Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-01
Motion to Take Up Labor Bills OBJ
,jected To and Tariff Talk Goes On.
MR.COOPER AFTER MR.. SMEYZER
The Latter Asks to be Relieved
From the Raum Committee.
HE OWNS REFRIGERATOR CO. STOCK


oiuei. Auis was LABOR Day, ne SAID, anL
should be universally observed He though,
a day instead of eight. ought to do honor to
the occasion by an adjournment
Mr.. Hoar gave it as his opinion that Labor
Day would be better honored by legislation on
behalf of labor.
Very WE'LL" Mr. Blair said in acauiescence
there are four labor bills that have been sen,
over from the House of Representatives.
would be very glad to have them acted on by
tho Senate"
Il "Idesire, said Mr. Hoar, ''to spend the day
IN legislation that will raise tho wages oil
labor"
Il give notice to the Senator in charge OF
The tariff bill (said Mr.. Blair) that l will ask
unanimous consent OF the Senate to give pre-
cedence to the consideration of the labor bills
that have been sent to US by the House of Rep
resentatiyes. This is labor day and there is d
universal desire to do something for labor.
Mr.. ALDRICH OBJECTED
to "any further buncombe speec hes" and Mr..
Blair recognition of this remark was that
THE representatives of the monopoly might
object" but that the Senate should neverthe-
less proceed to consider the labor bills
Mr.. Aldrich asked the presiding officer to en-
force the rules, and the presiding officer (1ir
Ingalls, thereupon requested the Senator from
New Hampshire to observe the rules and re-
frain from debate
This little incident occurred before the ap-
pearancc OF a quorum and before the reading
OF Saturdays journal.
MR.. sHfRMAN's CANADIAN RECIPROCITY REsoLU-
TIoN.
Mr.. Sherman gave notice of an amendment
which he proposed to offer to the tariff bill,
looking toward reciprocity with the dominion
OF Canada in coal and toward extending trade
relations between Canada aud the United
States"
THE FIGHT-HoUR CLAIMS BILL.
Mr.. Blair asked unanimous consent to pro-
ceed to the consideration OF the House bill for
the adjustment Of accounts under the eight
hour law.
Mr. Aldrch said he would not object if the
bill could be disposed of without discussion.
Mr. Edmunds and Mr.. Harris said that could
not be: Objection was therefore made by Mr..
Aidrich and
THE TARIFF BILL WAS TAKEN UP
the question being on paragraph 373 (page SS).
as to wool and wooden yarns, to which the
finance committee had reported an amendment
increasing the duty per pound from twice to
twqGnpd half times the duty imposed on un-
wast9a wool Of the tirst-class.
MrsssAfdrich correctedn n mistake made in the
reciprocity amendment reported by him last
week, tEo word unjust" having been used in
stead Of the word unequal discrimination.
Mr.. PADDOCK CRITICIZEs THE BILL.
Mr.. Paddock addressed the Senate in friendly
criticism of the tariff bill. There was no dis
sent in the republican party, he said, to the
declarations heretofore made in ite platforms
but there were differences of opinion as to the
details Of the tariff There was no dissensiop
within the party as to such protection would
cover the difference in the cost OF labor be-
tween the United States and foreign countries
He should be glad If he could follow the ma
Iority OF the finance committee, but be re-
GREETED that he could not see his way clearly to
1t as tC all the sections. He appreciated fnllS
the arduous and faithful iabors Of the finance
and regretted to have heard insinu-
ations that it had allowed its action to be in
fuenced by threats, bargains or eajolery.
THE AGRICULTURAL WEST,
he said, never favored high protective duties
but did favor sufficient protection to cover
the difference in wages, while at the same time
the semblance, at least of foreign markets, was
preserved. The west regarded revision Of
the tariff as meaning "a reduction OF the
tariff" whenever possible, and not increase in
tariff imports, and he was confident that the
demand for a lower range of duties would
have to receive an early and favorable response
from Congress-
Many Of those duties, he said, now believed
to be too high, had long ago done the work
which had first justified their imposition. So
long as high tariff was needed to keep the
wheels of industry in motion it has been
supported and properly
defended. But the sentiment was grow
ing aud the belief was becoming fixed
in the west Cat least as to
some of the protected industries) that the
decreased cost OF protection should now be met
by greater decrease of duties than the manu-
facturer had yet been willing to accept The
people of the west were beginning TO think
that If many OF the most protected OF those in
dustries
WERE EVER TO LEARN TO STAND ALONE
their hands should be soon forcibly released
from the skirts Of high protection to which
they so persistently cling. He (Mr. Paddock
would reduce the duties on the necessaries of
life to the lowest point consistent with the
OF the home industries, and he
would demand reasons for every impost-
reasons that should be specific aud conclusive,
not only respecting the need OF duty itself,
bu' as to the amount Of such duty.
The bill as reported, while much
improved over the House bill, was, he admitted,
not assume to have fathomed its intrieacies and
should not attempt critical review Of its pro-
visions. Many reductions, doubtless, had been
made by the finance committee that were not
acceptable to manufacturers, but he was certain
that all who were favored most di-
hCSty py Ilhluteuduc6 OF nl9h
tariff duties would be better satisfied
with the bill on the lines laid down by the COM
mittee than any other class. In the considera-
ton OF the bill he had voted for lowering du-
ties whenever believed it could be safely done.
and he had, as q rule, voted against aH in
creases excepting only those on Injuries and
those upon agricultural products. The list of
such increases on agricultural products was a
long and valuable one, and il was pleasure to
him to indorse specially SO much of the bill as
related TO that particular subject
COMING DOWN TO THE SUGAR scHHpurs
Mr.. Paddock said that the manufacturers of
beet root sugar in the United States had passed
safely and surely beyond the experimental
stage, aud that the success of that industry if
properly protected by Congross was already
assured beyond peradventure. It was pro-
posed to place sugar on the free list or (what
would be incomparably better) to make treaty
arrangements, il possible, with the sugar pro
ducing countries of South America for reciprocal
free exchange OF sugar and some other products
OF those countries for certain psoducts Of the
United States, and. at the same time, il was
proposed to protect the beet and other sugar
industries Of the United States by reasonable
bounty. He believed in free sugar; hut he be-
iieved that 1t should be secured through some
such plan of reciprocity as had been indicated
by Mr.. Blaine and formulated by the finance
committee. But, whatever might be done in
that respect, IL o liberal bounty to hone-pro-
duced sugar were assured for fifteen years
there would be no occasion whatever thereafter