Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-07
MILLS AND REED.
The Eloquent Texan Crushes the Rspubll
can Leader.

The Eloquent Texan Crushes the kepuDn-
can Leader.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-After transact
ing routine business, the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the Mills tariff
bill. The reading of the bill progressed
rapidly, motions made on the Republican
side to strike out many of the paragraphs
being rejected generally without division
and with little debate.
On motion of Mr.. Vance, Of Connecticut,
with the assent Of Mr.. Mills, and amid
some sarcastic laughter from the Republic
cans, the paragraph imposing duty of 35
per cent. ad valorem on wood screws was
stricken out, thus restoring the present rate
of duty.
Mr.. Reed, Of Maine, referred TO the re-
cent speech made by Mr.. Mills in New
York and said that that gentleman had
been receiving in certain Democratic pa
pers good deal of praise for his manly
boldness in resisting his constituents on
the subject of woods, and he hoped that
the gentleman would have the strength
and bravery to get up and avow to the
House what his position was.
Mr.. Mills hoped that he would always
have the courage to stand by his convic-
tions, and to utter his sentiments, and
when he believed thing to be true, he
would not cowardly run away from it
when the enemy fired his first shot. What
he had said in New York was what he said
here, and what he said to the people of his
State. He hoped that his friends on the
outside would have the same high courage,
aud would stand by their whisky plat
form and not run away from it.
He saw some little intimation
that the bill which the gentlemen on the
other side were preparing was to make
flank movement on the whisky plank of
the Chicago platform. They were going
to stop at alcohol used in the arts, and
make the balance of the reduction by so
per cent. cut on sugar. What had become
of the declaration in the platform that the
Republican party intended to repeal the
Internal revenue taxes before they took
any particle of protection from any article.
When the Republicans found that the
Democratic battallions were on the
march, they began to say that
they did not want so much
whisky, but would take some sugar in it.
Laughter. His people in his State Con-
ventiOn had endorsed him and his course,
and would send him back to Congress.
Applause on the Democratic side He
was no more afraid to stand before the
Democracy of Tammany Hall than before
the Democracy OF Texas. 1t was as good
in one place as another. 1t was good
enough to lay ont the Republican party in
November, if that party had the courage to
stand by its platform. [Applause.l
Mr.. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, sent to the
Clerks desk and had read an extract from
a speech delivered by Mr.. Scott, of Penn
vania, in April last, in which he stated
that he had been informed by an officer of
the Edgar Thomson steel works that in
one year he had drawn out Of that com-
pany as dividends the sum of 81 500, 900.
This statement of Mr.. Scott he Kelly
contradicted.
On motion Of Mr.. Mills clause was in
serted fixing the rate on new type for
printing at Is per cent. ad valOrem.
The sugar and molasses and confection-
cry clauses being reached, by agreement
they were all considered together.
After an agreement that vote should
not be taken to-day, Mr.. Cannon, Of
Illinois, offered an amendment striking
out all of the sugar and molasses para
graphs and inserting clauses fixing the
duties as follows
Sugars not above No. 16, Dutch standard,
syrups, etc, and all molasses testing not
above Sc degrees, not otherwise provided
for, are to be exempt from duty in the
event that no export duty is levied by the
country Of expectation.
Sugars above No. 16 are to pay q
duty of three-tenths Of one per cent. /;
molssses above Sc, degrees 2 cents per gal
Ion; maple sugar, 2 cents per pound Of
crystalhzed sugar contained; gluclose, !
cent per pound; sugar candy, not colored,
cents per pound. All other confectionery
not enumerated and on sugars after being
refined, when tinctured, colored or adul-
terated, and on all chocolate confectionery,
10 cents per pound; with a similar pro-
vision against an export duty.
He said the bill was better than the
present law, but it was far short Of what it
ought to be.
Pending further debate the committee
rose and the House adjourned.