The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-02
PLUMB and PROTECTION
The Great Senator Deserts His Party on
the Tariff Question.
He Says the American People
Should Not be Robbed by Duties
in Order to Enrich q Few
Manufacturers.

took up the tariff bill at l0:A5 this morn
ing.
Blair offered a resolution which went
over until tomorrow, instructing the COM
mittee on rules TO report rule within
four days for the limiting and closing OF
the debates.
Senator Edmunds moved TO correct the
journal OF yesterday by making il state
the names of the senators present when
the roll was first called. There was
general opposition to this motion which
was defeated.
Blair offered resolution instrlcting
the committee on rules to report within
four days rule for the incorporation OF
the previous question on some method OF
limiting and closing the debate In the par.
liamentary procedure of the senate and
asked for its immediate consideration.
An objection being made on the demo-
cratic side, il went over until tomorrow.
The house Joint resolution to permit
Captain George w. Davis of the United
States army To accept a position in the
Nicaragua canal construction company
was passed.
The senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration OF the tariff bill, resuming il
under the head of the lead products.
Carbonate, sulphate and potash and
sponges were placed on the free list.
The duty on sulphate Of soda was changed
per cent. ad valorem.
Finally the schedule was reached which
| refers to earths, earthware and glass;
ware.
McPherson's motion to reduce the duty
on fire brick failed TO carry.
Plumb voted with the democrats, the
first break in the solid party vote. Plumb
having thus started In his assertion OF in
dependence of party allegiance SO far as
the tariff bill was concerned, began to
take McPherson's place Offering amend
ments. His first two amendments were
| to reduce the rates of duty on
enamelled tiles and hydraulic cement.
After discussion they were voted down
by the republican majority, the democrats
of course voting for them. On the hy-
| draulic cement amendment Paddock
joined Plumb in voting with the demo-
Gratis.
Mcpherson moved to reduce the duty
on common brown earthenware from %
to 20 per cent. ad valerem. Rejected
yeas 81, nays 10. Paddock voted with the
democrats. Plumb did not vote.
The next question was on paragraph
| 100, relating to china, porcelain and
| crockery ware, the finance committee
recommending the reduction of the rates
| of the house bill from G6; 20 .55 per cent.
/ on decorated articles, and from 55 to 50
| per cent. Oh plain white and decorated
ware.
| Two members of the finance committee,
| Sherman and Hiscock, expressed their OPP
position to the senate amendments. Alli-
| son supported them. Vest moved to make
the rate As and 40 per cent. respectively.
| Then Plumb took a prominent part in
the discussion, inveighing against the ex-
orbitant deman DIS of the high protection
| lists. American people were entitled to
| have cheap goods IL competition could
bring that about. When, he asked. was
the time coming that the people of the
1 nit toll hnn
| from the establishment of home indus
tries? just as fast as the point was ar
| rived at when lower prices might be ex-
| pected the manufacturers came 10 con-
gress and said they wanted more
| duties, whereby the downward progress
| of prices might be arrested. He
could not conceive and he could not see
/ that the cohorts of protection were so or
| ganized that the bill was to go Though
| substantially as it came from the finance
committee. He believed in distributing
| the duties necessary for the purpose OF
raising the revenue for the support of the
government i'm such a way as TO equalize
| the conditions existing between the man
ufacturcrs of this country and those
abroad. If he were in doubt, he would
| resolve the doubt in favor of the Ameri-
| can manufacturers. But, IL he knew the
exact conditions, he would put home and
| foreign manufacturers on the same foot
ing precisely. The senate, he continued,
owed some duty To the American people
as well as TO the manufacturers. The
democratic party had its full share of the
responsibility for the iniquities of the
present tariff law and OF that which
was now proposed. The demo-
crats in the house had
had an opportunity of correcting the err
rors aud wickedness of the Mckinley bill
but they had sought to evade the respon-
sibility of their votes, when by joining
with the republicans who were opposed To