Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
Many Tariff Speakers.
The Last Week of Debate on
 the Mills Bill Begun.
CONGRESSMAN HATCHs OPINION.

CONGRESSMAN HATCH'S OPINION. He Says the Passage of the Bnl is De-
 manded by the Best Interests of the
 Farmer-Mr. symes EmphaticalIy Opp
 poses Free Wool.
 day adopted @ resolution offered by Mir. Mills, of Texas, providing that the tariff de- bate shall close on Saturday next
 A bill was introduced for public building at Horn sllsville, N Y
 MT. Hatch, of Missouri, was the first tariff speaker. He favored the bill, saying that its passage was called for by the best interests of the farmer, and claiming that the tariff was entirely antagonistic to those interests, ana in favor of the manufacturer He warned the opponents of the bill that if the present measure was rejected they would give millions of dollars, in less than year, to get as moderate a reduction of taxation. IT the Mills bill was not passed by this con- gress, he said, the voice of the people, sweep ing throughout the length and breadth of the land, would place Q membership in the Fifty first congress that would take the protective system, and instead of reducing it now proposed, would bring it down to a point where 1t would do equal and exact justice to all the interests of the country.
 tHThis protective system, mercileSs as death itself, robbed alike the neighbor and the stranger. Gentlemen representing agricul- tural districts of the west, who opposed this bill, would find a storm of indignation among their constituents when they got home. He criticised the claim that wool growing was an infant industry. He spoke for the farmers of the Mississippi valley when he declared they were almost unanimously in favor free wool and reduction on the manufac- tured wool goods.
 NIT. Symes, of Colorado, referring to the cry for free raw material from the Demo cratic party, said it issued forth as free and as ra " as the whisky which oozed through the worm of xne illicis distilleries in the most reliable Democratic districts. He argued that it was the capitalist the monopoiist, the inn porting merchant, and those who derived their income from bonds, etc, that were clamoring for free trade; the employer, the working.nen and those who built up the in- dustries of the country demanded protection.
 MT. Funston, of Kansas, opposed the bill, and said its result would be the destruction of industries in which thousands of men found honest employment
 MT. o'Neill, of Indiana, as a protectionist, wanted the tariff high enough to enable a manufacturer in this country to compete
 
 trader, and he claimed to be one, was op- posed to having the tariff any higher than that He argued in favor of putting lumber, iron and iron ore on the free list but il. these products the United States could compete | with the world without protective tariff on them.
 ! Mir. Thompson, of Ohio, said the Democratic party was absolutely hostile to protection. and argued that tariff for revenue would lOyyerincv fha of lal, country to the level paid in the old world, and this meant danger to the peace of the nation.
 Mir. Sherman, of New York, in opposing the bill, merely presented petitions from hundreds of people in his district protesting against the passage of this measure
 Mir. Struble, of Iowa. said the attacks of the administration upon the silver dollar, the greenback and protective system would not escape the condemnation of the people Under the latter the country had grown and prospered, and attained financially, com mercially and intelligently, the proud dis tinction accorded by the civilized world.
 Mir. Cowles. of North Carolina, urged re- peal of the internal revenue laws He fav- ored a tariff for revenue only and revenue by tariff only.
 The committee at 5:S0 p. m- arose and the house adjourned
 The disability pension bill introduced in the house by Mir. Matson is substitute for a number of bills on the same subject. It authorizes the secretary of the interior to adjust al- pension claims on account of disa- Utilities or injuries incurred since March 4 1861, filed on and after July l, 1880, and up to the daoe of the passage of the bill Also directing the secretary to readjudicate all such claims as have been allowed or filed as if they had been filed prior to July l, 1SS0 The accompanying report concludes as fol lows: 'We shall be able to submit estimates clearly approximating the cost of this legis- lation, and for the present venture the asser- tion that it will not exceed S250, 900 900, and suggest to the house in this connection that it affords the very best means of disbursing the surplus, scattering it through all sections of the country, and placing it in the hands of those who will put it at once into circulation, and the surplus accumulated under the pres ent tariff will probably meet these obliga- tions of the country"