The Iola register., 1890-11-07
NOT SECTIONAL.

During the Debate In the Bouse MI. mc<
KinIey showed That the Tariff BIN II
Not Sectional.
Mr.. Mckinley: The gentleman from
Alabama says this is sectional bill,
and that the country is suffering be-
cause we are ''tinkering with the tariff"
''Tinkering with the tariff That ID
the mission of the Democratic party.
And this is sectional billi / say
that there is not single paragraph in
this bill that is sectional in its char
acter-not one. 1t is National from be-
ginning to end. Look at the Mills bill,
which you passed in the last House. It
is sectional from top to bottom. You
put what on the free list? Cotton ties
for the use of the people Of the
South. You put cotton bagging on
the free list You protected your
sugar and your rice; and then you
turned to the farmers of the North and
put their wool, their fax. their hemp,
and other agricultural products on the
free list IL there ever was a sectional
bill emanating from any party in this
House or any other, it was the Mills
bill Of the Fiftieth Congress- This is
called sectional" bill; now what has
this bill done? 1t has taken care of
every product of the South, unless you
except sugar; and it has given to the
producers of sugar a bounty equal to
the duty they heretofore have been en-
joying-a direct and assured protection.
have number of items here that
want to call the gentleman's attention
TO. Yellow pine, believe, is product
of the South--produced no where else.
Mr.. Herbert: And white pine is a
product Of the North.
Mr.. Mckinley: Exactly; and under
this bill yellow pine of the South Is
made dutiable at 50, and white pine of
of the North at 81. Take rice. Take
mica This product of North Carolina
and of Tennessee we found upon the
free list; we in the House took it from
the free list and put 1t upon the duti-
able list, and in open Senate our pro-
vision was approved by a majority vote.
Mr.. Grosvenor: Take coal and iron ore.
Mr.. Mckinley: Yes take coal; take
iron ores; take sponges; take oranges;
take rice; take any thing you produce
in the South and look through our bill
and you will find in every particular it
has the same need of protection that we
have given to the industries of the
North And we propose, Mr. Speaker.
to go right on protecting the South, as
we have done for twenty-five years-in
spite of themselves, in spite Of their
Representatives, we propose to go on
giving them such protection as will still
further increase their industrial pros
perity and development We have done
1t for twenty years or more, and
we will not stop so long as we
have majority in Congress. notwith-
standing that their Representatives.
here oppose the very principle upon
which the prosperity of the South de-
pends, and to which it must look for its
future development Talk about
methods. You have been in the
control of the House for twelve years.
since 1876. Point to the public measure
you have put upon the statute books in
the interest of the country or of your
fellow citizens in all that period Of
time. You said you would revise the
tariff, and in all those years you were
never able to do it
Mr.. Herbert: Because q Republican
Senate defeated our bill.
Mr.. Mckinley: All, but you had the
Senate in that time; 1t was Democratic
for two years, and during the same pc
riod you had the House. You said you
would reduce the revenues; yet in all
those years you reduced the revenue
less than $1,000, 0O0 And during the
eleven years in which the Republicans
have controlled, from 1856, we wiped
from the statute books three hundred
and sixty-two millions Of annual taxa
ton, and we propose by this bill to roll
away sixty millions more. There is the
record of party that has methods.
But you have no methods, except those
of obstruction and of maddened resist
ance to public easures.-Cong. Record,
September 80.