The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-11
M'KINLEY'SBlLL RIDDLED.
A DENIAL THAT IT STANDS FOR
AN AMERICAN SYSTEM.

That it is Based on the Cast off
Scheme of One OF England's Meanest
Monarchs - Congressman Barnes
Points Out That it Enriches a Few
and Impoverishes the Masses of the
People.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-After the read
Ing of the journal this morning the House
went into committee of the whole with MIR.
Grosvener in the chair for further consider
alton of the tariff blu.
Mr.. Lanham OF Texas especially antego-
nized the feature of the bill which places a
duty on silver lead ore, declaring that it
would have the effect of DESTROYING the
smelling industry of Texas and neighbGring
states, and that it would invite retaliation.
Mr.. McAdoo of New Jersey declared that
what the majority commended for was not
the American protective system. Were
Henry Clay sometimes alluded to rs the
founder of the protective systeml and Silas
Wright members of this House, they would
be found in unqualified opposition to this
bill If the United States made its duties
prohibiting, it must expect retaliation
against its cora and wheat and beef on the
part of the nations of Europe. If he were
the most radical but far seeing
DrOleCIlCulSU u6 WOulQ VOL6 ERdlDSJ Jlo
measure because in the end any such abuse
OF the taxing power must lead to the total
destruction Of what had been called the
American system. The pending bill was
step backward in civilization and an at
tempt to outwit the laws of nature and to
evade the rules Of common honesty.
A REPUBLICAN MYTH.
Mr.. LaFollette of Wisconsin, a member
of the committee on ways and means, drew
a comparison between the Mills bill
and the pending measure. And if
each bill were consigned to the
home of the majority of its friends
an ocean would Poll between them. ZAP
plause.1 The republican bill favored pro-
lection to American agriculture, manu-
factures and labor. The democratic bill
opposed that policy. The republican bill
proposed to save the home market for
Americans. The democratic bill proposed
to invite all other countries to take this
market from our people whenever it was in
their power so to do. The issue was made
up, and he, as q republican, welcomed il.
On these lines the contest must be fought
out to the end. The democrats were for the
repeal of the protective duty. The repub-
icans were for its continuance.
SPRINGER TAKES CARLIsLE's PLACE.
Mr.. Springer, taking the place of Mr..
by Mr.. Burrows of Michigan that it was a
theory and not a condition that confronts
US. He contended that the country was
confronted with a condition in respect to
the treasury. The theory of the majority
was not wholly new, but it had never been
so openly avowed as it was in the pending
bill. The system of protection was system
to favor classes. If he were employed as
an attorney to secure special privileges for
nQFfi0rlor- ind Ina lc nd ipfa fO
favors. he could not have improved on the
pending bill. He did not assert that at the
last election there had been any agreement
between the manufacturers of the country
and the chairman of the national republi-
can committee that certain contributions
were to be made to the republican cam
paign fund in return for which
those manufacturers were to
be given an additional protective
tariff He did not assert this, but if it
were fact, if it were literally true, the
trainers of the pending bill could not have
responded to the agreement with more per-
feet success than they had done.
BOUNTY FEATURES DENOUNCED.
He denounced the two bounty features of
the bill Sugar and silk and concluded that
there was no power in congress to approp-
riate money raised from the people by taxa
tion to any particular industry of the
country to encourage its business.
In a facetious manner he then proceeded
to point out the benefits which would ensue
to the farmers of Illinois from the pro-
visions of the law. Cabbages now were
taxed 10 per cent. ad valorum. 1t was now
proposed to tax them 8 cents a head. Ac-
cording to the agricultural reports no cab
bages were imported at 10 per cent. How
many would be imported at an equivalent
to 20 per cent? Laughter This was for
the benefit Of the Illinois farmers. Laugh
teri
MIR. Dingley asserted that cabbage was
imported, but that it appeared in the statis-
tics as vegetables"
Mr.. Springer said the Democratic party
was ready to meet the issue rendered in the
bull, and he predicted that the House in the
Fifty second congress would have a demo-
cratic majority of fifty. In 1892 there
would be democratic congress pledged to
repeal this bill if it should becoms law.
DINGLEY DEFENDS PROTECTION.
Mr.. DIngley of Maine, after discussing in
exhaustive detail the provisions of the bill,
generaliZed the methods upon which the
measure had been framed. The fact that
under protection the United States had
become the largest manufacturing nation
n the world was refutatlou of the statement
that protection was failure. The pending
Dill was framed upon the theory that
articles which the United States could not
produce, or produce in sufficient qualities to
supply the home demand should be placed
upon the free list, because the duty on uch
articles appreciated the cost to the con-
sumer and that was why the duty on sugar,
OF which the United States produced only
one-eighth of its consumption, was tax
which increased the burdens Of the people.
ENRICHING A FEW.
Mr.. Barnes of Georgia addressed the
committee in opposition to the protective
system of the bill He urged that before
the war no one contended for protection
except as an iIcendent to the revenue; that
the present high tariff system was war
measure, but mad been continued during
peri cd of twenty-five years of peace to the
enrichment of few and the unproverish-
ment of the great body of people, and that
under its operations wealth was being con-
centrated in the hands of the privileged
class. This country, and especially
.he farmers of the country. were crying out
Ior relief and more extended markets. The
reply of the Republican party was still
further increase of duties and increased
restrictions on trade. The only hope OF the
country was in reduction of the taxation
on the necessaries of life, the imposition OF
an income tax for pensions and an increase
VI tne currency to an extent necessary for
the business interests.
NO FREE TRADE PARTY.
Mr.. Andrews of Massachusetts opposed
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