The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-13
GOOD ADVICE BY SENATOR HAWLEY.
He Is Going Home, and Advises 9th
ers to Do the Same.
A Democratic Hunt for Misplaced
Punctuation Marks,
With Something About the Great
u Discoveries Already Made.

E-h DtSCoveTteS Airedoy Maoe.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12-In the Senate to-
day, Senator Hawley said he had brought
notices and documents with the intention of
making speech of an hour, or an hour and
half's duration on the Senate tariff bill.
He thought the bill very good, perhaps the
best first draft of tariff bill ever submitted
by Congress. Nobody believed the bill
could be discussed item by item and disposed
of at this session. 1t had inevitably to go
over until December. In his humble judg-
ment the best thing the Senators could do
was to go home and he, for one, was 60
ing.
Senator Reagan next addressed the Senate.
He favored the House bill as against the
Senate bill, though he would not say he
would vote for every item in one or against
every item in the other.
The conference reports on the bill for
"The Fourth of July claims" and on the
bill to retire Gen. Pleasanton were present
ed and agreed to-
Senator Mitchell offered resolution,
which was adopted, instructing the commit
cause Of the arrears Of work in the general
land office.
The Final Adjournment.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-Congress will adj
journ Saturday, Oct. Goth. This is the result
of conferences yesterday, between the lead
ers of the House and Senate. Under this
agreement the resolution of adjournment
will come from the House. Nothing will be
done in either house in the meantime, for
neither will have a quorum. Six more
speeches will be made on the tariff bill in
the Senate, MessrS. Teller, Spooner ard
Hawley speaking for the Republicans. and
Messrs. Vest. Reagan and Call for the DEM
ocrats. When the last speech has been
made, the record of both parties will be
complete.
A Search for Flaws.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The free traders
are very busy trying, with the help of the
Treasury Department, to find ''weak spots"
in the Senate substitute for the Ozark Lam
tern" bill, against which to direct their at
tacks. They have already discovered one
mares nest, in the shape of comma in the
following paragraph of the additions to the
free list: "Coal, slack or culm, such as will
pass through a half-inch screen" That
comma, they declare, will ruin the bitumi-
nous coal mining industry of the United
States, because, under treasury ruling, coal
in free of duty.
Well, it must be admitted that with a free
trade Secretary of the Treasury like Mr..
Fairchild, such decision might be po ssible
He has made some rulings in the interest of
foreign producers and importers, which are
scarcely less absurd, but the paragraph in
the substitute, comma included, is precisely
as it stands in the present law, except that
the rate OF duty, 80 cents per ton, is omitted
So that mares nest will not be likely to
frighten anybody
1t is understood that Speaker Carlisle has
discovered that the substitute raises the duty
on cutlery, and that be will make that fact a
ground Of attack In the campaign speeches,
which he Is TO deliver during the next three
weeks. OF course he will be careful not to
say anything about the depressed and falling
condition of the cutlery industry in this
country. owing to differentiation, and con.
sequent excessive importations. The pres
ent rate Is ad valorem, for which the finance
committee recommends the substitution of a
compound rate, partly specific and partly ad
valorem, in order to cover the higher prices
of labor and materials in the United States
as compared with England and Germany.
About five-sixths of all the pocket cutlery
sold in the United States last year was made
in the two countries named. The importa-
tions amounted to LAS, 800 dozen, the aver
age invoice value of which was only SO cents
per dozen, or less than seven cents per knife.
Did the purchaser of pocket-knife in this
country derive any benefit from this tremen-
dous supply of "cheap knives?" Not par
ticle. Most of the imported knives are
stamped with American names and marks,
and were sold as such. The foreign manu-
facturers, through their resident agents in
this country, and the American jobbers
pocket the most of the profit information
obtained by the finance committee shows
that wages in the cutlery industry in Germa-
ny were about one-fourth, and in England
same industry in the United States. The
committee also ascertained that the cutlery
industry of the United States has steadily
declined since 1883, under the present tariff,
which Is inadequate. In five years, eleven of
twenty-five concerns engaged in making
pocket cutlery in 1882 have failed or been re-
organized; the amount Of capital invested
has shrunk from 81, 720 900 to $2,27C, 900, and
the output in 1887 was 271, 500 dozen, against
AIS, 900 dozen in 1882.
1t is hoped, rather than expected, that Mr.
Carlisle will state these facts if he shall de-
liver his speech in Connecticut-say at Meri-
den, New Britain, Naugatuck. Waterbury,
Thoma stOn, SOuthington, or any other town
where cutlery is or has been made-or in
New York, at Maiden, Phoenix, Fayette-
vile or Ellenv ille
In the House.
WASHINGTON, Oct 12.-In the House, to-
day, after discussing the Nicaragua canal
bill, the House voted on Mr.. Fuller's amend
ment, The point of Lo quorum was raised
and the committee thereupon arose. Several
efforts to secure adjournment or recess un-
til evening we're rejected, and for the first
time in two weeks roll call was ordered.
the motion being to adjourn. 1t was de-
feated. but subsequent motion to adjourn
prevailed and, by vote of 80 to 81, the
House adjourned until Monday.
Struck by Portland Schooner.
WASHINGTON, Oct 12.-The United States
consul at st. John, N. B., reports to the
State Department that the schooner Ada G.
Shorthand, ran down small boatlcontaining
an unknown man, supposed to be a fisher
man, on the 4th inst, off Salem, Mass. An
unsuccessful effort was made to rescue the
man.
Wrecked Near Hatteras.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12-The three masted
schooner Annie B. Randall, Clark's
Cave, Me-, from for Elizabeth,
City, N. c., with Ice was
wrecked tonight five miles south of Cape
Hatteras. The crew were rescued by life