Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-12
Still Discussing the Tariff Bill in
the House.
SPEECHES BOTH FOR and AGAINST IT.
But Little Business Transacted in
the Senate.
LONG EXECUTIVE SESSION.


mittee on foreign affairs. reported back the
resolution of Mr.. Hit Qll). which was in
troduced week ago and referred to that
committee.
The Hit Resolution.
The resolution requests the President to
communicate to the House. IL not inconsist-
ent with the public interest. all Information
received since his message of December 49,
1888. or which has not been transmitted
herewith, and Is now in his possession.
touching recent reported events In the Ha-
waiian Islands, or any attempt to overturn
:he government therein. and whether any
oficer or vessel of the United States has
taken any part In these events. and by
whose orders.
The committee on foreign affairs recon-
the Speaker ruled that. pending the opera
tion of the special order recently adopted
by the House. unanimous consent was re-
quired to consider the resolution at this
time. Objection was made. and Mr.. Nc
Creary then asked that the resolution
should lie on the table temporarily with
out losing its privilege. and this was order
ed.
The Speakers table being cleared of all
executive communications and Senate bills,
the committees were called Cor reports. and
none being forthcoming the House. at HIS
p m, went into committee of the whole to
consider the tariff bill. with Mr.. Richard
son CTenn) In the chair.
Tariff Debate Resumed.
Mr.. Brosius Pa-) was recognized and COM
pleted the speech in which he was interrupt
ed when the House took a recess at $50
yesterday. To show the limited extent to
which local goods were used even In the
states OF this country. he read an amusing
description which the late Henry W. Grady
gave of a burial in Georgia. He said the
grave was cut through the solid rock of
marble quarry, yet the tombstone over his
head came from Vermont He was buried
In the depths of a pine forest. yet his pine
coffin came from Cincinnati He was laid
within touch of an iron mine, yet the nails
IN his coffin were imported from Pittsburg
He wore a coat from New York and shoes
from Cincinnati. leaving him nothing to car
the country which was his home but the
chilled blood in his veins and the marrow In
his bones. daughter and applauseI
Mr. Everett for the Bill.
Mr.. Everett Mass.), the civil service re-
former and tariff reformer, took the floor
He said he was going to vote for this bill,
because he had believed for years that such
a measure as this was demanded by patri-
otto considerations, and he was proud to be-
long to the democratic party. which was
pushing forward in this reform. Democrat
ic applause).
Three years ago the republican party ad-
mitted that a revision of the tariff laws was
necessary. but insisted that this revision
should be left in the hands of the friends
of the tariff. The republican party came
into power in 1sss. and they did revise the
tarin; they revised it with a vengeance
Qaughter). And before the ink on the Nc
kinley was fairly dry. the popular revo-
luton came at the polls and the demand
Tor revision of the tariff went FORTH not
n he 1xsl b. IT,
but by the democratic party. Democratic
applause) He thought the Wilson bill did
not go far enough. Its free list was not
wide enough; but he accepted it as the best
tning that could be obtained at this time.
The objection to tariff tinkering" said
MT Everett, comes with very bad grace
from those who have changed the tariff
some ten times since the protective policy
1851 "AN
He was surprised to see that the Ameri-
can workingman could be made to encour-
age and support a restrictive and contrac-
tive and oligarchical system which sayored
or the feudalism Of old world states
Free Ships, Free Ores, Free Iron.
"Give us free ships, Give US free ores.
Give us free ironv' said Mr. Everett He
defended in particular the clauses of the
Wilson bill which made works of art and
books free. 1t was a mistake to suppose
that works Of art were luxuries intended
cnly for the rich and cultured. The ex-
hibition at Chicago showed that every
thing Of beauty, everything which appealed
TO the heart. was appreciated far more by
the poor and uneducated than by the rich
and luxurious. the -four hundred"
Give US free art" said Mr. Everett
and everybody will be instructed every
body will be refined and everybody will
be pleased Works Of genius belong to no
enc enc country. but are the products of the
He wished the bill had gone a step fur
ther; that books had been put on the free
Ast' and he asserted that a book was not
manufactured article. Literature was al
ways the same. Shakespeare was the same
IN the folio Of 1873 as In the latest and
cheapest paper-covered editions The put
ting OF books on the free list was opposed
py the printers, who feared that the poorIy
paid printers Of Europe would he put in
competition with them.
Mr; Everett was enthusiastically ap-
piauded by the democrats when he took his
Mr. Black (Ga-) spoke In favor of the hill
he was followed by Mr.. Pendleton, at
tne conclusion OF whose remarks Mr. Payne
(N.fD addressed the House
Mr. Payne Against the Bill.
Mr.. Payne began with declaration that
the result of the election of 1892 was MOI,
the deliberate declaration of the peon,e of
the United States in favor of a reversal of
kne policy or protection, which had oh
fained for the past thirty years. as the
democrats had made special plea that
eny readjustment made would euualize the
difference between wages here and in E,u
rope. No petitions had come up to the
ways and means committee In favor of the
proposed measure. He had been at a loss
70 understand upon what theory the bill
was constructed 1t is announced in the
ute that IL was IAN act to provide revenue
Tor the government" but IL reduced the
revenue nearly seventy-six millions OF dol
lars on the basis of the importations of
!SSS. 1t would more properly be labeled
Dill to cut of the revenues of the gov
ment The gentleman from Mississippi
MAO said the other day that II was a step
IN the right direction-two more such steps
would absolutely cut of all revenue from
tahn taxation and usher in the millennium
which some of our friends from Ohio have
70 long desfred-when all custom houses
snall be razed to the ground,
IL was not in any sense a protective tar
VI, altnough 1t had some protective feat
ures In II. probably through accident
MI Payne made strong attack upon the
DLu % as a sectional measure, referring to
tle cut or duties on northern agricultural
PrOiucts. while southern staples were pro-
tected he instanced the ~ per cent duty
On southern rice. and the high duty on
southern lumber
me democratic principle of local tariff
ne usciared, rad asserted itself He spoke