The Portland daily press., 1890-05-15
INSULT HURLED BACK.
Mr.. Walker Declines the Title Of Rob-
ber Baron.

WASHINGTON, May 14.-On motion of Mr..
Morrill, Of Kansas the House insisted on its
amendment to the Senate dependent pension
bill, and conference was ordered.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bill. Mr.. Bynum of
Indiana moved to reduce the duty on COM
mon earthenware from % to 10 per cent ad
valorem. He argued that. taking this clause
in connection with the customs administra-
tive bill, it would be found that the duty on
earthenware would be increased from 10 to
30 per cent.
Mr.. Burrows of Michigan contended that
the effect of the tariff was to reduce the
price of articles to the consumer.
This contention was denied by Mr.. Mills ct
Texas, who ridiculed the idea that If the
tariff reduced prices the manufacturers
would come to Congress asking that the tar
iii be advanced for their benefit.
Mr.. Walker Of Massachusetts, said that in
making statement that was not true man
might be perfectly truthful, so far as he
himself were concerned, and he might not.
Ihere was not one word of truth in what
the gentleman from Texas said about manu-
factnrers coming before the committee ask
Ing that duty might be put up for their pro-
lection. He did not mean by that that the
gentleman was saying what was not true.
He supposed that the gentleman believed it.
No manufacturer had come before the ways
and means committee and asked that duties
De put up or down on his own account. The
manufacturers came and said that, paying
the wages they did, the tariff should be this,
eat enat OF Tine tae otner .a The woEkingmen got
count of the tariff As manufacturer he
manufacturers as robber barons. [Applause
on the Republican Sidel.
Mr.. Mills regretted that the gentleman
from Massaehusetts had become so indlg-
nant He Mr. Mills had been charged the
other day with an exhibition of plantation
manners; the gentleman was now giving an
exhibition Of manufacturing manners. The
members OF the House were told that the
gentleman as manufacturer did not desire
to promote the interests of his class. He
philanthropist and represented not himself,
but the interest of labor. His heart was
swollen with devotion to the workingmau.
He said that the tariff was intended to enable
manufacturers to pay wages to the laborers.
The manufacturer paid 81. .25 to labor for pro-
ducing ton of pig iron. The government
gave the manufacturer S6.72 in order to en-
able him to pay that S1.25. The manufac-
turer paid labor So for producing a ton of
steel RAILS; the government gave him $17 to
enable him to pay it. Why did not manufac-
turers give the SIT to the workingmen, in
stead Of turning them out of work and going
Scotland?
Mr.. Bynum's motion was defeated d-66 to
Sc.
MIR. Dunnell Of Minnesota moved to re-
duce the duty on china, porcelain, etc., from
90 to 30 per cent ad valorem. Lost-76 to 81.
After further discussion Mr.. >Bynum of In
diana charged that the committee on ways
an. anu means III the hearings on the tariff ques-
tion shut ous the labor Of the country and
admitted the manufacturers. Messrs.
Flower OF New York and Mckinley both de-
MED this.
the bill, the committee rose and the House
at O'Clock adjourned.