The morning news., 1888-10-23

ments of the democrats in favor OF what they
term tariff reform" is the necessity for tho
dnmlssi9n ait,. OF all raw materials free >, o o.
| the Mills bill attains that end, and theii
failure to explain all of the provisions OF that
| Dill amounts TO suppression of the truth. LEI
me ask some democratic speaker, or some
| democratic journal, to tell the public how fai
| and for what reasons raw materials are adj
| mitted free by the mills BILL and in the mean
| time | will contribute a few facts to the dis
| cnssion. If | mistake not, the Mills bill com
| bineS the most diScredtable features OF leglsla
| tion ever attempted in a tariff measure-dis
creditable alike by acts of commission ana by
| acts OF omission. Let us take raw materials in
| de all.
THE ORIGINAL FREE LIST.
Mr.. Blaine then enumerated some of the
articles which he said had been upon the
| free list in the original design OF the bill,
| and the influences which had restored duty
upon them. He said:
Coal was originally upon the free list but the
| democratic ways and means committee were
plainly told that if they took that step they
| would endanser the supremacy of their party
| in old Virginia. in West Virginia and
in Maryland and, therefore, the
| project of making coal free was
| abandoned. Iron ore is one of the raw materials
about which we heard much at the beginning of
| the recent session of congre 1t was pro
| claimed on all hands by the democrats that iron
ore must be free, for iron ore lly at the base Of
must be lowered
ALLEGED CAUSE OF THE HALT.
But it was found that Mr. Barnum of Con
nectcut, chairman of the democratic national
committee, was the owner of one of the largest
mines of iron ore in the Lake Superior region,
and that the chairman of the democratic execu-
tive committee, Mr.. Brce, with his political
associates owned and controlled the road which
derived large sums from the transportation
of this ore. 1t was further known that smith
Weed one of the most prominent New York
democrats, was rrgey interested in iron ore
and in the manufacture of iron. Upon the
statement of these facts the democratic ways
and means committee at once abandoned the
idea Of putting iron ore on the free list
Abandon2i it. not because they thought that
the step was unjust, but because they found it
would injure the business interests of pTOmi-
nent democrats
WHY LIME WAS LEFT DUTIABLE.
Lime had experienc ID a like change upon the
threats of democrats of Knox county, Maine,
the only democratic county in that state; but
that these democrats, enraged at the attempts
of the ways aud means committee upon their
chief industry, had turned against their party
at the recent election, and that county gave a
good-sized republican majority by way of a re
buke to the ways and means committee, and
will do the same thing in November.
Mr.. Blaine then proceeded:
Another case comes very near to You in Buff
falo Cement, Roman, Portland and all others,
was put on the free list in the original draft of
the NllS Dill III was taken on ana restored to ITS
Old duty at the Instance and by the influence OF
your fellow citizen, Hon Daniel Lockwood,
United States district attorney. Mr. Lockwood
appeared either as a stockhOlder in GENE mt
company or as attorney for the stockholders,
/ know not which; but he succeeding in remoy- =
ing cement from the free list, not simply be-
cause it was right TO do so, but because Mr.
Lockwood is an influential democrat.
WOOD PULP OFF THE LIST.
Wood pulp is treated as a raw material and
uyac t,a4fn thA fraa lfgf i, tha lie ii
nally framed. but it was soon discovered that
Don N. Dickinson, Postmaster General, and J.
VI. Weston, chairman of the democratic state
cOmmitte of Michigan. owned a vauale patent
for an improvement for the manufacture of
wood pulp and that the patent would be rem
dered worthless if wood pulp was put on the
free list; and so back went the former duty on
wood pulp, and the value of Don Dickinson S
patent was preserved for him by his demo
cratic associates of the House of Representa-
tiveS lark you, the duty was not restored
because in the belief of the democratic commit.
zee of ways and means, that sound policy re-
CURED it, but it was restored because they did
not wish to do harm to leading democrats who
We're expected to deliver the electoral vote of
Michigan to President Cleveland
PLACATING NEW ENGLAND.
In like manner, according to Mr.. Blaine
marble was taken from the fres list and
made dutiable at the instance of Bradley B.
SmalIey, keeper of the democratic con
science in Vermont.
Glue was treated likewise, because it was
! made almost exclusively by democratic
| syndicate in the west and by the democratic
| heirs of Peter Cooper of New
| York in the east. Wood screws
underwent a similar change, because
| their manu- acture is largely il
| democratic hands In Connecticut, and the
democrats of the ways and means commit
tee were advised that is they hoped t.
carry Connecticut for Cleveland wood
screws must be let alone. So thi
''great odious monopoly" as they
had for 81 many years described it and de
nounced it, was left undisturbed by the
tariff reformers and with all the naked anC
time-honored abuses which they had i'm
puted to it.
| NOT OBJECTING.
| Mr.. Blaine then continued:
| l am not at all expressing dissatisfaction
| with the conclusions which the democratic
| ways and means committee reached in these
| several cases, but | am proving from changes il
] their own oil, in its different stages. that they
| shifted arounj. and turned and dckered OF
| various provS ons in it Just as the personal anC
| pecuniary interests of leading democrats out
| side of congress demanded, and that. in several
| important departments of manufacturing, they
| shaped their action and reached theiI
| conclusions without the slightest regard tC
| considerations other than those affecting the
pockets of distinguished democrats, the pros
| the forthcoming election.
THE Wool SCHEDULE.
When the democrats Of the ways and means
I committee came to tn raw material of wool
| they found no representative democrats pecu
| niariy interested in it, The wool interest is
divided and subdivided among the farmer.
of the country, some having ; or 10 sheep, some
| from 50 to 100. the great mass owning under POO
| a few having as many as 800, still fewer l 900
and still fewer yet owning large fiocks on i'm
mense ranches The entire clip is worth S1O0
| 100000 every year, and subdivded as 1t
| is the vast sum reaches 100000 or zoo. .00'
| families in the land No big democrats there tc
| protect; no democratic votes trembling in the
| balance there; wool concerns only farmers
| away off in the country; men engaged in honest
| industry, not In packing caucuses nor in con.
| trolling conventions; men who were not of any
| particular use to the Democratic party: men,
| the vast mass of whom were located in repubi
| can states and therefore not specially deserv
| gress
scANDALoUs REvENGEs
So wool went on the free list and was held
| there against all protests, notwithstanding the
| injury thereby inflicted upon so large a number
| of families throughout the entire country
| Never Mr. Chairman, never before in thi,
! country have such scandalous revenges beer
| attempted In Legislation 1t stamps the
| Mills bill, from beginning to end, as
measure full of personal benefits
| and personal wrongs. The last place ID
| revenges, unworthy spites and gross favoritism.
would be bill raising revenue for the support
| of the government, but the democratic ways
and means committee have achieved that dis.
reputable end, and but for the republican Senate
| they would have embodied all these monstrosi