The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-12
SPEECHES ON THE TARIFF
TRIRTY-SIX MEMBERS ALREADY
ON THE LIST.

4 Speeches IN the House on Free
Wool.
| WASHINGTON, March IL. - Thirty-six
members Of the House have recorded their
names in Speaker Crisp's memorandum of
intending speakers on the tariff question.
The list includes only two or three members
/ OF the ways and means committee. but all
Of the members Of that committee except
Chairman Springer, may be expected. to be
heard from. There are still others who ex-
pect 10 speak on the tariff who have not yet
recorded their intention and the list is con-
stantly growing. None Of the names
1 recorded announce the subject
OF the intended speech making 20
be other than the tariff question in general.
except Mr.. English Of New Jersey, who
proposes TO address himself 10 the subject Of
| lutte bagging." It is very likely that some
Of the speakers will have to take advantage
Of night sessions Of the House 70 deliver
| their views. No decision has yet been reached
o hold night sessions. bus an order may
be made TO set apart certain hours in each
evening of next week for debate only upon
the tariff. Before vote is reached there
Will be quite lot of documents on all sides.
ana treating OF nearly all phases Of the
tariff problem, ready for distribution
throughout the country.
Special DfsDatch to the Morning Neus.
SPRINGER NOT NOTIFIED.
WASHINGTON. March 11.-Representa-
tive Springer's family have not dared to
tell him that the tariff debate is on Fifty
members OF the House have signifsd to
Speaker Crisp their desire to talk on the
tariff question in longer or shorter speeches.
Or course they cannot all get in before
Monday week, when it is proposed to pass
the wool bill even If there
should be daily night sessions
ters little to most of them, for with the
exception of Thomas Dunn English, the
New jersey poet, who has notified the
speaker that jute bagging shall be his
theme, they are all going to talk tariff gen.
orally. Speaker Crisp Is preparing to
speak, by way Of closing the debate for the
democrats.
Yesterdays DEBATE.
By the associated Press
In the House this morning, on suggestion
OF Mr.. McMillIn Of Tennessee, two hours of
to-morrow's session we're set apart for the
consideration Of private bills, and the House
went into committee of the whole, with Mr..
Blount Of Georgia in the chair. on the free
wool bill and was addressed by Mr.. Stevens
OF Massachusetts
WOULD BENEFIT MANUFACTURERS.
Mr.. Stevens read from manuscript, but
In so low a voice that he could not be heard
more than ten feet away. He believed that
the pending bill would benefit alike the
manufacturers OF wColen goods and the
great mass Of the American people who
consumed them. As manufacturer he
was not afraid to seek the relief of the
people by reduced duties on his product.
and he believed that the majority of
the American wooden manufacturers
who had carefully studied this question
were rapidly coming over to his opinion.
The abolition Of the duty on wool did not
mean necessarily smaller demand or lower
prices for American wool. It meant that
both American wool and foreign could be
used 10 the best advantage for the purposes
to which each was best adapted, and that
they could be mixed in proper proportions
in all sorts of fabrics.
1t meant that more wool and less shoddy
would be used than was used to-day, and
that better demand for American wool
would be created.
LABOR FULLY PROTECTED.
Mr.. Montgomery of Kentucky, a men,
Der OF the ways and means committee, made
strong and able argument, largely made
up OF statistical analysis in support Of the
bill of the committee. In this speech Mr..
Montgomery devoted his chief attention to
the contention that the bill deprived labor
OF protection. and by statistics went on to
show that the bill gave more protection
goods in the United States His
speech in this respect touched
largely on new ground, and his researches
covered late statistics bearing directly upon
the extent to which labor enters into the
! cost of the production of each ward OF the
| fabric. Mr.. Montgomery said the aggre-
gate saving to the consumer, even il raw
| rNr zw.s.- II
bill would by $4,000 on the imported
goods and Sl7l 900, 900 on the home manu-
featured goods, aggregating $190.000000.
LINES SHARPLY DEFINED.
No measure could more sharply define the
issue between the ardent progressive and
determined tariff reformers who desired to
accomplish something and those equally de-
| termlned not only that the consumers
should have no relief, but that the protect
i've system should continue to be used to en-
| rich few while it impoverished both the
treasury and the people, But the i'm
| portant feature of the bill was not in the
reduction, but in the fact that it would
break up the combination between the
wool growers and manufacturers and
make inevitable speedy and complete re-
vision of the whole tariff system. He be-
lieved that the bill had behind it public
sentiment, TO which neither senator nor
| President could be Indifferent But IL it
| failed in the Senate or was vetoed, the
| party would have made an issue about
which no man Of intelligence could be mis-
led or deceived.
! RLAINE'S TWO FALLACIES.
Mr.. Brookshire of Indiana came next He
said that Secretary Blaine's so-cailed re-
ciprocity scheme and the tax upon raw
WOODS we're the two most eminent fallacies
| by which the protective system was sought
| to be maintained.
Mr.. Ray Of New York said that the
Democratic party on the tariff question was
| the great American political and hypo-
| critical crab, with ten legs, reaching in all
| directions; 1t was so weak in the Joints that
1t had not a single pair on which It conld
stand alone. If anything was wanting to
| show that the Democratic party as q party
| was for free trade. the favorable report OF
this bill had supplied the proof.
SURE TO BENEFIT THE PEOPLE.
Mr.. Coombs of New York contended that
free wool would prove beneficial to the peo-
Pile; would tend to stimulate our foreign
trade and would enable the United
States to extend its ocean commerce
without resort to the policy of subsidies.
The committee then rose and the House
took recess until s O'clock, the evening
session to be for the consideration of private
pension bills.
A democratic caucus was announced for
tomorrow evening at $50 o'clock, "for the
transaction OK important business The
important business Is to be the election Of