New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-25
DETAILS OF THE PROCEEDINGS.

IRON ORE FOLLOWS COAL AND sUGAR-DEMo-
Gratis STILL MAKING REPUBLICAN SPEECHES.
Washington. Jan Platter the reading of yes
terday's journal in the House the Speaker ap-
pointed as Government directors Of the Columbia
Hospital Messrs. Compton (Dem., Md and
Cogswell Rep. Mass).
The House resolution granting the privileges
OF the library to the Chief Justice and Associ-
ate Justices Of the Supreme Court OF the Dis
trlct Of Columbia with the Senate amendment,
was laid before the House The Senate amend
ment extends the same privileges to the Chief
Justice and Associate Justices of the Court or
Appeals Of the District Of Columbia, and on
motion Of Mr. Blair Rep.. ~ H) the amendment
was concurred In.
Very little time was lost in getting down to
business. and at ITO the House went into COM
mittee Of the Whole TO consider the wilson DILL
Mr. Richardson Dem. TENN took the chair.
and Mr. Taylor Rep. TENN offered substitute
for the pending amendment to the iron ore
schedule. which proposed TO substitute the ex-
listing terms of the Mckinley bill
Mr. Chickering Rep., ~ " opposed the Will
son bill in the interest of the farmers or North
ern New-York
Mr. White Rep.. Ohio spoke In opposition 70
the bill. and presented protest from ship
masters union, or CleNelanu ono' asdihS' '"S
iron ore schedule. He also presented protest
~ the same tenor from the vessel-owners OF
Cleveland.
Mr. Densen Dem. Ala) said he had been
taught that the Democratic party was tariff
party and he had learned that under Andrew
Jackson Free trade is RIGHTEOUSNESS" he said;
"protaction Is despotIsm: and both are unjust"
He was not a Protectonist and not Free
Trader but he was an Andrew Jackson Demo-
crat daughter and applause) In reply to a
question he said he was Protectonist to an
extent which would give equality for American
labor and American Industry. Republican APP
pause) lie held that iron ore was not raw ma
terial. for the reason that there was large ex-
penditure OF capital In machinery for raising ore
and for similar purposes.
PLEA FROM MINNESOTA.
lie was followed by Mr.. Tawney Rep. Mimi
who said In part
The only beneficial result which is claimed by Its
friends to follow the passage of this bin i that It
will tend to expand the market Tor American
prolucts by Increasing exports An Increase In
the demand for those products Is expected TO follow
This proposition 50 far 1t relates to the subject
under considerations is not supported by facts
which will justify the conclusion stated 1t rests
gentlemen who make IT, We have exported
a OF iron except that during the period from
1857 to 1880 Il small quantity or a peculiar quality
containing a large percentage Of manganese went
abroad But since 1850 the expectation of even that
day there s foreign market for a ton or the
iron ore produced in this country. The owners OF
ore depend entirely upon the American mar
ket. How then is the market for that ore 10 ex-
pand the consumption of American ore TO be In
creased by saying to Mr.. Rockefeller Mr. W; G.
the iron mines OF cuba or by saying to the iron
miners of Spain and other foreign countries: The
market for the sale of your In the United States
by requiring the payment of Is cents per ton duty
% Stay sF aS Dye 1 .ne Wka
ever" Instead of expanding the market FOR amer-
can market alone. admitting foreign duty free
will affect that market In abou; the same way that
eating green perslmmon would affect the mouths
OF the gentlemen who advocate the adoption Of this
policy.
will produce; II You decrease the production you
must either destroy the opportunity for employment
that the opportunity for employment Is destroyed or
the wages OF the miner reduced you destroy me
,urlously ali classes OF business dependent upon
this particular industry This Is necessarily so Tor
the reason tina, export no iron ore. and our I'M
portaton of that commodity Will certainly increase
when the owners OF foreign mines can come into
To-day we consume Within the state of Minnesota
Only 40 per cent OF the wheat Grown thcre ana snip
produce. If the Government continues 10 eheour-
age or iron ore industry Dy SIR pn be- long
hef9re Minnesota VIII have market tsr n ~t e po s
all, her AGRICULTURAL products many OF ne East
ern States where manufacturing ~ me cnieI oeeu-
son whv the REPRESENTATIVES of that great State
should favor restricting the riyht Oh tne tors'Sner
not whether A. be- iron ore or anything else we can
produce the end that not alone the people . OF
sippi River may have greater opportunity to supply
the demand Of that market as ~ mesesrs VIII the
growth OF the country In wealth ana population.
In the course Of his speech Mr.. Tawney pre-
scented petition in support Of his position signed