The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-02

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but said in regard to hat indstry that
prices had fallen after the industy was pro-
tected.
Mr.. Plumb suggested that prizes had gone
down in other countries as wei as in the
United States, and wanted to kDw whether
Mr.. Hiscock ascribed that fall i prices to
the American tariff.
1t was TO be ascr1bed, N. Hiscock
thought, to the competition caued by tie
encouragement OF the industry 1.-THE United
States.
THE REVENUE NOT CONSIDERED.
Then Mr.. Plumb inquired mether the
idea of revenue mad been in the hind of the
finance committee in making its recon-
mendations.
so far as he was concerned, lr. Hiscock
said, he had voted to fix rates rithout the
slightest regard to'revenue, eithr one way
or the other. Then Mr.. Plum bperssted if
any revenue was collected on fie brick and
tiles, under the increased rate o duty, the
senator from New York woul be disap-
pointed.
He certainly would be, Mr.. Hscock con-
fessed, and trusted that there wdlld be none
collected
The idea, then, said Mr.. Plum, would be
one of exclusion.
INCREASED HOME PRODUCTION.
Mr.. Hiscock begged his pardoL 1t would
not be one of exclusion. He shdlld be en-
tlrely gratified if the effect of higher duties
would be, and he hoped it woul, be, an in
creased home production and supply of the
home market
In making up the tariff on tht basis Mr..
PIumb wanted to know whethe Mr.. His
COCK took into acc )unt the ability of con-
sumers to pay enhanced prices.
Mr.. Hiscock's Judgment was that in all
Nuh Il I,I l.
and had become thoroughly American the
inevitable effect was to reduce Trices.
MIR. Plumb suggested that 1r. Hiscock
seemed to assume that all REDUCTIONS in
prices were caused by home competition,
but Mr. Hiscock disclaimed tbs holding of
such an opinion.
PLUMB JUMPS THE PARTY LINE.
And so the colloquy went on, and when
Mr.. McPherson's amendment came to
vote Mr.. Plumb was found voting with the
democrats, the first break in the solid
party vote. Mr.. Plumb having thus
started in his assertion of independence of
party allegiance, 50 far as 1he tariff bill
was concerned, began to take Mr. McPher-
sons place in offering amendments.
bis fist two amendments were
to reduce the rates of duty on enameled
tiles and on hydraulic cement. After dis
cussion they were voted down by the re-
publican ma ajority, the democrats, of course,
voting for them. On the hydraulic cement
amendment Mr.. Paddock Joined Mr.. Plumb
In voting with the democrats.
THE LIME PARAGRAPH.
Mr.. Colquitt moved to amend paragraph
96 Qime) by changing the rate from 6 cents
per hundred to 10 per cent ad valorem. In
speaking to his amendment he quoted say
ing imputed to Col Bob Ingersoll, that ne
was in vavor of protecting infant indus ,ries,
but that when the infant had grown to be
six feet high and wore No. IL boots
IL was time to stop rocking
the cradle, especially when the infant
threatened that if you did not do it he
would get up and thrash you.
The amendment was rejected.
Mr. Paddock was again recorded as vot
ing with the democrats upon Mr.. McPher-
sons motion to reduce the duty upon COM
mon brown earthenware.
CHINA AND PORCELAIN.
The next question was on paragraph 100,
relating to CHINA, porcelain and crockery
ware, the finance committee recommending
redu tion of the rates III the House bill
from &c to SO per cent on decorated articles
and from IS to so per cent. on plain white
and undecorated ware Two members of
the finance committee, Messrs. Sherman
and Hiscock, expressed their opposition to
the Senate amendments
Mr.. Vance made humorous speech upon
tn peculiarities of the high protective sys-
tenn. He declared that the whole earthen-
ware section was disgrace to the people
VINO claimed to be tinctured with sense of
humanity. 1t made discrimination in favor
of the rich and against the poor. The same
policy of inequality ran through the whole
tariff bill from one end of it to the other
Nowhere was it provided in that bill that
from him to whom little is given shall
little be required" but the contrary.
PLUMB MORE REBELLIoUs THAN EVER.
Then Mr.. Plumb took a prominent and
part in the discussion, inveigh-
ing against the exorbitant demands Of the
high protectionists. He produced letter
from merchant doing business in st.
Joseph, Mo-, and Atchison, Kan. stating
that on an invoice of crockery he had
paid that day customs duty of SIG 40;
that under the pending bill the duty
S31 80; and under the Mckinley bill $57 II.
The whole te dency of civilization, Mr..
Plumb said, was toward reduction of
prices of all products of human labor To
claim that the tariff had been the sole or
main factor IN the reduction of the prices
of manufactured goods was to argue against
all the forces of civilization. The Ameri
can people were entitled to have cheap
goods if compe'iti could bring that
about. When, he asked, was the time
coming when the people of the United
States would get some benefit from the
Of home industries?
HOW PRICES ARE KEPT UP.
Just as fast as the point was arrived at
when lower prices might be expected. the
came to congress and said
that they wanted more duties, whereby that
rested. The people of the United States
ought to have their inning" some time,
ana he thought that the time had come.
The article of chinaware, he went on to say,
was to be found on the tables of
rich and poor, so that high tax on it had
to be borne not in accordance with the
ability of the taxpayer to pay, but as prac-
tlctlly per capita tax. The man on his
farm used as much chinaware as Wander
bllt In his palace.
TAX ON A NECESSITY.
The duty on chinaware was not tax on
luxury, but on a necessity of life He
could conceive, and he could see, that the
cohorts OF protection were so organized that
the Dill was to go through substantially as
IL came from the finance committee. Its
passage was foretold in a Philadelphia
newspaper article headed, mo delay in the
Senate" and stating confidently that the
senate was going to put the bill
through as rapidly as the House had done.
Inc House, he believed, had considered six
teen pages of the bill lone page further than
the Senate had now qoti. and il was ex-
DeCted that the Sau N "a xsyonid +alya 10 ,,o a,d