St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

He Favors the Old Democratic
Doctrine of Free Raw Ma
terials. and Wants an Early
Vote on the Tariff Bill - He
Makes q Thrust at German
Hills Amendment Beaten.
WASHINGTON. May Ex-senator Hill,
of New York, made his speech today
attacking the proposed duty OF three
fourths of cent per ponnd on lead ore
and silver-bearing ore, and generally
arralgnlng his colleagues for their re-
fusal to stand by the Democratic doc
trne of free raw materials. Some little
time was spent this morning waiting
for Il quorum of senators to appear. For
the first time since Mr.. Harris was
placed in charge of the tariff bill he
was not in his seat. The delay in Sc
curing a quorum shut out the consider
alton of the Hawaiian resolution.
The paragraphs OF the tariff bill
passed over yesterday were taken mp.
The first was loo, relating to the duty
or wheels of iron or steel. car and loco
motive wheels, etc. The original Jones
amendment increased the rate in the
house bill from 80 to 40 per per cent ad
valorem. Today Mr.. West moved to
substitute specific rate of 114c per
pound. The Mckinley rate is 2I5c per
pound.
Mr.. Quay supported the Vest amend
ment as preferable to an advalorem
duty. 1t was agreed to.
frbn taod ,,arou,.o Dos tbap tol,nD
mp. The house bill made lead ore and
cad dross dntiable at 10 per cent al
Eaorem upon the lead contained
therein. and classified silver lead ores
rs silver ores where the silver contents
exceeded in value the lead contents and
admitted them free of duty. The finance
committee amendment made lead ore
lutiable at three fourths of one cent
per pound, and made silver lead ores
iuliable at the same rate on the lead
contents according to sample and as
say at
THE PORT OF ENTRY.
Mr.. Dubois offered an amendment,
which was accepted by MIR. Jones. fixing
as the method Of sample and assay that
commercially adopted III the United
States.
Mr.. Shoup rep, Idaho made quite
an elaborate argument i'll favor of
duty on ar-Antlferoui lead ore. He
eOnteuded that the miner of the West
could not compete with the peon labor
Of Mexico, and said that it silver lead
pre- were admitted free of duty from
Mexico almost every silver lead mine in
HE United S-a.es would be closed.
Mi. Shoup concluded at l2:l0, after
speaking over an hour and half. Some
thing of Il furry followed when MI.
Hill, of New York, arose, as it was well
understood he proposed Il vigorous at
tack upon the lead schedule. He began
by moving TO place lead ore and argen.
tiferouS lead ore on the free list, but, as
there were only few senators in the
chamber. Mr.. Aldrich suggested the
absence Of a quorum. He wanted full
senate to witness the New York SELL
ator's arraignment of his party asso-
ciates. The electric bells brought fifty
five senators 10 the chamber.
Mr.. Hill said he realized as keenly as
any other senator the necessity for
early action on the bill. The country
was anxious and eager. While the bill
was not satisfactory 10 him. and had
not been satisfactory to aim since 1t
was reported, he was nov, and always
had been, Ill favor ot It's prompt DISPOSE
ton. He had favored a change OF the
rules in order to facilitate action, be-
cause he believed that the best way TO
FACILITATE ACTION
was to give the majority the power to
Tx the time Tor taxing the final vote
instead OF depending upon the caprice
and WhinS Of the minority. None Of the
responsibility fer delay rested upon
him. lie regretted that few senators
on his side, very few. he was glad to
say, were opposed to adopting the
direct method. But he was not disposed
to criticise them. They acted according
to their ideas OF public duty. He
acted according to his. He
thought il was idle for his
party associates to criticiSe their friends
Oh the other side of the political aisle
for exercising their privileges under the
liberal rules of the senate when they re-
fused to apply the remedy that was
open to them. They (the Republicans
were pursuing the same course the
against the force bill. The remedy
for this condition of affairs lay in
proceeding Ill prompt. plain,
manly fashion to rearrange the
rules. AS he had said before, he
continued, the bill was not satisfactory
10 him. Ii was not satisfactory 10 other
Democrats on this side OF the chamber,
and if the senator from Maryland (Mr.
Germany the other day intended to infer
that there was Democratic unity on this
Dill he had exceeded his authority. The
Dill would not be satisfactory to him as
ong as 1t contained one remnant of the
PopuliStlc income tax. Still. lie thought
t the duty of the Democrats not 10 de-
feat it, but TO modify and perfect it.
MIR. HILL. PROCEEDED
10 explain that he had voted against Mr..
Teller'S motion to table the bill because
ne did not desire 10 kill the measure be-
fore it was fully considered, and,an hon.
est effort was being made to modify 1t.
He had voted the other day, he went OH,
topiace iron ore on the free list. The vote
stood solitary and alone so far as Demo-
cratic votes were concerned. lie did
not anticipate that the motion he now
made would be carried. But it ought
not to require any argument to convince
Democratic senate that leaG ore
should 90 on the free list. The Demo-
cratic party stood pledged to it. Lead
ore was Il raw material, aud the party
was committed to free raw materials.
Mr.. Vest Dem., Mo- replied to Mr..
- Hill. The duty proposed in this bill.
he said, was three-tourths of Il cent per
pound. 1t was the rate fixed in the
Mills bill that had received such high
commentator. 1t was proper, me
thought, that he should make a few
words of explanation. This Mckinley
bill placed a duty OF y. cents Oh lead
and lead silver-braring ore.
Mr.. Stewart made brief speech com
planning of the discrimination shown in
the bill between labor in the East and
in the West, as illustrated in this in
stance.
Mr.. Dubois followed with a sharp
thrust at Senator Hill for his attack on
the finance committees amendment.
He said he presumed Mr.. Hill had made
his speech Oh this question principally