The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-04-14
Free Cotton Bagging.

WASHINGTON, April Sin the House
this morning after the routine business
the river and harbor appropriation bill
was reported by Blanchard of Louis lana
aud placed upon the calendar.
Consideration Of the cotton bagsing
bill was then resumed, and Onlzell of
Pennsylvania made brief speech in op-
position to its passage
One of tho grounds for his opposition
was that the language Of tho bill was so
broad that it would admit free of duty
many iron and steel products other than
cotton ties. This was q sectional bill, and
one which no man could justify o" my
sound principle Of tariff legislation. 1t
kept ne duty on iron ore, on coul aud on
pig iron, but proposed TO make free the
tinished product. Raw material was
loaded with duty, the finished product
was made free. The bill was direct
blow at existing American industries.
It was proposition to close the hoop pand
band mills OF this country.
Turner of Georgia closed the de bate:
lie spoke torcibly in favor of the bill and
in, general denunciation Of tho Mckinley
Act. He was informed thut ms far as the
operation Of the Act was concerned the
wages of not Il single laborer in Pittsburg
had been increased. Yet the prices of
cotton ties are maintained. The money
raised by taxation on ties was not paid
into the pockets Of laborcrs, but into tho
pockets Of owners Of mills. The money
went not to the maker of ties. but to those
who spend their summers abroad. Was
1t right for the government, under the
pretext of protecting the American la
borer, to rob tho laborerS OF the South to
support the lordly mill owners? The
right to resort to imported bagging and
ties would, he confidently believed, pro-
tect the farmers and laborers engaged In
the production Of cotton against cornors
and combinations. Tho gentleman from
Ohio (E. b. Taylor) had spoken about the
evils of slavery and:.about slave-drivers.
The man who took what he did not earn
from the man who earned ii was worse
than slaye-drirer; and the man who
does not receive the full reward of his
labor-the man, who, under compulsion,
must labor for the support of another
was slave. For slavery had been SUBJ
stituted system by which letters were
| put upon every man OF every race and
condition. Under the Mckinley Act
every citizen of the country. paid tribute
to few at the expense of all his best in
terests. The modern Republican fcndual
byS WAS WOlSo tLluu
tenn offeudalism and worse than even the
old system of slavery.
The bill was then passed, yeas l57, nays
III. This was strict party vote except
that Cobnrn Of Wisconsin, English of
New Jersey, and O'Neill of Missouri,
Democrats, voted in the negative.
Following is the text OF the bill as
passeL: "rhat the following articles,
when imnorted. shall be EXEMPT from
duty, namely: Bagglng for cotton, gun
NY cloth. and all similar material soita-
BILE for covering cotton. composed In
whole or In part Of fax, jute, or jute butts !;
cards, rowing frames, window frames,
softeners and other machinery purchased
abroad and used in tho manufacture Of
bagging for cotton. gunny cloth and all
similar materials suitable for covering
cotton cotton gins and parts thereof;
and also hoop or band iron or hoop or
band steel cut to length, or wholly or
partially manufactured into hoops or
ties for baling purposes, with or without
buckleS or fastening,