Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-17
MI S S ED A TREAT
A Small Congressional Audience Listens
to Last Nights Debate
Clever Speeches at the Afternoon and
Evening Sessions Of the House
The Tariff.

The Congressman who failed to attend
last nights session missed treat. They
should have been on hand to hear the most
exuberant English that has been poured
forth on the tariff question since the gas
was turned on. Mr.. Arnold of Missouri
was the pourer. With fifty uninterrupted
minutes before him. he talked just as he
liked. He tore through the republican
ranks like whirlwind and told what he
termed the 'unblushing veracity' about
those monsters Of iniquity. the advocates OF
protection. Again quoting him. mo pent-up
Utica contracted his powers" Nothing es-
capped him. He denounced civil service re-
fern. anti-silver legislation war taxes and
about everything else on earth.
But he had poor audience. 1t was
top-heavy house again. Four republicans
and fifteen democrats listened to Mr.. Ar
mold and the other speakers of the evening
Mr.. Lane of Indiana was in the chair. He
had sinecure. except that he had to pre-
sent the appearance of listening.
Yet the galleries suffered the customary
pressure. and every seat in the public Sec
items was taken. Those who made the
Journey were amply repaid for their efforts.
for Mr.. Arnold was in fine form. He scat
tered picturesque metaphors throughout his
diction as thick as raisins in a pudding.
Finding dull prose too confined to express
his long-pent silverite beliefs he emulated
the shining example of Mr.. Wegg and
dropped into poetry. He quoted Shelley at
some length. and won his first round of ap-
plause. He then began to unfold a proph-
ecy Of the fate Of the men who slipped a
keen blade under the ribs Of the white
mi al las amin do
sentative Blair join in the general laugh
that followed his climax, when he spoke
of the democratic monometallists and told
or the day when presidential bees are
humming and tickling their ears with sweet
music cold wind will creep out Of the
northwest to chill these tiny winged mes
sengers into silence. No man can ever be
elected President who will disregard the
Chicago platform.
Verify, verify, say unto you, no political
tail can ever wag the dog"
MIR. Arnold closed his speech with
burst of figure that evoked wild applause
from the other three Representatives who
were booked to speak during the evening,
and the others who were there to write let
ters There was a sentiment of general re-
ciprocity to be noted on the floor. The gal
leries- too. Joined in the hand-clapping, and
Mr. Arnold received quite an ovation which
he richly deserved.
~. Mr.. Ellis Follows.
He was followed by Mr. Ellis Of Oregon.
He Is more somber and sedate, and adheres
more strictly to the plain grain of the
usual tariff debate. He Is a ministerial
looking man with long. black beard, and
not ray of humor is allowed to escape
from him. The result was, that though he
held the close attention Of the stenograph-
ers and the polite notice Of the chair. and
of the remaining two speakers on the
rights bill. the galleries began to scatter
at the commencement of his tenth period,
and soon the beautiful crowd that had been
held by Mr.. Arnold's adjectives had dwin-
died down to half the number.
Mr.. Ellis told the republican tale of pro-
lection. He spoke for forty-fve minutes.
and had the field all to himself for the en-
tire period. He held that the bill was ex-
tremely sectional in its provisions, and the
Pacific coast had been particularly harshly
treated. Every article produced on the Pa
cific coast he said. had been placed on the
free list Wool growing being import
ant industry in his district, Mr.. Ellis in
Weighed against that article being placed
on the free list.
Tennessee Next.
Then followed fifty minutes more of
democratic oratory, from the lips of Mr.
McDearmon of Tennessee who refuted the
'heresies" Of the republicans and swal-
lowed the bill in it's entirety. He did not
propose to be diverted by the free-silver
talk of Mr.. Arnold or the protectionism OF
Mr.. Ellis. but he went straight at the doc
trine of free trade, and seemed to like it.
Taken altogether, 1t was a liberal educa-
ton to have been at the session last even
ing. There was all sorts and conditions of
talk. and the galleries were greatly edi-
fled.
The Afternoon Session.
In the afternoon, after The Stars report
had closed, there was quite a debate on a
proposition advanced by the republicans to
postpone the date when the free wool
clause of the bill shall take effect. Radical
free-trade talks were made by Representa-
tives Johnson. Warner. Enloe, Hutcheson
and Breckenridge of Arkansas. The hit of
the afternoon was made by Mr. Champ
Clark of Missouri, who made one of his
Enthusiastically funny speeches, in which
he scored the republicans who wanted to
put off the free wool law until they could
fry more fat out of the manufac turers, and
so elect another republican President. They
might as we'll try to put off the day of
Judgment, he said. This proposition sound
ed too much like an attempt to secure a
Few trial on a case that the people had al
ready decided adversely twice. 1t had been
said on the republican side that if wool
were put on the free list. there would not
be grease spot left of the democratic
party in 1895. Then" said Mr. Clark, IF
you believe that. every man on the republi-
can side will vote for this bill" When a
man was freezing in 1894, it would be cold
comfort to tell him he would have a good
coat in 1893. And to make up the deficit
when would De caused by the Wilson bill,
ne said, we are going to pass such an in
come tax as will make the eyes of the null
ti-millionaires bulge out
The amendments agreed to yesterday re-
duce the tariff furs for hatters' use
from 20 per cent to 10 per cent ad valorem:
calf-sklns. patent and japanned leather,
dressed upper leather, chamois and other
skins from ~ to Is per cent; "all hydro
graphic charts were placed on the free
1st The rate on condensed mill. was
changed from 20 per cent ad valorem to
two cents per pound. Chair cane, or reeds,
wrought or manufactured from rattan or
reeds, were taken from the free list and a
tariff of per cent ad Yalorem innosad