Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-14
Washington Gossip.
Discussing Political Candidates
 in the House.


 in the House.
 WORKING AT THE MILLS BILL. A Proposition to Strike Tin Plates from
 quence From Roth Sides-Fisheries
 Talk in the Senate.
 WASHINGTON, J me 1.-The feature of the house proceed ngs yesterday was the political coiloquy between Messrs. Spinola and Nutting, of New York
 The house went into committee of the whole on the tariff pill. A motion to strike out sum, sisal grass and other vegetable substances from the free list was rejected.
 Mr. Bayne quoted MT. Scott's remarks of yesterday as an extraordinary confession that the Democratic leaders were ignorant of the probable effect of the passage of the Mills bill on the industries of the country. A motion to strike out burlaps from the free list was rejecte1
 Mir. McMillin, of Tennessee, moved to place upon the free list bags of jute for grain, which was agreed to.
 Quite sharp colloquy ensued between Messrs. Spinola, Weber and Nutting, of New York; Brumm, of Pennsylvania, and Russell, of Massachusetts, ol, the merits of President Cleveland and Governor Hill, in which MT. Spinola commended Governor Hill for his veto of the bill to prevent corruption at elec- tions, and said there was no place in tue United States where elections were so fairly conducted as in New York.
 'sNo man in the Republican party" as- serted MT. Spinola, 'can defeat David B. Hill for governor, and you have no man you can put on your ticket who can carry the state against Grove. Cleveland"
 MT. Nutting asked if the gentleman did not state of New York
 ocratic ticket, and I venture to make the prediction that New York city will roll up 5000 majority for the Democratic candidate MT. Nutting-Do you mean to say that l those 600,00 worknen are in favor of the Mills bill? Mr. Spinola did ot give direct answer to the question, though MT. Nutting persisted in demanding one, and MT. Russell, of Massa- chusetts, shouted 'sYes!'' his reply being greeted with applause and laughter. The clause placing on the free list machinery for making cotton tagging was reached, and MT. Lind, of Minn esota, moved to include IQdCulnory LOT GWln0 OI hemp or 1uCo | butts Lost
 l The next paragraph was tin plates. MT. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, moved to l strike it out, and made speech in favor of protecting this infis,;t industry.
 MT. McMillin opposed the motion. eve were asked to keep up the duty on tin plate merely to force somebody to make it." | MT. Yost, of Virg mia, wanted it protected. t"The laboring people of thls country lost $15, ,OO0, 900 annually in wages by not being allowed to produce tin plate" D. Virginia 1 could produce every thing necessary to make the best tin plate Put the duty at 21O cents per pound and give the south Q l chance, said MT. st, and in five years time she could compea with the world. The future of the south, he said, was bound up in infant industries, ard she had long enough paid tribute to the north. No man, he said, could make canva in Virginia this year on the basis of the Mills bill
 MT. Randall, of Pennsylvania, said the broad question pre- sented was whether we could produce tin pl ate here profitabTy We could, and he had seen it done The men who discussed the natter without reference to labor belittled it If properly protected under the natural ls W of supply and demand the price of tin p]ate would decrease here We should let the W age earner in the United States produce what he could produce. We had long enough drained the country of sl6,. GOO, 900 annually, pad out for tin plate, three fifths of which wenj to Great Britain Flo, one, said MT. Randall, with applause from the Republicans, he was opposed to favorine foreign country at the expense of our own. l Without action or the motion to strike out the section, the committee rose and the house adjourned
 MT. Hale called up MT. Morgan's resolution in the senate as to the fishery treaty. and spoke at length. Ho said that Mr. Morgan. | speech last week ha6. filled him with wonde, that he, as @ represe 1tative of his party, the administration, should urge the cause ot ''our friends the ellemy." He recalled the words of Lewis Cass, of Michigan, that the United States got the right to fish not from England, or from Canada, but from God Almighty, and that they meant to hold on te it. The treaty was failure, and must in evitably be so, because neither the admins tration nor the nego oiators had been able te take in the whole situation or consider the steady march of Car ada for the last twenty years, under British tutelage and inspiration making attacks upon us under the guise o1 carrying out treaty stipulations and in the course of violating tlem. He alluded to the Canadian Pacific railway as being built, not for the wants of the country through whicl itpassed, for no towns sprang upon its line, but it was built by the strong hand of the govern ment for purposes military and commercial
 MT. Hale criticised the action of the treas ury department in giving transportation in bond" privileges to the Canadian Pacific, anG to the steamship lines between San Francisco and Vancouver, which lines carried freight which ought to be carried by American lines
 In conclusion Mr. Hale said it seemed tx him remarkable spectacle and anomalou. condition that in such an emergency soliG array of senators on the other side of the chamber should take the ground that the treaty was satisfactory, and that it was praiseworthy and petriotic result cf an i'm portant negotiation.
 \ MT. Hoar called attention to contrac which had just been made by the British government fora ship railway between tn, Bay of Fundy and tie Gulf of St. Lawrence and said that by it any number of gunboat. could be conveyed to the lakes
 MT. Hale said that the fishery question would have to be ultimately settled after further negotiation, and these negotiation