ten years We imported worth OF
cotton goods more than exported. and sSoooVoooo
worth OF woolen goods more than we exported
Every dollar Of the duty is added 10 the cost
10 tho consumer.
Sheen are not raised for the wool ALL and would be
better for Ohio Michigan and Indiana they had no
sheep
AS to the memorial of citizens of San Francisco
against the placing of lumber on the free list mr.
Bynum declared that the pine-lumDer poor IN
that State had advanced the price OF lumber 70
the consumers, sic 80 per thousand in the last
year and that 1t was in behalf OF thai poor 1hao
The California Representatives demanoen 10 pc
heard BY the committee. California men in wash
inaton say that this advance in price mas peen
due solely to the extraordinary demand LOT
lumber as compared with the supply and the
means Of transportation Iynum repeatedly az
serted that Protection does nobody any GOOD"
II would SEEM therefore, that he holds an ugly
grudge against the indiana manufaotaLers oo %
that on his motion the duty thereon was raised
from SO per cent to so per cent ad valorem, whiie
the rate on nearly, every other article In the
schedue was reduced.
A REPRESENTATIVE OF PRACTICAL INTERESTS
General Browne is lawyer, and he is also
successful practical farmer. In his younger days
he cleared away with his own hands the virgin
forest from many of tho acres which he now tills
So far as the needs and desires Of the farmer
are concerned, therefore he is rather better au-
thority than ex-MnyOr, whether Of an Indiana ha
for eleven years a member Of Congress ana Tor
four wears a member of the Ways and Means
Committee; Naturally, therefore ne mas aev ",i
and his speech to-day proved IT, 1he argument
which he delivered to-day in his deliberate,
S fS5cSs s6 facts and N %as Eee With s
lions, which made it very effective. lie was not
frightened by the so-called surplus" as large
Or larger balances had accumulated in the Treasury
n different times and yet neither johnson, Grant
Hayes nor Arthur had made suoh balance q
pretext for disturbing industrial pursuits" de
asked these questions
Why not reduce interest bearing debt while the
ountry is prospelous7 Why not aid the merchant ma
ne Why heed the warning OF Tilden and provide
for the National defencei Why not provide for the
want disabled aud Impoverished veterans OF the uniohf
He denied that National taxation Is burdensome
or that the people are discontented GeneraI
Browne dissected the free trade message thoroughly
and compared its doctrine with that iald down
assertions sTi Of Mills, McMllin and Bynum that
labor derives no benefit from the tariff, and
that American labor can compeoe Wlth the
world" Said he:
What did Democratic party mean when 10 declared
In 1884 that necessary reduction In taxation can
and must be effected without deprivtng American labor
Of the ability to compete successfully with foreign isno
and without imposing lower rates Of duty than viii DO
ample to cover any increased cost Of production which
may exist in consequence Of tbs higher rate Of wages
prevailing in this countryT
MIR BROWNE ASKS SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS
General Browne aroused the Louisiana Demo
Gratis when he asked; Why make wool free and
retain protective duties On sugar. rice, iron ore
and coal ?" He said that the value OF the wool
clip exceeds the value Of the tobacco crop and
Is more widely distributed. II Is more than twice
as great as the value OF the sugar
crop, fifteen times as great as the
rice crop, and half es great as the value
of the bituminous coal output proposition to
impose duty on tea OF coffee would not receive
Q Democratic vote "Whyp" he asked, and
answered his own question. Because tea and
coffee do not grow in Louisiana or Texas, and
sugar does Sugar votes the Democratic ticket;
tea and coffee cannot" In another place he said
II is a luxury and you favor duty for revenue
sugar, because 1t Is necessity. That's Demo
cratic logic"
from recent speech by Sir Charles Upper in the
Dominion Parliament, in which the Fishery Com
missioner said that the ink was Scarcely dry on
the Fishery Treaty before the Ways and Means
Committee Of the House reported bill which
places on the free list no less than five important
articles Of Canadian production
He said in closing: THE Republican party
stand pledged to revise the tariff and correct
inequalities with q due regard to American in
terests. 1t believes in protection of home In
ation. Perhaps the most it Will be able to ao-
complish will be to defend American interests
against free trade assaults This bin is the van
guard Of free trade Democratic crusade. Free
dustrial conditions"
Mr. Dockery Of Missouri, spoke with yigor and
earnestness in favor Of the bill although some OF