The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-10-25

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insisting upon a high tariff on marble,
Senator Murphy growing desperate in his
efforts to have high tariff retained
on collars and cuffs, and yet all these
Democrats and others denounce Protec-
tion as fraud, a robbery, and as uncon-
stitutional. They protect Tennessee mar
BILE and put Vermont granite on the free
| list. Tennessee marble is quarried by
cheap negro and convict labor Vermont
granite is quarried by better paid and
| legitimate white labor Tennessee is a
! Democratic state. Vermont is a Republi-
state.
Mr.. Brumm wended his way through
the tariff schedule adopted by the last
Congress until he finally reached coal
He said when the committee reported in
favor of putting coal on the free list not
single Democrat voice from Pennsyl.
vania was heard to protest against it,
except the voice of SlOley, from Erie
Coal is mined in Pennsylvania. 1t is the
greatest product of our state. Pennsyl-
vania Republicans and Mr.. Sibley insisted
that we must have protection also, but
| the Democrats who controlled the Demo-
cratic party said No, we don't care jot
for Pennsylvania. Why Pennsylvania
doesn't give us an electoial vote. 1t isn't
a Democratic state 1t is our business to
take care of those states that are giving
us meiorities," and coal was put on the
free list.
Mr.. Brumm then turned his attention
more directly to a recent article that ap
peared in the Pottsville Chronicle in which
it was stated that Congressman Reilly,
while in the committee of the whole, or In
caucus, voted for tariff on coal and
could show the record for it. Mr. Brumm
said the writer Of the article either knew
very little about parliamentary law, or
stated that which he knew was not true.
| When you go into the committee of the
whole, he said, or a caucus, or before tine
committee on ways and means, there is
no record kept of your vote. You vote
viva voce, or you can demand division
and get standing or rising vote and the
speaker will count the votes and II you
are not satisfied you can call for tellers
and the speaker will appoint them, one
teller from one side and one from the
other; then the Congressman pass between
these tellers and the tellers tally "Aye !"
| mo 2, etc. The names are not put down.
On this subject Mr.. Brumm concluded,
"I challenge the Chronicle to produce the
record" and he was enthusiastically ap-
plsuded
The speaker then took up Congressman
Hines published statement in regard to
the payment of two thousand dollars by
the Hazard Rope Works of Wilkes-Barre
to have steel wire rope retained on the
protected list, in which he stated that the
Congressman who had charge of the rope
matter were Congressman Cadmus, of
New Jersey, and Reilly, of Schuylkill
county. Mr.. Brumm said, 81 don't want
you to 90 away and say that l said Mr..
Reilly got $4,000, for / don't. ! say here |
don't believe Mr.. Reilly did get them. l
don't believe he got one cent Of that
money. | have known Mr.. Reilly from
boyhood up and in all my dealings with
him | always found him a gentleman,
reliable, truthful and Trustworthy. But
have said in Pottsville, and say again,
don't charge Mr.. Reilly with receiving
those $4,000; but do say this that If
Mr.. Reilly had such potentential force
and power in the service of the steel rope
company as to keep the protective tariff
that the Mckinley bill put on wire rope,
why didn't he exert some of that power
in favor of coal. Great applause) He
succeeded in keeping the duty on steel
wire rope, and not a constituent of his is
in that industry and yet he voted to put
coal on the free list"
'They believe" continued Mr.. Brumm,
"that the tariff will protect wire rope,
cement, collars and cuffs, ETC., but not
coal"
Mr.. Brumm then took up the Demo-
cratic answer that there is no tariff on
anthracite coal and never was, because
there is no other anthracite coal like that
produced n Pennsylvania and it can pro
tect itself, and that to take the duty off
the bituminous coal would not injure
anthracite. Don't you know" asked
Mr.. Brumm, that If wheat is very much
higher than rye the people will use rye as
a substitute Anthracite and bituminous
are products that have but one function
that l know of, and that is to generate
heat,and by generating heat they generate
power and light. When you know one is
very much cheaper than the other the
other will not be bought, but when you
keep the prices nearer together the
condition is different. Nova Scotia is
waiting. Mr.. Whitney and other
New York capitalists have the
option of almost the entire coal
fields of Nova Scotia. The coal from
this place is beginning to pile into the
New England states. 1t is beginning to
push anthracite coal out of the market,
not because it is a better substitute, but
because it is the cheaper one. Our pro.
duction will fall off in proportion as that
takes our place, and instead of working
three days a week at nine per cent. below
the basis, my friends, you may only have
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