The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-10
THE TARIFF DEBATE
McMillin's Speech on the
Springer Wool Bill.
THE INIQUlTY OF PROTECTION
The sophistry and False Pretenses of the Re-
publicans Exposed-Dingley Defends
the Mckinley Act

OF Tennessee, leading tariff reform, and
Dingley, of Maine, defending Mckinley.
To Representative Blount, of Georgia,
of twenty years Congress !
ional experience, was awarded the honor OF /
presiding over the proceedings of the COM /
mittee o. the whole. In the days of long !
political wranging that are to follow in .
the committee Of the whole Speaker Crisp |
will gain the respite he has SO much de- !
sired. To day he occupied q seat in the
gallery, and was as interested an auditor
as any of the other 1900 visitors who bent
eagerly forward to catch every word Of
partisan grafton. The press anu diplomatic
galleries were also crowded, but the crown
ing indication of the Importance of the dis
cussion wa the deep attention members
themselves gave to the speakers. During
McMiilin's speech Burrows, Of Michigan,
and few of his leading Republican col
leagues vacated their seats and
GATHERED on THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE
to be near the Tennessee gentleman, as he
arralgned their party from the Democratic
STANDPOINT ana defended the justice or the
Springer wool bill and various measures
mittee to reduce the duties on imports.
When Dingley, although not a member of
the ways and means committee, opened the
discussion GU behalf of the Repub licau
side, no less fattering attention was paid
him oy hl' Democratic opponents.
Senator Carlisle, under whose leader
ship as speaker of past Democratic Houses
the tariff debate was revived, found the
occasion of such charm that ne left his seat
in the upper body and was an attentive
listener to
THE ELOQUENT ARGUMENT
of Representative McMillin. No less vigi-
liant was the attention with which eX-
Speaker Reed noted every argument, not
only of his friends but of his political op-
ponent as well, now and then there being a
twinkle in his eye as he meditated on and
stored away in his memory response to
be maze 10 the Democratic arguments
when his day should come Both speakers
were frequently applauded by their party
! colleagues, and as each resumed his seat
| he was the recipient of warm congratula-
| tions and a mammoth bOquet.
| Representative McMillin in his speech
opening the debate on the tariff in behalf
| of The majority of the committee on ways
aud means, referred in his opening remarks
! to the work of the last Congress. He de-
clared it imposed the highest tariff taxes
ever levied in this country; made the most
! eXtravagant appropriations ever made here
in time of peace. This Congress" he said
was sent mere to correct Doth evils by i'm
/ posing less taxes and by
SPENDING LESS MONEY!
! Continuing, he said: 1.-THE tariff law has
now been in operation for a year and five
months. Where are the beneficial effects
that were to follow from it? Where is that
| no for al
! grower were TO realize from itG Where are
| the increased wages the laboTing man was
TO get? say the farmer has realized from
to per cent. less on the pound for his wool
than he did before, and l challenge any
| Representative here to point to single
line of manufactures in which laborers'
wages have been Increased by that law"
McMillin said the bill was passed under
pretense OF desire to benefit the laboring
man, but what benefit has IL been to him
He then took up wool and said 1.-The
/ whole matter may be summed up in the
fact that after twenty-five years expert
ment with nigh rates OF duty on wool the re-
suit has been reduction OF one-half
IN THE NUMBER OF SHEEP
in states east of the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, rivers, and reductions of about one
half IN the prices of wool, nor have the
results been encouraging to wool manufac
turers. They have been restricted as II
the quality of the wool they could afford (
buy in the grease. BY reason of the tariff
they have been restricted In markets sub
stantlalty to their own country. Therefore
they had been forced to use shoddy as
substitute for wooden goods and sheep hus
bandmen derived no substantial benefit
The speaker declared now that more
than two-thlrds of the expenses incurret
during the late War had been paid ever
! legit mate excuse for an increase in th
tariff rates had disappeared, but not onl
had there ueen no reduction in the tari1
,, rates, but they had been vastly increased.
q TOUCHING ON SUGAR
3 McMillin said: 1.-The authors of the bill
d take much crsdit to themselves for havin
placed sugar Oh the free list. They did,
is true, place soms and most grades c
: sugar Oh the free list but the finer grade
: were still taxed heavily for the benefit {
the manufacturer, and he was LETT wit
more protection by that bill than by tn
rates imposed in the Mills bill Tru,
fifty odd million dollars had been taken O
q the sugar tax but this was no free wi
9 Offering for the same measure provided fC
9 the payment of twelve millions to pr
o ducers OF sugar as bounties. Again, viii
h fifty odd million dollars tax was taken o
8 sugar increased duties amounting to abol
e sixty-hve millions had been put on otht
n things and generally on the necessaries
S life. They removed the sugar tax whiC
yielded eight-ninlhs of its benefits to II
treasury and but one-ninth to the many
facLurer only to place so many million
/, more than the sugar tax on other thins
where but one-fourth OF the laws exactiol
went into the treasury and three-fourtI
went into the
e PRIVATE GOLFERS OF FAVORED MANUFA
d TURERS.
~ 1t will be seen the tax is still a burden
-, S4S, 600 000 Indirectly to the people, and il
- stead of their getting sixty millions rei
by this change of taxes they hardly o
:. tanned ten millions benefit. The who
40 bill was characterized by consciencele
fayoritism for the few and merciless O
preston for the many. In consideration
the bill the manufacturer alone was
Vored, but the consumer was never consi
10 cred The exigencies Of the precedil
ia campaign had required vast amount
in money to carry on the election. 1t W
raised by arousing the approximations
some and promising benefit to others. t
promises of that campaign were put in
ly statutory form. Every class except tho
nj who need it the worst has been benefit
by the various laws passed by our opr
10 nents on the subject of taxation sin
rs 1865.
- I'm REGARD TO RECIPROCITY"
IL the speaker said 81 am astounded that
ic free republic, where the right of taxati
ne through chosen representatives was boue
to with blood, such thing is possible as
surrender of this right TO one man. T
Id most sacred right free man has is to {
Ia termine the extent and manner of his ta1
IN tion.n
,r- The speaker denounced therebate featr
is of the Mckinley bill by this MEANS"
declared, ''very many agricultural imp