The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-13
A TARIFF FOR MONOPOLY
DEMOCRATS MAKE ANOTHER RAID
ON THE M'KINLEY BILL.

Monopoly Yet Unborn-Senator Dan
iel Opens Fire With a Broadside of
Sarcasm.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The Senate got
to business this morning without proceed
ing to the usual necessity TO compel the at
tendance Of quorum.
Mr.. Hale reported back to the House the
bill to extend the census law so as TO require
information to be obtained from uninoor-
porated express companies, and. in response
TO inquiries, stated that it applied to all un-
incorporated express companies or copora-
torships, whether doing local or general
business, that only some three or four of the
great express companies of the country were
Incorporated, that over $15, 200, 900 a year
were paid annually by the express COM
panies to the railroad companies, and that
it was very desirable that statistics Of all
these express com oauies should be obtained
and incorporated in the census returns. The
information would be obtained chiefly by
correspondence, and would apply simply to
the extent of their business aud property,
and to the amounts paid by them TO the
railroad companies. The resolution was
passed. without amendment.
EDMUNDs' LIMITATION OF DEBATE.
Mr.. Edmunds presented his motion for a
change of the rules by limiting the debate
on the tariff bill, which he had offered at
the time Of adjournment Yesterday, and it
was laid on the table aud ordered printed.
Mr.. Blair also offered resolution for such
change In the rules as will permit the pre-
vious question to be moved after a PROPOSE
tion has been under consideration two days,
aud the same disposition was made OF it.
THE TARIF BILL TAKEN UP.
The tariff bill was then taken up. the
pending question being on Mr.. Vests
amendment offered yesterday, reducing the
duty on tin plates from 2-10 cents per
pound to l cent per pound, the present rate
Mr.. Morgan resumed his argument begun
yesterday against tho increased duty pro
vided in the paragraph. He re-
ferred to the remark made last
week by Mr.. Edmunds that the bill
was the question of the hour, and to that
made on the same occasion by Mr.. Hawley
that the material interests of the country
were suffering from the jar caused by the
discussion Of the bill. Mr.. Morgan said tnat
he had construed these remarks into an ex-
preston of opinion by the senator's that the
bill was to be pressed to its passage or
rejection, and that nothing would be
allowed to impede its progress. SO far as
he was concerned he coincided in that view
of the case.
WHAT THE OUTCOME WILL BE-
He sketched what he thought would be
| the outcome of the ma ter. The bill would
pass the Senate The House would refuse
to concur in the Senate amendments and u
conference would follow. No senator on
either side of the chamber could now foresee
the form in which the pending bill was even
likely to become a law. When the con-
ferees got together they would frame IA
measure Independently of tue action of
either house. They would bring it in in
the nature of surprise, and tie senators
would then be so handicapped by the stand
ing rules of the Senate as not to be
able to amend the bill in any particular.
| They would have to swallow it whole, as it
| came from the confer ence committee or else
| reject 1t entirely.
LIMITATION OF DEBATE.
Abiding to MIR. Edmunds' motion to limit
the debate and to other propositions of a
like character. Mr.. Morgan said that no
democratic senator desired to prevent the
passage of the bill. and none Of them had
demurred to the Republican party shoul-
dering the entire odium of the bill. They
| had merely attempted to have free and full
| discussion of it-a discussion which had not
taken place in the House, and which was
choked off by the rules of that body
and their administration. They wanted
free and full discussion. so that
the people Of the United States could see
the nature and valCe of the objections
which they had to urge against the features
of the bill, each one being distinct and
each one containing in 1t an important
enactment relating to the welfare of the
people. That was all that they desired.
MoNoPoLY's SCHEME.
Mr.. Daniel next addressed the Senate. He
spoke of the proposed increase of the duty
.1,& -,
| less and inexorable war which the Republi-
can party has waged against the agri-
cultural and producing classes of the coun-
| try. 1t was a most monstrous grab of
monopoly as yet uncreated, but pleading
| for a charter from congress to plunder the
people. and he said that 1t should not go un-
challenged. The tin plate tax was one ele-
ment Of the conspiracy and the combina-
| ton OF the lnonopolists against the
tillers of the SOIL He did not wonder that
there was a desire on the republican side of
the chamber that the bill should slide
| through as quickly as possible, and with as
little said about it as practicable.
BURNING CORN FOR FUEL.
He had no doubt that if the western
farmer who burned his corn for fuel be-
| cause he could not find a marae
| for it, and who was told in an
official report of the department of
| agriculture UnaC III was q leglUl tDaUo use OF
corn, paid $175 for the tin used for roofing
| his house, and learned that $75 of that sum
went into the pockets OF some capitalists
who had not yet appeared, that the farmer
would be entirely content to pay the bon us
| (this was said, of course, in tone Of sarcasm).
He protested that nothing but a spirit OF
monopoly and grasping avariee could
| inspire bill to levy taxes Oh the people,
which bill proclaimed in its front that taxes
were not needed for revenues.
LUXURIEs SHOULD BEAR THE BURDEN.
Mr. Moody addressed the Senate. He
was opposed to a tariff levied excessively
for revenue on any articles except those of
luxury. He regarded @ tariff imposed in
| Discriminatory on imports for the sole pur-
pose of revenue as a tax, aud as vicious
mode of levying a tax, but he was in favor
of the imposition of a duty on foreign pro-
ducts that entered, or might enter into sue
cessful competition with those of the
| United States, for the specific purpose of
protecting and promoting such
production by the American people, leav-
ing the revenue derived therefrom to be
merely incidental, and he would gauge the
duties 60 be imposed in proportion to the
rate of actual labor involved, even going 80
far as to absolutely exclude foreign pro-
duct where it could be successfully supplied
by home labor.
THE RATE ON TIN.
Coming down 20 the question Of tin Mr..