Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-18
THE DEsATE ON FREE WOOL.
Tin-rIate and senator Hin Fob Up in
the OTatory.

Tin-rIate and senator Hin Fob Up in
the Oratory.
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-There was
little diversion at the very outset of the
resumption in the house yesterday of the
debate on the free wool bill. Payne said
that though the tin plate business was un-
doubtedly established at many points in
the country, it was difficult to convince
Democrats that any tin-plate at all was
made here. Bowers of California said
there was q tin-plate industry in California,
and Payne replied that he could find 100
Democrats to prove that it wasn't there at
ALL but in Cardiff, Wales Bowers didn't seem
the exclamation that he didn't want to be
called liar, said he would place on his desk a
b pound block OF tin\made in California
Quoted From Hills Speeches.
Payne then proceeded and being piled with
economic questions by Harper, he (Payne) ask
ed the gentleman If he had heard from Sena-
tor Hill yet. Loud hughter.l He then pro-
ceeded to quote from Hills speech at Birmihg-
ham on the tariff, and said 70 Harter that
evidently Hill did not agree with the gentle
man from Ohio or his party on this question.
more than he did on silver. The Democratic
party was afraid to GO before the county with
q complete tariff bill, and brought in separate
measures as entering wedges to public feeling.
pleteness and wisdom of the Fifty-first con-
gress. The Democrats confessed their in
competency in not reporting full tariff bill.
They wanted TO tax the necessaries Of life.
sugar, coffee, boots, shoes, etc.
Raynor Defends the Plan.
Raynor of Maryland. referring to Paynes'
criticism of the Democrats for attacking the
law piecemeal said that the committee had
seen proper to select single items of absolute
| necessity and Importance to the consumer and
| to send them into the senate with reduced du-
ties and upon this plan so formulated there
was prospect and possibility of partial re-
| lief. Lower the duties upon the implements of
husbandry and the utensils of the farm and
| let US see what position the representatives
| from the great agricultural states of the west
| Will assume upon this question. Take off the
duty on tin plat and let US see whether the
| people who consume the canned food products
| of the east have any influence with the peblic
| servants whom they have chosen to represent
| them
"Revenne Only Reformer.
| In conclusion he said: l am for a tariff for
| revenue, and not for tariff for protection or
monopoly. Any other construction is per-
version and falsehood, and will sooner or
later bring us TO the threshold of a contest of
the constitution that viii involve the very life
of the republic. 1t is today distorted and
disfgured that those who brought it into life
would hardly recognize it as their offspring.
| Wool the Basis of the Tariff.
| Ellis of Kentucky favored the bill. and con-
| fined his argument 10 the question of free wool.
| The wooden schedule was the basis of the en-
tire tariff. To break through this schedule
would be to totter the entire structure. Free
raw material would give cheaper goods, both
| to the manufacturer and consumer. Specific
and compensatory duties were most obnoxious.
The present law put wool and worsted goods
| put OF reach of the poor. Shoddy clothing
manufactured from waste. scraps, and cast-of
rags. is the character of goods the Mckinley
| tariff law prescribed for the poor.