The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-24

RADIO spoke in Favor OF the Bill.
WASHINGTON, Jan 19-The house
is making slow progress with the amend
ments to the tariff bill Only one week
more remains and less than twenty
amendments to about 1000 paragraphs
have been disposed of. The argument
between Mr.. Johnson and Mr.. Dalzell
of the proposition TO put steel rails on
the free list continued today. When
the vote came the amendment was de-
feated 20 to 100 but only forty demo-
Gratis voted with their colleagues of the
. committee, while sevnty-nine voted with
johnson and the radicals.
Mr.. Dalzell began by rccapitulating
the charges he had made against MIR
johnson. lie had shown. he said. that
MIR. Johnson manufactured a certain
kind of street railway rails behind the
protection ON 100 patents and wanted
rails to so on The free list; that he
eoerced his employees in the face of win
I ter and starvation into accepting wages
one-third cash and two-thirds scrip: that
he made an untrue statement and had
altered the stenographer's notes and
lastly that the scrip had been hacked
about the streets of Johnstown and had
been bought in at d discount by "a rela-
I tive of Mr.. Johnson before it was re-
deemed at par
In the course of the debate Mr. Dali
zell said: Il desire to say further that
l do not believe that he (Mr Johnsom
pays higher wages than his neighbors.
l have this on the authority of the
president Of the Cambria iron works.
When all else is gone. one arrow is left
i'm the culver of the free trade dema-
gogue abuse of Carnegie RepubIican
applause). Johnson and Carnegie stand
in the same category, they are both rob-
her barous. both have grown rich. but
there the similarity ceases (appIause).
IN the midst of the prevailing distress.
Carnegie. the true philanthropist. is
giving $4,000 a day for the relief of the
| poor in Pittsburg. while the false phil
anthropist from Cleveland takes advan-
! tage Of the winters blast to dicker about
the wages of his employees Capplause).
Mr.. Johnson" he continued sarcas-
tically. has waxed fat on the watered
stock of his street roads; his income from
that source is 81, 900 a day: his bank ac-
count is swelled by the manufacture Of
! rails under the protection of patents
all this 1 suppose can be done outside
Of this chamber without criticism.
| (Applause.)
so long as I have voice here he
concluded. mo one shall be allowed 70
masquerade as a philanthropist and with
shameless and unblushing effrontery pro-
pose TO strike down a rival interest"
Mr.. johnson Replies.
The republicans applauded Mr.. DaIzel
| TO the echo when he sat down and the
members focked over to the democratic
side to listen TO Mr.. Johnson's reply to
the bitter personal assault of his an
tagonist
THE question before the committee is
whether steel rails shall go on the free
| list" began Mr.. Johnson calmly. Il
have listened to the fearful TRADE
against MYSELF and my partner, but
| even confessing that all he says is true.
| that offers no reason why rails should
not go on the free list. (Applause.) The
! personal side Of this controversy was
not brought into the house by me-
notified Mr.. Dalzell three days ago that
1 intended to do what 1 have done, so
that he might prepare TO defend the
| steed rail pool. Instead of arming HIM
| self with arguments he has brought pins
! here to stick into me. Qaughter)
with reference to the personal charge
| he has made 1 desire to address myself
briefly The first. that l am a mOnopo-
| list, L plead guilty. Oaughter) The
next is that L am manufacturing a class
| of rails protected by patents and would
not be affected by free rails. We only
| have twenty or thirty patents on rails;
we tried 10 perpetuate the monopoly and
control the market. but the courts de-
| cided against us. That threw us open
to home competition. My amendment
| proposes to put girder rails on the free
| list, so that we will open TO the worlds
competition" (Applause) Mr.. johnson
went on to explain that alternative was
/ to reduce wages or close the mills en-
/ tirely as was done at Sparrows Point
/ Md. AS TO the grave charges that in
changing the record he had practiced
/ a deceit upon the house he explained
that when he made his speech he was
/ totally unprepared to answer the ques-
! ton MIR. Dalzell propounded to him
/ When he went home and consulted his
records he found he was slightly in error
and he had made the change to which
/ Mr.. Dalzell had alluded. But the first
thing he had done the next day was to
! inform Mr.. Dalzell of that fact. pro
/ longed democratic applause) Was it
| fair, he continued, for the gentlman from
Pennsylvania not To mention that fact
when he charged him with the deceit?
/ (Renewed applause)
The gentleman had been so hard
| pressed continued Mr.. Johnson, that he
had logged in his wicked partner. Arthur
| j. Moxham. Mr.. Moxham, although not
a naturalized citizen said he. when the
| flood at Johnstown left 1000 people in
4 the water and 5000 drowned, was chosen
dictator. He fed the living and buried
: the dead. (Applause.l Il was also true
/ that he had purchased an engine in En-
gland because he could not get 1t here
until five months after the English
manufactures agreed to deliver it. In
lhese i've months he bad paid ont &75--