New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-24
APOSTATE FREE TRADERS.
THEY PLEAD FOR PROTECTION
1T MAKES A GREAT DIFFERENCE WHOSE
OK GETS GORED.

ELOQUENT REPUBLICAN SPEECHES FROM LIFE
LONG TARIFF REFoRMERs"- HOUSE,
DEAF TO THEIR APPEALS. PUTS COAL
ON THE FREE LIsT-REFINED
SUGARS Also TO BE FREE.
iBr TELEGRAPH TREUSE.l
Washington Jan. 23-By vote Of 161 to 80,
the House Of Representatives in Committee OF
the Whole to-day voted not only that raw sugars
shall remain on the free list, but that refined
sugars shall be placed there also The bounty
law was repealed yesterday, and the sugar grow
ers Of the United States are thus driven to COM
pete on even terms with growers of every foreign
sugar-producing country 1t was apparent when
the House adjourned last night thatf the Com
mttee OF the Whole could ever escape from the
parliamentary tangle for which its unskful
chairman was chiefly responsible. the Warner
amendment or substitutes would stand.
This cost nearly two hours of to-day's sitting,
and It was not until after the parliamentary
lawyers had exhausted themselves and the
patience OF everybody else that the sensible sug-
gestion of Mr. Reed was adopted. This was that
the Committee Of the Whole should itself de-
eide whether the Warner proposition was
substitute or only an amendment to an amend
ment If the former. then it would stand; If the
latter. the vote Of yesterday would not be final
The Committee Of the Whole then formally de-
cided by the vote above mentioned that the
thing a substitute. and that ended the mat
ter OF course the Louisiana Democrats are dis
appointed and exceedingly angry. but their party
brethren smile and ask: What are you going
10 do about it?'
TARIFF PERFORMERS" ARGUE FOR PROTECTION.
Having thus disposed of the sugar producers
Of the United States. the party in power in the
House Of Representatives next addressed itself
to the task of disposing of the producers and
miners OF bituminous coal-a task to which three
hours had been allotted. The majority Of the
Ways and Means Committee had placed coal on
the free list, where it had never before been
placed in any tariff law since the first one
enacted in, 1889. This proposition raised a storm
of protest not only from Pennsylvania and Ohio.
but from Maryland. West Virginia. Virginia,
Tennessee and Alabama. and Representatives
from all those States, most of them Democrats
denounced the proposition in the most bitter and
vigorous terms.
The arguments they used in favor Of restoring
coal to the dutiabe list sounded surprisingly
like the arguments used by Republicans in
defending the doctrine Of Protection against
the assaults Of Free Traders-and yet every
DeTnOCTat WHO spoke Is as RANK d ice llduSi
as can be found in Congress. For example
there was Mr. McKaig. Of Maryland. who. opened.
the ball in a Protecuonist speech and who. only
the other day voted to put steel rails on the free
list. he to-day admitted In. reply to ques-~
ton from Mr.. Dalzell, Of Pennsylvania. In be-
half Of the oal-mining industry OF Alabama
ell extreme Tariff Reformers" lifted up their
voices and made the chamber ring with their
eloquence General Wheeler even went so far
To full NJ
Reform Club and to recall the fact that Speaker
Crisp had been compelled to sit mute at one of
its feasts.
SOME POINTED REMARKS FROM Mr.. WISE
Mr. Washington, of Tennessee, another ardent
tariff Reformer." made a vigorous appeal in
behalf Of the coal-mining industry OF that great
State. The interests Of the Old Dominion in the
same industry were ably championed by Messrs.
Wise and Tucker. both Of whom are also
champions Of Tariff Reform 1t is only fair
to Mr.. Wise. however, to say that he went
back and planted himself squarely on the tariff
plank Of the Democratic National platform Of
1854, from which safe footing he told his party
associates some wholesome truths about the folly
of passing bill TO reduce the revenues in the
face Of an empty Treasury and proposition
from the Secretary OF the Treasury TO increase
the public debt In order to get money TO pay
the ordinary current expenses Of the Govern
ment. He admonished them that the taxpayers
would have to pay this debt. and he also re-
minded them that internal taxation had never
been favored by the Democratic party. If Mr..
Wise votes as he talked to-day he will vote
against the Wilson bill. Mr. Aderson of West
Virginia. Is also Tariff Reformer." but he,
spoke forcibly and eloquently In favor of
storing coal to the dutable list. 80. .
Mr.. Rayner, of Maryland, one of the hand
soonest II not most tuneful "cuckoos'' in the
House. made the hall ring with his song for free
coal. AS a preparation for this exercise he had
enjoyed the pleasure Of an interview this morn
ov,x 81 tptr
district who had come to Washington to plead
with him not to vote to take the bread out of
their mouths and the clothes from the backs Of
their wives and children They penned him In
one OF the corridors, and one Who present
said that the cuckoo" did not seem to enjoy
his predcament, but he turned upon his visitors
and said: well. tell me what you want !
will give you five minutes
MR.. RAYNER GIVES THEM FIVE MINUTES
give minutes" retorted one of the working
men. Five minutes, and tonight you will prob
ably 60 to a swell banquet and speak an hour
afterward II you get a chance. All right, we'll
give you more than five minutes next election
day. We beat you once. and we can do II again,
and next time 1t will be for keeps Remember
that"
Mr.. Rayner abruptly closed the interview by
boiling through the crowd and into the chamber.
The delegation OF worlIingmen listened to his
speech from one of the galleries.
Messrs McMillin, of Tennessee, Mcguire, Of
California and one or two other Democrats also
spoke in favor Of free coal before Chairman
Wilson closed the debate on the same sidee He
evidently realized that he was reading bis own
political death warrant. so far as seat in
the next or any succeeding Congress was con-
cerned. and he spoke with great earncstness
and deep feeling Six of the counties In the Con-
gress District represented by him are coal min
ing counties. When the vote taken on the
substitute restoring coal to the dutiabe list, II
showed a majority OF so in favor Of free coal,
the vote standing Sc for and l4s against the
substitute.
DETAILS OF THE DEBATE
DISCUSSION OF THE COAL SCHEDULE DIS
CLOSES THE DIVERSITY OF DEM
r oCRATIC OPINION.
Washington. Jan. 23.-The sense OF the House In
the matter Of free sugar was again made mani
fest when the amendment offered by Mr. Warner
Dem n. " putting refined sugar the free list
reahirmed. while that Of Mr. Robertson (Dem