The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-12
IN CONGRESS TODAY.
Hawaiian Investigation Reso-
tions Agreed to in House.
TARIFF DEBATE THEN RESUMED
DIR. William Everett of Massachusetts,
VIII support Wilson Bill, Though IL
Docs Not Go Far Enough-Congress-
man Payne Attacks IL.
Bu 1flc Asocinted d..

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.--In the house
this morning the senate amend
ments to the house joint resolution
for the appointment OF a joint COM
mission TO examine into all questions
relating to the personnel of the navy were
agreed to, after which Mr.. McCreary pre-
sented from the foreign affairs committee
the Hit resolution, calling uponthepres-
ident for all information relating to
Hawaiian affairs received since the trans
mission OF his last message.
The tariff debate was then resumed.
Mr.. Brosius of Pennsylvania completed
his speech against the bill, begun yester-
day.
DIR. Everett's Speech.
Mr.. Everett of Massachusetts, followed.
He declared that it was his present
intention to support the Wilson
bill, although it did not go
He should offer amendments to i.leet his
| demanded, he said, was action, not
this measure, because for years they had
manded reform of tariff in the interest
OF the people.
The time to do right thing, said he,
was when those who believe it is right
| TO have the power to do
| it (applause). The whole business
and mercantile world expects the Demo
cratic party to act, and II we now turn
sullen from our work in response to the
protests OF selfish interests we will prove
ourselves the knaves and fools our ene-
mics delight TO believe us. App lausel
| He sketched the tariff history of the
country, his remarks being replete with
classic illusions and touched with a
humor eliciting frequent applause.
He commended the free list,
and made glowing appeal for free books.
| DR.. Everett was accorded quite an ovation
when he finished.
Mr.. Black, Dem, was in support of the
bill. Had he the power said he would
make commerce as free as the winds of
| heaven.
MIR. PayDe's Speech.
Mr.. Serene Il. Payne, one of the Repub-
| lican members of the ways and means COM
| mittee, said: "There are many gentlemen
who sit on the other side who represent
constitutioners that believe in protection.
You know that the remonstrances sent
in by Democratic workmen the coun-
| try over were inspired through slavish fear
of masters. These men never knew a
mister. They are intelligent, educated
in the hard school of personal experience.
| They study their bill from a knowledge
of facts of daily experience, not
| from mere theories. This bill will en-
courage fraud and perjury it will drive
| the honest importer from the business,
will put a direct, offensive and requisi-
tional tax upon our people, will give a
| gratuity to the sugar producer, without a
farthing of benefit to the country, will
foster the interests of sections at the ex-
pense of others; will impoverish our
| farmer, destroy his wool Industry, leave
him defenceless against the Sumatra
| tobacco, give his market for barley to
Canada, and for hops to Germany crippled
by reduction of their purchasing power
| the results OF the sale OF his products
| tend to reduce labor to the level of its
foreign impoverished rival, and bring
poverty and want to the people of a country
| one year ago the busiest, the most
| prosperous, the most progressive,
| the happiest, and most independent the
world ever saw. In examining some of
| the special features of the bill it would
seem that the committee have gone back
TO the days OF 1880, when the Democratic
candidate for the presidency
I, declared that the tariff was
| local issue which ave mad up once in
| our town." For example, take the
| agricultural schedule the duty placed on
| the agricultural products of the Mort h,
which come indirect. Competition with
the products of Canada, is less than 20 per
cent, while on rice, product peculiar to
the South, the duty is made specific at
one and one half cents per pound, equiva-
lent to on advalorem rate OF eighty four