Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
TARIFF WITH T0DDY.
Rather Peculiar Mixture in the
House That Made a Merry Time.
THE FREE WOOL BILL is PASSED.
II Glides Through on Vote of 1874 to so,
After ALI the Talk,
AND COTTON BAGGING is NOW OK DECK

WASHINGTON, April Tariff and in
ternal revenue consumed the time of tn,
House to-day. Tariff had the right of way,
and after ine speech from Mr.. Wilson, O
West Virginia, who won his spurs and repu
tation as one of the clearest-headed men il
the House when he advocated the Mills BILL
the free wool bill was dispatched on its
Journey toward the Senate. The cotton tit
train was about to set in motion when the
internal reyenue came in and compelled il
10 take a siding. 1t came in with Mr.
Funston, of Kansas, acting as switchman
Anew York temperance paper had seen fit
10 publish the names OF certain Senators
and Representatives, who, the correspond
ent averred, were accustomed to indulge in
intoxicating drinks in the House and Sen
ate restaurants Much amusement was oc-
casioned, as one after another of the mem.
bers alluded to rose and denied the soft i'm
peachment or pleaded guilty to the charge.
But it was not a laughing matter with Mr..
Funston, and his denunciation of the corre-
spondent was so vigorous that he was
greeted with misses from the galleries.
Mr.. Cobb, of Alabama. submitted the
minority report on the Rockwell-Noyes
contested election case. Bills were re-
ported to make Laredo, Tex, SUPPORT of
entry, and to authorize the Continental
Bridge Company to construct bridge across
the Rio Grande river at or near Browns
Vile, Tex
Final Speech on the Free Wool Bill.
The House then proceeded with the free
wool bill, Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia,
taking the floor to close the debate. He said
the absence of Mr.. Springer at this time
was due to his untiring energy and un-
swerving industry in the close application
given to the tariff measures, for which he
had paid the penalty of dangerous illness.
He also complimented Mr. Breckenridge on
his speech delivered yesterday, which had
covered many points he had intended to
make to-day.
Standing in the second aisle on the Demo
cratic side and speaking without notes, MI
Wilson made an arraignment of the princi-
pies of protection, and was frequently ap-
plauded BY his colleagues, who paid close
attention to his remarks. He promised his
speech with an allusion to the illness of the
distinguished Chairman of the Committee
on Ways and Means. That Illness he said,
had been due to his conscientious industry
in framing this bill and his tireless efforts
TO become acquainted with all the facts
bearing upon it. He (Mr. Wilson) did not
possess the same equipments as had been
obtained by the gentleman from Illinois. 1t
was not his purpose to review in detail the
already much debated provisions of this
bill The reason for the bill, the defense of
il, the benefits of it, had all been stated
with vigor and force that he could not pos
sibly equal. Neither was it his purpose to
make comparison of the conflicting sys-
TENS of taxation that were now struggling
for a mastery in the land He could at
tempt only to use the pending measure as
text for some criticism of the existing law.
Closing Speech by Mr.. Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson then proceeded to criticise
the Mckinley law ard to ridicule the man.
ner in which it vas formulated. In conclu-
sion Mr.. Wilson said: -
There is great exaggeratfon, here and |
everywhere. as to the character of foreign
i,,a ia69r IL read M few days ago as statement
diligently looked for this pauper labor of |
Europe wherever he was in Europe last |
summer. In Germany, IN Belgium. in Hol- |
he had looked for it in the fields of the |
planters, if he had looked for it in the fields |
Of the farmers, if he had looked for it in the |
further and looked in the fields of the cotton /
growers he would have found that pauper |
labor
Gentlemen, compare the condition of the |
people of England with the condition of the |
people of this country-a country that, until |
few years ago, almost in the days of our 1
fathers, was hidden from the knowledge of
the people of those older worlds. Here 1
while they we're exhausting their fields, the |
mold in our agricultural valleys was deep
ening. Here, while they were exhausting |
their mines, ours were lying undisturbed in
the mountains. Here while they were ex-
hausting their forests, not the sound of an
ak broke the silence of the woods. And now,
when there is let into this country but a
handful of people, SO to speak, the most in
telligent. the most enterprising, the best
educated people of the world, people that
have brought with them to this country all |
the knowledge, all the science, all the
inventions, all the tools, all the capacity for |
seli-government, and all the blessed in
fluences of the Christian religion, when thew |
are let loose in this great country, extend
ing from sea to sea, rich, untouched, unex-
hausted, unexplored, you come here and
elsewhere and say that We owe our greater
our better opportunities for use |
fulness, our higher wages, our better condi- |
tions in every respect-not to the bounty of
Almighty God in giving us such a country,
fathers in giving us free institutions and
equal laws not to the enterprise and intelli-
gence of our own people, but to a poor little
two-by-siN law of Congress, made by your
selves in the way have indicated.
How the Members Went on Record.
NJ lue CpHCluslOu Oh wilson re. |
marks he was heartily applauded and re-
,eived the warm congratulations of his
larty colleagues The vote was then taken
IN the passage of the bill, and the bill was
1874, nays 60-as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Abbott. Alexander Allen, Amer
nan, Andrew, Arnold. Bacon, Bailey Baker |
5anEhead; Barwig Beeman, Beltzhooyer Bent
kBapd
hire, Brown, Brunner, Bryan, Buchanan (Val, |
Bullock, Bunting; Busey. Bushnell, Butler
3ynum. Byrnes, Gable Cadmus, csminetu, Ca |
,lancy, Clarke Ala; J, Clover Cobb tila ). Cobb
iowles, Coz tTenR.l. Craig Grain. craw.
DsfoTest DieEerson,k DiEnk bi1on. ba |
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Hamilton, Hare, Harries. Harter, =.
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on IN. O.. Herbert. Hear, Holman Hooker ]
lilgore, Kribbles. Kyle, Lane. Lanham Lawson =
Va }, Lawson CGs.l Lester Ca }, Lewis, Little.
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