Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-12
Democratic Congressman Put
in Another Long Day
Of Argument.
\ W0OLEN MANUFACTURER
Uses to Say he Thinks Tariff Does
Him No Particular Good.
. KENTUCKIAN AGREES WITH HIu,
orth and South Clash and Very Nearly
Come to Blows.
4RIFF TALK THAT WAXED VERY WARM

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE discus
oa IN the House to-day was more thai
s1aily interesting, and there were severa
vely passages which forcibly reminde,
&c OF the fierce political scenes of the pas
1ngress, when this all-absorbing issue wa
the 'front.' The speeches of to-day, OIL
IN sides Of the House, were we'll fortified
I'd were listened to with a great deal o
tention by the members
The somewhat unique spectacle of tn
rCest individual woolen manufacturer il
United States arguing in favor of the
&c wool bill was presented when Mr.
=yens, of Massachusetts,, member of tn,
as and Means Committee, took the foo
support of the Springer bill, and ths
emoerats paid close attention to his re
-rks and greeted his arguments with ap.
ause. No less fattering was the atten.
III paid by all the members of the House
The next speaker. Representative Mont.
merry, OF Kentucky, and the colloquies in
llch that gentleman became engaged dur.
The day proved him to be an able de-
ller Of the work Of the committe. Rep
sentative Brookshire, of Indiana, took
saSion IN the course of his remarks to de-
unce the so-called reciprocity scheme of
Republican party as a delusion and a
are.
Too SPICY to Be Parliamentary.
Representative Ray, of New York, the
let Republican orator of the day, sue
.ded in provoking more than usual
rtisan strife and it looked for time as
13-i his altercation with Representative
aredith, Of Virginia, might surpass parlia-
mary bounds
Mr. 0'Neill, of Pennsylvania, presented
reference q petition of the citizens of
. Second Congressional district of Penn
wanna asking Congress TO pass law to
event the landing Of criminal and pauper
migrants, TO revise the naturalization
$. and to submit Constitutional amend
at providing that no State shall grant
--lt OF suffrage to any person not a
zen "a the United States.
'l tie suggestion of Mr.. McMillin, of
.lessee, two hours tomorrow were set
m for the consideration of private bills,
the House went into committee of the
ole. Mr. Blount, of Georgia. in the
-r- on the tree wool bill, and was ad
ssed by Nr. Stevens, of Massachusetts.
Stevens read from manuscript, but in
low voice that lie could not be heard
ieet away. He believed that the pend
5lll would benefit alike the manufactur-
OF woolen goods and the great mass of
American people who consumed them
manufacturer he was not afraid to
the relief Of the people by reduced
les on his product, and he believed that
majority of the American wooden man.
sturers who had carefully studied this
stlon were rapidly coming over to mis-
LiOn.
More Use for All Sorts of Wool,
he abolition of the duty on wool. said
Stevens, did not mean necessarily a
Her demand or lower prices for Amer
wool 1t meant that both American
j and foreign could be used 10 the best
altages for the purposes to which each
best adapted, and that they could be
ed IN proper proportions in all sorts of
,cs. II meant that Yore wool would be
Than was used to-day, because foreign
2, less the duty, would take the place of
3ay and other limitations, and more
nine woolen goods would be sold to
erican buvers, and it might mean in the
re: perhaps, also the opening of new
Eets 10 American manufacturers. Re-
q taxes and lower prices always meant
eased consumption. The bill as it
d represented infinite possibilities of
to all the American people.
representative Montgomery. of Ken
y. member Of the Wavs and Means
.l.,Jee, next made a strong argument,
ely composed of statistical analysis in
1ort OF the bill OF the committee. In
speech Mr. Montgomery devoted his
attention to the contention that it de-
ea labor OF protection, and BY statistics
on TO show that the bill gave more
ec-ion than the entire labor cost of pro-
r- goods in the United States.
u hat hr. Montgomery Had to Saw.
r Montgomery prefaced his remarks
the statement that the demand of the
.0craic party should be lower rates and
7r relief TO the people than reformers
aEcr before asked in any attempt to re-
he tariff. There was now no question
we'd as 10 what should be done with the
ss or iron, or cotton, or glass. or tin
. or any Of the thousand of other ar
so uniustly and unnecessarily bur-
with excessive rates. Those oues-
would be, in their turn, discussed and
mined later. But the plain question
e House and before the people was
her members we're willing to reduce
aXation on woolen goods and clothes
q to 1l2 per cent under the present
10 an average OF 35 per cent under this
r Montgomery then proceeded to dis
the proposition laid down by the pro-
onists, that the duty OF IL or IL cents
aound on wool was necessary to protect
American wool grower against foreign
,etirion, and that even with free wool,
the duties On woolen products i'm
by the pending bill, the American
tacturer would not have sufficient pro-
% 10 make good the difference between
ost Of labor in this country and abroad.
hing the first proposition, he asserted
there was no occasion TO theorize; a
arlson OF the prices current in the
cts at London and in this country for
8st 25 years showed that the price of
1grcted wool in the London market had
3D.. less than half cent from the price
@ protected wool sold in New York,
a.eiUhia and Boston.
The Tariff Called sham.
tables he would incorporate in his
said Mr. Montgomery, would con-
r-v establish the tact that the tariff
aa, which had been used for over %
TO keep the wool growers in an or
u combination ali along the line with
ler protected industries to maintain
liant tariff duties is, like all other |
on farm products, 'a sham and a |
% But supposing that the tariff did |
Inc price OF wool, what reason was |
mat the wool growers should be tav-
1evond the millions of people en- /
il other arrrici1ltIIra1 rurSuitso Ir l