Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-11
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY,
MIR. SCOTS TARIFF SPEECH.
House OF Representatives.

House OF Representatives.
TO MEET AT IL A. NJ HEREAFTER.
Mr.. Mills (Tex.), from the committee on rules re-
ported resolution providing that the hour for the
daily meeting OF the House shall hereafter be IL
O'Clock M, and that after general debate on the
tarn bill shall have closed the House shall adjourn
each day at p m. Adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Mckinley (Ohio) Senate bill
was passed for the erection OF public building at
Youngstown, Ohio, with an amendment reducing
the appropriation from 100000 to $4,000.
MR. SCOTS TARIFF SPEECH.
The House then went into committee OF the
whole CMr. Springer, OF Illinois, in the chair on
the tariff BILL and was addressed by Mr.. Scott, OF
PENNSYLVANIA.
MIR. Scott began his speech with defense OF the
science OF political economy and the correctness OF
country, 6OOOOOOO strong, with inventive genius
keener, with labor more skilled than any other
people on the globe, should decline to compete for
supremacy in the marts OF mankind, and continue
forever 10 trade among ourselves under the insane
deluson that we were growing rich by the process?
Our friends, the enemy, said: ayes, let us build
a Chlnese wall around this young and vigorous
people, whose eager enterprise already chafeS
under the bounds Of nature and If we cannot
make 1t wholly tmperviouS let us make 1t as nearly
SO as we can" They were BourbOns, BourbonS
all, and OF the deepest kind. Their faces were
turned backward, not forward; they were look
Ing through the dismal shades OF the dead past,
not through the glowing day OF the living present
The bill was framed in The interest OF the people
OF the whole people. 1t was intended In the first
instance
TO STAY THE MOUNTING SURPLUS IN THE TREASURY,
threatening overwhelming and possibly imme-
diate disaster, even now wildly impending; and,
second, to relieve, as far as prudence would per-
init at this time, the overburdened Industries of
the country from excessive taxation the proceeds
OF which DO not pass into the Treasury, but go
directly to the support OF grasping monOpolies,
Which were, for the most part combined In utterly
lndeiensbe and atrociously oppressive trusts. II
tne Dill dld not meaSurably accomplish these pur-
poses IL was because the majority or the ways and
means committee was incompetent to frame such
law, ana or that the country would be the Judge.
THE RANDALL BILL CRITICISED
bill had been introduced by member OF this
House the Randall bilD and referred to the COM
mittee which provided large reduction Of inter-
nal taxes, and dealt very curiously, indeed with
customs duties. At the time OF its introduction
the republican press, though opposed to tariff-re-
form, was loud In praise OF 1t bill on which all
could unite, not only gentlemen on the other side
or the House. but gentlemen o. this side also, who
were supposed to differ with the majority.
IL Is lair to presume that those who had incOn-
siderately approved this remarkable bill did not
understand It's provisions Covering 127 pages, 1t
was too voluminous TO be analyzed without great
LABOR. But taking the iron and steel schedule as
falr index or the genius OF the proposed bill, and
the one with which the member introducing it
was supposed TO be most familiar, one which
ne would naturally desire TO conform
most nearly to the demands of his i'm
Judgment on the whole from this, it was
safe 10 say 1t was not In line with revenue
reform; not In the interest OF the consumer, nor
the middleman, nor the manufacturer; In truth
and In fact 1t increased the burdens every ave-
catlOn, every Industry the irOn-wOrker as well as
the farmer: Taking it item by item, it gave the
tlon OF duties In the iron schedule S26 were added
to the burdens OF the pubic, already too onerous
TO be lOrne.
He said that the measure from whatever point
II was looked at was misbegOtten, lll-shapen,
pOrtentOus, unJustifiable monster, with no excuse
lor existence and no purpose in ITS life but to OBJ
struct the democratic party and TO delay the 1uS-
tlce Which the country demand.
CAPITAL HAS ITS CLAIMS.
