St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-20
The House Finishes the Long
DraWn-Out Tariff
Talk.
Voting on the Mills Bill Will
Occur Tomorrow at
Noon.
Gregory's Enemies Continue
to Relate Fairy Tales to
the Committee.
Aspirants for Military Honors
Appointed to Cadetships :
at West Point.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, July 19.-The house
to-day finished the consideration of the
tariff bill in committee of the whole,
and reported it to the house, Further
consideration of the bill was postponed
until Saturday at 80, when Mr..
Mills will call the previous question
and close the debate with an hours
speech. A vote will then be taken on
the final passage of the bill. The house
refuse to pass the Allentown, Pa, pub
lie building bill over the presidents
veto. When the house met this morn
ing. on motion of Mr.. Dibble, of South
Carolina, senate amendments were
concurred in to the house bill author
izing the condemnation of land for
public buildings. The house then
went into committee of the
whole on the tariff bill. Mr.. Mills
amendment restoring the present rate
of duty on leaf tobacco was, after a
short discussion, agreed to without di-
vision. Amendments proposing an In
crease in rates of duty on hat materials,
and pearl buttons were rejected, and
one restoring the present rates of duty
on pipes, pipe bowls and smokers ar
ticleS was adopted.
Mr.. Springer then took the floor and
made a speech In favor of the bill in
general and free wool in particular. Re
ferring to the debate on the bill in the
house he said it had awakened a lively
interest. not only in this country but
throughout the civilized world, and
would hereafter be known'as the great
tariff debate of 1888. Twenty-three
days and eight evening sessions had
been spent in general debate. One hun
dred and fifty-one speeches had been
made: The debate under the five-min-
ute rule had consumed twenty-eight
days, and altogether it was
THE MOST REMARKABLE DEBATE
that had ever occurred in parliamentary
history. Mr.. Springer then proceeded
to argue in support of the free wool
feature of the bill. High tariff on wool
restricted wool growers to the home
market. and this restriction placed them
at the mercy of the w0olen manufacture
ers. The probable effect of putting wool
on the free list and reducing duties on
wOolen goods would be to greatly re-
duee the price of woOlen- goods, while at
the same time the quality of the goods
would be much improved. This would
creased demand would cause an adj
vance in prices of raw wool for manu-
featuring purposes, and soon restore
the prices prevailing under protection
without increasing the cost of woolen
goods. ''Pass this bill," exclaimed Mr..
Springer, land instead of importing S40,-
000,0 of wOOlen goods annually we
would soon be able not only to supply
the home market, but to export i'm
mense quantities to other countries.
Mr.. Dingley. of Maine, ridiculed Mr.
Springer's argument. The tariff on
wool and woolen goods had stimulated
the manufacture of woolen goods and
HELD THE HOME MARKET
for our producers. The temporary eff
feet of placing wool on the free list
might be to lower the price of wooden
goods to the extent of the reduction of
duty, but when home manufactures
were destroyed, then the price would
again rise and ultimately consumers
would have to pay more than at pres
ent. The bill, he declared, slaughtered
every farming interest in the North {;
but left duty of 6S per cent on sugar
and 100 per cent on rice. Mr.. Reed, of
Maine, said that throughout the whole
debate not speech had been made on
the Democratic side which did not con-
tain free trade principles as purely as
they had ever been enunciated by Mr..
Cox, of New York, who was. perhaps.
the only man ON the other side of the
house not afraid, to express his sentf-
mentS. Why, he asked had Mr..
ing words only four years old, declared
that there need be no fear of free trade
from him. Why was it that crowd of
Democratic newspapers were endeavor-
ing to explain that, latter all, they
meant 40per cent robbery, themselves -
Answering his own questions, MIR. Reed
said he thought it was because gentle
men OH the other side had begun to hear
from the people, and begun to recognize
the fact that people of this country were
in favor of the American doctrine of
protection. From now until election
time the greatest effort of the gen
tlemen on the other side would
be to explain away the dec
and to show that Mr.. Cleveland is a
genuine protectionist. Mr.. Springer
said that the minority Of the committee
on ways and means had come into the
house and declared that if they could
not amend the Mills bill they would
offer a substitute. Where, oh where.
was that substitute? The Democrats
were not afraid to go to the country on
the issue presented. The roll call Sat-
urdav would be heard around the whole
world. 1t would indicate to the people
of the country that their representatives
had been
EQUAL TO THE GREAT EMERGENCY
which confronted them of reducing un-
necessary taxation. In November next
the popular voice would be heard in the
triumphant reelection of Grover Cleye-
land.
This closed the consideration of the
bill in committee OF the whole. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Mills it was reported to the
house amid hearty applause from the
Democrats. Its further consideration
was then postponed until II 80 SATURDAY.
ing bill and the presidents veto mes
sage were then called up. The house
refused to pass the bill over the veto
yeas 141. nays 81. Not the necessary
| tWo-thirds in the affirmative. The house
at 4:2O took recess until o'clock.
The only bill of public Importance
passed by the house this evening was
one providing that the army shall be
| paid monthly whenever the secretary of
| war shall so direct. The previous anes-
| tion was ordered on the bills retiring
| Gen. William F. Baldy) Smith, with
| the rank of colonel; Gen. A. j. Smith.
with the rank of colonel; and Gen. w.
| W.Averill, with the rank of captain ;and
providing aid to state homes for the sun
port of disabled soldiers and Sailors: bHi
| no final action was taken. The bill ap<
propriating 100000 for the erection of
! monument to the memory Of the vic
tins of British prison ships at Fort