The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-12

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE House,
after routine business. resumed the
tariff debate. Breckenridge, Dem,
KY, took the floor
In the course of his speech, Brecken-
ridge likened the advocates of protec-
ton to sharks.
Walker, of Massachusetts, insisted
on knowing to whom he applied such
an epithet.
those who, during the peril and dis
tress of the great civil war, took adj
vantage of labor in the name of patriot
ism and later in time of profound
peace, increased those exactions until,
in the Fifty-first Congress- they wrote
the new law that enriched themselves.
1 refer to those who admitted new
states to retain in power those who
purchased the BALLOT boxes and took
the seat of William r. Morrison in
this House by bribery" Democratic
applause).
Richard followed with a short speech
in support of the Wilson bill, after
which Dingiey, who spoke in place of
Gear, one of the Republican members
of the ways and means committee,
Injection with the senatorial fight in
his state, took the floor.
Dingley said the pending tariff bill
purports to be bill to provide revenue.
1t is, in fact, bill to abolish revenue.
1t was not bill for revenue only, but
for deficiency only. The excuse given
for such a surrender of the needed
revenue is the alleged necessity for
reducing the taxation of the masses
q IF nj
in duties on articles of luxury or of
voluntary use. consumed mainly by the
well-to-do. who willingly pay for them.
Then about 100000 in revenue sur
rendered by the reduction of the duty
on tin plate at cent per pound. Lum-
Der and many agricultural products
are placed on the free list and Canada
will pocket the duties which we sur
render.
Springer, who was chairman of the
ways and means committee of the last
Congress, followed. He spoke only on
the tariff question, and tried to show
that the laborers and agriculturalists
had not been benefited by protection
He quoted census Office statistics on
the amount of mortgage Indebtedness.
New York has larger per capita
of mortgaged indebtedness than Ne
braska," interrupted Reed.
Eyes, SIR" replied Springer.
THAT shows" said Reed, what
these figures are worth as showing the
condition Of agriculture" Gaughter)
Springer commended the free list
in the Wilson bill, but said if he had
been framing the bill he should have
made some material notifications. He
spoke Of the Mills bill and said it was
measure which, in comparison with
the pending bill, seemed like the work
of statesmen. In concluding, Springer
predicted that with free raw materials
the country would become the greatest
manufacturing country in the world,
as it is now the greatest agricultural
country.
Harter declared that if, by law, the
prices of goods were reduced for the
benefit of the many, it mattered not
how much it injured the few; but
when the law puts the prices up it was
wrong because it benefited the few at
the expense of the many.
Brosius closed the debate for the
afternoon in opposition to the bill
and recess till night was then taken.
At the night session, Mcguire and
Cockrell spoke in support of the Wilson
bill.
Mcguire said the bill was bad in
many particulars. yet it was an honest
effort in the right direction and would,
therefore have his support.
CockrelPs speech was devoted to a
constitutional argument against protec-
ton.
At the usual hour the House ad-
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