Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-27


cal arrangement articles of foreign wool OF
| hides in any form should be admitted free
| into the ports of this country and it de-
clares that in any treaty or reciprocal ar
rangement that may be entered into looking
to the opening of such foreign ports to the
products named it is not the sense OF the
| United States that articles of wool or hides
produced IN any of those countries shall be
admitted free of duty into the ports of the
| United States; and it requests the Presi-
| dent OF the United States to omit in any
such treaty or reciprocal agreement with
| any such nation from the list of products
| Of such countries TO be admitted into ports
| of the United States articles OF wool IN any
of its forms, and also hides.
| Mr.. Allison moved to include hides
among the prohibited articles.
MIR. Mitchell said that hides were in
cluded in his resolution.
Mr.. MORGAN on THE TARIFF.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
tariff bill, and was addressed By Mr.. Nor
gan. He said the pending bill bore more
heavily on the laboring class than the capt.
talist class or any other class. He had yes
terday referred TO the fact that Oh the free
list IN the bill there was not one article
that entered into the consumption OF the
ordinary laboring-man either in the way
of food, raiment. or shelter. He had asked
the Senator from Iowa Mr.. Allison) II that
were not the fact and had got no answer
He would ask the same question again and
again. and he knew when that Senator
came to make one of those frank state
ments which he always made he would be
compelled to say that there was nothing
provided on the free-list for the laboring
classes.
IL Mare,aN an, 70 uvzaolr ~ Tho col
ored people, who not being capitalists.
manufacturers. or skilled workmen. could
not possibly derive any advantage from
protection, and VINO yet had TO bear the
burdens which it imposed upon the people.
He yielded 10 Interruptions by Mr.. Haw-
ley. who said that in Alabama and other
States colored men were being employed
az skilled workmen in the factories and
foundries, and by Mr.. Hoar, who men,
toned the case Of the colored man who
! was selected recently by his FELLOWSHIP
dents at Harvard University TO deliver the
valedictory.
His response to Mr.. Hoar was that the
case which he mentioned was an excep--
tional one. somewhat akin to the case of
blind Tom" and his response 20 Mr..
Hawley was that what he (Morgan) had
been trying TO find out was whether any
NEGRO operatives were employed in north
ern factories. Ho also yielded to Slr. Vest,
who presented an advertisement from the
Springfield (AIass.) Fire and Marine Com
panv showing prohibition TO its agents
against insuring houses occupied by
negroes or negro churches or school
houses.
In reply TO remark made by Mr.. Hoar
that the prohibition applied only TO the
southern States. Mr.. Vest asserted that 1t
applIed to the whole country.
sAMBo's SHARE OF THE TARIFF BURDEN.
Nr. Morgan went on to criticise the bill
in detail and to show how hard 1t would
bear on the negroes of the South. He
| found. for instance, that III the case OF
agate buttons the negro had. under the
| existing law, to pay SIPS for one dollar 5
worth Of buttons and under the pending
bill he would have to pay from ~ to $3.50
for dollars worth.
MIR. Aldrich shid that the bill did not
propose any change of duty on agate but
tons. Mr.. Morgan corrected his statement,
but referred to four other grades of buttons
Of which dollars worth would under the
pending bill cost respectively S2.l0, SL75,
3.43, and S1.4S. The negroes, he SAID,
could use thorns, pieces OF stick, or four
penny nails TO keep their clothes on. but
| they preferred TO have buttons. and there
was no sense or justice in taxing them 10
such an extent.
The negro. he added, could not learn in
two hundred years 10 make a button. lie
also referred to agricultural seeds, which.
under the present law. cost cl.29 tor a
dollars worth, and would under the pend
Ing bill cost $40; 20 andirons. which now
cost ~ 81 for dollars worth, and would
under the pending bill cost SLAP, and TO
bacon, which now costs S1.i14 for dol
| lars worth. and would under the pending
bill cost sl.29.
THE DARKY's DELEGATION.
The negroes. he said, did not raise hogs
| and did not let anybody else in their neigh
borhood raise any hogs, but they were
consumers of hogs. Nothing in the world
so deectated the negro as bacon and
greens.
Mr.. Allison: Does the Senator believe
that the ia per cent. now levied on bacon
Is added to the price of the bacon which
| the southern people consume and Is there
fore pocketed by the farmers!
Mr.. Morgan: IL the duty Is not added to
| the price. what IS IL put there. for? Does
| the great Finance Committee of the United
| States Senate want simply to humbug the
| farmer by putting tax on an article which
does not add to the price?
Mr.. Allison: We do not want 20 humbug
anybody. bu. / want the Senator's opinion
| as TO whether the III per cent. duty or %
per cent. duty is added to the price OF the
bacon. If he answers my question will
endeayor 10 answer his.
Mr. Morgan: | have something else to
| do besides swapping questions with the
| Senator. If bacon were not raised IN the
country and If it had to be imported IT 10
very clear that the consumer would have
TO pay the duty.
The next article to which Mr.. Morgan
referred was preserved meats, and IN
| speaking Of the duty on them be expressed
| the fear that senators We're so far from the
people and saw so little of them that they
| imagined that the people had not any good
sense, but when those questions got 10 the
| country. no said, even to he negro commu-
mites of the South they would be very
well understood
BAGGSG, CorToS-TIEs, CLOTHING, &c.
He went on to refer TO the existing taxes
| and 90 the proposed taxes on bagging, cot
| tOn-ties, boots and shoes, and ready-made
| clothing. As to the last-named, he said
| that under the existing law dollars worth
| cost Sl54. and would cost under the pend
| ing bill S1.Si; and he asked, Why should
| the existing tax be increased! Ready
made clothing was, be said, one Of the
very largest elements of trade among tho
negroes. Ii was one of the rnrest things
| TO see grown negro in the South with
ANYTHING on his back made by another
negro. Ii was all bought in stores, and an
| enormous part of the negro's earnings was
| diverted from his pocket by the tax on
ready-mado clothing. He could not I'M
derstand its necessity or Justice.
THE DOLLARS WORTH.