Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-30
HOUSE.

| OF Georgia, reported UnaU tne couieIenOo
| committee on the District of Columbia ap.
preparation bill had failed TO agree. and
stated that the chief point of difference
| between the two houses grew out of the
| increased appropriations made by the sen
ate for the paving of streets.
After a protracted discussion, further
conference was ordered.
The house then went into committee OF
the whole springer, of Illinois, IN the
chair on the tariff bill.
Mr. Dingley, of Maine, moved to strike
from the free list rags, of whatever mater
ial composed. The motion was lost.
On motion of Mr.. Breckenridge, of Ar
kansas paintings in oil or water colors
and statuary not otherwise provided for
were stricken from the free list.
Mr.. Russell, of Massachusetts, moved to
place primuline on the free list. He said
that it was dye used in the manufacture
of cotton goods aud that it was not pro-
duced in this country. The motion was
agreed TO.
This completed the consideration of the
free list section and the clerk proceeded to
read the dutiable portion of the bill. The
clause providing that the change in the
rate of duties shall take place on the first
of July, 1888, was passed over informally.
Mr.. Dingley, of Maine, moved to lay a
duty Of Is cents a cask on lime (Which was
yesterday struck from the free list. Lost.
Mr. Adams, of Illinois, moved to strike
out the clause fixing the rate of duty on
refined glycerine at 3 cents pound. Thi 5
led to a long discussion, in the course of
which MIR. Reed, of Maine, bitterly criti-
cised the majority OF the ways
tempting to mislead the country
by the statements made as to the effect
that the bill would have upon the reve-
nues He stated that the minority had
wished to obtain definite information
from the treasury department upon the
subject but their request to this effect had
been denied by the majority. The esti-
mate made by the committee was founded
upon a basis which it was the intention of
the country as true and day after day
members of the majority persisted in re-
euslng to give any explanation OF the eff
feet of the bill. When they got through
with this bill and it began to operate its
effect would be to give as big revenue as
was obtained under the present law and
then would come another bill, not for the
purpose of injuring the industries of the
country, oh, no. but for the purpose of cut
ting down the surplus and SO it would go
on until the procession ended just where
gentlemen were declaring that they did
not intend to go. Applause on Republi-
can sidel.
Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia, said that
the gentleman from Maine had criticised
the committee on ways and means for not
having obtained more trustworthy lnfor-
nation as to the effect of the bill. Of
course no one could conjecture what the
importationS would be the coming year
and the only estimate there could be made
must be based upon what the revenues of
the past year would have been had the
rates of duty proposed by the bill been cor
rect. In the Forty-seventh congress MIR.
Kelly had charge of the tariff bill and had
said that he did not believe that any one
could guess or estimate what the reduction
of revenue would be.
Mr.. Reed regretted that gentleman who
was usually so brilliant as the gentleman
from West Virginia, should shield himself
behind a former chairman OF the commit
tee on ways and means. The majority
members of the present committee instead
Of acceding to the request Of the minority
and pulling upon the treasury department
for information, and instead of saying as
Mr.. Kennedy did that they did not know
what reduction of revenue would be made
by their bill, had given out to the country
that certain amount of reduction would
be made. Now it was admitted that they
did not know whether the revenue would
be reduced or not, and the experiences of
the past would indicate that it would be
increased.
Mr.. Wilson pointed out that ap-
pended to the report of the
committee was a letter from the
secretary of the treasury making computa-
lions upon certain tables presented to him
by Mr.. Talbot, the clerk of the commit
tee.
Mr.. Reed remarked that those tables
were statements of importationS of the
preceding year and the revenue was COM
puted as if the importationS would be the
same, when the bill intended that they
should not be the same.
Mr.. Wilson suggested that no one could
estimate as to the future importationS.
Mr.. breckenridge, of Arkansas, sug-
gested that in the Forty-seventh congress
the Democratic party, under the leader
ship of Mr.. Carlisle, had announced its
purpose of killing the bill by delay.
Mr.. Reed declared that that purpose had
never been announced. but on the contrary
had been denied
Mr.. Breckenridge said that he had never
heard it denied by any of his associates
who were in that congress that they in
tended to kill the bill by delay AS for
the gentleman's statement as to the par
liamentary power of the minority, he de-
clared that the Democratic majority of the
WAYS and means committee could have
brought the bill before the house at any
time. The majority had waited on the
minority and as a matter of belief he filed
his statement that not one word of the
statement which the gentleman made on
that question was true. He did state his
belief that under the leadership of the
gentleman, leadership as discour-
teous, as insolent and as brutal
as ever there was in degraded
assemblage among degraded men, he
hindered the progress of the bill
until he Shrunk under the lash OF an In
H., 10
ridge did not undertake to controvert the
statements which the gentleman might
assert as his honest belief, but when tbs
gentleman undertook to set forth facts as
matter of history he resented it with con-
tempt and could not permit it to pass
without emphatic denial. He filed this in
no spirit of luminosity, but as distinct
testimony of what he believed TO be the
truth of history.
Mr.. Reed of Maine. said that the gen.
tleman from, Arkansas had raised between
them not exactly a question of YER
acity, but question as to which
of them would be likely to be
mistaken as to a fact. The gentleman had
asseverated that the gentlemen of his
party in opposing the bill of the Forty
seventh congress had distinctly and open
ly avowed that it was their purpose to kill
it by delay. He (Reed) asseverated the
contrary.
Mr.. Breckenridge did not asseverate
that as knowledge, but as my belief.
Mr.. Reed give the gentleman the ben
eft of his explanation.
Mr.. Reed then read the record Of the
tariff debate in the Forty seventh congress
in order TO show that the Democrats had
distinctly denied any intention of killing
the bill by delay.
Mr. Bland, of Missouri avowed it.
Mr.. Reed-The gentleman was the only
one.
Mr. Carlisle distinctly denied it.
Mr.. Stone, of kentucky, had read
postal card from a constituent declaring