St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-29
sHARP-PoINTED CoLLoQuY.

Congressman Enliven Tariff Dis
cussion by Picking to Pieces the
Party Platforms.
Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-The tariff
bill and political discussion took up the
time of the house to-day. Mr.. Blount,
OF Georgia, was elected speaker pro
TEN. in the absence of Mr.. Carlisle. Mr..
Spinola, from the committee on military
affairs, reported back the senate bill for
the relief Of Maj. Gen. w. ". Averill.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bill. Mr.. Baker,
OF New York, moved to strike from the
free list vegetables in their natural
state or in salt Or brine, not specially
enumerated or provided for. Mr.. Mills
said the clause did not refer to potatoes,
which were specifically provided for.
The clause was in the interest of the
consumers, and he asked were the Re-
publicans willing to reduce taxation?
A colloquy between Messrs. Mills,
Brumm, j. d. Taylor. of Ohio, and
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, followed, in
which Mr.. Mills cOntended that the Re-
publican platform
FAVORED FREE WHISKY
and taxes on necessaries, while the pur-
pose of the Democrats was to take taxes
from neceSsarieS and leave them on
1uXuries. The Republicans denied this
strenuouSly, Mr.. Kelly saying that no
man who had read Or heard what he had
said on the subject of internal taxation
since the close of the war was justified
in charging him with being in favor of
free whisky. He had never favored it.
1t was a dire party necessity which
made the chairman of the ways and
means committee make such charges
against him personally or as a represen-
tative of his party. He asked the DEM
ocratic party to keep its promises of
four years ago to the South who had
been deluded into their support by
THEIR LYING PROMISES
to remove the internal revenue taxes.
Mr., Reed thought that the gentleman
from Texas did not mean to be believed
when he said the Republican party was
for free whisky, because the gentleman
knew there would not be enough Demo-
Gratis left to make up an electoral ticket
had confidence in his statement. Mr..
Wise, of Virginia, proclaimed himself a
Democrat, and that he was in favor OF
the tobacco tax. After further discus
sion Mr.. Bakers motion was rejected
and the committee rose.
On motion of Mr.. Randall Joint reSO-
luton passed providing for expenditures
of the government for thirty days after
June 80 in case the appropriations failed
to pass by that time, the end of the fiscal
year. The house went into committee
again, and Mr.. Cannon defended the
Chicago platform and gave his con-
Struction of
THE INTERNAL REVENUE PLANK.
Mr.. Mills preSedted committee amend
mentS, which were adopted placing on
the free list German looking-glass plates
blown and silvered. and striking out
plums and pruueS. Efforts to strike out
chicory and dandelion root, cocoa and
figs were unsuccessful. An amendment
offered by Mr.. Bynum, from the COM
mittee Oh ways and means, to strike out
pulp for paper makers use, was adopted.
An amendment, offered by Mr.. Far
quhar, of New York, to strike out books
and pamphlets printed in other
languages than English, was, after de-
bate, lost. On motion of Democratic
members. there were struck from the
free list hatterS' fur, not on the skin,
lime, linseed, faxseed, marble of all
kinds, and plaster of Paris when ground
or calcined. Mr.. Parker, of Pennsyl-
vania had read a protest against the
passage of the Mills bill signed by over
800 manufacturers and business men of
Philadelphia, employing over 10000
persons. The committee having risen,
the conference report Oh the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill was
agreed to and the house, at 5 O'Clock,
adjourned.