The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-13
FRANK JONES'S TOWN.
It Is Over in Canada and Mr.. Will
son Has Tenderly Cared for 1t.
CONGRESSMAN PAYNE TELLS THE
HOUSE ALL ABOUT 1T.

Bought shoddy Overcoat, Wades Into
the sRobber Tariff" and Pictures the
Woes of American sPauper Labor
Mr.. Black Describes the Terrible
Tax Dodgers.
Washington, January 12.-Mr. Reed
will close the tariff debate for the
Republicans on the afternoon of the
9th inst. Mr. Wilson, chairman of the
ways and means committee, will perform
similar service for the Demoratic
majority on the Goth. The vote on the
bill will be taken on the 30th.
During the debate today, Mr.. Payne,
one of the Repu ublicans IN the New York
delegation, made a vigorous speech
against the bill, attracting especial at
tention by his references to the Hon.
Frank Jones's lime burning enterprise in
New Brunswick DIR. Everett of Massa-
chuse is was among those who spoke for
the measure, and so was Jerry Simpson,
who soundly berated the robber tariff. I"
Mr.. Black, a Southern Democrat,
voiced The sentiment OF that section in
favor of an income tax to the evident
delight of Democrats from the same
region. Mr.. Payne was the first speaker
after Mr.. Brosius finished his speech, in
terrupted by the recess yesterday. He
said that the result of the election of
1892 was not the deliberate declaration
of the people of the United States in
favor of reversal of the policy of pro-
lection, which had obtained for the past
thirty years, as the Democrats had made
special plea that any readjustment
made would equaiize the difference be-
-6ween~Wages here and in Europe. No
petitions had come up to the ways and
means committeesin favor of the proposed
measure. He had been at loss to under
stand upon what theory the bill was con-
structed. He madesa strong attack upon
the bill as sectional measure, referring
to the cut of duties on northern agricul-
tural products while southern staples
were protected. He instanced the per
cent duty on southern rice and the high
duty on southern lum Der. He charged
that the duty on lime had been reduced
at the request of Hon. Frank Jones of
Portsmouth, N. H., a former member of
the Democratic national committee, who
happened to be one of those patriotic
American citizens who had invested III
the town of St. John, N B., a lime pro-
ducing town. He had actually told the
committee that the tariff of 1890 had
proved disastrous to his town of ST.
John, and has been a boon to the town
of Rockland and other localities in
Maine. The annual crop of hay in this
country. said Mr.. Panye, is worth $780,
000,0 900; the cotton crop $305, ,000, 900, and
yet, so important was the cotton crop in
The eyes of the committee that they put
cotton ties on the free list and make
special provision for rebate on cotton
bagging that applied to no other article
in the whole bill. They had totally,
overlooked the question of free ties for
baling the farmers hay. Hsridiculed the
absurd proposition IN reference to sugar
and declared it wasssimufy1a gift to our
folks in Florida, Lohjsiana and Texas.
Make wool free, said>he;y and you destroy
one-haH of the flocksS Of the country,
Free coal may benefit the Whitney syndi-
cate, which seems to control the coal
mines of Nova Scotia and New Brun-
of the mines in the West Indies and bring
labor and wages to the people there But
this would be no compensation for the
loss of wages TO as many American citi-
zens thrown out of business here.
The more he examined this bill, he
said, the more he was convinced of the
astuteness of that Canadian member of
Parliament who stated that Canada got
more out of the Wilson bill without
giving anything in return, than she
could ever have obtained by the most
favorable reciprocity treaty. More than
O million, perhaps two millions of
men, who were employed at good wages
a little more than a year ago, today are
tramping up and down orr streets. Does
any one doubt that, it this House should
by decisive vote strike out the enacting
olo of 1a;1 l,,,oi
all over this land. We have one-third Of
the markets of the world and if we
would only take care4of them right here
among ourselves, it would relieve all
our wants.
Mr.. Everett, Democrat of Massachusetts,,
said he was going to vote for this bill
because he had believed for years
that such a measure as this was de-
mauded by patriot considerations, and
he was proud to belong to the Democrat
ic party, which was pressing forward in
this reform. Democratic applause. J
Three years ago the Republican party ad-
mitted that revision of the tariff laws
was necessary, but insisted that this re-
vision should be left in the hands of the
friends OF the tariff. The Republican
party came into power in 1883, and they
did revise the tariff, they revised it
with vengeance" daughter And be-
fore the ink on the Mckinley bill was
fairly dry, the popular revolution came
at the polls and the demand for a re-
vision of the tariff went forth, not that
it should be made by it's friends, but
by the Democratic party.n (Democratic
applause.) He thought the Wilson bill
did not go far enough. Its free list was
not wide enough, but he accepted il as
the best thing that could be obtained at
this time.
"The objection to the tariff tinkerine.,
said. Mr.. Everett, comes with very had
grace from those who changed the tariff
some ten times since the protective policy
was adopted in the Congress Of 1860 and
1861"
He was Surprised to see that the
American workingman could be made to
encourage and support restrictiye and
oligarchical system. which savored of
the feudalism Of OldsWorld States. " Give
us free ships, give us free ores. give MS
free iron, said Mr.. Everett He defended
in particular the clauses of the Wilson
bill which made works of art and books
free. 1t was mistake to sunnose tbat
works of art were luxuries intepded oniv
for the rich and cultured. The exbibi-
tion at Chicago showed that eyervthino
of beauty, everything which Appealed to
the neart, was appreciated far more by
the poor and tanedueated than oy the rich
and iIsv11rinus the "fapn LsL ~ -. 0AS a!ea