The morning news., 1894-01-09
amendment to the Catehings resolution,
and moved their adoption.


lS4 TO g. IAN order to recommit with
instructions TO report an order of consid-
GRAFTON which will give more days for de-
bate and give the right to amend each
paragraph as it is reached in reading"
The question was then put upon agree
ing to the Catchings resolution, as
amended by Mr.. Wilson, and the yeas and
nays being ordered, it was agreed to:
Yeas 1856, nays /.
Mr.. Campbell, dem, Of New York,
asked unanimous consent to withdraw his
vote, as he was paired with Mr.. Belden,
rep, OF New York, except when his vote
was necessary TO make quorum. The
request was granted.
Some routine business was then trans
acted, several bills being introduced and
referred to committees.
The committees were then called for re-
ports, without result
Several House bills were brought back
from the Senate, with amendments,
among them the New York and New
Jersey bridge bill, as to which the amend
ment offered by The Senate TO strike out
supertiuous language was agreed to, and
1t will go to the President
WILSON OPENS THE DEBATE
Several private bills were also called
up and passed, and at 3.15 o'clock the
House resolved itself into committee
OF the whole, with Mr.. Richardson, dem,
of Tennessee, in the chair and Chairman
Wilson opened the discussion on the
tariff bill. Tariff reform, he said, had
been fought out before the American
people as no other question was ever
fought out. In seven congresses It had
been the chief subject of controversy in
both houses. I'VE are here" said he,
with the commissions of the American
people to put into law that general re-
form which they themselves, IN
their constitutional method of
expressions, have ordered at the polls Z"
He did not feel called upon, in opening
this debate, to take up for examination
the details and schedules of the bill now
before the committee. The majority OF
the members of the ways aud means com
mittee did not profess dealing with
system which had grown up through
thirty years Of progressive legislation, or
at one proposed stroke of legisla-
tion TO free it of injustice and
to present measure responding
correctly to the demand of the
American people. They expected that
friends in the country would fall away
from them whenever they undertook to
prepare any definite measure of legisla-
tion. They knew from all of their expe-
rience in the past that not all who march
bravely in the parade are found in line
when the musketry begins to rattle.
[Applausel.
THE BUSINESS DEPRESSION.
He would not stop, he said, to inquire
into the causes that had brought about
the present prostration Of industry in this
country and demoralized to large ex-
trade of the country. There
seemed to be some recurring cycle
in modern times about such depressions
But from whatever cause it had origi-
mated, IL was at least an embarrassment
to them In the performance of their duty,
If for no other reason than that IL had
been eagerly seized upon by the enemies
Of tariff reform TO kindle hostility against
that great and beneficent movement
But If there was ever time
when the burden of taxation should
be lightened, it was at time when men
were struggling for the very necessaries
of life Lapplausel, a time when trade
was held in the paralysis of commercial
crisis Applause, All through this
country the enemies of tariff reform are
seeking to prejudice its success by an ap-
peal TO those whose reasoning and whose
power of reasoning is, for the time
being, blunted by personal suffer
ing and personal distress. Protection
WItn bApClltu OuE revenue law >
never came back into them by the con
scious and intelligent assent of the Amer
lean people. When the American people
were in the agony Of their great civil war
it crept stealthily,in through the back
door, and it now sought TO take advan-
tage of the present commercial distress to
hold on to its position in the revenue sys-
tenn of this country
THE FREE LIST.
1--WE have felt that we could not begin
the reform Of this system unless we begin
earnestly and honestly to relieve from
taxation the great fundamental materials
of American industry, and so the bill pro-
poses TO put on the free list, among other
materials of industry, wool, iron
ore, coal and lumber. [Applause.l Bet
ter give workingman untaxed materials
TO exercise his industry upon than un-
taxed necessaries OF life. Whatever goes
in as q tax on material comes out of the
workingman's wages. As you cheaper
materials you widen the markets, and by
allowing the worman TO place his
fabrics on the market at lower
cost, you nightly increase the number of
consumers, give the laborer steady en-
ployment, increased wages and personal
Independence never to be achieved in a
restricted market. The only place where
trade unions can exercise their legitimate
scope is in country where the walls are
down and the laborer Is given free raw
material [Applause.l
THE QUESTION OF WAGES.
"The vital question, gentlemen" he
continued, ais the question Of wages. II
the other side can prove that wages are
increased by the tariff, then this bill
ought to be beaten. II protection makes
wages, l am a protectionist hence
forth But reason and ex-
perience disprove it. The supply
Of labor, the intelligence, the productive
ness of labor, makes its price. How is 1t
possible for a tariff which only touches
five per cent. of the labor In the United
States to increase wages for the other 95
per cent? So far from increasing the wages
of labor, the effect Of these high tariffs
has been TO lower them"
Mr.. Wilson is In poor health and after
he had spoken an hour and half he sug-
gested 10 his colleague, Mr.. McMillin,
that he would like to finish his speech to-
morrow, and upon the latter's motion the
committee arose. The democrats and the
galleries applauded vigorously when Mr..
Wilson took his seat.
MEMBERS UNDER ARREST.
The report Of the sergeant-at-arms on
the warrants issued for forty-four menu
bers was then read Il showed the fol-
lowing members under arrest: Messrs.
Brown, of Indiana, Cadmus, Of New
Jersey, Fielder, Of New Jersey, Geisseu-
hainer, of New Jersey, Lefevere, of New
York, Randall of Massachusetts, Bum,