The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-02-17
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
4 STRONG LOBBY FOR A PROTEC.
TIVE ia RIFF.
Maj. McCIammy and Lard Adulteration
--Public Buildings for North Carolina
1.-The Tariff Bill. &c..Ac.
Especial Cor. to STATE CHRONIC

| WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 13, 1885,
Major McClammy, as a member of the
Committee on Agriculture is working hare
to defeat the bill to tax cotton seed oil
The bill is clearly in the interests of the
lard manufacturers of the north and west
and dlscriminates against the cotton seed
| industries of the south. He says these
lard manufacturers press out ten per cent
of oil and sell the comparatively worthless
1efuse as genuine lard Nearly all the
| lard placed on The market Is aduiterated
| Cotton seed oil Is healthier. cheaper and
purer. 1t is used largely as salad oil and
many enterprsng Yankees now bottle it
| put foreign label on it and sell it at ten
| times lis cost. for genuine Italian olive
oil. In time, this cotton seed oil will be-
| come source of great revenue to our peO-
pie, Major McClammy will spare no pains
to prevent any legislation which will in
jure this important product. He says all
such measures are ultimately detrimental.
He was once in favor of the oeonargarine
law, but would now vote to repeal it, for,
in his opinion, all such measures inure for
the benefit of New England and the West,
and operate against our own people. Major
| McCiammy is very much in earnest about
this matter, and the lard men, now here
III force, will be able to make no compro-
mise with him.
Hon. F. NJ. Simmons has been chosen to
represent North Carolina as member of
the Congressional Campaign Committee
| am told by a gentleman who heard it
that he made a very able legal argument
in the House last week in behalf of an
important private claim of a New Berne
| constituent 1t is great pity that it is
| considered impossible to overcome the
1900 Republican ma jointly in the Second
or ''BIack" District. 1t is time for the
new generation of negroes to see which
way their best interests lie. | am sure
Mr.. Simmons has not a colored constituent
whom he would not as willingly serve, as
any one of his white ones. If 1000 col
Ored Ut in his District could be brought
to see this, his re election would be assur-
ed. Experience alone is needed to make
him . most effective member.
Members of our delegation were before
the Committee on Public Buildings last
| week III the interest of several cities in
our State. Mr.. Simmons spoke fer New
Berne, Mr.. Henderson for Statesville, Maj
McClammy for Fayetteville, and Col
Rowland for Charlotte. Col. Tom John
ston, as | have already stated, has secured
the passage of a bill appropriating 500, 900
for Ashevile. l learn the President and
|
| the beautiful metropolis of the land of the
sky, and have so much respect for and
confidence in the able and genial 'repre-
sentative from BuncOmbe" that the AShe
| Vile bill will not be vetoed this time. Col
! Johnston is to be congratulated. Ii Is
much more difficult to get these public
building bills through than one would
suppose. \ fierce fight is sometimes
made against them, and | observe the
New York Times of oday has a hit at
them. For my part, | think it is a good
way of disposing of the surplus. l would
like to see Wilmington get half million
for this purpose. She needs the buildings
| badly. She ought to have Il handsome
Customs House, Postoffice, &c, &c. No
people i'll the State would appreciate such
| favors more, none deserve them more.
and believe if she works hard enough to
secure it. she will get at least share of
| her deserts.
The tariff bill will be introduced in
about ten days. lie bill is nearly agreed
upon by the Ways and Means Committee.
Only two important articles are not yet
disposed of: These are sugar and tin
plate. The sugar men and manufacturers
of tin plate Qarge quantities of which is
used in making fruit cans, &c. y are here
in full force, watching their interests. A
great deal of talking will be in order as
soon as the bill comes up for discussion.
l hear Hon. Henry G. Turner will make
| one of the strongest arguments IN favor
of the bill He is a native of our State, a
brother of DR.. Turner of your city, and is
regarded as one of the ablest leaders on
the floor of the House. He represents a
Georgia District, but l persist in saying
that we have some right to claim him too.
| I foIl hot q ri al
will be one of the best efforts of his life.
The Blair bill will pass the Senate We'd
nesday by small majority. 1t will be
killed in the House. but there is slight
chance, so I hear, for Mr.. Henderson's bill,
briefly outlined in my last, to be taken up
AZ. substitute This prediction is toe
good I fear &C. be realized. l am afraid tc
hope for so mucli.-
am Informed by several leadf6g CORE
spondents that within the last twenty forsl
hours it has been ascertained that an i'm.
mense protection lobby has been formed
here amply provided with money and
shrewd, brainy men. This lobby repre-
sents the North, South, East and West
The lobbyists and their friends in Congress
will be ready as soon as the tariff bill is
introduced to fight it at every step. Every
item in the bill that is in the least vulner
bic will be taken up and fought with the
utmost pertinacity and diplomacy. The
low tariff men know what they have tG
contend with. AS this protection lobby
is formed without regard to party lines, sc
the low tariff wing of the party counts or
the support and votes of Republican mem
bers whose constituencies are opposed te
protection. The Internal Revenue repea
is a strong card in the hands of the tariff
reformers Take our own State for in
stance A tariff bill which carried will
it the abolition of the tobacco tax, the
reduction Of the brandy and whiskey tax
the correction of the harsh methods o
collecting this revenue would command
the united support of Messrs. Brewer an(
Nichols. A great many other Republicans
,, are in the same fix. They will have t.
vote for such tariff bill for they woult
not dare to face their constituents if the'
voted otherwise.
Riddleberger caused quite a cchnaoe;on aos;
in the Senate by exposing iD len so''iUn HIn
the deliberations of exeeqbe Rr;tiSh sJ" lion, ne
Dragged about TWISTS ;nI -, 'aIii n,1n
tail and made somey sh;ah th I,as
, to the $50 -called'''rea.s "nloh a1y .ney DC. nau
been discussiys IN IN secret conclave. ND.
dIeheroer rs rather peremptorily brought
uleuu, ~ na"dsr He is not bad fellow by any
,oao.s w 49,. He has some sterling qualities
n..G if he could be kept sober, would be a