St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-10
First Skirmish Of Orators in
Attack and Defe nSe on
Tariff Taxes.
McMillin, Of Tennessee, and
Dingley, of Maine, Open q
the Tournament. -
Floor and Galleries Crowded
by Attentive Statesmen -
and Citizens. -
Peculiar Bills Introduced in
the Senate. and Paddock
Bill Passed. i


discussion of the Fifty-second congress
opened in the house of representatives
today with Representative McMiilin. OF
Tennessee, as the leader of the tariff
reform forces, and Representative Ding
ley, of Maine, as the defender of the
Mckinley law. Despite the well-known
fact that a discussion of the tariff is
mainly matter OF comparison of sta
tistics and figures in its essential feat
ures and presentation of apparently
irrefutable yet totally irreconcilable
views, the galleries were we'll crowded
long before the hour of the opening.
and the public interest manifested in
the debate was greater than on any pre-
vious day of the session.
To Representative Blount, of Geor-
gia, clear-headed parliamentarian of
twenty years of congressional expert
ence. was awarded the honor by the
speaker and the committee OH ways
and means of presiding over the DELHI
erations of the committee of the whole,
and when he wearied now and then of
his ardaous labors, Representative Kill
gore, the giant statesman of Texas, was
called on 10 assume the gavel. In the
days of long political wrangling that are
to follow in the committee of the whole.
Speaker Crisp will find the respite that
ne has so much desired. Today he oc-
cupied seat in the galleries and was
as interested an auditor as any of the
other 1900 visitors who bent eagerly
forward to catch every word of the
Partisan Orations
of the day. The wellcrowded newspa-.
per galleries attested the public interest
that is being felt in the discussion of
the issues now before the house, and
the little group that gathered in the
diplomatic gallery showed that their
interest in the revenue question and
the attempted modification of existing
tariff laws is shared by some of the ma
tionS across the water. But the crown
ing indication of the Importance of the
discussion was in the deep attention
which the members themselves gave to
the two speakers who represented the
two great parties on the question for
solution.
During the opening speech of Repre-
sentative McMillin, Representative
Burrows, of Michigan, and few OF his
their seats and gathered OH the Demo-
cratic side to be near the Tennessee
gentleman as he arraigued their party
from a Democratic standpoint. and de-
Tended the justice of the Springer wool
bill and the various measures reported
from the ways and means committee to
reduce the duties on imports.
When Representative Dlngley, of
Maine. although not a member of the
ways and means committee, opened the
discussion on behalf of the Republican
side, no less was the fiattering attention
paid to him and his arguments by his
Democratic opponents. Mr. McMillin,
as might have been expected, devoted
his attention to a review of the McKin-5
ley law and its effect upon commerce,
the industries and
The WagewOrkers
of the country, and Mr.. Dingley natur-
ally sought to defend and justify that
law and insiStedtthat the highest COM
mercial wisdom justified its perpetuity.
Senator Carlisle, under whose leader
ship as speaker of past Democratic
houses the tariff debate in this latter
half of the century was revived, found
the occasion one OF such charm that he
left that seat in the upper body to which
he has been called by the Blue Grass
stats and was an attentive litener to the
eloquent arguments of Representative
McMillin.
No less vigilant was the attention with
which ex-Speaker' Reed noted every
argument, not only of his friend, but of
his political opponent as well, and now
and then there was twinklu in his eye
as he doubtless meditated on and stored
away in his memory a response
to be made to the Democratic argu-
ments when his day should come. Both
the speakers were frequently applauded
by their party colleagues, and as each
man resumed his seat he was the re-
cipient of warm CONGRATULATIONS amt
bouquet of mammoth size.
In the course of his speech Mr.. Nc
Mlllln was interrupted by Mr.. Raines,
of New York, with the suggestion that
the state elections in New York had not
been of a character to encourage the
Democratic party.
Can Only Curse and Cry.
Mr.. McMillin retorted that the ex-
speaker had, Monday, referred to the
triumphant march of Truth. That
march was emphasized by the fact that
the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Reed
no longer occupied the chair. but was
delegated to the floor, where he could
do nothing but curse and cry. The
city of the gentleman from Maine
had gone Democratic the other day.
Applause. Mr.. Reed, who was in the
cloak room when his name was men,
toned, strolled down one of the aisles,
and as he did so made the apology that
he had not been present because he
knew that the gentleman from Tonnes
see was speaking. [Laughter.l Mr..
McMillin replied that he cared not what
the gentleman's reason for being absent
was. At the conclusion of Mr. McMil-
Inns speech he was the recipient of a
magnificent cluster of red roses, and
his Democratic colleagues honored him
with generous applause.
Mr.. Dlngley, of Maine, opened the
debate on behalf of the Republican side
in opposition to the Democratic tariff
bills, but before he had finished the
committee arose and the house adj
journed. The debate will be resumed
tomorrow and continue for five or six
weeks, with occasional Interruptions of
two or three days for the silver bill and