Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-13
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings of Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. G., May Is.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Among the petitions presented and REFER
red was one (by Mr.. Quay from business
men In Philadelphia demonstrating against
the increase of duty on dress goods made
wholly or partly from wool.
The House substitute for the Senate de
pendent pension bill was concurred in and
the bill referred to conference committee.
The bill to change the route of the Rock
Creek Railway I'd. C. was taken from the
calendar, amended and passed.
The Senate then resumed consideration OF
the silver bill, and Mr.. Jones, of Nevada.
continued the speech begun by him yester-
day.
HOUSE.
The House later the transaction of some
routine buslness) went into Committee OF
the Whole on the tariff bill
Mr. McMilin, of Tennessee, moved to re-
ducs the duty OF ammonia. He could see
no reason why this article eff necessity to
the farmer should be SO heavily taxed.
Mr. Butterworth said the dagger of the
protection system was In Its oscillation be-
tween the extreme of free trade on the one
hand, and on the other, the extreme which
created inequalities among Americans them
selves. Why Increase the profits of certain
classes. He could name capitalists whose
profits had exceeded those of all of the ag-
ricuturIsts in any State of the Union. If
when we had protected equally and lifted
up al our Industries, and the time should
then come when we could not hold our
own being the most intelligent the
frsest and ablest people on earth-then
we had better retire from the field.
Mr. Batterworth then proceeded to ex
pouad his views touching reciprocity with
Canada. he said that we were endeavor.
ing to cultivate relations with fifty million
people to the southwark and yet were
afraid of Canada. Abraham Lincoln and
Ulysses Grant were not suspected of lack OF
patriotism. yet they favored reciprocity.
There we're some things in the bill he did
not like. He had known of an industry
that had been able to make $50 600, 600 div!
dends on capital OF s., 100000. Protection
Why, the country could in such cases better
ahord TO keep these men in the Fifth Ave.
uua Hotel, pay their board and expenses,
and set them Up in the banking business.
BE favored proper protection but those
men held the world in their grip. When
ne said that he did not favor that kind Of
protection he was told "You are not sound
on the tariff" The time is come when some
little concern should BIO shown to American
homee and American fresidea. A great
body Of employees In this country was
foreign-in some great factories in the east
they were known on the rosters by numbers
because of their outlandish names.
MIR. Butterw orth esid there was such
thing as paying too much for an industry.
Such was the case with Ito plate. The duty
would be tax on every farmers patch, on
every can Of goods. That tex would amount
to $50 coo COO before the manufacturers of
tin plate could declare dividend. He was
anxious that his party should not take a
false step.
Mr.. Hatch, OF Missouri, who had been re-
fuasd an extension Of time, said, tina. The
refusal was the highest compliment
ever paid to him. The other side
knew that as much as any liv-
ing man he (Mr. Hatch) represented the
sentiment OF the agriculturists of North
America, or they would never have cut him |
of. When they bad weak bill-a bad
csuse-they sought to muzzie debate. Or
this pending amendment, he said that it |
proposed to prevent an Increase Of duty on
an article used as fertilizer on every farm,
an increase made for the beneft OF Two man
nfacturer5 and against the interest OF 3,000,-
900 farmers. The bill sought TO draw veil
over the farmers eyes by pretending that he
was protected.
Mr.. o Ferrall, OF Virginia, read list Of
what he singled out as excessive duties, lay.
ing stress on the duty on ready made cloth.
ing, which he held was 10 the interest OF Post
master General Wanamaker.