Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-13
DEBATING THE TARIFF BILL.

though There were Many Proyi
 slons in It That He Did Not Approy,
 of.
 WAsHIEoToN, Jan, 12.-The house O
 representatives met at eleven o'clock thi morning, and immediately after the read
 ing of the journal the Senate amendment
 tothe house joint resolution for the appoint I ment of joint commission to examine in
 to all questions relating to the psrsonne
 of the navy were agIesd to. Then Mr
 AcCresry (dem., Ky) presented from tn,
 foreign affairs committee the Hit resolu
 tion calling upon the president for all in . formation relating 10 Hawaiian affairs re
 ceived since the transmission of his recent message. This Is the information which the president was expected to transmit to-
 day. MT. AcCresry asked unanimous
 consent for the consideration of the reso
 lution.
 MT. Hit, reL., of Illinois, inquired whether the right to report did not carry
 with 1t the right of consideration. and
 whether the chair had not frequently SC held. The speaker replied in the afirma-
 tive, but said that the adoption of the
 special order under which the house was
 acting operated to cut off all matters not
 exempted by the special order, except by
 unanimous consent.
 MT. Richardson, dem., of Tennessee, ob-
 3scted to the unanimous consent. As he
 did SC, Ar. Boutelle, rep, of Maine, who
 had just entered the hall, remarked that
 if Mir. Richardson had not objected he
 should have done so, since unanimous con-
 sent had been refused hlm for the consid-
 eration of the naval resolution. This
 closed the incident and the tariff debate
 was resumed.
 Mr. Brosius, rep. of Pennsylvania, com.
 pleted his speech against the bill begun
 yesterday, and Mir. Everett, dem. of Mas
 schusstts, followed.
 Mr. Black, dem. of Georgia, followed in
 support of the bill. Had he the power, he
 said, he would make commerce as frt e ss
 the winds of heaven.
 MT. Everett was followed by Mr Payne, | rep. of New York, one of the republican
 members of the ways and means committee, claimed that if the mechanic or workman | employed in sn industry protected by
 the tariff receives wages out of proportion to those of other indus tries, the other industries must raise l their wages to an equal standard or their employees will leave them. "Mr. Chairman" he said in conclusion, "dces it not occur to you that when a laborer loses l day, It is lost forever. He cannot store l it up-like capital; he must use it day by day. Who shall repay the lsborers of this country for the days and weeks and months of their idle hours that have passed away, forever lost for which they can never get compensationi Pass the bill-I do not say that the industries of this country will step-immense sums are invested in im- meDse plants with which something must be dons-but you introduce an element of competition which Is based upon the cheap est labor in the woIld."
 MT. Black, dem., of Georgia, next spoke. He devoted . large part of his remarks to discussion of the income tsx feature which he understood to go on hand in hand with the Wilson revenue bill. It mad been said that this tax was unfriendly and in- iquitous. He could not speak for others but as far as he was concerned he had never looked on any tax as a blessing nor welcomed the tax collector to the bosom of his family.
 MT. Pendleton, dem. of West Virginia, then addressed the committee. As to wool, he said that in spite of the duty three hum dred million pounds of wool had to be i'm ported for the use of American woolen manufacturers and they are thus obliged to pay $53, ,0o0, 900 every year before they can compete with the woolen manufac- turers of France.
 MT. Simpson, pop. of Kansas, was given the floor, and started out by saying that he would have to oondense Q three .houe's speech into one hour. MT. Wilson, dem. of West Virginia, the manager of the bill, said he understood that MT. Simpson was the only member of his party to speak, and asked that his time bs extended half an hour; but objection was made. MT. Simpson said that while he intended to vote for this bill, there were many pro- visions in it that he did not approve; but as it was a robber tariff at least 20 per cent. lower than that of the Mckinley bill he should have to support 1t. "I am not one of those" !" he said, "that ever hoped or be- lleved that the democratic party would be able without final test case to carry out it's pledges to the people of the robber tariff. That party, like the republican, is peoples party stands pledged to the prin- cfples of free trade"
 MT. Simpson stated that he should speak from the standpoint of free trader. The press few months ago said that the dis | tress wss due to the Sherman law, repeal that and prosperity would return. But where, he asked, are now the calamity howlers. Why, gentlemen, he said, you l are discounting us hundred fold. But l no matter, we are here today confronted I with the most serious problem and condi- ! tion that ever confronted congress. And l on the action of the Fifty-'hird congress | depends the safety and psrpetuity of our l ins titutiops and welfare.
 The cause of the existing trouble, Mir. l Simpson said, he found in the intolerable burden put on the agricultural classes by ' NS ind Ca nNz l init that labor needs protection is to ! acknowledge inferioritv. He de clared that 1 the effects of the Mckinley protection on 1 the farmers was to increase the coat of | things they bought, and to reduce the price of things they sold. A result of this l system has been to concentrate in the hands of per cent. of the population of the United States T per cent of its wealth.
 Protection Is for robbery and is rob- bery" was Hr. Simpson's text for the state-
 ment, ,ths. the 14, 300 employers of the 005,- 900 pau pers in our psuper houses callsd protected industries, collectsd in 1880 over
 three hundred millions under pretense that 1t wal to pay the difference in wages; and the to>al amount received by their workers
 was un,.er three hundred millions. The
 employers haG absolute pauper labor, and
 robbed the paupe~s of over half the pub I liC uOucy CohuAoNsou eO tdS1E euppOEb
 When MT. Simpson resumed his seat he
 was loudly applauled.
 MT. Daniels, r1p., of New York. was then
 recognized. his speech was partly devoted
 to . general defense of the republican
 policy of protection. He denied that pro-
 teotive taxes msant . taking away from one person in order to pay another; but
 insisted that 1t was simply levylng upon
 goods brought into this country for the
 uses of the government Not e cent went
 into the hands or under the control of any
 individuals, but all went into the coffers of
 the government. He defended tho con-
 stitutionality of the tariff laws and spoke
 of the prosperity which had flowed from
 the protective system of taxation.
 MT. Mcdowell, rep. of Pennsylvania, drew | Q contract between the theories put forth by the democrats and the facts as he saw
 them, which were likely to follow the pas sage of the Wilson bill.
 MT. Meiklejohn, rep. of Kansas, whose
 state is largely interested in the msnufac- ! tu,s of beet sugar, protested against that
 clause of the bill which reduced the bounty
 on sugar . fraction over 50 per cent, and
 at the end of nine years abolished 1t alto gether.
 At 5:30 o'clock the house took . recess. There were nine members present when
 the house met, but there was large and appreciAtive audience in the gallery. kr. McKsig, dem., of Maryland, said , that the statement had been made by pro-