The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-13
IN The SENATE.


10:3o the tariff debate was resumed, the
pending question being blr. Pecef'e
amendment 10 restore 50per cent. OF the
duty on raw woods.
Senator Sherman, (Rep., O.), was recog-
free Wool. lie dwsis upon tRs harsh con-
ditions under which the farmers
were laboring today with the
prevailing depression In all classes OF farm
products and In conclusion said that one
million farmers OF the coun-
try in the matter OF wool asked
only jnstice-justice such as they had re-
Senator Dubois rep, Idsho) followed
Senator Sherman.
Dubois Speech.
Senator Dubois mace q strong protest
against placing wool on the free list as
disastrous to the great sheep-raising in
dustry OF his section. Although the bill Is
not yet law, he said that IL Is not possi-
BILE today TO sell pound OF wool In
Idaho, except at discount from the nomi-
mai market price equal TO the present rate
OF duty on raw wool. Fleeces which Wee
grown under the system OF protection
ton were now TO be sacrihced
under the system of free trade.
II the bill carried out logically the
demand of the Democratic platform for
free raw materials, he would not ask q
Democratic Senate to make an exception
OF wool. but in passing partially
protective duties on coal, iron ore
ETC., under the sham excuse of revenue, the
discrimination against the American
farmer merited his denunciation. The
wool industry OF Idaho had prosgered
1890 to 1883, the fiocks doubled.
The threat of free wool fell on 1000
sheep, worth e, 100000, yielding an an
nuaI clip of 5000 900 pounds. The decline
in the value OF sheep and clip since free
wool was suggested almost equalled the
value OF the ficcks before the threat was
heard.
Mr.. Dubois then drifted into the dis
cussion OF the silver lead mining industry
OF the Rocky Mountain section, which
had fallen under the blight since
the passing OF the bill repeating
the purchase clause of the Sherman act
and the threat of free lead ores on
length the industrial conditions in the
West with mines closed and thousands
out of employment and contrasted these
conditions with those that existed
under the Mckinley law. In the course
of this portion of his remarks he referred
to the political capital made out Of the
Homestead strike in the campaign OF 1882;
strikes, iockouts, riots aud bloodshed
everywhere today, quoting, as he
said, at random from newspapers
OF the past two months. In conclu-
sion he relocated his appeal to the
Republican side to allow the
bill to be promptly disposed of?
Bad as existing conditions were, the
present uncertsinty and doubt should be
set at rest.
When Senator Dubois finished. Senator
Stewart (Pop., New took the floor and
made an argument against free wool.
Senator Hansbrough, (Republiean, N. d.
followed.
Hansbrough's Attack.
Senator Hansbrough, (Rep., N. d.
took the floor and spoke at some
length. While iavoring the principles of
protection and desiring to see that the
the protective tariff bill now before the
Senate. He opposed it on account Of its
Determinations, its sectional in
eoualitiss and its false pre-
lenses. 1t discriminates against the
residents Of the West, in placing wool on
the free list, and it favors the residents
of 3 per cent. 1t levies a duty
OF more than so per cent. upon
sugar and places wheat, -four and
many other products of the farm on the
free list. While claiming to be in the in
terest Of the extension of our markets
for agricultural products, it strikes
down the reciprocity clause of the Nc
Kinley act, there by narrowing the Ameri-
can farmers foreign markedly many mill
ions of dollars.
Senator German, he said, had declared
that this was measure solely in the in
tcrest of revenue; while Senator Hill of
New York, had stated that the bill would
raise S75, 100000 more than was necessary.
. Senator Hansbrough declared that the
wool raiser west Of the Mississippi river
would be Obliged to go out of the
business, for the simple reason that
While the cost of producing wool
Is from ten to twelve cents per pound,
the cost in Australia is from five to six
cents per pound, and IN addition
to this, that while the freights from
Rocky Mountain points to Boston and
Philadelphia, are 2ll to 3 cents pound,
the carrying charges from Australia are
less than one cent per pound. He was
confident that hereafter, II this bill passed,
sheep would be raised in the West only
for their mutton.
He believed, he said, that the chief cause
of distress in this country is to be found
in the financial system dictated
to US by England, and the threat
ened passing of this bill, which
increases imports OF merchandise and
consequently increases exports Of gold,
simply intensifes the difficulty. He
said that every one who voted for
this bill sanctioned the policy of
purchasing large amounts from Europe
and paying them larger sums OF gold and
that such policy could lead to but one
end, the issuing of gold bonds to sustain
the credit OF the country.
Therefore, he was curious to know how
his silver friends on the Democratic side
would justify their votes in favor of this
measure with their professions on finance
and their opposition to the issuance of
bonds. 7.f
For his part, he would be glad of an
opportunity Of voting for a measure that
would put q commercial wall between
England and the United States, for that, in
his opinion, would be the swiftest way
TO reach that period of financial indepen-
dence the lack of which has brought this
country to the verge Of bankruptcy.
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