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Mr Mckinley The gsntleuan from
Alabama ssys tnls h ''sesnonal- ball,
and thaS tbs country b suffering eecs0ss
ws are "tinksring wlth the taria.
'-falAering with the tsrlfff' That Is tho
mission II shs Democratic party. And
this Is national billl say that there
u not a single paragraph IN this ball that
Is sectional" IN It's character-not one.
IL u nAsLoaA froA beginning to cad.
Look at the Mills bal which you passed
in the house, and II IL sectional froan top
% bottom. You pat what on TIE free
hsts Cotton ties for she use Of the peo-
PIE q the south. You put cotton bag
ging ou the free list. You protected
your sugar and yonr nee, and then you
turned 70 he farmers OF tho nesd and
pat their wool. their fax, their hemp
and other agricultural products on the
free List. Applause on the Republican
slde. II there ever was sectional bin
emanatins from any party IN this house
or any other 10 was the Mills blll of the
FifGsth congress- This 10 called sec
tionaI' bill; now what has this bill done?
Ii has taken care of every product of the
south, unless you except sugar. And it
has gwen TO the producers of sugar
bounty equal TO the duty they heretofore
have been enjOying-a direct and assured
protection. | have a nU~nber of items
here that want 70 call the gentlsmxns
attention 10. Yellow pine, beheve, is
a product Of the south-produced no
where else.
Mr.. herbert-And white pine Is
product of the north.
MIR Mckinley Exactly, and under
this bin yellow pine Of the south Is made
dutiable at q, aud white pine OF the
north at 81. Applause ON tho Repubh-
can side. Take rice; take mica This
product of North Carolina and OF Ten
nessee we found upon the free list. We
in the house TOOK il from the free list,
and put it on the dutiable list, and in
open senate our provision was apl oyed
by a majority vote.
Mr.. Grosvenor-Take coal and iron
ore.
Mr.. McKi1ly-Yes, take coal, take
iron ore, take spOnges, take oranges,
take rice, take anything you produce In
the south, and look through our bill
and you will find in every particular it
has the same need of protection that we
have given TO the industries OF the north.
And We propose, Mr. Speaker, to go
right on protecting the south, as we
have done for twenty-five years-in spite
of themselves, In spite of their repre-
sentstiyes, we propose to go on giving
them such protection as will still further
increase their industrial prosperity and
development. Applause on the Repub-
Ecan side. We have done it for twenty
years OF more, and we will not stop so
long as we have a majority IN congress,
notwithstanding their representatives
here oppose the very principle upon
which the prosperity of the south de-
pends, and 70 which it must look for its
future development
Mr.. McKinley-Talk about ''1neth-
DDS" You have been in the control OF
tho house for twelve years, since 1873.
Point TO the public measure you have
put upon the statute books IN the inter
est of the country or Of your fellow citi-
zens in all that period Of time. You said
you woald revise the tariff, and in all
those years you were never able TO do it.
Mr.. Herbert-Becausc Republican
senate defeated our bill
Mr. McKinley-Ah. but you had the
senate IN that time; IT was Democratic
for two years. and during the same
period you had the house. You said you
would reduce the revenue; vet in all
those years you reduced the revenue less
than 1890. .0o0; and during the eleven
years in which the Republicans have
controlled from 1896 we wiped from the
statute books three hundred and sixty
two millions of annual taxation, and we
propose by tins bill 70 roll away sixty
millions more. Applause on the Re
publican side There Is the record of a
party that has methods. But YOU have
no methods. except those of obstruction
and OF madiened resistance 70 public
measures. Congressional Record, Sept.
+ CD.