Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-17
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present their views in the shape of amend
ments.
Mr.. Breckenridge IKy) opposed the pending
am endment, which fixes a duty of 60 cents a
square yard and 40 per cent ad valorem on
| Oriental, Berlin and other rugs.
Mr. ALIENS CHARMING cANDoR.
Mr.. Allen Miss excused his entrance into
| the debate by stating that he had some friends
from Mississippi in the galleries who wanted to
hear him talk before they went home.
| lLaughter.1
He thought (and good many people
agreed with HIM that if there was any one
man in the United States thoroughly posted
on the subject of the tariff he was the man.
lLaughler.l He had discussed the subject OH
a canal boat from Syracuse to Albany, with the
result already known. tLaughter.l He came
pack BACK from mn, that trip and had con- con;
they agreed that the people in
whose interest they had made the fight had not
appreciated it. The gentleman from Massa-
chusetts (AIr. Lodge) had complained that
farmer. The gentleman must excuse members
for talking some to the farmer, because talk
was all the farmer got. Laughter In con-
clusion he recited some verses descriptive of
the woes OF the farmer, ending with the re-
frain:
"But we love the G. o. p;
For it gives us tariff yet"
The amendment was agreed to.
sBopDY.
Mr.. Bynum Qnd. argued that the protective
tariff on raw wool had DESTROYED the manu-
facture of woGlen goods and driven the manu-
facturer to manufacture shoddv, thereby
destroying the industry of wool growing.
MIR. Dockery mo contended (and fortified
his position with statistics) that high wool
tariff had had deleterious effect upon the
raising of sheep, on the price of wool and on
the manufactures of wool.
THE VOICE OF JACOB, BUT THE HAND OF EsAU.
Mr. Yardley pa. gave his cordial and hearty
support to the bill. Gentlemen on the other
side were loud in their protests in behalf of the
farmer, but they had steadily voted to destroy
the home market and to deny protection to the
products of the farm. They spoke with the
voice of Jacob. but their hand was the hand of
Esau.
MIR. Buchanan (N.J.) regarded the protection
which the bill afforded the farmer as one of
the most valuable features of the measure. In
speaking to the wool question he quoted
statistics to show that after the reduction of
the wool tariff IN 1888 the number of sheep
had diminished, but that after the last
election, when the people elected a
republican President and Congress. the number
OF sheep began to increase. The farmers did
wisely when they trusted Benjamin Harrison
and republican Congress to look out for the
wool interest of the United States. Applause.
Mr.. Lewis (Ala.) made speech against the
protective system.
MISSOURI Republican, ADVICE.
Mr.. Niedringhaus (Mo.) said that one-half
the time consumed on the other side had been
taken up by his colleagues from the once great
democratic state of Missouri. He felt that
Missouri republican should be heard.
1t was not generally known that the demo-
cratic party held the state government by
minority vote. He advised his colleagues to
pull for the shore before the great crash came.
Laughter and applause.l
Mr.. Bland suggested that his colleague was
the only Representative from Missouri who was
directly interested in high tariff. He did not
see how, if the rules OF the House were rigidly
enforced, his colleague could vote for or against
the bill.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS.
Paragraph 407 of the bill was, on motion of
Mr.. Mckinley, amended so as to read as fol-
lows: "Mats rugs. ser ens, covers hassocks, bed
sides. art squares and other portions of
carpets carpeting made wholly or in part of
wool. not otherwise provided for in this act,
shall be subjected to the rate of duty herein
imposed on carpets carpetings of like charac-
ter or description.
The paragraph imposing a duty of so per
cent ad valOrem on manufactures of silk not
specially provided for was amended, on motion
of Mr.. Mckinley, by proviso that all such
manufactures of which wool on the bair of the
camel. goat or other like animals is a compo-
OF wool.
FREE SALVATION.
Mr.. Caruth (Ky.) criticised the bill, and re-
ferred to the rising son" of Massachusetts APP
pearing before the ways and means
committee advocating an increase of
republicans taxed the shroud, nothwith-
standing they taxed the coffin, they proposed
to tax the gravestone. Where this to stop?
He trusted that when men stood before the
judgment seat of God they would find at least
salvation free. Laughter.
THE OLD SOUTH.
Mr.. Moore CNH.) said that the opposition to
the bill came from the old south and not from
the new south. The protective system had
worked great benefits to the south.
Mr. O'Neil Mass }, as a northern man and a
northern democrat, protested against the pas
sage of the bill. He did not doubt that the
gentlemen who drafted the bill endeavored to
benefit all their friends. but they overlooked
the manufacturers of New England. The manu-
facturers of New England had contributed
their share of the fat in the last campaign and
were entitled TO some little consideration.
They had asked for free coal, because without
it their fires must be banked. They had asked
for free iron. because without it their iron
foundries must be closed.
AMENDMENTS ADOPTED.
On motion of Mr.. Mckinley an amendment to
the tariff bill was adopted imposing duty of
80 per cent ad valorem on bone and horn but
tons. and duty of cents per line-button
measure-of one-fortieth of one inch per gross
on pearl and shell buttons manufactured or
partly manufactured.
Also an amendment fixing q duty of 35 per
cent ad valorem on dolls heads toy marbles of
whatever material composed, and on all other
toys, not composed of rubber, china, porce-
lain. parian, bisque, earthenware or stone
ware, and not specially provided for.
CHAIRMAN CIRCUIT BETTER.