Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-02


" Then' Mr.. Plumb persisted, IL any rev.
cnue were collected on friedrich and tiles
under the increased rate of duty, the Sem
ator from New York would be disap-
pointed. He certainly would be. Mr.. HIS
cock confessed. and trusted there would
be none collected
TaE IpFA ONE or EXCLUSION.
The idea, then. said Mr.. Plumb, would be
one of exclusion. Mr.. Hiscock begged
pardon. Ii would not be one Of exclusion.
| He should be entirely gratifed if tho
effect Of higher duties would be. and he
| hoped ii would be, an increased home pro-
duction and supply of the home market:
| In making up the tariff on that basis MIR.
| Plumb wanted TO know whether MIR. His
| cock took into account the ability OF con-
sumers to pay the enhanced prices. MI.
| Hiscock's JUDGMENT was that III all cases
| where an industry had been developed
and had become thoroughly American the
| inevitable effect was 10 reduce prices.
| MIR Plumb suggested that Mr.. Hiscock
| seemed TO assume that AL reductions IN
prices were caused by home competition.
| but Mr. Hiscock disclaimcd tho holding OF
such an opinion.
| A BREAK IL THE REPUBLICAN RANKS.
| And 30 the colloouy went on. and when
| Mr.. McPherson's amendment came 20
| vote Mr.. Plumb was found voting with the
| Democrats first break In the solid
! party vote.
| NJ. Plumb having thus started in his
assertion of independence of party ALE
! glance so far ~ the tariff bill was con-
ccrned. began to take Mr.. McPherson's
place in Offering amendments. Ills FIRST
| Two amendments were to reduce the rates
| O! duty on enamelled tiles and on hydraulic
cement. After discussion they were voted
| down by the Republican majority. the
| Democrats, of course. voting tor them. IN
| the Acknowledgement amendment Mr.
| Paddock Joined Mr. Plumb in voting with
| the Democrats. the result OF the vote
| being-ycas. 81: nays, p.
Mr. ColQuitt moved to amend paragraph
! 96 Oime) by changing the rate from
cents per 100 pounds TO 10 per cent. M a.
| lore7a In speaking to his amendment ne
quoted a saving imputed TO Colonel Bob
| Ingersoll TO the effect that he was in favor
| of protecting infant Industries. but that
when the infant had grown to De SIX feet
| high and wore No. IL boots 1t was time 10
| stop rocking the cradle. especially when
! the infant threatened that If you did not
| do il he would get up and thrash you. Inc
amendment was rejected.
PADDOCK AGAIN WITH THE DEMOCRATS.
| Mr.. Paddock was again recorded as
1
| pherson's motion to reduce the duty on
! common brown earthenware.
| The next question was on paragraph 100,
| relating TO china porcelain. and crockery-
| ware. the Finance Committee recommend
| inc n reduction of rates in the House bill
| from &C to So per cent. on decorated artl-
! cles and from So TO so per cent. on plain
ware. Two members of the Finance Com
| mlttee-Messrs. Sherman and HIscock-
| 10 ha
amendments.
ur. Vance made speech upon the pecu-
| liarities of the high-protective system. lie
declared that the whole eartheDware sec
ton was disgrace to people who claim
ed to be tinctured with q sense OF hu-
manity. 1t made discrimination IN favor
Of the rich and against the poor. The
same policy of Inequality ran through the
whole tariff bill from one end OF II TO the
other. Nowhere was it provided in that
bill that " from him TO whom little Is gwen
shall little be required" but the contrary.
ME-. PLUMB 1NvrIGHs AGAINST PROTECTION.
Then Mr. Plumb took prominent and
remarkable part in the discussion, lnyelgh-
| inc against the exorbitant demands OF the
| high protectionists He produced letter
! from q merchant doing business IN st. Jo-
seph. Mo-, and Atchison, Kan, stating that
| on an invoice Of crockery he had paid that
| dav customs duty of $3.50, and that I'M
| der The pending bill the duty on the same
| invoice would be 1912, and under the
| Mckinley bill S57.l2. The whole tend
ency of civilization, Mr.. Plumb said. was
| toward reduction of the prices of
| all products of human labor. To claim
| that the tariff had been the sole or the
main factor in the reduction of the prices
| of manufactured goods was TO ignore all
the forces of civilization. The American
| peope were entitled TO have cheap goods
| If competition could bring that about.
! When. he asked, was the time coming when
| the people of the United States would get
| some benefit from the establishment
| of home industries? Just as fast
| "a the point WAS arrived at when
| lower prices might be expected the
manufacturers came TO Congress ana
said that they wanted more duties
| whereby that downward progress of prices
might be arrested.
THE PEOPLE ENTITLED TO AN INNING.
The peopleo the United States ought to
have their inning some time, and he
thought that that time had come. The
article of chinaware. he went on TO say,
was 10 be found on the tables of the rich
and the poor, so that the high tax on IT
had to he borne not in accordance with
the ability of the taxpayer to pay, but as
practically per capita tax. The man on
his farm used "a much chinaware as Van
derbilt in his palace. The duty on china
ware was not a tax on luxury, but on
| necessary OF life. e.
He did not say this with any idea that it
was going to affect the vote Of the Senate.
He could conceive and could see that the
cohorts of protection were so organized
that the bill was to go through substan-
tally as it came from the Finance Commit
tee. It's passage was foretold IN the Phlla-
delphia newspaper article headed " No
Delay in the Senate" ard stating conf
IDENTIFY that the Senate was going to put
the bill through "a rapidly as the House
had done. lie believed the House had con-
sidered sixteen pages of the bill-one page
further than the Senate had now got-and
il was expected that the Senate would take
il No and " bolt" il as the House had done.
THE MANUFACTURERS.
These people (the manufacturers had had
from Congress hitherto precisely what
| thew asked. They uad the tariff law on the
| statute-books. put there by a Republican
Congress on the report of Republican
| tariff commission designed and calculated
| to be helpful TO them, and which gave
| them substantially what they asked. and
| vet so far from their being satisfied, another
| bin for their benefit was to be put through
| without debate Of that could be brought
about on the plea that the country was
hungcring and thirsting for more tariff
legislation.
lie believed in so distributing the duties
that were necessary for the purpose OF
raising revenue for the support of the Gov
ernment in such way as to equalize the
conditions existing between the manufac-
turers of this country and those abroad.
If he were in doubt he would resolve that
doubt III favor of the American manufac-
turers. But If he knew what the exact
conditions were he would put home and
foreign manufacturers ON the same footing
precisely. He should be recreant to his
duty if he gave his support TO such pro-
position as the chinaware schedule. he
knew that the pottery manufacturers OF
Ohio were rich--far richer than the people
whom herepresented. Butifthey could take
half of the American market, why, he asked
could they not take the whole! 1t was evi.
dent that they didn't care to do so, but
only that part of it which left them the
greatest profit. They had more or less
openly entered into an arrangement with
the importers-the importers taking one
portion of the market and the manufac-