The morning news., 1888-05-17
HALF HOSE IN THE HOUSE
MR.. BAKER TRIES HARD TO SOCK
1T TO MR.. MILLS.

A SUSPICION That He is Plotting to
Assassnate the President by Poison
4 ing His Feet With the Deadly Red
DYE of Rochester Protectionist-
Snow-white for Mr.. Carlisle and the
Blues for MIR. Mills.
WASHINGTON, May 16.-The House met
j this morning at 10 o'clock. and went into
A committee of the whole, with Mr.. Springer,
n of Illinois, in the chair, on the tariff bill.
n Mr.. Baker, of New York, spoke in support
n Of the protective tariff, and cited the pros
nerous condition of the industries Of bis
& district as attributable to the high tariff,
"A and declared that the capital and labor of
N the country were seriously Ggitated by the
recent development of the free trade here
sies of the Golden Club in the ranks of tho
Democratic party. He wished to give the
4 committee the benefit Of an object lesson,
and in order to do So ,pr9,du9sel three
he said, the colors OF the Amer
ican flag, which were manufactured
in Rochester, and be invited the gentle
man from Texas (Mr. Mills 20 visit that
4 city, promising to introduce that gentleman
to the woolen factories, and to the fair
hands that turned out these stockings by
thousands, daily.
THEIR DISPOSITION SUGGESTED.
He presented the stockings to the gentle
man from Texas with the suggestion that
he send the red ones to the President, the
white ones to the Speaker and that he
keep the blue ones himself, as typical of his
own feelings at the end of the session, when
he behed the defeat of his measure. Laugh
ter He predicted that on account of the
d Mills bill an increased Republican majority
in his district would be given for the Re
n publican candidate for the Presidency, pro-
III vided he steered clear Of the allitsrative di-
II whites [Laughter.]
III Mr.. Bound, of Pennsylvania, regarded
NJ the Mills bill as long stride in the direction
Ri Of free trade and as an inauguration of
M tariff policy which must eventually prove
|# ruinOuS and disastrous to many important
r industries in which his people were largely
ri interested. He thanked the President for
81 tearing the mask from his Democratic fol-
IA lowers. No longer could the faVorite sons
M of Pennsylvania deceive her laboriug men
81 by declaration that the Democratic party
was in favor of protection. MIR. Randall
could not again attempt to save the manu-
# featuring States of Pennsylvania, New
# York and New Jersey to the Democratic
party, as he had done four years ago. and
81 if the Democratic party intended to commit
E political hari-kari, Brother Randall would
:: hardly be one of the chief mourners.
W FARQUHAR's FoIBLEs.
# Mr. Farquhar, of New York, criticised
E the composition of the Ways and Means
EX Committee. and asked if it was Just, fair
en- and in the proprety of common sense that
III eleven lawyers, one cotton planter and one
M railroad manager should legislate for the
E& American industrial people. The kernel of
E the whole matter, he said, was that the
81 Committee on Ways on Means had not
taken into account the fact that within the
last thirty years there had risen up two
IA great, powerful bodies Of workingmen,
trades unions and Knights of Labor.
Those bodies aggregated over 100000
Of wage earners. Not a respectable
petition had come from either body in the
line OF the Mills bill, Not one. On the con-
trary, these men had sent to himself and
Messrs. Foran and Galinger, and other rec
ognlzed representatives of labor on this
floor, scores OF petitions protesting in the
strongest way against the free list and a
good deal of the dutiable lis of the Mills
bll:. While it might be possible to pass this
bill as party measure, there were revising
committees in all the labor assemblies,
which would ass upon its merits, lnde
pendent of politics. These men would
stand like wall of iron against the free
lst, and cutting of wages, and at the ballot
emascuate it. [Applause.l
FAIR AND REASONABLE.
Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, expressed his over
whelming conviction that the Mills bill was
fair and reasonable measure 1t was an
honest effort on the part of the majority of
the Ways and Means Committee to relieve
the people. Its trainers had manifested q
liberal spirit toward protected industries
which those industries refused to extend to
the great body of the people who were con-
sumers of their wares and products. He
criticised the non action of the Republicans,
twltted them with contenting themselves
WIN hnding fault with, and abusing the
Mills bill, without endeavoring to bring
IN any measure to fulfill their pledges to the
people, and he declared that the Republican
&party was in fight and busy burning
Y bridges and telling trees along the road
oVer which the Democratic party must ad-
vance for the relief of the people.
FETTERED BY PROTECTION
Mr.. Russell, of Massachusetts,. in the
Sognirse OF speech in favor of tn. pending
pm, said that the Lowell Carpet Company
az recently suspended opera
ions The cry had gone up
~, over Massachusetts that the
ullls Dill had killed it. Not bit OF it. be-
ause Its treasurer said that there was no
r9uole about the Mills bill. The concern,
-iu Ons treasurer, had been morlbund long
Mgo. 1t had had TO submit to an exaction
70 per cent. Oh coarse carpet wool, until
IA could stand il no longer, and it had
osed Its works until the Mills bill was
used and the duty taken off wool. Zap
lsuse on the Democratic side
.4r Fitch, who represents residence
sv'lct IN the upper part Of New York
y SAID that during the conrse of this de-
ale one gentleman after another had told
the special needs of his district and pro-
os.ed Ageinst any interference with the
Nled il1ht' Of their constituents, He rep
seN'ed district in the upper part of New
GLN' which was mainly residence dis
CI, reople there were not protected
farmers had eloquent advocates trained
.no county aud State fairs; tho workmen
Jus factories had special advocates, who
A} awake all night to study their interest.
.nost every class had its advocates here,
AePI the millionaires, whom nobody
Sulu own TO represent, and who had no
''udS III the House. Laughter
PLEA FOR THE BoHEMIANs.
among the people he represented were
uCethen and fremen, and reporters and
uiucrs ana paper carriers, and locomotive
slheers on the elevated railroad. This
ass OF workmei had no direct protection.
uey were not overpaid. The money which