Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-19
Tariff fTaIkin the House
Rather Warm2 and Acrimoni-
 ous Debate.
DISCUSSING THE AMENDMENTS.
Democrats and Republicans Get Into Wrangle Over Hoop Iron and Tobacco. The House Left Without & Quorum. Fi1ibusterinS Tactics.

The House Left Without & Quorum.
 Fi1ibustering Tactics.
 WASHINGTON, July 19.-The house devoted almost the entire time of yesterdays session, from II a. m. till p. m-, to tariff discussion. The cotton tie clause and the glass schedule, which had been passed over informally, were disposed of, but after the leaf tobacco para graph had been reached and discussed awhile the Republicans flibustered and left the house without quorum, because the Demo crats declined to afford them more time for debate. The house then adj journed without finishing the tobacco paragraph
 The first paragraph reached that had been passed over informally was the one placing "iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for bal ing purposes not thinner than No 20 wire guage," on the free list. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, and MT. Bayne spoke of the injustice of making cotton ties free while hoop iron was kept on the dutiable list. King Cotton, MT. Bayne said, was again making northern dough faces come to the front and vote for free cotton ties MT. Mckinley, of Ohio, said the cotton tie paragraph was the most indefensible of any ill the bill. In the free trade list generally what was made free was made free to everybody. If he were free trader and proposed to make hoop iron free he would make it free for all purposes. He was, however opposed to free hoop iron for any purpose, because the duty that had been placed on 1t had made it cheaper to the con- sumer than it would have been had there been no duty on it Finally, Mir. Shane, of Nebraska offered an amendment, which was agreed to-S0 yeas to Il nays-placing on the free list all iron and steel hoops not thinner than No. 20 wire guage
 On motion of MT. Mills, existing rates of d, d,rk1v yybsSf or,G Paris white.
 The pottery section, which had been passed over, was then taken up, and on motion of Mir. Bynum the duty on decorated china, porcelain, parian, earthen, stone or crockery ware was increased from 45 to 50 per cent ad valorem.
 Mir. Buchanan then moved to strike out the entire pottery schedule and restore exist ing rates, and made vigorous attack on the committees schedule. He said the ideas in it were furnished by Boston importer. The philosophy of the whole bill was to legislate for the swelled front importer of Boston and the brown stone front importer of New York rather than to legislate so as to secure employment for our own labor at home. He explained the difficulties encountered in the pottery business. The proposed reduction would injure the business seriously, and, in 1N he pleaded for a continuance of existing du- ties After further discussion Mr. Blu chanan's amendment was rejected.
 The glass schedule was next taken up, and several committee amendments were offered and adopted increasing slightly the duties proposed in the bill on glass bottles and on cylinder, crown and window glass.
 Mr. Reed, of Maine, wanted an explana- tion of the changes proposed, but Mir. Breck- inridge. of Arkansas, declined to afford an explanation, saying MT. Reed did not repre- sent the consumer. This remark Mr. Reed resented by saying it was part and parcel of the fallacy which had governed the whole bill, that one side of the house represented the consumer. This he denied emphatically, and charged that the Democrats in bringing out this bill were animated by political mo tives rather than by real desire to reduce taxation, and MT. Breckinridge, he said. should have manhood enough to acknowl- edge it.
 When the leaf tobacco paragraph was reached, MT. Mills moved to strike out the clause fixing the rate of duty at thirty five cents per pound, thus restoring present rates.
 Mir. Lafolette spoke for five minutes on this motion, and wanted more time, but Mr. Mills declined to give it to him, and on his motion the committee rose for the purpose of limiting debate
 MT. Mills then moved to limit debate on tobacco paragraph to one minute, but the Republicans, being refused five minutes, re- fused to vote, so the house was left without a quorum.
 MT. Mills moved to take recess until D. m., session having been ordered for the consideration of labor bills but as the jour. nal showed the absence of quorum the mo. tion was declared out of order. He then moved to adjourn, which motion was carried by standing vote