Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-05
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Another Weeks Debate CON-
menCed on The Tariff.
Representative Rogers Has a Sharp
Speech ior Speaker Reed.
Breckinr!dgs Makes a Speech Against
the Election Bill

graph in he house bill fixing four rates OF
bottles according 10 the skes. and substi
taies different = classification with t~'
rates, a cert & pound "a bottle, holding NJ
less than a piat (ani on eeni ohns ar,
earh3ys) and a hgif cert poau,
On bottle holding less shsn pint
Vanee moved 10 amend the commute,
amerjment BY sut stituIing for beth rates
one rate 3 1 Of cents pound lie sjected
Committee amendment agreed to.
Amendment Of the finance committee I,
strike ouI paragraphs loo, llo. III. lls
il3, ia of tbs House bill and subsiiiut,
one paragraph lG4, taxing glass and glass
ware, cut or ornamented, IS per cent a.
yalorem.
Mcpherson moved TO reduce the rate il
the Senate amendment To - per cent. Re
lecisd. Yeas. 20 BAYS, IS.
| ii5mb vas the oDly republican Senator
voting with democrats in the affirmative
Msnderson and Paddock voting in the neg
s.ive, Ingalls, not voting.
Eimanis and Dawes having denied tht
correctness OF Buffers quotation of the ties
umopy from Tobey, the New Englant
manufacturers 10 the degrsdstien OF Amer
lean labor in New England, Butler reai
extracts from the volume of hearing, b.
fore the House committee on ways and
means, showing on three separate occasion,
that Tobey nisae use of that precise eI
preston. lie also read from the testimo
ny of Dennell. of the Fall River common
spinner, giving doleful description Of the
hard lot of the workmen in that town, and
asked leave TO print the whole of il in the
record. ''Is has been in the record dozen
times, said Daee-. Then" said Butler
you should not have der isa my Statement
so emphaticslly." A. to Tobey's U.s. al
the expression about the degradation of IA
Dor in New England, he admitted ihs,
Butler was right And he Dawes WI.
wrong. He contended that it was noe use d
By Tobey in any humilialing sense.
Plumb moved to amend the committee
amendment by reducing the rate on cut
and decorated glass and glassware from a.
to 40 per cent. Rejected, yeas 20, ia,
%. The republicans voting aye were In
| gals, Paddock and Plumb.
Plumb complained of the unreist iity of
the table, resorted to by the finance COM
mittee, and instsncci the case of bottles,
where the rate of cent pound was Put
down as equivalent TO 40 per cent al vale
| rem. whereas. in tariff debate in 1883.
L
was equivalent TO - per cent al valoren.
As the price of bottles bad gone down like
all other prices) since 1883 II was evident
a cent a pound was equivalent to muc \
more than SO per cent.
| The committee amendment was agree
| to.
On paragraph lC6, fixing the duties on
unIOlshed cylinder, crown and common
1 vi iu.to uiass hu NrAa M
being to reduce q cents per pound, .
cents, | cents and cents. according :
| to sizes), TO ,i-s, / IS, ? } 3 ard 21s
| Vance moved to amend by fixizg UNI
form rate Of 80 per cent ad vallrem. He
| had read correspondence from Pittsbui =
| published in the New York Evening Post,
on the subject plate glass profits" show
ing, he SAID that the plate glass manufac'-
urers were maAIng fortunes beyond the
dreams of avar ce. and the STANDARD ol
Company was completely thrown in III
shade BY them. Yet they were asking, h
| said, fo- an decrease of duties, and the
Senate was about I, give it TO them.
Plumb qun,ed from the pistform of the
| conver ton recently held in kanfas to nom
mate candidate Tor Representative to
| Congress, favoring an adj siment and r.
duciion in the tariff schedules, but sail
nothing tn that platform about an ihcreys
of duties As far As he knew the sent
| meut of the western c1u1 ~ psopie we've
not especially hungry fer tariff Legislation.
| lie admitted the tariff bill ought II pass,
bu, dld not regard the New York Trihauv
or any other half dozen papers represent
atiyc sentiment of the American people oG
| that subject.
| lie dill lnos if that paper ard ot1cr
PAPERS sre no trying to ufive th' Se1srr
| forward IN hst b II wsy ia reg, ri tn 20
| silvor bill. that gr .,t measure naNrr wO ~
have passed Ctnetess. Bctt not T. a
t'fif Ia II than not to y So Ur ,i.ht. If "
wss meant ih,t the ScaStr should have tlo
rule that would cut on debate he wnnl =
regard taat 'ss perveisicn of lagis ave
power ard hl1w A. free inst tlticn'.
| He did not regard ou size nevspsi e-s
| talk as 10 shat the Senlte should do.
having srv great degree of conseque1c
Such talk might have been prompted h.
powerful interests, expecting to protit y
the bill.
| lie never heard from any other int res.
| than the manufacturing interest demand for
increased tariff duties. In his judgment. II
the Republican platform of 1883 mad been
supposed to mem il favored tariff revision
| by an Increase of duties, the result of the
| election would have been different. lie
| had vet to learn of single consumer IN
| the Unired States who had asked for an =
crease of tariff duties. Whatever WIS 81
re done with the bill was 10 be justified in
! debate by facts, Il was more i'm
porisnt 70 DO that than to get up general
hnrrsh and pass the bull pelI NELL and no
one would know anything about the respon-
sbility for which the majority would b
obIig i TO dodge.
Teller said he did not yiel to any Sena-
tor in his devotion to the protective system,
vhich ne believed essential to the prosp.T-
ity of the American people. He did TO:
share in the v,w of the senator from Ne =
| Hampshire as taken from one of the lead.
ing newspapers of the country, that there
had been any unnecessary delay in the dis
cussion of the bill. or that the Seaste was
recreani to il. duty be cause it did not pro-
coed more rapidly. lie Gii not propose to
bs frightened iato any haste or e1p-ditio )
in the DISCHARGE of bis duty on the bill.
He ha / learned that hasty legislation was
hsi legislation Any bill which deserved
TO become law would stand The test OF
discussion and examination.
lie was in full sympathy with the pur
pose 0fthe bill. which ne Understood to b,
to raise duties wherever found ,oo ior
and to lower them where found too high
As far as be Teller vas concerned, the
/ present rules of the Senate bad ecsn suifi.
cient for the discharge Of the luties Of a.,
Senate in an orderly and decent manner
was presarei to resist vigorou.ly. and q.
Lee he xE
for the purpese of hsstsnsux the p...sg,
of the tariG or any other bill. Addict
called for vete en- Vsuce's amendment
! Plumb maved the Senate adjourn. MOTOR
no. agreed TO, yeas 10, nays So
Vaneeis amendment was rejected. Var.
Gus motions to reduce the rates on un
polished cylinder. crown and common win
dos g'a.s we're male by Plumb AMI re
iecred on yea and nay votes, although IL
the last of them four republicans, ingalls,
Msrdsrson- Paddock and Plumb, vo;et
with the democrats. Finally, on motion
of AIirieh. the rates we're reduced TO -
tl34, ~. and So cents per pourd
according to s!zes
The Senate having disposed of between
eighteen and nineseen pages of the bill
adj urned At q r. NJ.
Rogers Of Afksusas Attacks Speske
Reed in His Absence
The House went into committee phoI
on the general deficiency appropriation bill
Henderson Of Iowa explained the bill an
. carried the appropriation 70 S.. I5o. .001
. The items Of deficiency submitted to th
enznmittse. on spprop-izsions Aggregate