Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-15
CONGRESS-.
Debate i'm the House Recurs on the
WAOl Schp a m le.

Debate i'm the House Recurs on the
Wool Schedule.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE House re-
sumed consideration of the Subsidy
amendment of the Senate to the Post.
Office Appropriation bill. After debate,
Birgham's motion to concur in the Sem
ate amendment, with an amendment,
was lost; yeas 56, nays 1856.
By vote OF yeas 141, nays 81, the
House further insisted upon disagree
ment to the Senate amendment and a
further conference was ordered.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the Tariff bill, the pend
ing schedule being that relative to wool.
Outhwaite, of Ohio, ridiculed the as
sertion that the effect of the Tariff had
been to increase the number of sheep in
this country. He thought the natural
fecundity of hocks had something to do
with the increase. Cultivate proceeded
to argue that high tariff had no influence
upon the price of wool, which was regu-
lated by the law of supply and demand.
He quoted statistics to show that under
high tariff the price of wool had steadily
declined. He did not claim that the de-
cline was attributable to the tariff, but to
the increased supply of wool. The bill
presented fair proposition to make a
reduction of woolen goods, equal to the
reduction which would result from put
ting wool on the free list.
La Toilette, of Wisconsin, took up and
criticised Carlisle's speech upon the bill,
especially that portion in which the
Speaker endeavored to show the prosper
ity of the country during the low tariff
decade from 1850 to 1860. To do this,
said La Toilette, Carlisle had recourse to
the percentage argument, and had shown
that the percentage of increase in woolen,
cotton, hardware, hosiery and boots and
shoes industries had been very large. The
trick of the percentage argument was that
the manufactures might be so small that
any increase would make a percent
age showing. The gentlemen had taken
care to select those articles, which with
one exception, were not touched, or only
slightly, by the act of 1916. The gentle.
man had said the tariff of 1846 had been
so beneficial that in 1857 every represen-
tative from New England who voted at
all had voted for the bill, making almost
a uniform reduction of 20 per cent, and
among them was Justin L. Morrill,. This
was an error so gross and unjust as to
demand rebuke to the gentleman from
Kentucky, who used it with such
emphasis and telling effect. The state
ment was either inexcusable or the
meanest sort of political pettifogging
Nothing escaped the gentleman's net
He claimed everything for low tariff. He
had both ends of the "teeter" in the all
at the same time. He trifled with facts
! when he said this country recovered
, from the depression of 1857 in few
months.
At the conclusion of his speech La
Toilette was heartily congratulated by
his Republican colleagues.
Scott, of Tennessee, referred to the re-
cent speech OF Kelly, giving an account
of the interview between himself and
Carnegie in the committee room. Scott
pronounced the statement at issue OF
misrepresentation. He then proceeded
to give his version of the interview W which
he said touched upon Carnegie's citizen
ship and not upon the tariff. He also
repeated the substance of the conversa-
ton he had had with Carnegie, in which
the latter admitted the truth of the
statement that he made one and half
million dollars in one year under the
, protective tariff.
Grosvenor referred to the decrease OF
the wool industry in Ohio and the great
falling off in price of the wool crop, and
said it was all due to the menace of the
Mills bill. After the Republicans, aided
by one or two of the Ohio Democratic
members, had striken out the enacting
clause of the Morrison bill, the price OF
wool had sprung up from three to five
cents per pound. What was to be gained
by this peculiar geographical attack ?
Would sane man strike down this in
dustry for the sake of reducing the rev.
enue few million dollars?
Ford, of Michigan, said it was for the
country to choose between cheap whisky
and cheap clothing. The wool tariff was
burdensome. There was scarcely a
breeze when the copper schedules were
passed upon, but now, backed by SUBJ
sidized press, the Republicans tumbled
over one another to get to the
front and bounce the wool schedules.
He did not believe the effect of the bill
would be to decrease the price of Ameri-
can wool. The manufacturers of the
country asked the farmer to work and
stint and pinch, while they took their
ease. This was the feast that the farm
ers of the country were invited to par.
take of by the Republican party, but he
predicted they would reject it on Novem-
ber 9th.
The House then took recess, the eve.
ming session to be for the consideration
of private bills