Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-01-27

Bynum held that failures and Dtrikes wero mSTo
frequent under protection than they had bsra
under the walker low tariff, and thnt the
greatest fraud ever perpetrnted on tho people
in the name of protection was the tariff bill OF
1890 His amendment was unanimously
agreed to.
Mr. Hit rep. nl) offered an amendment
providing that when country imposed tax
on American products which this country inn
ported free that the existing rates be imposed.
| He made plea against the throwing away OF
| the opportunities the country possessed OF
wrestling from Canada free entry OF our manu-
features and agricultural products In return for
| free entry into the United States OF Canadian
| coal He pleaded for reciprocity with Canada-a
reciprocity which should not give Canada all the
| advantages Representatives OF Canada had
| been besieglng the doors Of the state depart
ment for forty years asking for reciprocity In
| appealing to the democratic party not to throw
away the great advantages they possessed in
reciprocity, he said: ave all live under the
same flag. We are legislating for ourselves
| and not for foreigners There is market in
| Canada which we could get in great part,
| AT the night session the first three speakers
| were Messrs Talbot (dem, S. C), O. W. Stone
| (rep., Pa) and Boatner dem. La.). The lat
| ter in referring to the sugar question SAID 1t
| was the only American agricultural product
| which could be protected incidentally by q
tariff for revenue only. But the Wilson bill
| was not q democratic measure in the sense Of
| being revenue bill, for 1t intentionally cut be-
| low the line of necessary revenue, and was out
| and out protective measure where IL was no
| q free trade bill.
Mr. Strong rep., o. drew in parallel ep-
umns an amusing picture of the farmer az he
| is under protection and as he was sin the good
old days OF free trade" the comparison being
largely in favor of the latter.day farmer
| Mr.. Wheeler (rep., ILL thought the Wilson
bill should be entitled "a Bill TO Decrease the
Revenue and Increase the Public Debt by the
Issue of Bonds, instead Of a bill to reduce tax.
alton and to raise revenue
On the 22d running debate was had on sew.
eral amendments offered to the sugar schedule
of the Wilson bill
ty paragraph in unmeasured terms and said he
would cheerfully vote to strike the bounty
feature from the statute books.
Mr. Cannon rep, I'LL made vigorous at
tack upon what he called the cowardice of the
democratic party in retaining bounty which
they had denounced as unconstitutional
Mr.. Gear (rep., Ia advocated the bestowal
OF bountes. which he said had always been the
policy Of the government.
Mr.. Bryan dem, Neb) protested agains,
putting tax back on sugar, and TO raise the
revenue needed he favored an income tax.
Mr.. Dingley rep, Me- said he was in favor
of continuing in the experiments provided by
} the tariff OF 1890 to test the question as tc
whether we can produce our own sugar by of
! fering for fifteen years a bounty of two cents
} per pound He was opposed to the pending
PROPOSE itions
Mr.. Wilson (dem., w. Va.) spoke briefly
, , against any change in the tariff bill as pre-
pared by the committee on ways and means.
Brief speeches we're made by other members
! after which the proposed amendments were
voted on-one by Mr.. McRae dem, Ark.) sus
pending the bounty on sugar and putting suga
on the free list, being agreed to-l35 TO SO; an
, other by Mr. Warner dem, n. W putting re
, fined sugar on the free list being also adopted
= -l37 to 81
!. AT the evening session several speeches wer
made.
1 Mr. McCreary dem, Ky.) was in favor o
4 repeating the sugar bounty at once and entire
ly. He regarded 1t as fraud and an outrage
1 and was gratiticd at the action of the house II
e adopting an amendment for its repeal
n Mr. Hilborn rep, CALI took up and pre-
n sented seriatim the articles of California pre-
n duction in which California would be injure
8 by the passage Of the Wilson bill
g Mr.. Godzier dem, Ill) defended the Wi
Q son bill. and was followed by Mr. Avery rep
d Mich.) who spoke in opposition to it.