Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-02
ntWS bI ItLtdkAfh.
From ALI Quarters.
NEWSFROM WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Paddock's Criticism of
the Tariff Bill.
Three PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH
A Young Lady Elopes With
a Negro.
EXCITING EXPERIENCE WITH A BEAR.
Sherman's Amendment for Rec
iprocity With Canada.
EXCITING EXPERIENCE WITH A BEAR.
Sherman's Amendment for Rec
iprocity With Canada.
THE FIFrY-F1RsT CONGRESS.

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THE FIFTY.FIRST CONGRESS-.
| Looking Toward Reciprocity With
Canada-Mr. Paddock's Friendly
Criticism of the Tariff Bill-The
| Sugar Schedule to be Taken Up To-
day.
| WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. AFTER
preliminary debate Mr.. Sherman gave no.
tice 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 rela-
| lations between Canada and the United
| States.
| The tariff bill was then taken up, the
question being on paragraph 1913, page sS,
as to wool and wooden yarns to which the
finance committee had reported an amend
ment increasing the duty per pound from
twice to two and a half times the duty
imposed on unwashed wool of the first
/ class.
Mr.. Aldrich corrected mistake made in
| the reciprocity amendment reported by
been used instead of the word unequal"
| discrimination.
Mr.. Paddock addressed the senate in
| friendly criticism of the tariff bill There
was no dissent in the republican party, he
said, to the declarations heretofore made
| in its platform, but there were differences
of opinion as to the details of the tariff.
There was no dissention within the party
as to such protection as would cover. the
| difference in the cost of labor between the
United States and foreign countries. He
should be glad if he could follow the ma
jority of the finance committee, but he re-
GREETED that he could not see his way clear
to it as to all the sections. The agricul
tural west, he said, never favored
high protective duties, but did favor
a sufficient protection to cover the
difference in wages, while at the
same time the semblance at least of for
eign markets was preserved. The west
regarded a revision of the tariff as mean
ing reduction of the tariff whenever pos
sible, and not increases in the tariff i'm
ports, and he was conhdent That Tho do
mand for lower range of duties would
have to receive an early and favorable re-
Spouse from congress.
Many of those duties, he said, now be-
lieved 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 uncomplainingly sup
ported and properly defended, but the
sentiment was growing and the
belief was becoming fixed con-
viction Gin the west at 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 manufacturers had yet been will
ing to accept. The people of the west
were beginning to think that if many of
the most protected of those industries were
ever to stand alone their hands should be
soon forcibly released from the skirts of
protection, to which they SO persistently
chung. He (Mr. Paddock would reduce
the duties on the necessaries of life to the
lowest point consisten with the mainte-
nance of the home industries, and he
would demand reasons for every impost,
reasons that should be specific and con-
elusive, not only respecting the need of
duty itself, but as to the amount of such
duty The bill as reported, while much i'm
proved over the house bill, was, he admit
ted, something of disappointment.
Coming down to the sugar schedule, Mr..
Paddock said that the manufacture of beet
root sugar in the United States had passed
safely and surely beyond the experimental
stage, and that the success of that indus
try, if properly protected by congress, was
already assured beyond peradventure. 1t
was proposed to place sugar on the free
| list, or, what would be incomparably bet
| ter, to make treaty arrangements if posi-
BILE with the sugar producing countries of
| South America for reciprocal free exchange
| of sugar and some other products of those
| countries for certain products of the
United States, and at the same time it was
l T. &oA ll,, loNA f1nr
| sugar Industries of the United States by a
reasonable bounty. He believed in free
sugar, but he believed it 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, if a liberal bounty to home
produced sugar was assured for fifteen
years there would be no occasion whatever
thereafter for the importation of single
pound of sugar into the United States.
He would treat the proposed tin plate in
dustry in the same way. He would not
vote for the proposed increase OF duty on
tin plates, but he would cheerfully vote
for bounty to the tin plate industry
He felt certain it would be the part Of
wisdom and of justice to adopt the bounty
| policy than to increase duties The res
of Mr. Paddock's speech was mainly de
voted to refutation of the statements
made by democratic senators, as to the
impoverished condition of the farming clas
and he showed that in the state of Ne
braska particularly, there was no sucl
, agricultural depression but that on tn
, contrary the farmers were prosperous ant
, the state rich and growing.
Mr.. Platt said that Mr.. Paddock's state
. ment in that respect was an unanswerabl
argument in favor of the protective policy
r Under that policy the state of Nebrask
! had within the last thirty years grow
t from prairie, into great, fourishing
rich, prosperous and advancing common
wealth. 1t was the protective policy tina
had stimulated the agriculture of that stat
and had made Nebraska possible. If tn
manufacturers of the east had reaped som
benefits from the protective tariff the agri
culturists of Nebraska had reaped benefit
!, more abundantly.
Mr.. Carlisle proceeded to argue directl
: against.the pending amendment of the dis
= cussion, turned largely upon the questio
of the number pounds of wool required
produce pound of cloth-Mr; Carlisle an
. Mr.. Mcpherson asserting on the authorit
of gentleman, whose name not given, ths
it did not take four pounds of unwashe
wool, or anything like it, to make poun
) of cloth; and Mr.. Aldrich asserted on th
; other authority that it did.
It After more than two hours discussio
j. the committee amendment was agreed to-
r yeas 26, nays 16. Il.
Is Finally the wool schedule was con
d pleted and Mr.. Vance offered as an add
tional section the amendment of which h
had heretofore given notice, allowing r
? auctions of duty on goods purchased wit
\ the proceeds of American farm produce
r sold in foreign countries and he said
3, would ask for an evening session to-mo