Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-11
DINCLEY and REED
Carried Oh The Hunofs il The House
Thursday.
Dingley Against Free Woel-Reed Against
Criticism of His Decisions,

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| whole
After trausscting unimpoftant business
] the House went into committee Of the
whole on the free wool bill.
Dingley Of Maine concluded his speech
in opposition TO the measure and denied the
statemen made BY McMillin that the last
Congress appropriated $500, ,00o. 900.
During the pas, two fiscal yeAr., sppropri.
Ated for by tnas Congress, the expenditures
| Of the government we're but 500, 600 600
Dingiev u'g-d the gentlemen to bear in
mind Inc isct that this country, under the
policy Of protection, hsd become the largest
agricultural, the largest manufacturing. the
largest mining, the most prosperous couu-
try on the face Of the earth.
Let Congress be uue TO that policy which
has carried the nation to such . height Of
property. Applause
Turner Of Georgia confessed that when
Dingley invsighed sg ainst the insipni6cAnce
Of this bill and those to follow, he ,ined
ia the denuneistion. He would have been
glad to have had pending bill which would
sweep the whole horizon and give every
citizen that compensation, fair and Just,
that the reform Of the tariff would give
every consumer in the country.
His Judgment was overruled BY Those to
whose opinion he deferred. The gentleman
from Maine had an economic education IN
surpassed by any man on the floor. He
was . specialist by nature. In the school
Of protection he had no peer or superior.
He had the training that every criminal
lawyer gave his client, to admit nothing
and deny everything. Laughter
Turner criticised Speaker Reeds ruling
in the last Congress, denying that the re.
cent decision Of the Supreme court vindi-
Gated those rulings, when Walker Of Mass,
rose to defend the e1 Speaker, and chss-
tizad the gentleman, willing to reply, to the
annoyance OF Reed.
Reed intimated to Walker that he would
reply to the criticism ct the proper time.
Turner said the wool duty today was
largely the work Of Dipgley. The tariff
act IS far IS it referred to wool was curl
Gus document. II provided for compound,
compensatory and ad vslorem duties. 1t
illustrated the peculiar genius Of the gentle
man from Maine.
IL the duties the government collected
on imported wool and woolen goods should
be aggregated with the cost of American
wool and woolen goods, it would appear
that the American people, in single year,
on the pretext Of protection to the farmer,
paid into the treasury and to the mAnufac-
turers q sum equal to the value Of every
sheep in the United States.
Reed, rising to reply to the criticism
made upon him and his rulings in the last
Congress, expressed the opinion that his &C
ton was thoroughly vindicsted by the de-
ision of the Supreme Court.
The question was whether he violated
his duty in counting the members present
who were in the chamber, and never be-
fore the decision of the court had any al
mission been made that it was . present
quorum demanded by the constitution.
The gentleman from Georgia himself,
today, admitted this to be correct. When
the gentleman quoted against him q state
ment that he made II years ago, and asked
whether It was that statement or his rule
ings in the last Congress that been upheld
by the Supreme Court, the gentleman
showed only that he did not comprehend
the decision Of the court.
Turner replied that the gentleman from
Maine had occupied both sides of the ques-
tion and had been wrong on both sides.
Democratic laughter.
Reed retorted that he had been correct
and consistent.
Turner said he always had the highest
respect for the gentleman from Maine. He
had differed from the gentleman in his ad
ministration of the Chsir, bu. in criticising
his administration he had no intention OF
offending the gentlemaf.
Reed had no doubt in regard to the good
will existing between the gentleman and
himself Reed argued that under the con-
stitution = present quorum was sufficient
for the transaction of business.
The gentleman from Georgia had seen fit
to refer to the last election. How often
in the history Of the world had the right
eous gone temporarily to the wall? Laugh
ter.
Ohver Cromwell had been the protector
of Great Britain and the flag Of Great
Britain had been protected on every sea,
and the voice Of Cromwell stayed the pei
secution of Christians on every land. Yet
he people of Great Britain, with loud ac-
clamAtion. welcomed back the monarchy
Of Charles ii.
In a few years afterwards Charles III lay
buried in the abbey where England buried
its distinguished dead, and Oliver Cromwell
lay buried under the Tyburn tree. Whose
memory should be more honored, Charles
III or Oliver Cromwell, admired by all
mankind?
1t was not the victories in politics or war
that was finally triumphant, but it was the
Lords truth and sound principle, and in
the sign of that principle the Republican
party will be ultimately victorious. Ap-
plsuse.
Patterson Of Tennessee, advocated the
bill and enveighed sgsinst the protection
policy OF the Republican party, which
claimed to be detrimental TO the interests Of
the negro laborers Of the South. The
farmers South and and West he said, were