The Red Cloud chief., 1890-05-16
TARIFF TALK.
Debate on the Mckinley Bin In the
House.
IL. Mckinley Opens the debate In Favsr
Of hla Bili And 10 Followed
~ Mr.. Mnls In Oppo-
slt1uU.


into Committee Of tho Whole upon the
Mckinley Tariff bill, reported from tho
Ways and Means Committee.
Mr.. Mckinley took the floor In
support Of the bill. In tho last political
campaign the tariff had boon tho absorb
ing question before the people. Il
secmed to him that no extended discus
sion Of this great principle MAS expected
or required or necessary under existing
conditions, for II any ono thing was set
tied by the political contest Of 1883 II
was that the protective policy as promul.
gated by the Republican party In tho
platform, a. maintained by the Repub-
lican party through . long series Of years,
should bo secured In any legislation
which was TO he had by a Congress chosen
In this great contest and ON this mas
terinR issue. He interpreted tho VIC
tory 70 mean, he interpreted tho major.
,ity In this House 10 mean, he interpreted
the incumbcncy Of the Presidency Of
tho United States by tho present Exccu-
tive To mean, that . revision Of the
tarih WAS demanded by tho people, and
that that revision should DO along tho
line and In full recognition Of tho prin.
'ciple and purposes Of protection. Ap-
plausc. The people had spoken and
they asked this Congress TO register
their will AMI cmbody their verdict into
public law. The bill presented by the
Committee on Ways and Means u tho
House was q thorough answer to that
demand, In full recognition Of tho prin-
ciple and policy Of the protective tariff.
Tho bill. Mr.. Mckinley said, had not
abolished the internal revenue tax, ~ the
Republican party had pledged itself to
do In tho event that abolition was
necessary to preserve tho protective
system, because tho committee had
found tho abolition Of the n was not
necessary ~ the preservation Of tho
other. Tho bill recommended the abOli.
ton Of ell special taxes and the reduce
ton OF tho tax On tobacco and IL re-
moved the restrictions upon tho grow
-crs Of tobacco. with these exceptions
the internal MI laws stood ~ ut
present. II these recommendations
were agreed tn internal taxation would
Be reduced u little ~, 600, 900. Tho com.
m'tt~e also recommended q provision
requiring all imported articles ~ bear u
stamp or mark indicating the country In
which such articles are manufactured.
The reason that actuatcd tho commit
tee Wal that II had become too common
among some Of tho countries OF tho
world TO copy some Of tho bcst known
brands and sell Thorn In COM etition
with Americas homo mado products
The next provision recon rncndcd was
'One extending and libcralixing tho
drawback sections Of tho law. Under
che existing statute any citizen Of tho
United States could import an article.
pay duty upon II, make II into q COM
plete product export II and tho
Government refunded ~ per sent.
OF tho duty paid on tho raw ma.
tcrlsl. The committee recommends
cd that hereafter tho Government
ahould retain only M per cent. instead
nf 10 per cent. This would give 10 the
v"Ople Of tho Unitcd States practically
free raw material for the export trade.
The committee said To capitalists Of tho
country: III you think you can 70 into
tho foreign markets with FREQ raw ma.
tcrial, We give you within one pcr cent.
OF FREQ raw material and You try and see
what you can do" ILnughtcr.l This
provision completely disposed ~ what
had sometimes seemed an almost un.
a~nswcrablc argument, urged by gentle.
men on the outside that u the manu-.
facturcrS only had raw material they
could compete In the markets OF tho
world.
MI. Springer, Of Illinois, inquired
whethcr this provision applied ~ wool.
Nj. Mckinley replied That Il applied
20 every thing. II was asserted by the
minority that tho bin would not reduce
the revenues VI the Government. but
that on the contrary II would increase
tho revenues This statement WAS mis-.
leading. u could only be- valuable ON
che assumption that tho importations OF
the present yeAr under this hin would
he equal to tho importation Of like arti'
'cles under existing law. Tho instan,
duties wcrc increased Ia fair protcctiv,
point, that instant the importation
'diminishcd. No ono could dispute tina,
proposition. II tho hill should bccom,
a law tho ~ tho Goycrnmcn,
would bc diminished from $50, OOO, 900 I,
500. 0o0, oO0.
After discussing the hill more In do
vail Mr.. Mckinley said that under III,
duties fixed by the bill tho annual i'm
ports Of eas, 0OO, 900 Of agricultural prod
uctS would be supplied tho people %
the United States by tho America,
farmer rather than by tho Canada,
farmer. and that e3S, ON, 900 distribute,
among the farmers would relieve som,
Of the deprcssion prevailing anon,
them and give confidence. courage an,
increased ability TO raise the mortgage
upon their farms tApplause. Durin,
the twelve years Of reciprocity will
Canada the United States had bough
much moro than II had sold. VIVA
Canada wanted, what other countric
wanted, was y FREQ and open market Il
tho United States. What tho Unto,
states wanted, II IL ever had rrciprocit
WAS reciprocity with equality, RI
ciprocity that was fair, reciprocity tina
was just reciprocity that would Civ,
her her share In tho trade q
tho bargain she made with tho oil
countries Of the world. Whenever tn
n'nttaI Atutoa had fraa ,.al, rs...,-,,ss