The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-27
HILL ON THE TARIFF BILL,
The Able New York Senator's
Position.
He Insists Upon Free Raw Ma
terials.
He Denies the Claims of Democratic
humanity.
The Bill 10 1t Stands Is Very Unsstis-
factory to Hlm-His Motion to Put
Lead Ore on the Free
List Defeated.
BY the Annotated Prass.

WASHINGTON. May Ex-senator Hill of
New York made his speech today, at
tacking the proposed duty of three.
fourths OF cent per pound on lead ore
and lead silver gearing ore and gener.
ally arraigning his colleagues for their
refusal to stand by the Democratic doc.
trine of free raw materials.
The paragraphs OF the tariff bill passed
over yesterday were taken up, the first,
156. relating to the duty ON wheels of
IRON or steel, car and locomotive wheels,
etc. The original Jones amendment in
creased the rate in the house bill from
80 to 40 per cent ad valorem. Today
Mr.. Vest moved to substitute specific
rate oil IA GEMS per pound. The Nc
Kinley rate is 2la cents per pound.
Quay supported the Vest amendment
as preferable to an ad valorem duty. Ii
was agreed to.
The lead paragraph was then taken
up, the house bill making lead ore and
lead dross dutisble at l5 per cent ad
vslorem upon the lead contained there
in, and classifying silver lead ore as sill
yer ores where the silver contained ex-
Geeds in value the lead contents, aud
admitting them free OF duty; the finance
committee amendment making lead ore
dutiable at "a of cent per pound and
making silver lead ores dutiable at tue
came rate on the lead ooutents, accord
ing to sample and assay at the port of
entry.
Dubois offered an amendment, which
was accepted by Jones, tixlng the method
OF sample anu assay as tnat commercially
adopted in the United States.
Shoup (Rep.) of Idaho made quite an
elaborate argumentin favor OF duty on
argentiler0us lead ore. He contended
that the miners of the west could not
compete with the peon labor OF Mexico,
and said il silver ore was admitted free
of duty from Mexico almost every siI-
ver-lead mine in the United States
would be closed. Shoup concluded at
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Something OF a furry followed when
Hui arose, as it was we'll understood
that he propose a vigorous attack on
the lead schedule. He began by moving
to place lead ore and argentferous lead
ore on the free list, but as there were
only few senators in the chamber Al
drich suggested IT, Q absence OF a Quorum
He wanted a full senate to witness the
New York senator's arralgnment of his
party associates, The electric bells
brought 55 senators to the cham ber.
Hill said he realized as keenly as any
other senator the necessity for early
action on the bill. The country was
anxious and eager. While the bill was
no: satisfactory to him, and had not
been satlsfactory to him since it was re-
ported, he was now and always had been
In favor OF its prompt disposition. He
had favored a change of the rules in
order to facilitate action. None OF the
responsibility for the delay rested
upon him. He regaetted that
few of the senators on his side, a
very few, he was glad to say, were op.
posed to adopting the dir ct method
But he was not disposed to criticise
them. He thought it was idle for bis
party associates to criticise their friends
on the other side for exercising their
privileges under the liberal rules of the
senate, when they refused to apply the
remedy that was open to them They
(the Republicans) were pursuing the
same course the Democrats pursued in
1890 in the fight against the force bill.
The remedy for this condition of affairs
lay in proceeding in a prompt, plain,
manly fashion to rearrange the rules.
As he had said before, he continued,
the bill was not satisfactory to him. 1t
was not satisfactory to other Democrats
on this side of the chamber. and if the
senator frem Maryland (Mr. Gorman)
the other day intended to ipfer that
there WAS Democratic unity on this bill,
he had exceeded his authority The bill
would not be satisfactory to him aa long
as 1T contained one remnant OF the Pop.
ulistlc income tax. Still he thought 1t
the duty of the Democrats not to defeat
it, but to modify and pass it.
Hill proceeded to explain that he had
voted against Teller's motion to table the
bill because he did not desire to kill the
measure before it was fully considered
and an honest effort made to modify it.
He had voted the other day to place iron
on the free list. The vote stood SOLITARY
and alone, as lar as Democratic votes
were concerned. He did not anticipate
that the motion he now made would be
carried, but it ought not to require any
argument to convince the senate that
lead ore should 70 on the free het. The
Democratic party stood pledged to it.
Lead ore waa q raw material, and the
party was committed to free raw ma
C6Tldis.
Vest replied to Hill. The duty pro-
posed in tnis bill, he said, was three.
fourths OF a cent pound. 1t was the
rate fixed in the Mills bill that had re.
celved so much commentator. 1t was
proper, he thought, that he should make
a few words OF explanation The Nc
Kinley bill placed duty of / y cents on
lead and lead-silver bearing ore.
l.
planning of the discrimination shown in
the bill, between labor in the east and
in the west, as illustrated in this in
stanee.
Dubois followed with a sharp thrust
at Senator Hill for his attack on the
finance committees amendment. He
had not believed any senator would
stand on the floor of the senate cham.
pionlng the smelting combine and the
white lead trust. which his action
amounted to, as those would be the