Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-01
Five Minute Speeches.
Brief Oratorical Flights Over
 the Mills Bill.
A DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

An Amendment Making the Tsrin Bill Take Erect Some Months Later Tha. at First Intended Brings the Lumber Men
 to Their Feet.
 WASHINGTON, June L-The feature of the house proceedings yesterday was the begin ming of the debate on the Mills tariff htu under the five minute rrte.
 MT. O'Neill, of Missouri, presented the con ference report on the bill creating the depart ment of labor, which was accepted, and the bill passed substantially as it came from the senate.
 The house then proceeded to consider the report of the committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation bill Several amend ments were adopted.
 Mir. Randall stated that there were forty blanks in the bill, mostly for salaries The bill was recommitted to the committee on appropriations to have these blanks properly filled in, and on motion of Mir. Mills the house went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill, the bill to be considered by sec dons under the five minute rule.
 Mir. Adams of Illinois, offered amend ment making the bill take effect Jan. 2, in- stead of July 1, explaining that the lumber interests should have time to prepare for the change He said that the amendment should apply only to the lumber clause. Acrimonious party discussion followed.
 Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, said as no one on the Democratic side would speak for the southern lumber interest, be would do 90. He asked the house not to impoverish the people of Tennessee and South Carolina Mir. Weaver, of Iowa, protested against any action that would fasten the lumber trust upon ths farmer.
 Mir. Reed, of Maine, said that making lum- Der free would put money in the hands of the H s--s- can industry, without lowering prices. MT. Mills said that it was pleaded that the tariff was in the interest of labor. He was 1 informed that Chinese were being largely used to cut lumber.
 Mr. Parker, of New York, offered an amendment substituting Nov 30, 1889, for the date for the bill to take effect. | This was rejected by a vote of 134 to so.
 MT. Boutere proposed to make the date of the Adams amendment 1890 He said that 1 there was more lumber now in Maine than there was twenty years ago.
 After debate the Boutelle amendment was rejected.
 Mir. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, claimed that the bill had been drawn on sectional lines. ! MT. McMllin, of Tennessee, denied the charge, and said he did not envy the man who was so shrivel souled that he could zee only through sectional spectacles [ DOup6l6 6SkeQ WHY IU6 Canadian lumbermen came over into Maine | to work.
 Mir. McMillin-Climaticin influences Deri- sive laughter on Republican side.)
 MT. Boutelle said it was because wages were better in Maine.
 Mr. Anderson, of Iowa-Why, then, does not Maine depoppslate canadal
 Mir. Boutelle-She is, as fast as the law al. i lows.
 Mir. Gear, of Iowa, argued that a tariff to ! be fair to all sections should not protect sugar with 6S per cent duty, while cutting off lower duties on products of other sections of the country.
 After @ running debate had continued for some time, Mfr. Mills asked that debate on the section be considered closed, but objection l being interposed, he moved that the commit i tee rise.
 This motion prevailed, the Republicans solidly opposing the motion, and the com- mittee. without having passed over the first five lines of the bill, rose. Mir. Randall re- ported the legislative appropriation bill as amended by the appropriations committee, and asked for its immediate consideration.
 Mir. Peters made the point of order against the bill, that it must again be considered in committee of the whole
 Messra Mckinley, of Ohio, and Spinola, of New York, endeavored to secure consider ation of the bill to revive the rank of general of the army, to be filled by Gen. Sheridan, but failed and the house adjourned, with an appeal by Mir. Peters from the ruling of the chair on his point of order pending.