The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-20
DALZELL ON FREE RAILS.
His Speech Largely An Attack on Mr.,
Johnson.

Amendment as Too Radical a Change
But Says the Committee May Make
the Duty Lower Than Proposed in
the Original Bill-Mr. CLARK Makes a
Humorous Speech.
Washington, Jan. 19.-There was a
larger number of members present when
the House met this morning than for
some time past. The usual crowd was in
the gallery. At 1:10 o'clock the House
went into committee of the whole to con-
slider the Wilson bill, with Mr. Richard
son, of Tennessee, in the chair.
An agreement was then entered into,
whereby the three hours Immediately
after the House goes into committee Of the
whole next Monday will be given to de-
bate on the sugar schedule, and the vote
will then be taken on any amendments
which might be offered.
MIR. Dalzell, republican, of Pennsylva-
MIA, opened the debate by resuming his
attack, begun yesterday, upon the John
son free steel rail amendment and upon
Mr.. johnson himself His speech was
principally a personal attack upon MIR.
johnson, to which the latter replied in
good humor and with sarcasm.
WILSON OPPOSES THE AMENDMENT.
Chairman Wilson appealed to the dem
ocratic members not to adopt the John
son amendment. The bill he said, had
been drawn up carefully and conscien-
tiously, and he did not think it would be
wise thing to take such an important
article as steel rails from the tariff bill
and put it on the free list IL would be
unwise to make such a sweeping change
without due deliberation; but, if it
seemed apparent in view of the new light
which had been turned on the question,
that the committee had put too high a
rate on steel rails, the committee would
reconsider the matter and lay the result
before the House.
THE NEW RATE.
Under the present law, the tariff on
steel rails was Sl344 per ton, while the
proposed tariff was 25 per cent. ad
valOrem, which, at the present price of
steel rails, was equivalent to $6.41 per
ton, reduction of more than two thirds.
If the committee had not gone tar enough
in that matter it was willing to take it
under further advisement, but if steel
rails were put on the free list there was
just as much reason for putting pig iron
and erything else in the iron schedule
on the free list. He wanted to draw the
fangs of the steel rail serpent, but he did
not want to iniure the industry.
After several other gentlemen had
taken share in the debate, Mr. Hopkins,
rep, of Illinois. offered as an amendment to
the Johnson amendment, the rail clause
of the Mckinley bill. This was voted
down.
The vote was then taken on the John
son amendment, and 1T was lost on a vote
by tellers, of ayes IA, nays 100.
THE AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULE.
Mr.. Henderson, rep, of Iowa, offered as
an amendment to the agricultural sched-
ule of the Wilson bill, the corresponding
schedule of the Mckinley law. Upon this
arose another debate on party lines. MIR.
HendersOn's opening was largely directed
to replying to Bourke C0ckran's recent
speeches, and ridiculing his pretensions as
a reformer and liberator of the people
from the thralldom of the tariff
The debate drifted along in a desultory
way for some time and was taken part
in by Messrs. Hall, rep, of Iowa, Spring
er, McXeighan, ind, of Nebraska, Blair,
rep, of New Hampshire and Hutcheson,
dem, of Texas.
MIR. Tawney, rep, of Minnesota, ad-
dressed the committee on the subject of
barley, arguing that the existing rate
should be inserted instead of that pro-
posed in the pending bill.
This injected a little more spirit in the
debate and some acrimony, several re-
publicans from California and the north
west upholding MIR. Tawney's proposition
and Mr.. Lockwood, of New York combat
ting it.
OF ADVANTAGE TO THE FARMER.
Mr.. Bryan, dem, of Nebraska, be-
lieved that the pending bill would bring
more advantage to the farmer in the re-
duction of duties on things which they
had to buy than disadvantage to them
from reduction of duties on the things
which they had to sell. In the great ma
jority of articles which the farmer pro-
duced, tariff was actually of no conse-
quence. Mr.. Bryan submitted to numer-
Gus interruptions from republican
members; and so much Of his time
was occupied by these Interrupt
tions that his time had to be
extended two or three times. These in
terruptions made the debate general upon
the subject Of the tariff and brought in
Messrs Boutelle, Wanger, rep, Of
Pennsylvania, Compton, dem, Of Mary
Shaw, repn., Of Wisconsin, Hall, dem, Of
Minnesota, Bynum, Dingley, Brookshire,
dem, Of Indiana and Warner and Chick
ering, Of New York.
CLARK MAKES A LITTLE FUN.
The funny speech OF the day was made
Just at the close of the days sessions by
Mr. Clark, dem, of Missouri The farm
ers in this country, he said, were not
fools They knew that the Mckinley bill
was sham and fraud. Its authors had
gone to the country" and no politicians
had ever got such q trouncing as they had
got. There had been scarcely enough Of
them left for seed. ANY industry that de-
pended en- protective tariff for success
was pauper industry God Almighty
never intended men to "hog" at every
thing. If he had, he would have made
them with snouts. God saw that IL was
not good for man TO be alone; and
it was the same with nations. He
might have made the world with the
same climate from pole TO pole, so that
each country could be independent of
every other country But he had not
done So He had made the world so that
every nation had TO depend on every other
nation for something, In order 10 increase
friendship and kinship among the nations
of the earth. He was In favor Of quitting
the idiotic performance Of undertaking TO
make or raise In this country anything
that could not be made or raised in fair
and open competition with all creation.
HOT HOUSE BUSINESS.
"Let u.s." he added, ''quit this unnat-
ural hot house business and return TO the
rules OF sanity [Shouts Of laughter.
Then, returning to the republican side
Of the House, he said "Whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad. D." And
that is the Dredipamant of the Drotpc-