Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-04

| for the purchase Of seed could d would NJ
doubt, be materially reduced after this year
by the application of that idea.
| Mr. LAID of Nebraska declared that the
| commissioner of agriculture had acted with
wisdom and prudence in carrying out the re.
quirements of the law.
Mr.. Enloe's amendment was then re ject.
ed.
The committee then rose and the bill
passed.
The regular order was demanded, it being
Mr.. Mills motion to limit debate on the
pending paragraph of of the tariff bill to lC
minutes, which prevailed.
The House then went into committee OF
the whole on the tariff bill.
The amendment under consideration was
to strike from the free list timber hewn and
sawn, and timber used for spars and wharves.
Mr.. Randall of Pennsylvania, addressing
the House, said that it should be the object
of the House to fix the tariff at a rate just
high enough to cover the differences in the
wages of lumbermen in this country and
Canada, and he hoped that the duty would
be fixed as i'll his bill at 10 per cent. ad va
loren.
MIR. Boothmau of California advocated the
adoption of the amendment.
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lumber would not benefit by the bill and
wages would be reduced to the Canadian
standard.
he would vote for the amendment with the
idea of Offering in the proper place another
amendment imposing 10 per cent. advalo-
rem duty on lumber.
A division was then had on Mr.. Strubes 8
amendment and it was rejected yeas Sc,
nays 100
Mr.. Randall then moved to strike out the
paragraph and insert timber not further
manufactured than hewn, squared and
sided" but this amendment was rejected
without a division and the second paragraph
of the bill climber squared and sided" was
was read.
Mr. Burrows read statements to show the
importance of the lumber industry which it
was, he said, proposed to strike down. He
said that ninety millions of dollars were paid
the laborers in this country, the third largest
in the country in one year. The statements
he said, had been made not by his Dur
rows constituents. but by those of Messrs.
Tarsney and Fisher.
Mr. Cox of New York said that these men
were almost all milionaires, men who had
made the forests of Michigan almost a cal
clned desolation. On this point he was a
protectonist he wanted to protect the for
ests of the United States from the axe. By
their plea in favor of special interests, the
republicans might make it necessary for the
democrats to amend the rules hereafter so
as to pass the bill before the ides of August.
As he wanted to make a protection speech,
he would go over to the other side. Re-
publican cries "Oh, no, it is needed over
there Mr. Cox, however, took position
beside Mr.. O'Neill of Pennsy ylvanla, and de-
clared that he was in favor of the doctrine of
protection, but not as practced here. He
wanted to protect our forests against a tariff
which offered a premium to selfish people to
cut them down, leaving scars and waste
places aud breeding places for malaria. The
committee rose to limit debate to ten min
utes, but the republicans refused to vote,
leaving the House without quorum.
Mr. Mills reminded the House that it had
spent the day in the consideration of para
graph that represented values in the bill to
the amount of S3. Fridays debate in
volved Sl9S. He had seen in newspaper
the problem stated; If it takes one day
not to pass two lines, how long will it take to
pass the billt" voice on the republican
side: AS long as it took to pass the direct
tax bill"
Finally a compromise was reached on 40
minutes debate, and the House again went
into committee of the whole.
Mr. Dockery of Missouri declared that
the explanation of the failure of lumber
mems wages TO increase lay in the fact that
30 per mt. of the workmen were Canadians.
So it was in other industries, 33 per cent. of
the men emplo, ed in our manufacturing in
du>t,ies were foreigners imported under con-
tract to compete against American labor
Applause
Mr.. Fuller of Iowa secured a round of ap-
plause from the democratic side by declar
lug that as he did not believe that the true
doctrine of protection was involved in this
question he should vote for free lumber
MIR. Taulbee of Kentucky met the same
treatment at the hands of the pu1licans
when he said that Fuller's remarks gave ar
incite to the real case He (Fulier) needed
cheap lumber because Iowa did not produce
il. He (Taulbee) wanted a protective duty
because his district produced lumber, aud ht
was unwilling to be controlled by any senti
meut other than that of honest judgment
Mr. Guenther of Wisconsin predicted tina
the democratic party, if it passed this bill
would go to that place paved with good n
teutions where every limb and knot OF lum
Der would be used, not to raise the revenue
but to raise the temperature to at least 90,
degrees above zero. Laughter.
| The Mills bills carried all average duty Of
80 per cent, and the lumber tariff average
| only l6 per cent, and he appealed To th'
| House not to single out and destroy thi
poorly protected industry MIR. Wilson o
Minnesota asserted that his question sske'
yesterday, why should poverty contribut
to wealth." had not been answered by an
republican speaker.
Mr.. Reed of Maine replied that the gentle
man persisted in asking question based o
false assumption of facts. He (Reed) as
severated that the statement that povert
contributed to wealth was not true. He bs
lieved it to be a lie, and did not ask any rel
son for it.
Debate on the pending paragraph expi
ing, the amendment to strike it out was n
iected BY yeas 81, nays 10l. The third pa
agraph in the bill, '.Wood unmanufacture
not specially enumerated or provided for
was then read and taken up for consider
ton.
Mr.. Bayne of Pennsylvania moved
strike it out. After some debate the COZ