Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-17
Talk Saucily to Each Other During q
Discussion of the Tariff,
THE COST OF RAISING COLORED MEN
Said to Be Burden, and Depreciates Prop
erty in Alabama.
AN IMAGINARY ATTACK on THE TARIFF.
The Good Results Which Would Accrue From Protected
Tin Plate

The solemn Senators had quite lively
discussion on the tariff yesterday while con
sidering the duty on tin plate. During the
debate Senator Morgan, of Alabama, as
serted that the colored people were detri'
ment to the State, and he wanted them
distributed throughout the country.
WASHINGTON, d. c., January 16 THE
Senate had a lively time discussing the
tariff bill to-day. A vote was taken on
Mr.. Vests amendment to strike altar OF
roses off the free list and substitute salt.
This was lost by a strictly party vote.
The amendment increasing the duty on
tin plate was taken up, and Mr. Jones, OF
Arkansas, moved to put it on the free list
Mr.. Allison said that the committee had
decided to allow the present rate of duty on
tin plate to stand until the 1st of January,
1890, and that would allow time for the
establishment of sufficient plant sin this
country to produce all the tin plate needed.
Mr.. Jones opposed the amendment and
argued in favor of putting tin plate on the
free list.
Mr.. Morgan advocated Mr.. Jones motion
to put tin plate on the free list, and said
there was no tin in this country.
Mr.. Teller contradicted that assertion and
said that there was vast quantity of tin In
the Deadwood region.
THE COST OF A coLoRED MAN.
In the course of discussion between Mr..
Morgan and Mr.. Hawley as to the relative
value of lands in manufacturing and nom
manufacturing States, Mr.. Morgan char
acterized the young negroes OF Alabama as
the most God-forsaken people (in respect of
industry that was to be found anywhere
outside of Algiers or Morocco or the great
desert of Sahara. 1t cost full $1,000 to
raise a negro boy from birth to manhood
not to include his stealings and other
depredations. If he could by decree of
law, or of Providence, expel from Alabama
every negro in it and have barrier erected
so that he could never return, the lands in
Alabama would run up to prices greater
than those in Wisconsin. People would
rush there with more eagerness than they
were now showing in trying to get into
Oklahoma
Mr.. Blair-Do you consider that it would
be for the interests of the white Southern
people that the negroes should immigrate
from the Southern States in a body?
WOULD LIKE THEM SCATTERED.
Mr. Morgan-Not in body, and not i'm
mediately. But 1 have been always in
favor of the proposition introduced by Sem
ator Window, of Minnesota, which looked
to the scattering of negroes of the South into
the Northern States. / wish the Senator
from New Hampshire had in his own State
900 negroes that we can furnish to him
from Alabama. would be very glad in
deed to give them to him. l wish that
among the many societies he gets up, he
would get up one for the introduction of
negroes from Alabama into New Hamp-
shire, and 1 will do my best to promote his
society, get subscribers for it and get the
negroes to migrate.
Mr.. Blair-I think it would be quite as
much for the interests of my State to en-
courage the colored people of Alabama to
migrate there as to encourage the white
people of that State.
Mr.. Morgan-The Senator may spare him
self all of his invectiye against the people
of Alabama. 1t will not produce any sort
of excitement.
LITTLE SPAT.
Mr.. Blair-I will be very glad to limit
my general reflection on the white people of
Alabama, and confne it to the Senator
Mr.. Morgan-If any providentlaI thing
should keep the Senator and me apart
would be thankful. He adds nothing to
my happiness; and think that more in
innate association with him would improve
me neither in temper, nor information, nor
in any other way.
Mr.. Chandler spoke in favor of increasing
the duty on skates. In the course of his
speech ne, criticising the opposition of the
Democratic party to protectionist ideas,
said that that the Confederate brigadiers''
were now trying to carry out the principle
which they had incorporated into the Con-
federate constitution, and meant the destruc-
tion of all Northern industries that were
protected by the tariff system. They had
nothing left to kick, kill and destroy but
the protective tariff That was the business
in which they and the President had been
engaged for last year; and notwith-
standing their bad luck, they still
continued to make faces and to kick.
A DEFEATED KNIGHT.
Mr.. Chandler went on to draw an imagin-
ative picture of the attack made on the
tariff by the President mounted on a
charger, the Senator from Missouri (Mr.
VesD similarly mounted, and the Senator
from Texas (Mr. Coke) mounted on burro.
The charge, he said, made by these three
knights of the modern Democracy upon the |
protective system of the United States had |
been futile one. The principal knight |
had rolled in the dust, and the knight had |
picked himself up and gathered himself |
into some sort of shape, very much bruised, |
and little dirty, and would probably re-
charge again with lance in rest. The Amer
ican people, by the election of Republi- |
can President had effectually protected the |
industries of the country from the assaults |
which the Confederate brigadiers" had |
been making against what the Senator from |
Missouri called ''the infamous tariff sys- |
tenn set up by the Republicans.
CANNOT CREATE INDUSTRIES.
Mr.. Vest, not noticing the remarks about |
Confederate brigadiers," argued against |
the amendment to increase the rates on TIN |
plate, saying that there was not single |
pound OF it manufactured in the United |
States and that there was no instance in the |
tariff legislation of the country where duty |
was imposed for the purpose of creating an |
industry which did not exist.
Mr.. Aldrich admitted that there was not |
d pound of tin plate manufactured in the |
United States at present: but said that that |
TACT was owing solely to the inadeouacy of |
the duty. He held that it was as much |
within the scope of protective system to
create new industries as to maintain exist
ing ones. What (he asked) did the sue
sessful establishment of the tin plate in
iustries in the United States mean? 1t |
meant the annual production of 800, 900 tons
of tin plate, and the profitable employment |
Of at least 10000 people.
There was further discussion on the sub |
ect but no vote was reached; and after an |
agreement that, from Friday till Tuesday
next, the daily hour of meeting shall be II |
1'clock, the Senate adjourned.
Pension and Telephone Bills Vetoed.
WASHINGTON, d. c., January 16.-The |