Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-16
NEWS BY Itlt6RlPh. From All Quarters. AN UPROAR IN THEHOUSE Exciting Scenes in the De-
 bate on the Tariff Bill. SENATE REJECTED noRnBl OVER. Senator Hill of New York
 Thus Wins a Victory. WANTS THE LAW COMPILED WITH. Congressman PigOtt's Res-
 OlutiOn to the House.
WANTS THE LAW COMPILED WITH.
TIT WAS A LIVELY SESSION

HI was A AAV6Lx SESSION. Many Exciting Scenes in the House.
 COnEressmen DeFOrest and Sperr
 Vote Against tho Democrats.Con
 Rressman Burke Cochran Become
 Angry-At Times she Din Was Ter
 rihc-Rx-Speaker Reed Makes
 Calm and Cool Speech.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 5-There wore man exciting scenes in the house today durin the debate on the tariff bill. Changes an counter charges flew thick and fast, and e times the applause from the members ol the floor and the spectators in the gallerie created such @ din that the pound ing of the speakers gavel could not heard. At 11:25 the clerks began to req the Wilson bill, and MT. Wilson, dem. West Virginia, was recognized to offer th first amendment to the bill. This was t the tobacco schedule, and struck out tn words "commercially known as," so as t. make 1t read on leaf tobacco, on such par thereof as is wrappers tobacco and suita ble for cigar wrappers, if umstemmed 5 per pound; if stemmed."
 MT. Payne, New York, one of the repub lican members of the ways and means com mittee, offered an amendment to thii amendment, which provided in substanc that if any portion of any tobacco import ed in any bale, package or bulk, should b. suitable for cigar wrappers, the entir' amount of tobacco in such bale or packag. shall be dutiable, If not stemmed, at 5; per pound; if stemmed at g. 75 per pound
 MT. Payne then spoke briefly in favor oi the amendment proposed by him, and wal necticut, who spoke in favor of the amend ment offered by MT. Payne, and thought il should be adopted.
 MT. Marsh, rep., of Illinois, in an i'm petuous speech, took MT. DeForest to tast for his desertion of party principle, and told him he should take his medicine like [ man, and that if he thought protection 6 good thing for the tobacco growers of Con necticut 1t might also be good for tht wheat grower of Illinois.
 MT. Sperry, dem., of Connecticut, who is one of the reoalcitrant members of the majority, opposed the tobacco schedule ot the Wilson bill on the ground that the government would lose an income of up. wards of five million dollars by reducing the tariff on Sumstrs tobacco from the rates charged in the Mckinley bill.
 The question was put on MT. Payne'f amendment and 1t was lost by a vote oi yeas 70, nays ITO. The following demo. crats voted with the republicans: Messrs. Sperry and DeForest of Connecticut and Cooper of Florida. MT. Payne demanded tellers and the amendment was again voted down-yeas 7e, nays 115.
 The next amendment was to insert on page Al, paragraph 52, line 12, the worda ''including all cotton duck"-so as to put amendment was, after . short discussion, agreed to.
 The next amendment was to insert on page 69, paragraph 415, line 2l, the words ''and sweat feathers and bindings for trim ming felt and woolen hats"
 The amendment gave rise to heated discussion, in the course of which Hr Payne, rep, New York, asked Mir. DeFor est, dem., Connecticut, who was =sdyoost ing tho amendment, whether 1t had been suggested by him. Mr. DsForest admitted that 1t had been, and spoke of the 4. o0( matters in Danbury who had been shut ou, by their employers under pretence that they were afraid of the effects of the VII son bill. Nothing, he said, could be more false than that objection. The fact wa that the suspension of operations in Dan bury by the hat manufacturers was due te the persistent effort on their part to crusl out the trades unions. That effort hst been carried on almost since the time tn, Mckinley bill went into operation.
 'The manufacturers claim," said MT Payne, "that they must pay lower wage on account of reduction of the tariff"
 "They said 1t was necessary" said MT DeForest, "to reduce wages on account o domestic competition"
 ''They always do that" shouted dem ocrst, and applause followed.
 Mr. Cockran, dem., of New York, asket MT. DeForest whether he meant to main tain that the rate of wages depended upol trades unions or whether 1t depended upol the law of supply and demand.
 MT. Psyne-You must first give tn employer the ability to pay the wages-a . condition precedent.
 "But will he do itr MT. Cookrsn asked 'Will he do it if he can help ftp [Crie of "Yes" from the republicans and "No from the democrats, and great excite ment
 "Hs will not do 1t of his own free will, MT. Payne admitted, ''unless he is con pelled to by trades unions. The trade unions will compel him and can compe him " The crowds in the galleries at th' chesred loudly.
 Mr. Cochran asked whether MT. Carne gle and the proprietors of the Homsstes demands of the laborers when the strik occurred there.
 Mr. Payne said he did not know as b was not familiar with MT. Csrnegle's bus ness. He added that if MT. Carnegie coul make steel rails as chesply as the gentl, man from Ohio (Johnson) said he could | would have been able to pay higher wager "A democratic member of this committee, said MT. Payne, "when he found out whs wages the Carnegie workmen had been r, ceiving, said that they were the highel wages he had ever heard of in this cour try" Republican applause "And yet" said MT. Cockran, "when th trades unions sought to maintain thoe wages they were met with bullets" D. risivs hooting from the republicans "They were met with bullets" he F peated when he could make himself heard s'in the hands of the hired assaesins In th protective interests"
 "A democratic governor" said MT. Bot l telle. "eent the militia there" "Yes," MT. Cochran asserted, Ca demo ! cratic governor sent the officers of the ls
  | "Did they not carry bullets with them ! MT. Boutells asked.
 sThey did," shouted MT. Cochran, Ian they had not occasion to use them; fe democrats and all tbs people of this coul try have shown 6 readiness to submit {
 law, just as they have shown e resdine
 to resist invasion or oppression or sssa
 sination of oppressors."
 In the further course of the controverf
 Nr. Boutelle expressed satisfsotion hearing the gentleman from New Yo,
 asserting the rights and dignity of u
 house.
 "Ths gentleman from Maine, 1" MT. Coo
 ran rejoined, "may always rely on my .
 sisting to maintain the rights and digni
 and principles of the house. but he mu
 show he understands them"
 'T will show omorrow," replied N
 Boutells.
 MT. Cockrsr-eThe gentleman from Ne York (Payne) tolls us that the theory l which this protective system is maintain
 is to stimulate profits in the hands of ma | ufacturers and then to let the trades uniol l to get their profits out of them. Naug
 ter We believe in sanding profits in t l first instance into the hands of the el
 ployes." :.
 Illinois {Black) says that the object of t | Wilson bill is to reduce wages 90 as make this course less desirable to imn grants."
 MT. Cockran-.I am not responsible i
 the statements of the gentleman from
 nois or of any other gentleman, and I { ! sure that no gentleman on the republic
 side wants to bs held responsible for