The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-14
SENATOR FRYE TALKS.
He Gives the Senate Points on
Protection.
A GENERAL PROTEST AGAINST PUT
TING WOOL ON FREE LIST.

Yesterday Devoted to Wool and Many of
Be Kept On This Staple-Senator Sher-
man Makes Strong Speech, Saying
That With the Revenue Falling 100
Millions Behind the Expenditure it
Is Proposed to Throw Away Twenty
Five Millions.
Washington, June 13.-The Senate to-
day resumed the consideration OF the
tariff bill. Mr.. Sherman, Republican,
of Ohio, made an argument against the
proposition to put wool on the free list.
He said the expenditures of the govern
ment would exceed the revenue this year
by nearly 500, 100000 The government
was borrowing money to meet the ordi-
nary expenses and there was talk about
selling bonds In the face of these con-
ditions the senators proposed to strike
down the duty which in four years
yielded nearly s25, 900. 900, and the duty
on manufactured woolen goods which
produced S127, 1000, 900 in the same four
years was also to be reduced so the rev.
enue from that source would be largely
decreased. The revenue on imported
wool was TO be thrown away, and n
imported woolen goods was TO be large
ly reduced, all for the benefit of foreign
ers.
Mr.. Dubois, Repu blican, of Idaho, ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to the
I bill
Mr.. Stewart, popuulist, of Nevada,
characterized tine proposition to put wool
on the free list as cruel and unfortunate
in the extreme.
Mr-Hansbrough. Republican of North
Dakota, opposed the bill Mr..
Shoup, Repu ublican, of Idaho, made
an argument against the wool schedule
of the bill, particularly against putting
wool on the free list.
Mr.. Mitchell, Republican, of Oregon,
also made speech against free wool.
He said As per cent of that vast indus
try lay west of the Rocky mountains.
Mr.. Frye, Republican, of Maine, gave
an object lesson of the benefits of pro-
lection. He mentioned the case of mo-
hair plushes which few years ago
were produced entirely abroad The
capital of New England manufacturers
undertook to make them here. Imme-
diately there was a cut of Is per cent in
the foreign price, followed by another
of Is. making reduction of 40 per cent
in order to kill off American conlpeti-
tion. Americans were not ordinary men
and would not yield. They invented new
dyes hetter than those used abroad, in
'troduced the use of power looms at cost
of $4,000 for making these mohair plush
es, and from that time up to a gear ago
they ran the mills on full time and
made a fair profit. Six other mills came
into existence in the United States, and
the result was the people of the United
States were buying mohair plushes
at so per cent less than they bought
them when there were no plush mills in
the United States. American manufac-
turers were supplying nine-tenths OF the
mohair plush used in the United States.
Mr.. Frye said the Republican senators
were in favor of a duty on wool because
they did not believe wool was raw ma
terial; because they did not believe
pound of wool could be raised in the
United States if there was no duty on it.
The Senate, after all execu tive session
adjurned.
Rewarding Southern Friends.
Washington, June 13.-The President sent
to the Senate these nominations today:
Pendleton King of North Carolina as chief
of the bureau of index and archieyes in the
department of state. Consuls, John B. Cor
man of Georgia at Mattemoras, Mexico;
John H. Miller of Kentucky, at Port Stan