Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-22
ALL FOR THE LABORER.
The Condition of New England
 Working People.
INTERESTING TARIFF DEBATE.

INTERESTING TARIFF DEBATE. Cotton Workers and Coal Miners Receive | Consideration from the Senators, and Foreign Trade and American Shipping | Are Introduced into the Discussion. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2a-The senate took up the tariff bill, resuming consideration of the cotton manufacture schedule Mir Vest moved to strike out the words ssten cents per pound on thread, yarns, etc, valued at not exceeding twenty-five cents per pound" :" and inserting the words ''S5 per cent ad valorem." He said that super ficial examination of the whole schedule would show that 1t was got up in the interest of the New England manufacturers, who could not compete in the coarser cotton fab" rics with the manufacturers in Augusta, Ga and who had to depend on the finer cotton fabrics He quoted from speech of Mir. Hiscock's to the effect that American cotton manufacturers could export the coarser cotton fabrics into the English col onies and compete there successfully with the English manufacturers. But MT. Hiscock, he said, had not given a reason why the United States had lost the carrying trade. There was no question, in his opinion, but that 1t had been lost on account of the high pro tective tariff.
 Great Britain was permitted to-day to take products from American ports and carry them to the ports of South America In this connection MT. Vest referred complementary to Mir. W. D. Curtis recent book on the South American countries, and said that 1t had developed to him a new world of which he had not dreamed The description of the Argentine Republic, be said. sounded like a romance but was sustained by facts and figures That republic imported manufact- ured goods to the amount of $1OO, 900 year. Nearly the half of them came from Great Britain and her dependencies, while the United States flag was never seen in one of her ports
 Mr. Hiscock said he would be gratified if Mir Vest would indorse the whole of the speech from which he had quoted. He had then said land he now repeated with empha- sis) that as to the cheaper fabrics manufact- cred in this country, in the cost of which manual labor played an immaterial part, and with the raw material here, the United States could compete with the world He had remarked In that speech (which was in favor of aiding American steamship companies) that as to Mexico and Central and South America, it was those coarser goods that they consumed, and that it was the duty of congress to build up foreign trade with those countries. He had been then, as he was now, in favor of paying to American steamship lines just compensa- tion for carrying the mails; but that policy had been resisted on the other side of the chamber, and the English and German steam ship lines had been allowed to destroy Ameri- can commerce practically carrying the malls for nothing He hoped that when the pending measure should have become @ law the senator from Missouri would cooperate with him in policy that would enable the merchant marine of the United States to be built up, and commerce to be established with those countries where there was a de- mand for American products
 Mir. Coke, in the course of his remarks, read the testimony of Thomas ODonnell, asspinner in Fall River, Mass, taken by the Blair committee, showing that for himself and his wife and two children he had not earned S150 in a year; that this condition of things had existed for more than six years to his knowledge; that it was not confined to him, but there could not be less than a thousand operatives in Fall River in like condition. MT. Dawes admitted that such cases did exist, but he asked MT. Coke which was the better remedy-to furnish employment or tc take 1t away. He quoted Mir. Carroll D. Wright to show that the amount of deposits In the Massachusetts savings banks wa. Sl5 5000 900, and that 75 per cent. of that amount represented the deposits of wage camera
 MT. SOke turned rom tD0 cOtUOn opera lives of Massachusetts to the miners O Pennsylvania, and quoted the testimony O MT. John Jarrett to the effect that the con dition of the coal miners, numbering at leas 10000, is ''pftiable and miserabie,n that they were i'll paid and suffered from the trucl system, under which they had to pay 10 per cent. more .than other people; and tha the English coal miners were better cared fo than the American miners
 MT. Aldrich-How are the coal mines O Pennsylvania affected by protectiona
 Nj. Joke-Have you not got protection t coal on your tariff
 Mir. Aldrich-No, sir; and there has nc been for generation any duty on anthracit soal. The great mass of the coal mined i Pennsylvania is anthracite.
 Mir. Hawley said he did not know in th state of Connecticut any such people 6 O'Donnen There were everywhere som ihiftless, drinking, idle men, wh1 could nc get living. If the people of New Epglan were the oppressed and degraded slaves tht be and others had described them to be, nt amonth would pass without something lii revolution.
 Mir Hoar also replied to Mr. Coke. E denied that there was any such condition things as that described in O'Donnelrs test mony. The stuff which the senator fro Texas talked of and read was pure arral and nonsense. If he went before Fall Riv, pr Worcester audience of Democrats an undertook to make such a speech he wou be received with a universal juffaw.
 The bill went over wi thout action on M Vests amendment
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 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22-The large fou Etory huildinp corner of Berks and Palatho,