The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-22
MR.. COEB'S DEMAGOGY.
The Texas Senator Shows His
Ignorance Of Tariff Laws.
NO TARIFF ON ANTHRACITE
And yet he Talks about the Dcsfitu.
tion among the Anthracite Miners
In Pennsylvania being due 10
the Protection they Have,

: wAsuISeroN, D. c., Dec. 2l,-Mr
Chandler presented in the Senate to-da!
three additional memorials numerousl!
signed from three voting precincts il
Orangeburg, South Carolina, alleging
denial Of the right Of voting in the latt
election and praying for an investigation
Referred.
i The public printing deficit bill was re
ported without amendment by Mr.. Hale
land was passed. 1t appropriates S13, ,00C
for that purpose and 5000 for the OBJ
servation Of the eclipse OF the sun on the
first Of January next.
j The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Teller for the appointment OF d
committee to investigate the office OF the
Supervising Architect Of the Treasury
during the administration OF the present
Supervising Architect was taken up.
Mr.. Vest moved to amend the resolu.
tion by making it include also the nd
ministration OF the last Supervising
Architect.
Mr.. Teller accepted the amendment
Mr.. Allison inquired Of Mr.. Vest what
the object Of the amendment was.
Mr.. Vest said he took it for granted
that the proposed investigation was not
personal attack. He intended none
by his amendment. But ii he had
learned anything rs member OF the
committee on public buildings and
grounds, with which he had been con-
nected ten years, it was the absolute
and questionable vice OF the present
system in regard to the construction OF
public buildings. He would put the
whole matter Of the construction OF
public buildings under the contract
system, which, he said, was infinitely
superior to the other system.
THE TARIFF.
The tariff debate then proceeded, the
cotton schedule being reached.
As companion piece to the clancy
picture" which Senator Edmunds re-
Gently drew of the enjoyments OF the
American workingmen, Mr.. Coke read
with running cOmments) the testimony
OF Thomas L. Donnell, mule spinner
in Fall River, Mass, taken by the Blair
Committee, showing that for himsel tand
his wife and two children he had not
earned $3.50 in year; that he had no
help from outside; that he bad couple
OF dollars worth Of coal in the preceding
winter; that he picked little wood
along the shore and shovelled up clans
for food; that he had not had more than
two pounds OF pork in n month and not
five pounds OF beef in the year; that his
wife had only had one dress costing
about 81 since her marriage six years
before, that this condition of things
has existed for more than six years TO
his knowledge; that it was not confined
to him but that there could not be less
than thousand operatives IN Fall river
in like conditions: and that he did not
know what was wrong, but that some.
thing was wrong. "That," said Mr..
Coke, sis the condition of the protected
American workingmen, to pay whom,
and to support whose families the Amer.
lean people are taxed an average OF II
per cent on everything they eat, drink
or wear and even on the grave clothes
OF the dead.
Mr.. COKE STEPS IN A HOLE.
Mr.. Coke turned from the cotton
operatives of Massachusetts, to the min.
ers Of Pennsylvania, and quoted the ties.
timony OF Mr.. John jarrett to the effect
that the condition OF the coal miners,
numbering at least 10000, is 'pitiable
and miserable" that they were i'll paid
and suffered from the truck system" :"
under which they had to pay l00. per
cent more than other people, and That
the English coal miners were better
cared for than the American miners.
Mr.. Aldrich-flow are the coal min
ers OF Pennsylvania affected by Pro-
lection?
Mr.. Coke-Have you not got protec-
ton to coal on your tariff?
MIR, Aldrich-No, sir, and there has
not been for generation any duty on
anthracite coal. Bituminous coal is on
the dutiable list, but the great mass OF
coal mined in Pennsylvania is anthra-
cite.
Mr.. Coke went on to quote from the
Cleveland Herald, report us to the con-
dition OF the cOllieries OF HazeltOn, Pa,
to the effect that there never had been
SO much suffering among them rs now.
MR.. COKE ANSWERED.
Mr.. Hawley said he did not know in
the State of Connecticut any such peo.
pie as o'Donnell. There were every.
where some shiftless, drinking, idle men
who could not get living, But in the
Savings Banks OF Connecticut, with q
population OF 67O,0OO) the deposits
amounted to Sl02, 100000, most of the
savings Of servants and operatives.
Mr.. Hoar also replied to Mr.. Coke
He denied that there was any such con-
dition Of things as that described in
O'Donnell's testimony. 1t was not q
true picture OF the working people Of
New England. The operatives OF Low
ell, he said, could buy Lowell, and the
working people Of Worcester could buy
Worcester with oil the factories and cap
ital In It. The stuff which the Senator
from Texas talked OF and read was pure
nonsense.
THE HOUSE,
The House was in session but n short
time, the business being principally OF &
routine nature, and discussion by the
Committee OF the Whole OF the Nicara
qua Canal scheme.
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