Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-22
IN THE H0t Sc.
Walkers Undeliyered Speech Discus.
sion Of Free Wool Bill Resumed.

WASHINGTON, March 2l-In the House,
Enloe, Tennessee. rising to a privileged
question, # ers d resolution cslliug Oh The
secretary of the treasury for list of ali
persons employ ed in the coast and geodetc
survey. whose salaries were increased or
decreased during 1890, also for list OF
those dismissed Ur sho resigned du'i z that
year Enloe stated that he bad iniorDa-
lion from dis, hsrged employee that the
coast survey wss in ,he hands of ring
The resolution was adopted.
Richardson, Tennessee, from the COM
mttee on printing, submitted a report of
the committee on the resolu ion offered by
Williams, of Msssschu 'eets, to eIpuuge
from the Record thst portion of the speech
By his colleague (Wslksrl, published in
the Record, not uttered by him on the flolr
The report. which reviews the speech il
detail, eGds with resolution declaring that
the House, deeming 1t the high duty, cou'-
tesy and decorum required by psrlismen
,ary law and practice, snd should charsc-
terize the debate and cOncuct OF members
at sll times in fiji isl relation s, hsreby ex
presses he disspptovsl Of ths unpsrlismeu-
tsry language in thst portion of the spsSCh
printed in the Record and not delivered on
the ilor, and considering it imprsc icstle
to separate the Unpsrlisme ntsry portions OF
the speech from such parts as may be par
lismentsry be it resolved, that the public
printer is directed to exclude from the
permanent Congressional Record all that
portion of his speech beginning Hot shot
for Mugwumps," etc t1vthe words "ior
ear marks are on it." This includes all
the undeivered portion Of the speech)
Richardson asked that the report be
printed in the Record and gave notice that
he you'd cali it up for action tomorrow.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the army appropriation bill. A
long parliamentary srgums mt ensued upoa
point Of order raised by Grain of Texas,
against the provisl in the bill that here
after TO money appropriated for army
transportation shall be used in payment of
transportation of .roops and supplies for
the army over the non-sided lines owned,
controlled or operated by the Uoion Pacific
Railroad Company, or by the Southern
Psc fic Company or over the lines embraced
in its Pacific system.
The chairman sustained the point OF Of
der. bis pfincipsl ground for decision beiG z
that the proviso made a permanent Law.
Then Ou.hvsite offered an amendment
making the same provision, but making il
applicable only to the present bill. Agreed
to, and the committee having arisen, the
bill vas passed.
The House then vent into 8 committee
of the whole on the free wool bill Good
bight of Kentucky, sssslled the protection
system, declaring if he could frame . tat
ID bill. be would place conservative tax
on articles OF consumption, in order with
in reasonable limit, 10 raise part Of the
revenu4. He ~lud have an internal tax
on al Injuries such as whiskey and tobsc-
CO and ra1 upon iBcomeT,
Saodgrass OF Tennessee, consumed his
time srgulng sgsilst the bill dons,in2
s5 900 900 II the World'e Fair, aud Coz :
tended that Rspresentsiiees in making this
appropriation would vioiate the constitution.
WsrGer, New York, argued that under
the protective tariff the prices Of mutton
had gone down until. fr m being one OF sac
most prosperous industries Of the cou1sry,
the raising of wool had become o1e that
every prudent man would avoid Wooien
goods, und II the Mckinley act, had baen
inoresse1 ii price sd reduced in quslity
More sboddy is used in this country today
thau il 1880.
This vas denied By Dingley of Maine,
but was reiterated BY Warner. The latter
said 8, no tina hsd 50 many siultersnts
been used IS nov and they were pu. in
better goods. Uniil the Mckinley act
shodiy bad been going up, but the pros.
perous legitimate wool industry had gons
down aad made less prosperous.
1t was because of the facilities which
New York sff 5rded for obtaining rss
material that the manufacturers there had
become prosperous. Though the gree
msjority of manufacturers there were tar
ID reformers or free traders. there was q
smsil minority Of Republicans or protec
tionis,s, and these latter did not favor pro,ec
ton for their own benefit, but because theJ
thought it would be Of benef, to scmeou.
else. The committee rose. and the Hou.,
Adjourned.