St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-08
CANT GET ENOUGH.
Manufacturers Demanding More
Pro lection,

WASHINGTON. Jan. GA delegation
which called upon Senator Voorhees,.
chairman Of the senate committee OF
finance, yesterday, in the interest of
higher duties or the metal schedule,
received very little or no encourage
ment. and the senator took advantage
of the opportunity TO express himself
freely and forcibly upon the subject of
tariff in general way.
"lf protection were a Chinese wall, "
said the senator, 'you manufacturers
who believe in it 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 employ as laborers, when, as mat
ter of fact. after the Mckinley bill be-
came a 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 specimen of impor-
tunities to which am subjected. Many
people who are engaged in manufacture
ing enterprises throughout the country
and i'll other industries affected by the
tariff call IpoI me daily, and many
more write to me. What do l say to
them? tell them that we Gre 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 no necessity for prolonged hear
ingS by this committee. and l think we
will get the bill in the senate very
shortly after it comes over from the
house. L say this to nv inquirers, be-
cause think it is true"
DO You tell them the bill will be ma
terially changed by the finance COM
mittee?"
81 do not. see that there are reports
current that the finance committee will
report 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
nj AS Q of No
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 l can't see what further
protection the manufacturers ought to
have than they get by giving them free
raw materials"
Asked whether he Endorsed 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 a wiser
thing than vote such tax.
elf a man who has an income of 81, 600
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 wise recon-
mendation. | also indorse 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 Sl.25. / should
tax patent medicines. if the matter
were left to me, and 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
tam provisions of the Wilson bill, but
said that when objection was raised, the
fact generally developed that it was
because the pill touched some industry
of their states, and he found that but
little argument was necessary to COLI
vince such senators that there would
have to be general sacrifice OF Sach
interests i'll behalf Of party harmony.
lis 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.
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Governor Mitchell will have won if
he shall have succeeded in driving the
, into tIa ,yo p,y1c or x,ooLo