The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-11

In conclusion Mr.. Johnson said the bill he
would pass would consist of but three sec
tons, as follows:
Section 1--AIl import duties and corre-
spending internal revenue duties are here
collecting such duties are hereby dis
charged.
'Sec. 3-This act shall take effect imme-
is hereby directed TO sell all custom houses
and revenue cutters. and pay the proceeds
into the treasury.
diately.
such a BILL" said Mr.. johnson. would
excite no more protectionist opposition
than this poor, timid little Wilson bill VIII.
But IL would not be sneered at. and IL
would arouse a mighty support that this
bill cannot get"
MIR. JOHNSON WAS LOADED.
While Mr.. Johnson was condemning the
alleged steel-rail pool he became engaged
in a heated controversy with Mr.. Dalzsll,
OF Pennsylvania.
You deny the present existence Of a
pool?" asked Mr.. Johnson.
Yes. SIR
We'll. here is the proof of It," said Mr..
Johnson, fourishing aloft a document
Here is the agreement in the Iron Age.
A certain 3. F. Kennedy contracted to re-
ceive 5000 tons OF rails at what con-
sldered an exorbitant price and TO forfeit
$1,000 II he did not take them. / looked
buyer could be. 1 found that he was a
stakeholder in the Cambria works, a
rival concern. and now secretary Of the
pool agreed 10 give the manufacturers Of
Sparrows Point. Md, $1,000 a day to close
their works and discharge their men.
That Is the sort OF trust the Wilson bill s
Is per cent, duty perpetuates. democratic
applause) 1t gives concern in Pennsyl-
vania $4,000 year TO close down. The old
pool OF eight or nine companies agreed TO
maintain the price of rails at 500 One of
the members secretly undersold the pool.
Carnegie made war on him. beat the price
formed another pool (Appiause1
Il cannot controvert what the gentleman
a pool as he describes exists. L deprecate
1t pc much as he"
That Is where I differ with the gentle
man, retorted Mr.. Johnson. II believe
IN making all the money L can. / am a
tnorougn-going mOnopolist, and take ad-
vantage of the bad laws you Republicans
I Ie laws here" cloud and prolonged
Democratic applause)
MIR. DAL-ZELL'S SPEECH.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Johnson's speech
Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, took the floor
He said, in brief:
THE election of 1892 which resulted in
the ascendency in all branches of the gov
eminent of the Democratic party had no
sooner occurred than a crisis ensued
the most appalling in our eco,
immediate collapse; trade, foreign and do
nestle, became paralyZed, the ghost OF dis
trust stalked threatening in all the avenues
or commerce, ana fear fell on all men, rich
and poor alike; AS a people. we walk to-
day In the valley of desolation. Furnace
fires have gone out, and fires upon humble
hearthstones as well. while throughout all
our borders factories and workshops and
the various implements and appliances of
industry remain idle and unused.
I'm the few months the dominant party
has held the reins Of government it has
proved itself consplcuously incompetent to
deal with a single important question pre-
scented to the responsibilities of civil adj
ministration. The executive, with an ig-
norance Of the limitations OF his Office in
excusable In en- intelligent American citi-
iZen, has usurped the functions OF Congress-
not to meet any exigency or for any Justi-
fail in a foreign policy which would be
groteSque If il were not contemplate. This
House has been organized on the basis of
country which is least familiar with AmerI-
can industries and enterprises dominates
the policy Of the Nation, while 1t deals
ont as of yore TO its Servile Northern con-
tingent the crumbs that fall from the party
table.
clouds and darkness all around uS-what do
those who rule our destinies propose by
way of relief? tariff bill that, If enacted.
l predict posterity will pronounce the most
Infamous legislative crime OF our history.
Instead of relief, il brings aggravation- To
the manufacturer, whose idle capital is
bringing him no returns. whose plant dis
used, is depreclating, and whose income mas
been sadly narrowed entirely cut on,
1t offers the deceptive lure Of free raw
materials and the ignis fatuus or the world
market, while Ii strips him OF the ability
to compete in any market and be just TO
his employees. To the farmer II Offers In
stead Of protection, an enlarged competi-
ton from abroad in the products of his
farm; instead OF vast and growing home
market, a market abroad In which his in
creased surplus cannot but degrade prices
10 - fle lob rfracr for fNrk
at American wage rates, 10 the end that
he. his wife and his children shall live like
Americans it's brutal answer Is blower
wages or war with your employer. And for
the empty American treasury, depleted be-
yond the power to meet current expenses
what relief? Oh! shame tell it; further de-
pletion by reducing national revenues by
from seventy to one hundred million dollars
per annum. To be made up. how? BY an
issue Of bonds in time Of peace; by laying
on the backs of the American people, now
of all times least able to bear them, direct
taxes never heretofore in all our experience
sought to be justified, save among the roar
of cannon and clash of arms.
eff the bill, instead OF being monstroS-
ity, were wise in its provisions. its enact
ment at this time would be unwfse. Under
the most favorable circumstances, even in
PROSPEROUS times n revision of our tariff
laws inevitably unsettles business and re-
qures a general readjustment to meet new
conditions. Do you find any duty In this
bill on coffee or sugar? There are no
sources of revenue so sure as these. Why
are they not taxed? They are the neces-
saries OF life. and tax on them will GER
talnly raise the revenue. Has the getting
of votes anything 10 do with the framing
OF a tariff bill? If so. l warn you, gentle
men o. the majority, that, In the opinion
of the poor man, the exemption of his
breakfast table will not compensate him
for the deprivation of his opportunity TO
labor under such conditions as to earn
American wages. There Is not single in
dustry in which we compete with our fell
lows across the seas in which our laborers
do not reap richer rewards than their fell
low-toilers abroad. Read the testimony of
those men asking us for fair play before
the ways and meas committee, and then
read the schedules of this bill, and you
cannot fail of the conviction that the sub
ject you are dealing with to-day is in the
last analysis, the subject of American la
Dor"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Dalzelrs speech
Mr. Woomer and Mr.. Coombs spoke. When
the latter closed the House took recess
uptn O'Clock
At the night session Mr.. Snodgrass. Mr.
Mahon and Mr.. Curtis were the speakers.
At 1880 the House adjourned.
The Internal Revenue Bill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The Democratic
members of the ways and means committee