The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-10-31
NOT A SECTIONAL BILL.
Mr.. M'KlNLEY SHOWS THAT THE NEW
TARIFF BILL is NATIONAL.

Mr.. M'kINLEY SHOWS THAT THE NEW
TARIFF BILL is NATIONAL.
Methods of Both Parties OH the Tariff
Observation-Disclosures for All-II0w tho
Revenue Has Been Reduced
Mr.. McKinlcy-Tle gentleman from
Alabama says this is IL ''sectional' bill,
and that the country is suffering because
we are "tinkering with the tal'iif."
"Tinkering with the tariff That il; the
mission Of the Democratic party. And
this is national" bill! say that there
is not single paragraph in this bill that
is "sectional' ill its cllaracter-not one.
1t is national from beginning to end.
Look at the Mills bill which you passed
i'll the house, and it is sectional from top
to bottom. You put what OH the free
list? Cotton ties for tie use of the pco-
pie of the south. You put cotton bag
ging on the free list. You protected
your sugar and Your rice. and then YOU
turned to the farmers of the nort! and
put their wool, their flax, their hemp
and other agricultural products Oh the
free list. Applause Oil the Republican
side. II there ever was IL sectional hill
cmanatins from any party in this house
or any othcrit was the Mills bill of the
Eifticth congress. Thi; is called Il "sec-
tionar' bill; now what has this bill done:
1t has taken care of every product of the
south, unless you except sugar. And it
has given to the producers of sugar a
bounty equal to the duty they heretofore
have been ENJOYING direct and assured
protection. have number of items
here that want to call the gentlcnans
attention to. Yellow pine, / believe, is
IL product of the south-produced no
where else.
Mr.. Herbert-Antl white zine is IL
product Of the north.
Mr.. McKinlcy-Exactiy, and under
this bill yellow pine of the south l., made
dutiable at =, and white pine of the
north at 81: Applause on the Rcpubli-
can side. Take rice; take mica. This
product of North Carolina aud of Ten
ncssre we found upon tine free list. w,
ill Inc house took it from the free list,
and put it on the tiutiahic list, and iii
open senate our provision was approved
by Il majority vote.
Mr.. Grosvenor-Take coal and iron
ore.
Mr.. Mckinley-Ycs, take coal, take
iron ore, take spongcs, take oranges.
take rice. take anything yon produce in
the south, aud look through our bill
and You will find i'll every particular it
has tho same mecl of protection that we
have given to the industries of the north.
And We propose, Mr.. Speaker, to SO
right on protecting the south, us We
have done for twenty-five ycars-in spite
Of themselves, in spite of their repre-
sentatives, we propose to go on giving
them such protection as will still further
increase their industrial prosperity and
development. Applause on the Repub-
lican side. We have done it for twenty
years or more, and we will not stop so
long rs We have IL majority in congress.
Notwithstanding their representative;
here oppose the very principle upon
which tho prosperity of the south de-
ponds, and to which it must look for its
future development.
Mr.. McKinley-Talk about "lneth-
ods." You have been III tho control of
the house for twelve years, since 1876.
Point to the public measure you have
put upon the statute books in the inter
est of the country OF of your fellow citi-
zens i'll all that period of time. You said
You would revise the tariff, and in all
those years you were never able to do it.
Mr.. Hcrbert-Becausc Republican
senate defeated our bill.
Mr.. McKinlcy-Ah, but you had the
senate in that time; it was Democratic
for two years, and during tho same
period You had the house. You said you
would reduce the revenue; yet in all
those years you reduced the revenue less
than E,0OO,0 900; and during the eleven
years in which tho Republicans have
controlled from 1866 we wiped from the
statute books three hundred and sixty
two millions of annual taxation, and VIC
propose by this bill to roll away sixty
millions ..,'re. Applause on the Re-
publican side. There is tho record CT IL
party that has methods. But you have
no methods, except those of obstruction
and of maddened resistance to public
measures. -Congrcssional Record, Sent.
30.