The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-13
JERRY'S OLD COAT
HumOrs of the Tariff
Debate.
SIMPSON RAISES A LAUGH.
Putting an Object Lesson Before
the President.
HE BOUGHT 1T OF A FARMER.
The Kansas Congressman Wanted to
Bring Down the House, and
He Succeeded.
HE BOUGHT 1T OF A FARMER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Iu the House
to-day the Senate amendments to the joint
resolution for the appointment of joint
commission to examine into the personnel
of the navy was agreed to.
The Foreign Affairs Committee reported
favorably HIPS resolution calling on the
President for all Hawaiian information
received since the special message. OBJ
lection was made to its Immediate con-
sderaton and the House resumed the
tariff debate, Brosius of PENNSYLVANIA
continuing his argument begun yesterday.
Jerry Simpson followed and said that
while he intended to vote for the Wilson
bill there were many provisions in it
which he did not approve. He was not
one of those who had ever believed that
if the Democratic party was brought to
the test it would carry out its pledges, for
he knew that while there were honest
Democrats the action of the Democratic
party, like that of the Republicans, was
controlled by the money power "The
Peoples party" said he. Stands on a
platform pledged. as interpret 1t. to the
principle of free trade. The intolerable
burden put upon the agricultural classes
through an Indirect system of taxation
has been one Of the potent causes which
produced the present condition of affairs.
The farmers of the country in 1850 owned
so per cent of its wealth. They owned So
per cent in 1860. 80 per cent in 1880 and 50
per cent in 1890"
1t was at this juncture Simpson created
great applause and amusement by treating
the House to the spectacle of dilapidated
l. To phOx LlOt,
exactly what the poor people of the eoua-
try did wear, be said. and. reaching down
under his desk, he seized a tattered. old
overcoat, fringed at the edge and be-
spangled with great patches; and he held
it high while the House and galleries
cheered.
81 bought that of farmer" said he.
"who told me that he left home at l.
o'clock at night and had driven twenty.
five miles to sell his product in your
boasted home market. There. as Cleve
land said, is an object lesson Laughter.
There is a sample Of what men wear un
der the beneficent system of protection, .
he continued. SIT is made of shOddy and
rags; see. Here he ripped it up the
back Yet" he added. II can find its
duplicate on the backs of a million of meI
in this country"
"Where did the farmer buy it?" asked
Cannon (R.) Of Illinois.
''He bought it one year ago in this city
for SIS and l bought him another shoddy
coat to take its place for SO 49," Laugh,
teri
as it American or imported2" asked
Cannon.
II don't know" replied Simpson. 81
don't care; but it is a product Of American
protection. No one can deny that. u
Laughter and applause.
Simpson concluded with an appeal tC
the people to ring out the old and ring in a
new order of things. Many members teU-
dered him their personal congratulations
when he sat down.
Daniels R.) of New York next argued
against the bill and Mcdowell (R.) oil
Pennsylvania followed him. Littleiohn R'
of Nebraska closed the debate for the aft
ernOOn session in opposition to the bill.
At the evening session of the House.
Waugh (R.) and Hermann (R.) opposed the
tariff bill, and NJ. Kalg, and English Dem-
ocrats) supported it. The House ad.
iourned st 10:30.