The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
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Senator Jones introduced the
Mckinley Bill Classification
As a Substitute for the Pending
- Metal Schedule.
1T CAUSED A STIR.
Democrats Made Subjects for
Taunts by Republicans.

WASHING TON. Nav 23.-Ihe senate
disposed of seven paragraphs of the
metal schedule yesterday after eight
hours of debate. The debate was
marked by quite a number of inter
esting clashes between the Republi-
cans and Democrats. The sensation
al feature of the day was caused by
the unexpected presentation by Mr.
Jones of an amendment substituting
the Mckinley bill classification and
specific rates on round iron in coils,
blooms and charcoal iron, somewhat
higher than those already pro-
posed. The amendment was a
surprise to some senators on both
sides, although evidently anticipated
by Mr.. Quay and few other of his
colleagues. Mr.. Hale tried to use it
as a text for haunting the Democrats,
and Mr.. Teller read him a very plain
lecture on the duty of the Republi-
cans to accept such increase as the
Democrats were willing to grant
without continually Gliding their adj
versaries with inconsistency. When
the vote was taken six Democrats
and three Populists refused to support
the Jones substitute, namely: Allen,
Berry, Blackburn, Jarvis. Kyle,
Mills, Pascoe and PETER. The rates
fixed Yesterday were as follows:
Iron ore, 40 ce nts per ton.
Pig iron, scrap iron, etc, 81 per ton
Round iron in coils, eight-tenths of
a cent per pound
Slabs. blooms, less finished than
bars, fve-eighths of a cent per pound.
Charcoal blooms, $12 per ton
Beams, girders and other structural
iron or steel, six-tenths of a cent per
pound.
Boiler plate, from five-tenths to 25
Il
Forging of iron or steel, IL cents.
Hoop or band iron or steel Cotton
ties), 80 per cent ad valorem-
Just before the tariff bill was taken
up, Mr.. Walsh, the new senator from
Georgia, arose to a personal explana-
ton in come elton with a newspaper
paragraph from st. Paul stating that
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers had adopted resolutions con-
demning him for introducing a bill
making the retarding of the United
States mail punishable by imprison-
explained that the bill aimed at
heavier penalties for train robbers;
they had construed it as an attempt
to punish trainmen who should tie-up
train in a strike.
Mr. Walsh said he had served his
appre nticeship at the printers trade,
and had never known a day or an
hour when he did not sympathize
with labor, but he also recognized the
fact that capital had rights as well as
labor. Labor organizations had a per-
feet right to direct their members to
discontinue work if by so doing they
believed they could accomplish their
purpose, but they had no right to in
terfere with other laborers who
sought to go to work. They had the
right to work or not to work; their
rights extended no further. This
was a land of liberty; it was
also a land of law and order. AS
long as labor sought redress of its
grievances, and under the forms of
law sought to work out its problem in
a legal way, he was a laborer to that
extent and no further. The bill he
had introduced was loosely worde d
and possibly liable to the constr uction
the locomotive engineers had placed
upon it, but it was not intended either
directly or indirectly to be the sub
ject of such construction. In con-
clusion, Mr.. Walsh reintroduced his
bill in a modified form so as to leave
no doubt as to its purpose
The senate, on motion of Mr.. Harris,
went into executive session and short
1y afterward adjourned.