Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-22
NEW MEXICO LEFT OUT.
Her Statehood Bill Went Over When Congress Adjourned.
COMMODORE STANTON RBINsTATED
The Minority of the Ways and Means Com mIttes Present a Report CritIcisinE the TarIe BnI-Both Houses Adjourn For the HolIdays.

MASHlNGTON, Dec- -. Il ne report ol tue minority members of the ways and means to the house.
 The following are the important features of the subjects treated of specially by the minority members of the ways and means committee.
 In discussing the woolen schedule the committee says this schedule as proposed in the committee bill is in some respects the most reprehensible. It proposes to de- stroy at R blow the great industry of wool growing, which now ranks as seventh in the value of its products among the sev- eral branches of American agriculture, | and which has heretofore been recognized | as an agricultural product deserving and | requiring protection under every adminis- | tration and by every tariff act since that | of May 22, 1894. Nothing short of the total | destruction of this important industry can | be counted upon as the consequence of | placing both wool and mutton on the free list.
 Effect on woolen Manufactures. The bill deals with the woolen manufac- lures in terms scarcely less radical than those accorded the woodworking industry, upon which it so largely depends. It pro poses to revolutionize the manufacture of woolen goods by transferring it from the basis of dutiable materials to free wool-a change more radical than the textile in- dustry in any country was ever forced to make-without the most careful provision for a safe and gradual readjustment. Ig noring this feature of the situation, the majority would compel our wool manu- lecturers to make this leap in the dark, divested of the safeguard of specific duties and subjected to lower ad valorems than will offset the difference in cost of produc- tion. We have secured in the United States magnificent wool manufacturing indus try, in which over $500. 100000 is invested, making every variety of wooden goods and employing more than a quarter of a mil lion operatives. This industry the majori- ty offers up as a sacrifice on the altar of tariff reform.
 The time allowed by this bill is of no more service than no interval at all. The manufacturer must lose an entire season, for if he manufactures goods his losses will be greater than though he kept his mills closSd. The terms of the bill are equivalent to an edict from the committee commanding every wool manufacturer to shut down, and keep shut down until the bill becomes a law, and turning thousands of operatives into the streets The bill has been carefully devised apparently for the purpose of crippling the domestic manu- facturer in advance of a new tariff, so that he will be left bruised and broken when the time arrives for him to begin com ! petition Tor InlS 01arkeG under uuIleS rom 50 to I5 per cent less than at present. The punishment meted out to our wool manu- lecturers for daring to invest their capital | in this useful and important industry is severe and condign.
 1 The Metal Schedule.
 1 The metal schedule presents some fea- l lures that illustrate in a significant way the illogical character of the bill. Among those may be mentioned the substitution in almost all cases of ad valorem for specific 1 duties the making free a number of arti- ! cles called raw materials, the disregard of l the relations that exist between more and | less finished products and the totally in- adequate duties named upon certain lead ing articles.
 The bill proposes to put into competition with American ores foreign ores, some of which are procured at labor cost one tenth and none of them at a labor cost greater than one-fourth of ours.
 Having sacrificed over S5oO,0O0 per an mum of revenue to the vagary of free trade, the tariff bill for revenue only proposes to affect another large source of revenue by serious reduction of the duties on pig iron. That duty now is S6. 72 per ton. The duty proposed is 22H per cent ad valorem, or about from $l60 to SEQ per ton--a lower tariff than was ever before proposed on this article. That suggested by the Mills bill was St per ton. Under the tariff of 1s46 the duty was 30 per cent ad valorem.
 Both Houses Adjourn.
 WAsHINGroN, Dec. 22-The Hawaiian matter figured prominently in the last ses- sion of the house before the holiday recess. MT Boutelle and MT Blair each offered resolutions, the former calling of the sec retary of the navy for the instructions whereby the admiral in charge of the naval forces at Honolulu was placed under the command of Commissioner Blount and the warrant therefor; the latter instructing the foreign affairs committee to investi. gate the questions of fact relative to the Hawaiian revolution.
 The substitute for the Hit and Boutellt resolutions was also presented by the chair
 man of the foreign affairs committee. De
 bate on each of these resolutions was
 avoided by the prompt action of the speak
 CT in referring them. Before adjournment
 Mir. Wilson gave notice that the debate or
 the Wilson tariff bill would begin the day
 of the reconvcninR of congress, and Mir , McCreary also informed the house thA } within 10 days after meeting two day.
 would be given for consideration of thu
 Hawaiian resolution reported by the for | eign affairs committee.
 The house waited patiently for an houl
 for the adjournment resolution to com,
 from the senate. the tellers in the mean ! = MT. Wheeler's motion to go into com
 mittee of the whole on the New Mexic, > bill The tellers then reported that tn N vote on this motion stood Al to o. II making the report General Wheeler calle'
 attention to the fact that the Republican
 had refused to vote, 130 of the l3l votes bt
 ing the votes of Democrats.
 moment later the presidents cler.
 announced his approval of the dehcienc : bill, and then the house, on motion of Nil
 Holman, adjourned for the holiday reces
 until Jan. B
 In the senate a good part of the tim V was devSted to executive business, an
 many nominations were confirmed. Du
 ing the brief legislative session M
 Mitchell of Oregon took occasion, in secu
 ing an order for the reprinting of
 memorial on the subject of bankruptcy, - say that there was no justification for u
 belief throughout the country that all hoI
 of bankruptcy legislation was now dead.
 Commodore Stanton Restored.
 WASHINGTON, Dec 22.-Secretary He
 bert gave out his decision in the case ? ! Commodore Stanton, detached from col mand of the South Atlantic station
 saluting Admiral Mello in the harbor iIs Rio. The secretary restores Stanton ye duty and assigns him to the command tn the North Atlantic squadron. This is Nst garded as perhaps the choicest station ,ts command among them all.
 rst Secretary Herbert, in a letter to StantC ng says: The department has never for n t0 ment considered that you were intentiC on ally guilty of wrong in this matter, | ey only that you committed grave error oSSt judgment For this reason, and to sati: ng the authorities of Brazil, who were offer ITS ed at your action, you were detached frC ral your command The department now fe