The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-27
New Jersey in the Van
Against the Mckinley
Tariff Bill.
VICTORY TO BEGIN WITH.
Republican Senators Badly Set
Back---OfIices for Jerseymen---
The Week in Washington.
Special to ne s..aaag 3lo,,si,la Nelgs.


cratic side. This is most honorable dis
tinction for him and for tho Democratic
party of New Jersey. He will have SEN
ator Carlisle as his second in command, ,
but Mcpherson viii be recognized as the
leader, aud will offer and explain the
amendments that have been proposed
The health Of the senior Senator of New
Jersey has not been good OF late, his hard
word in the preparation of the Demo-
cratic case against the bill having had a
marked and injurious effect upon him.
He has the prospect of a tremendous
physical strain ahead of i'm in the tariff
discussion, which will xtend over weeks.
The Randall Club. of Pittsburg, has
invited the Senator to be one of the
speakers at its fete champetre, which
will be held on Thursday next AMI which
Will be attended by q numberof national
Democrats. The Senator will not be able
to attend. owing to his arduous labor5 in
connection with the bill.
AN OPENING VICTORY
In the opening skirInisn oil the bill.
which took place in the Senate yesterday,
Senator McPherson made vigoro us
opening of the campaign. He scored a
decided success. Not only was Aldrich,
the Republican manager, Obliged to sur
that all amendments must be disposed of
before the Senate passes from one clau Sc
10 the next, but the Republican ALLAN ce
was broken, and Aldrich Sherman and
Allison were provoked by Senator Nc :
Pherson into defending the bill
Senator Mcpherson took uD question
asked by Senator Plumb of the Finance
Committee Republicans as to the effect
OF the bill upon the revenues. He moved
to recommit the bill, with instructions to
rf1f 4 ffVf. IL
goods TO not more than thirty2six per
cent average ad valorem duty of 1864
jefferson cleveriy availed himself of
Plumb's question to press his proposition
upon the silent Republicans of the FL
rance Committee, who by this time were
all assembled. They sat silent as long as
they could stand it, but finally began to
talk back. Aldrich, Sherman and Ali
sbn tried to crowd Mcpherson out of his
position. contending that while the aver
age I'D valorem rate Of duty on dutiable
goods in their bill Was 50 per cent, The
average on the whole bill, including the
flee last, WIS only rs per cent. AfcPher-
sin stood his ground braveiy, pointing
oft the fallacy of comparing the free list
With the dutiable list.
MCPHERSON GETS THE BEST OF ALLISON.
Allison tried characteristic attack by
rading the earthenware and glassware
dkties and others in which New Jersey is
especially interested. On asking Me
Plerson whether he would vote to reduce
titse to the 1864 average rate, Mcpherson
Y bddly said that he would, and that then
hqthought the Mckinley administration
BIZ would give more protection than
tley needed Mcpherson got decidedly
tlt best of this sharpshootlng. When
Alison came to the sugar schedule he
glded over that Mcpherson asked hi m
tosay what he thought about that, but
Alison waved him off and said he would
mo- dwell on that. And so it went ALI.
sol slipping from cover to cover, but get :
ting hot as he went
ir Mcpherson said that the able. in
ciAve, eloquent and almost unanswer-
abe speeches of the Senators from Indi-
am and North Carolina (Mr. Voorhees,
AMI Mr.. vance, seemed to preclude the
necessity of any further defence of the
Democratic posftlon-at least until Some-
thing was heard from the other side of
the chamber-and now the Senator from
Kihsas Mr. Plumb). in the simplicity of
his nature (laughterl enquired from his
own committee for some information on
thdbill Did not that honorable Senator
kntw that for the past three or four days
thd newspapers had been full of reports
thd it had been resolved not only by the
Fiihnce Committee, but by the Republic
car caucus also, not TO attempt any de-
fence of the pending bill? Had not that
Senator noticed that when u Senator on
thu Democratic side of the chamber adj
drssed the Senate the seats on the Re
publican side immediately became va
cant, showing that Republican Senators
dfl not wish to hear anything about it.
hfR. MCPHERSON MOVES TO RECOMMIT.
II the bill could not be defended 1t could
MT be passed. He, therefore, in order to
expedite business, would move that the
peuding bill be recommltted to the Com
mttee on Finance with instructions to
report Mt the earliest practicable moment,
q bill to reduce the revenue and to equal
izs duties on imports on the basis thar the
average rate of duty should not exceed
tle average adj valorem war tariff rate of
Mr. Mcpherson launched ont on gen
emil review of the tariff question in gem
eall and of the pending bill in particular.
Id undertook to show that neither the
firmer nor the consumer would be bene-
1ilcd by it. Who would, then, he asked,
bs benefited. Was it labors 1t was not
although i'll every campaign the Repub-
lean party proclaimed itself the friend Of
libor and denounced the Democratic
larty as a free trade party. No greater
filSehood had ever been uttered. He re-
fired to the campaign of 1855 as one in
which immense sums of money had been
corruptly raised aud corruptly used in
lehalf of the Republican ticket. That
money had been raised, he said. among
tho beneficiaries Of the pending bill. chief
among them being pious citizen of Penn
sTlvania, who had since been rewarded
With seat in the Cabinet as the price of
lis villainy. BY such practices in the
campaign OF 1858 the public voice had
been strangled, truth crushed to earth
aud the country disgraced-
LABOR GETS NO PROTECTION.
Mr. George-1he Senator mas referred
tb starving laborers at the North being
led to the polls want to ask whether in
the North, where the protected factories
and protected mines exist, it is fact that
there are laborers unemployed or VINO are
not paid full wagesl
Mr. McPherson--I claim that the pro-
lection given by the Republican party,
under the plea of protection to American
labor, labor never gets. The manufac-
turer gets it. Take every article on the
tariff list which bears an average ad val
orem rate OF so per cent and divide 1t by
two, and the result will show the labor
cost of the article. Then take the cost of
American labor. as twice as large as that
or European labor. and 12ll1 per cent will
represent the difference OF the labor in
the production of that article. so that the
I result is thar out Of tariff rate OF 81 per
nnrt 1914 per cent. goes to labor and 3y11
cent to capital.
MCPHERSON AS AN AUTHORITY
Aldricll asked Mr.. George whether
pnsidered Mr.. Mcpherson a good
wv on the effect OF protective