The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-14
WAR ON THE FREE LIST.
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT FIG@T
IN THE HOUSE.

Yhe Clause Relating to Tin Plates
Brings Messrs. Randall and Yost into
the Thickest of the Fray-The Tariff
Reformers Carrying Everything Be-
fore Them.
WASHINGTON, June 13.-The house went
into committee of the whole this morning,
with Mr. Springer in the chair, on the
tariff bill.
Mr.. Bayne of Pennsylvania moved to
strike from the free list sum, sisal grass
and other vegetable substances. The motion
was defeated.
Mr.. Warner of Missouri moved to strike
from the free list burlaps not exceeding 60
inches in width of fax, jute or hemp. The
motion was rejected after very brief dis
cussion.
Mr. McMillen Of Tennessee moved to
place upon the free list bags of jute for
grain. A long debate resulted upon this
motion, into which good deal of politics
entered.
MR.. DINGLEY AND JUTE BAGS.
Mr. Dingley of Maine opposed the propo-
sition to place jute bags on the free list on
the ground that it would be destructive to
bagging.
Messrs. Biggs and Thompson Of California
earnestly supported the motion, contending
that the placing Of jute bags on the free
list would not interfere with the manufact-
ure of cotton bagging, but would be greatly
beneficial to the grain producing population
of the Pacific coast. The motion was then
agreed to.
Reaching the clause putting on the free
list machinery for the manufacture of
cotton bagging, Mr.. Lind, of Minnesota,
offered an amendment including machinery
for making twine of hemp or jute butts
This was rejected, as well as a motion to
strike out the paragraph.
THE TIN PLATE SCHEDULE.
The next paragraph was read tin plate)
and Mr.. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, moved to
strike it out.
Another general tariff debate sprung up
on this paragraph, Mr.. Dalzell opening it
with fifteen minutes speech in favor of
protection for tin manufacturers.
MIR. Yost of Virginia, taking up figures
showing the imports of tin plate into the
United States, calculated that the people of
this country had lost S15, 900 in wages
by not being allowed to produce these tin
plates through higher duty
vIRGINIA's CAPABILITIES
Virginia could furnish everything neces-
sary to make the best tin plate. She had
mild basic steel and tin, without which the
plate could not be made. Put the duty at
2 2-10 cents per pound and give the south a
chance for five years, and then she could
compete with the world. She was
demanding her rights and could get
them if the men who represented
her here did their duty The future of the
south was bound up in infant industries, for
they were infant industries in
n. i i u
tribute to the north. No man in Virginia
could make canvass this year ON the basis
of the Mills bill
PROTECTIONIST RANDALL'S PLEA.
Mr.. Randall said the real question, the
broader question, was could we produce tin
plate here proftably. We could. and he had
seen it done. Men who leaped into the
matter without reference to labor be-
Titled it. If properly protected
under the natural law of
supply, the price of tin plate would de-
crease here. We should let the wage Garner
of the United States produce what he could
produce. 1t went further. 1t touched iron
ore and limestone and other products, all
going to make tin plate. We had long
enough drained the country of $4,000, 900
annually paid out for tin plate. We took
three-ffths of the British product, and he
(Mr. RandalD was opposed to favoring a
foreign country at the expense of our own
tApplause on the republican sidel
Mr.. Wilson of West Virginia produced
an old Record and had read colloquy in
the senate between Senators Sherman and
ingalls,, in which the last named gentleman
vigorously protested against the protection
of the infant tin industry before the infant
was born. This was received with a round
of applause on the democratic side.
The committee then rose and the house,
at o'clock, adjourned