The majority OF the committee on ways and
means realized and appreciated the condition OF af
fairs existing in the country to-day; and however
deSirOuS they might be tOeXtend that full measure
or relief to the wage-wOrker and the great agrl.
cultural classes or the country, to which they are
SO Justly entitled invested capital had its claims
upon them.
The bin noW under consideration had been formed
LOT the double purpose OF reducing the surplus and
relieving the country OF needless taxation. The
Changes made, the majority OF the committee oe-
HeVed, VIII accomplish these objects; but he
wished 1t to be clearly understood that the inter-
ests or labor had been steadily held in view at
every stage OF the proceedings and that this bill
furnished that protection to labor which his oppo-
nentS professed to give, but to which their policy
had been city opposed. The effect OF the bill
would De- not to reduce his wages but to lessen to
MIN the cost or the necesSares or liTe and TO de-
crease his dependence upon the employer.
THE FARMING CLASS.
Upon no class OF our people did the present fiscal
burdens OF our country bear so heavily as upou
inc farming class One OF the strong arguments
that the prOtectionlStS made to the farmer was
the home market that protection was alleged to
insure for his produce IL was a falacy and a
fraud and Intelligent farmers would not be longer
deceived by 1t.
THE METAL SCHEDULE.
attention GO had nj NJ
the bill, Mr.. Scott cite1 the case OF the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works as exhibiting the opera
tions OF monopoly duty. swelling the profits OF
the manufacturer into most unreasonable and
even appalling figures, whilst adding nothing to
the wages OF labor, either common or skilled and
at the same time restricting the market OF
the farmer for his produce, though simply
and apparel. He called the attention of
the House and OF the country to the new and nat.
ural force, which, in mis- opinion was destined to
revolutfonize, indeed, had already revOlutionized
some departments OF American manufactures He
alluded TO natural gas 1t was used at the Edgar
my of Its use had not as yet enabled the proprie-
tors to reduce the price OF their product or 10
add anything to the wages paid
WOOL
This bill put wool on the free list 1t did so, not
only IN the interest OF the woolen manufacturer,
but in that Of sheep husbandry ITSELF To enable
the manufacturer OF this country to compete in
his home market and to export a surplus abroad,
ne must oe able TO purchase his wool as favorably
not only as 10 price but TO selection OF qualities
and kinds as does his foreign competitor.
Mr.. SCOTS CLOSING REMARKS
In conclusion he said: 1--WE are here, Sir-we
the majority Of the ways and means committee
and OF this House-in defense OF American indus
try. We alone offer 1t protection: we seek alone
the independence and aggrandzement OF domestic
labor by liberattng 1t from unnatural restraints
and allowing 1t the undisturbed possession and the
complete enjoyment OF its own earnings. The
other side offer it-what? mOnOpOlized market
In which to buy the necesSar1es OF life on the one
hand, and on the other a labor market subject to
the caprice of trusts.
ana vote with the monopoly party under coercion
OF the employer? II they do, the hideOus disaster
Ioreseen by Jefferson as the natural result OF the
restrictive and subsidy policy viii rush down upon
US and the Government OF the Union will pass into
the hands OF those who openly propose to pervert
ltS powers and employ them to plunder the people
for their own enrichment Fl do not believe Sir
that American liberty Is destined to be exttngushed
In this lgnOminiOuS fashion. Surviving, as 1t has
armed assault and every form Of intrigue, It will
not perish OF the base corruption OF subsidy, 1t Will
not De thrUttled by mere greeds or smothered by
vile monopoly"
Indian Traderships investigation.
DRNIALs BY Mr.. GEORGE G. ELLISON.
Mr. Geo. c. Ellison, who was appointed by Com
missioner Atkins to be an Indian trader at the
Usage Agency, Indian Territory, was before the
Senate committee on Indian traderships today
at his own request, to deny certain statements
made by witnesses examined q year ago In the
territory. These were to the effect that Ellison
SOuQht a WI OF