Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-13
THE HOUSE.
Too Much Inaugurati0n-The Wool
Sched dule Discussed.

ScneOuIe discussed.
WASHINGTON, July 12.-House sessions
we're ordered for next Wednesday anC
Thursday nights for consideration of bills
reported respectively from the Committee
on Labor and the Committee on Militar,
Affairs.
Ford, of Michigan, from the Committee
on Military Affairs, reported back the
resolution for the appointment of 9
special committee to investigate the al
legged evasions of the contract labor law
In reply to question by Vandever, oi
California, Ford stated that the resolu.
ton was broad enough in its scope tc
cover the subject of any evasion of the
law against Chinese immigration.
Cox, OF New York, called the attention
OF the House to the great necessity oi
this resolution, to correct the abuses now
existing. There was an abnormal immi-
grafton to this country by men persuaded
to come here by false and fraudulent pre-
lenses. Instead of there being an ordi.
nary immigration from Italy, Italians
were coming into this country at the rate
OF eighty thousand q year, under influ-
ences that should be inquired into. There
came into New York in one month fiftv
thousand men who did not know our
language and who added nothing to our
wealth and labor.
Morrow, of California, was glad the
House at last pretended the evil be-
setting the country from unrestricted i'm
migration.
The resolution was adopted. The
House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the Tariff bill, the agreement
being that no vote should be taken on
the pending wool schedule to-day.
DISCUSSION ON THE WOOL SCHEDULE.
Pugsley, of Ohio, opposed the sched-
ule, and said the duty on wool should be
increased instead of reduced.
Morse, of Massachusetts,, favored the
Mills bill generally, and especially the
clause placing wool upon the free list.
O'Donnell, OF Michigan, said the at
tempt to place wool on the free list
would injure one-fortieth of the popula-
ton OF the country interested in wool
growing. He appealed for the restora-
ton of the duties of 1867.
Mckinney, of New Hampshire, did
not think the placing of wool on the free
list would decrease the price of the wool
of this country, but would secure cheap.
er clothes because it would enable Am
erican manufacturers to compete with
foreign manufacturers.
Caswell, of Wisconsin, protested
against free wool as having the effect of
destroying the sheep-raising industry of
his State.
Bootman, of Ohio, said that placing
wool on the free list struck a deadly blow
at one OF the industries of his district.
He favored a return to the wool schedule
of 1867.
Dockery, of Missouri, controverted the
argument that free wool would DESTROY
the wool-growing interest. 1t would be
babe, as to expect the Democratic party
to turn its back on the laboring man. who
had always constituted its bone and
sinew.
Allen, of Michigan, said the Democrats
had protected all Of the products of the
country south of Mason and Dixon's line,
and in the same breath charged the Re-
publican party with sectionalism. If
they believed they could strike at Michi-
gan through her great staples, salt, lum-
Der and wool, with impunity, they would
learn better in the coming campaign.
Lanham, of Texas, said he had some
doubt as to the propriety Of the wool
schedule, but he had dissolved that doubt
in favor of the duty which he owed to
the party to which he belonged.
Dingley. of Maine, said since the Mills
bill had been launched in the press wool
had declined cents per pound. 1.-THE
of the bill had done this, what
would the bill itself do to the injury of
the farmer?
J. D. Taylor, Of Ohio, regarded the bill
as a conspiracy for ultimate free trade.
and attacked its general features and
more especially that feature placing wool
On the free list.
The Committee then rose and the
House took recess until 8 o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The House met this evening to con-
,ider certain private peneion bills ID