Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-11
DEMOCRATS SCORED.
Johnson Reads a Lesson
10 His Colleagues.
DALZELL HAS SOME VIEWS,
While Warner and Coombs Hold
Opinions Exactly The Reverse.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1l.-Boutelle yester-
| day made another effort 20 bring forward
his Hawaiian resolution, but Speaker
Crisl would not let him interfere with
. Ca or,l providing for the consideration
Df the tarr bill, 20 that nothing came
Ofit
The tariff debate ran on through the
day ami evening with VARYING interest,
iuH alton. .u.e iu th- galleries and on the
folr being smaller than 10 was Tuesday at
best, although IL was much larger than
usual.
Representative Hopkins finished his
speech and was followed by Tom John
son OF Ohio. I'VE, Of the Democratic
party" he said went before this country
In 1892, pledginQ ourselves 10 abolish
the existing tariff il the American people
gave us the authority. They did give us
authority, and then our haste to repeal
oppressive taxes subsidized
1.-The house has stood paralyzed because,
despite our overwhelming majority, we
Democrats would neither furnish a quo
rum 20 be counted nor count the one that
was really present. While we have been
fddling Rome has been burning"
Mr.. johnson had a sharp tilt with Mr..
Walker OF Massachusetts over the cost OF
manufacturing steel rails. in the course
OF which he declared that Carnegie had
the finest mill In the world
"And protection made It," interjected
Mr. Walker.
ooh, no." replied Mr.. johnson, "You
don't believe duty at the custom house
built itt Bill Jones built it."
"You can say Bill Jones, II you like"
replied Mr.. Walker, "but protection made
1t possible"
"Bill Jones is no myth" answered Mr..
johnson. bill Jones stood with me dur
Ing the Johnstown food, side by side,
while rich men were shirking; with Bill
Jones brains and Carnegie's money, the
honors were easy"
When Mr.. Jones finished the most en-
thusiastic scene witnessed since the tariff
debate began occurred. The Democrats
cheered and crowded about to shake his
hands and congratulate him.
No Love For Democrats.
After order was restored, Mr.. Dalzell,
one Of the Republican members of the
ways and means committee, took the floor
with IA carefully prepared argument. Mr.
Dal2ell said that the election of 1892 which
resulted in the ascendency in all branches
Of the government of the Democratic
party, had no sooner occurred than crisis
ensued, amongst the most appalling in
our economic history. In the few months
that the dominant party has held the
reins Of government it has proved itself
conspicuously incompetent with a single
important question presented by the re-
sponsibilities Of civil administration.
Mr III all ,1,.t, .aI I,nf q
had usurped the functions OF congress
not to meet any exigency but to under
take and miserably fail in a foreign
policy. Continuing, he said: aside from
any question rs TO rendering useless
American mines, sacrificing American
furnaces, American labor and capital,
are you ready TO subject yourselves TO the
European monopoly of a production that
lies at the foundation of great iron and
steel industries of the United Statesf"
He said the pending bill was a direct
blow at labor In two ways-first, in its
putting upon the free list raw materials
$50 called; and second, in failing TO pro-
vide for duties that are protective to
manufactures and products of labor.
Trusts Denounced.
Mr.. Dalzell was followed by Dewitt
Warner Dem, y. y. Mr.. Warner began
by making some humorous observations
on the testimony offered in behalf of diff
ferent interests before the ways and
means committee. such musketry Of
beggary," he said, had not disgraced the
Capitol since these rich beggars came
down here in 1880 and made up tariff
bill that would line their pockets at the
expense Of the consumer"
IL. H.. Al
Standard Oil trust and the protection ac-
corded the. in the bill I've have
kicked out Republican reciprocity" said
he, "and now we propose TO renew it for
the benefit of the sugar trust. If Ger
many wants TO give us free sugar, for
Gods sake let us have it. am going to
vote for this bill" he concluded, because
it contains reductions in schedules. ]
shall vote for il because ] think when we
carry the outworks we will then turn the
guns on the citadel"
Wilson Bill VIII Pass.
Mr.. Coombs Dem, " " made the last
speech of the afternoon. Protection, he
said. had done more harm than good, and
1t has left us today a legacy of complica-
tions which IL would take a generation to
straighten out. The Wilson bill would
pass both houses and be signed and per-
haps il was "A useless waste of time to crit
icise it. II simply reduced the rates on
the old lines and perhaps for this reason
did not reach the full measure Of Demo
sratic expectation. 1t did not injure the
people except in its recoil.
Without completing his speech the
committee rose, and at $50 the house took
recess until 4 O'Clock.
At the night session Mr.. Snodgrass
(Dem., Tenn, Mr.. Mahon (Rep., Pa }, and
Mr.. Curtis QRep., Kan.), were the speak