The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-28
PASSES THE HOUSE AT LAST.
The Tariff Bill Goes Through
Nearly Two to One.
Mr.. Mckinley Closes the Dcbate--i,oth
Republicans and Democrats Have
Their Final words--Adiourn,ncnt in
Sight--The Date Set for September 30.

Eiitisl Observation-Disclosures in
Sight--The Date Set for September 30.
WASHINGTON, Sept 27.-[Special]-
When the tariff bill came up to-day Mr..
Mckinley said he understood the Re-
publican members desired no more than
one hour for debate. He asked, there
fore, that the debate should continue
for live hours, two hours to be given to
the friends, and three hours to the on
ponents of the report.
After some exchange of remarks Mr..
Mckinley gave notice that he would de-
mand the previous question at half-past
five O'Clock. He then made business
statement of the changes between the
provisions of the House bill and the bill
as II passed the Senate. and explained
the provisions of the conference practi-
cally as they are explained in the state
ment of the confcrecs
n reference to the sugar schedule he
said that the bill as it passed the house
! provided that all sugars up to ana in
Guiding No. l6 Dutch standard. should
. hc admitted free and that sugar above
that color should pay +-5th of cent Il
/ pound. That was to compensate for
I difference in labor and cost of refining
in this country and in competing coun-
tries. The Senate had stricken out No.
LII as the line of demarcation and had
| inserted No. l3. Above No. IL and IN
/ to No. Ii it had placed duty of 3-lOth
! of cent Il pound, and above No. l6.
! Cloth of cent.
! The first struggle has been over the
/ dividing line. The Senate conferees
I had yielded and made sugar up to No. 1G
! free. Over No. lG Il duty was placed at
6-l0 of cent, with an additional duty of
1 ITO of cent on all sugars coming from
1 countries where bounties were paid to
! domestic producers.
In regard to the subject of binding
/ Irvine he expressed his opinion that the
duty was too low; but he INDUCED hope
that some future Congress would dis
| cover facts and apply a remedy
! Mr.. Flower, of New York, character
lied the measure as a cyclone bill. The
\ point of the bill was to so arrange it
that there should be no trade between
the United States and foreign countries.
1t would enable manufacturers to COM
bine and fleece the people, while farmers
would fail to find relief
Referring to. the subject of binding
Irvine he said that while gentlemen
would expatiate in the West upon the
provisicsa' az bong in favor of the
farmers of the West, it would ruin
100000 working men in New York and
New England.
Mr.. Turner, of Georgia, criticised the
majority for limiting the time for de-
bate. This process might commend
itself to those who were beneficiaries
of the policy of protection, butt it looked
to victims more like the policy of ''addi-
ton, division and silence" He ar
raigned the bill as Il sectional measure
its benefit being for those who lived in
the North and its hardship for those who
lived in the South Upon the subject
of reciprocity. he qucricd what benefit
would come to the country, from the
provision of the bill. Ills opinion was
that the provision was IL rutum fulmen.
lie objected to the provision because il
inaugurated system that was in viola
ton of the constitution
Mr.. Herbert said that the reciprocity
feature of the bill was Il mere political
make-shift.in that it was "a good enough
Morgan until after the election" and
utterly worthless for any prac teal pur-
pose.
Mr.. Cummings OF New York declared
that the doctrine of American protec-
ton was the most pcrnicious that had
ever permeated the American people
lnvcighing against the protective Sys-
ten. he said that the decay of the agri-
! cultural interests of the country gave
the lie to the statement that protection
was for the benefit of farmers. This bill
was not protection to industry, but was
deprivation to markets. it was self-dc-
Stroying. but the whistle of the tariiy-rc-
form locomotive was screaming. Gagged
and bound, he was still an unwilling
passenger OH this Congressional limited
maratding Mckinley train. The down
east engineer of this juggernaut express
had thrown the throttle open; the iii
nois stokcr was shovcling in coal: the
Buckeye conductor was punching tick
cts. and the protection hoodlums were
filling the air with wild hurrahs The
train was nearing the turn. where it
would certainly jump the track.
Debate was continued III opposition
to the bill by Fitch and Covert, of New
York: Wilkinsion, of Louisiana: Grain,
of Texas: McAdoo, of New Jersey. and
McMillin, and in favor of it by Peters,
of Kansas; Sweeney and Dolliver, of
Iowa; Hit, of Illinois: Cutcheon and
! Gambler, of Massachusetts; Evans, of
Tennessee; Gear, of Iowa. Morse, of
| Massachusetts,: Lind, of Minnesota and
Dingley, of Maine.
McMillin asserted that the bill as
agreed to increased by one dollar the tax
paid by every Caucasian, negro, man,
woman and child in the land. Referring
to the reciprocity amendment, he de-
| clarcd that the reciprocity provision of