St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-07
ALWAYS DEMANDING MORE
MERUFa CTVRERS BEGGING FOR MORE
PROTECTION.
L,RoR CsED as A ELIND
To Cover Up Their True Inward
ness in Making Demands
Wages Reduced After the Nc
kinney Bill Went Into Effect
Senator Voorhees, Plain Talk
to the manufacturers.

WASHINGTON, Jan. GA delegation
which calle | upon Senator Voorhees,.
chairman of the senate committee on
finance, yesterday, in the interest of
higher duties on the metal schedule,
received very little or no encourage
ment. and the senator took advantage
of the opportunity to express himself
freely and f0rcibly upon the subject of
a tariff in general way.
'If protection were a Chinese wall"
said the senator, "you manufacturers
who believe in 1t would not be satisfied
with any height to which it might be
raised, but would keep up the demand
for an increased elevation. Like Oliver
Twist, you are constantly demanding
more from one congress to another.
until you have got it so high that you
are ashamed to ask it in your own name,
but put it in the names of those whom
you mploy as laborers, when, as a mat
ter of fact, after the Mckinney bill be-
came law, wages of employees were
reduced in manufacturing institutions
in various parts of the country"
This, and much more, he said to the
callers, and. after they had taken their
departure, he turned to an Associated
Press reporter and said:
This is only a specimen of impor-
tunitieS TO which am subjected. Many
people who are engaged in manufacture
ing enterprises throughout. the country
and in other Industries affected by the
tariff call upon me daily, and many
more write to me. What do l say to
them? tell them that we are going to
have the subject disposed of as soon as
it can possibly be done. With the full
hearings given by the house ways and
means committee, and with replies in
finance committee circulars, which have
been sent all over the country, there
will be 10 necessity for prolonged hear
ings by this committee, and think we
will get the bill in the senate very
shortly after it comes over from the
house. L say this to my inquirers, be-
cause think it is true"
''DO you tell them the bill will be ma
terially changed by the finance COM
mittec?'
Il do not. l see that there are reports
current that the finance committee will
report a substitute for the bill. l do not
consider this probable. That committee
may make changes in some OF the
schedules, but the Wilson bill will be
the basis of recommendation, and will
be the bill which the senate will con-
slider and pass. 1t is possible that we
may change, among others, the sugar
schedule. As look at the matter now,
l think we shall, but can't say in what
respect As to all raw materials, be-
lleve in leaving them where The bill puts
them. do not give any encouragem ent
to those seeking to restore the tariff on
coal and iron ore. L do not believe it
needs it. And i can't see what further
protection the manufacturers ought to
have than they get by giving them free
raw materials"
G. Asked whether he indorsed the action
OF the ways and means committee in
| recommending the Income tax, he re-
| piled that he did, and said he believed
that no political party could do wiser
thing than vote such tax.
''If man who has anincome of $4,000
| is not able to pay tax, who is?'' he
asked. II voted against the income tax
| twenty years ago, and hope to have a
| chance to vote for the re-enactment of
the law. l believe it a wise recon-
mendation. | also indurse the action of
the committee in putting higher tax
| on cigarettes. l think a mistake has
been made in not adding more to the
| whisky tax than has been added by the
| committee. l should he inclined to
make it more, but can't say what our
| committee will do. Whisky will stand
| almost any tax. 1t ought to have been
| raised to 81. and the country would not
| have objected. 1t should, | think.
have been made least 1925. l should
| tax patent medicines. if the matter
were left to me, and l should add fire
| arms to the list. may move an amend
ment to that effect. Such tax would
affect the classes Of the wealthy sports
men, who can afford it, and the loafer
aud rough. who should be disarmed."
Senator VOORHEES, admitted that some
| senators were disposed to object to Ger
tain provisions of the Wilson bill. but
said tnat when objection was raised the
! fact generally developed that it was
because the bill touched some Industry
| OF their states, and he found that but
| little argument was necessary to con-
| vince such senators that there would
| have to be general sacrifice of sach
| interests in behalf of party harmony.
| He thinks there is little doubt of the
| ultimate success of the bill, and SAYS
that its enactment into law will prove
| the signal for the revival of business
| throughout the country.