The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-14

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in the line of the iron and steel and coz
ton schedules. / would not undertake
to be accurate as to that. | have not
followed the debate thoroughly, being alb
sent at the time, and do not exactly
know what its progress was in the SEN
ate"
Mr.. Blair-"Then it can be reduced
to nothing more definite than the state
ment that the gentleman now makes.
MIR. Wilson-"Not so far os I am con
cerned. The gentleman is aware OF the
fact that they have no previous ques-
ton in the Senate, and any Senator can
speak for against a matter and occupy
the floor long as he pleases. In the case
of the rariff bill they had to buy the sill
ence of. the Republican Senators, or
some of them, by the granting of ad-
ditional taxes on the american people
BARBED WIRE.
The harbed wire bill evoked one Of the
bitterest attacks by Mr.. Reed upon Mr.
Wilson and the policy he was carrying
out.
Mr. Feed said:-"The gentleman from
West Virginia, while he has been de-
posed practically from his position. ani
while the principles OF The gentleman
from Illinois have been adopted. stu re-
mains the shadow OF name which
still reverberates somewhat in the coun-
try And l want this House and the
country fully to understand the sieaifi-
canoe of the utterance of the gentleman
from West Virginia. His progressive
ness on tariff matters in the past does not
concern US very much; it is possible it
may not in the future.
''Rut so far as he represents his party.
his views may be of some Importance
And this enables me to reiterate-and
neither he nor any gentleman on his side
can contradict the proposition-that the
actions of today are not in any sense a
basis upon which this country can do
business.
'sEven the practical, plain, homely
person that the Speaker today described
himself to be with tremendous accur-
ac.-Oaughter)-even that plain and
sfmr business person cannot be able
in any way to do business in this coun-
try as long as his feet rest upon the
shifting sands, which are represented
b.; the present chairman of the Com
;mittee on Ways and Means-(ap-
r,ause)-who, in the presence of this
House, publicly submits to the relec-
ton put upon him by the House in re-
fusing to allow the committee ever
which he presides to have a word to
say with regard to tariff matters whlch
are presented here.
''Bowled out by the Senate and by the
House, he still represents their willing
ness to go from one point to another
without regard to his and their past
f1,ra
try q recall again the significance of it,
that this raid which has been made
upon the industries of the land is to
be repeated to the fullest extent, so far
as he can get followers.
He has said here again and again,
and he is always right that he had de-
stroyed some industries by this bill
and was willing to destroy some others"
daughter and applause.)
WILSON'S REPLY.
Mr.. Wilson of West Virginia.
Speaker, 1 do not think it necessary to
reply to the sneering remarks Of the gen
tleman from Maine, in which he tries
to work himself up to the idea that
when the caucus gave US authority as
an individual and ordered me as an in
~ vidual to introduce these separate
bills it put an affront upon me as chair
man of my committee,
Now, I say to the gentleman from
Maine that so far as 1 am concerned,
and l believe so far as the people with
whom 1 am associated in this great
work here are concerned, we do not in
tend to give up this fight. prolonged
applause.)
The right of the American people to
be relieved of class distinction is higher
than the right of any protected indus
as I am individually concerned, and
my humble views, I can say to the gen
tleman that there will be no let up in
the fight as long as the yoke of monopoly
is on the neck of any citizen of the coun-
try.
REVENUE FROM SUGAR.
Concluding the debate on the free
sugar bill, Mr.. Wilson said:-'1 do not
hesitate to say today, as l have said
from the beginning in this debate in all
of it's stages, that L have always been a
believer in revenue tax upon sugar,
and what little Incidental protection
came from the revenue tax on sugar
the agricultural people of this country
were welcome to. SO far as 1 am con-
eerned. l am ready today to cooperate
with the democrats of the House in the
restoration of a just revenue tax upon
sugar.
BUSINESS WAKING UP.