The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-18
WAITING FOR THE SENATE.
Col. COnger Says manufacturers VIII
Not Go Before the House.

Col A L. Conger, of Akron, o., formerly
a member of the Republican national COM
mittee and whose manufacturing interests
have grown in the past few years TO eX-
tensive proportions, came in last evening
from Elwood, where he is at the head of
the big tin-plate works, employing over
four hundred men. He thinks things are
looking somewhat better than they did a
short time ago, but that they are far from
being encouraging.
" The business procession during the past
summer and fall" said he last night ito
Journal reporter, reminds me a good deal
of a long march in the army. Every time
we took the road again after a rest, some
of the boys would drop out, unable TO go
business world. Every day for months
weaker concerns gave up the hght, the
business highway being strewn with these
wrecks. The uncertainty regarding the &C
ton of the Democratic Congress on the tar
if is almost wholly responsible for the Dusl-
ness stagnation. The manufacturers are
toward defeating the Wilson bill in the
House, for they realize that 1t is next TO
a hopeless undertaking. Those who have
appeared before the House committee have
not been fairly treated, and have several
times refused to accompany delegations OF
manufacturers on that mission because L
felt that il was labor wasted With the
Senate, however, we all feel We shall be
accorded a full and fair hearing, and given
every attention TO which our enormous in
terests entitle us. The Senate is more of
deliberative body, and We believe Senator
Voorhees, Is fully aware OF and alive TO
what the manufacturing interests of
his State need and must have
ance Of the prosperity which has
pushed the gas belt as we'll as
other sections of Indiana into such promi-
nence in recent years. Senator Brice, OF
Ohio. is a good protectionist and Senator
German too understands the value to the
country of a protective tariff. L am in
four committees scheduled to appear be-
fore the Senate tariff committee, and when
the Wilson bill reaches that body we Will
be kept busy. The Senate Will be fairly
flooded with protests from manufacturers
and business men against the passage of the
BILL as almost all of them are saving their
ammunition to use IL where they thlnk II
charge of the Wilson bill and its action
was final you would see wages in manu-
factories from one end o. the country TO
the other reduced from % TO 90 per cent.
Manufacturers would proceed at once to
get upon a European basis They would
have 10 do ii to successfully compete with
the foreign product.
This administration continued the
Colonel thoughtfully, has been an eX-
pensive one for the country. In shrinkage
billion dollars. Very little less than the
war of the rebellion, which cost g, 100, 600, 900.
1t came high, very high, as you see, but
the people wanted Ii. They are not soon
likely, however, TO want another like il.
Once in a generation is about as often as
a country can worry through with such an
The various interests with which Colonel
Conger is identified, and of many of which
he is at the head, are second only TO An
drew Carnegie in the number OF men en-
plOy, all told, some $1,000 men. Colonel
Conger has not been in Indianapolis for
House, and leaves for the East this morn
ing