St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-09

numbers of Democrats gathered to paw
homage to the distinguished tariff re-
former.
Congressman Springer was intro
duced by Grand Master J. NJ. Thomp-
son, of the State grange, and after re-
ferring briefly to some of the statements
contained in President Harrison's let
ter OF acceptance. and to the speech of
Senator Cullom of yesterday, proceeded
to specify in detail what he character
lied some of the most
PaIpab Errors
and misStatementS in each of these ef-
forts.
"President Harrison." said Mr..
Springer, attached great Importance
to the report of the senate committee
at the close of the last session of con-
gress upon the price of protected prod
uctS and of the cost of such articles
as enter into the living of peo-
pie OF simple means. and stated
that the report upon this subject was
signed by all the members Of the COM
mittee, thus giving the impression that
the Democratic members of the senate
committee on finance concurred in the
report to which he referred
He claimed that no such wide and
careful inquiry has ever been made be-
fore, and, assuming that it had the con-
currence OF the Democratic members of
the finance committee, much greater
importance was attached to ii Oh this
account. The period covered by the in
vestigation was the year preceding and
the year after the passage of the Nc
kIn!ey bill.
I,n CO.
the president referred was strictly par
tisan and concurred il by the Republi-
can members only"
Proof Positive.
The speaker here exhibited copv
or the report as published at the
public printing office and demon
strated from this official publication
that no member of the committee had
attached his signature to the report:
that IL was simply made by Mr.. Aldrich,
q republican member, as the report of
the committee, paragraph at the con-
clusiOn stating that the investigation
upon which the report was based was
made by subcommittee consisting of
himself as chairman and of MeSsrs.
Allison, HiscOck. and Jones, of Nevada,
Republicans, and of Messrs. Harris. of
Connecticut, and Carlisle, of Kentucky,
Democrats.
The Democratic members of that
committee" said Mr.. Springer, "did not
concur in that report presented by Mr..
Aldrich. Senator Carlisle. speaking for
the minority of the finance committee
OH the 29th OF July, after Mr.. Aldrch's
report had been submitted and printed,
expressly diSsented from the conclusions
of the report, and said that he would
show that the prices Of commodities in
the United States were
Enormously Increased
by the passage OF the Mckinley act and
the agitation which preceded it, and
that the cost of living was increased
during the period covered by the inves-
tigation more than S2S5, 100000; and
that over SlS5,000,000 of that increase
occurred after the passage of the
Mckinley law.
He further said that he would show
that the rates of wages in fifteen sub
stantlally unprotected industries, Sc
lected by the committee, were increased
during the period covered by the imyesti-
CATION and that during the same period
The rates of wages i'll fifteen protected
Industries, also selected by the commit
tee. fell, and that the fall was greater
after the passage of the Mckinley bill
than it was during the whole period
preceding its passage.
"Senator Carlisle pointed out more
than $50 articles which entered into the
consumption of the people, the prices of
which had been increased since the
passage OF the Mckinley bill. Thus it
appears that, Instead OF being a report
agreed to by the Democratic members,
rs President Harrison states, it was
merely partisan Screed distorting facts
and stating
Partisan Conclusions
hot warranted by the investigation it.
self" [Applause.]
Mr.. Springer stated that President
Harrison had also referred with great
satisfaction to the recent report Gs Mn
Peck, the commissioner 81 labor of New
York. There ""1as nothing remarkable
sbout Gr. Peck's report that should