The Portland daily press., 1890-08-23
CARLISLE THE LEADER.
Some Democratic Charges Both Inn
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probable and Untrue.
WASHINGTON, August 22-In the Senate
today the tariff bill was taken up. Mr.. Car
Isle denied the necessary connection be-
tween high duties and low prices. He as
serted that low prices were simply the result
of that movement of humanity going on
since creation.
Mr.. Morgan gave the definition of ''de.
structionists," to the protectionists on the
other side, because they were, he said, de-
stroyers of the people for the benefit of a
few bounty fed industries. He expressed
his belief that no more iron or steel cut nail
factories would be established in this coun-
try as the use Of wire nails was superseding
the use of cut nails.
Paragraph 178 relating to wood screws was
reached. Mr. Carlisle said that was another
article American manufacturers were selling
abroad very much lower than they were SELL
ing at home. He produced price lists in sup
port of his statement. He held it was
not good policy or Justice to give
substantially free raw material on their
exported products and refuse it on the pro-
ducts consumed at home. He said the offer
ing of American goods abroad at cheaper
prices then they were offered at home. was
allowed on the raw material. He presented
bill of sale for a gross of knives to a
foreign purchaser in which the stipulation
was printed in red ink that ''the goods shall
not be sold In the United States"
Messrs. Aldrich and Platt examined the
bill of sale Mr.. Carlisle produced. Mr.
Platt said the case was not made out until it
was shown that the same goods sold at
higher prices at home.
Mr. Carlisle said If Mr.. Platt would deny
the fact. he would undertake to furnish
proof of it. There were statements he said
by manufacturers and their authorized
agents that showed, even where drawback
was not allowed, that American manu-
facturers were able to sell their goods abroad
at cheaper rates than at home, yet they were
demanding not that the present rate of duty
be maintained but that it should be increased
largely to prevent them from being driven
out of business. he would suggest to them
if they were driven out of business in the
American market they might confne them
selves to the foreign market in which they
were now able to make a profit and let some
body else come into business here who would
sell goods to the American people as cheap
as those gentlemen sold them to foreigners.
Mr.. Platt argued that the papers present
ed by Mr.. Carlisle did not make out his case
and expressed the belief that no Senator on
the other side believed in his heart that any
American manufacturers sold the same
goods for expectation so per cent lower than
they sold them for home consumption.
Neither did he believe any Senator on the
other side believed any American manufac-
turers made 80 per cent profit on any goods
he manufactured. If any of them did be.
lieve SO it was remarkable instance of
credulity.
Mr.. Aldrich commented on the inconsist-
ency Of the Democratic Senators in arguing
on one hand that high protective duties had
destroyed foreign commerce, and on the 9th
er hand that it was a great enormity for
American manufacturers to seek share of
the foreign market in competition with the
manufactures of England, Germany and
France.
Mr.. Stockbridge made an explanation as
to the statement made by Mr.. Vest on sever
al occasions that American agricul-
tural implements sold In Central and South
America at less prices than in the United
States. His explanation was that the prices
in the American advertising sheet, from
which Mr.. Vest had read, were prices in
tended to be seen by consumers, from which
a discount of 80 per cent was allowed whole
sale dealers, whereas the prices in the Span
ish journal were the actual figures. He had
telegraphed the Ann Arbor Manufacturing
Company, Ann Arbor, Mich; Studebaker
Brothers of South Bend, Ind, and the Oliver
Chilled Plow Company of South Bend, ask
ing whether their prices were the same to
American and foreign wholesale customers,
and received replies that the prices were the
same No distinction was made. all reports
to the contrary being absolutely false.