The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-10
It Is Again Brought Forward IN
the Senate.
SENATOR MANTLE SPEAKS
Defends the Silver States of
the West.
HOT TARIFF DISCUSSION
Senator Butler Makes a Speech in
Support of a Government
Postal Telegraph
system.

Washington ApI1i S--AILcr bSAlB ~
retirement for some weeks, the
tariff silver bin was again
brought forward in the Senate to-day
as a text for speech by Mr. Mantle, OF
Montana. one of the five Republican
Senators who voted against consider
ing the tariff bill. Mr.. Mantle defended
the course of the silver Republican
| Senators, declaring that the Dingley
bin WAS not framed rs a patriotic
measure. He urged that unsectional
protection should be linked with BIZ
metallism.
A sharp tariff colloquy followed be
tween Senators Mills. Hoar, Hawley
and Mitchell, as TO the effect of the
Wilson bin on wool
Some progress was made on the In
dian Appropriation bill, but the secta-
rian school question went over until
tomorrow.
The calendar was cleared of all pri-
vate pension bills, after an hour spe-
cially devoted to pensions.
Ar. Mantle, in opening, said he hesi-
tated, as Il young and new member Of
the Senate, to address the body, but the
vituperation and misrepresentation
which had been induiged in against the
Representatives of the Western inter
ests led him to speak. tie spoke of the
recent utteTances Of President Clege-
land before a missionary gathering.
derogatory to the West, as but one Of
the assaults made Of late against the
rotten boroughs and mining camps
OF the West, as the metropolitan press
designated the silver States
Mr. Mantle declared that within D
radius of five miles from Carnegie Hall,
New York, where Mr.. Cleveland spoke,
there was more poverty, ignorance.
squalor, starvation, crime and criIni-
mails than IN all Of the silver States COM
bined. He gave statistics comparing
| the silver States with five eastern
States, showing the former 10 be
abreast and ahead Of their eastern sis
ters in material and moral standing.
Mr.. Mantle said the attacks sprang
mainly from the Fact that five Republi-
/ can Senators from the West voted
against proceeding with the tariff bin
| at an inopportu.ae time Any tariff
bin, he asserted, would be vetoed By
1 the President THE House of Repre-
sentatives was chosen, not so much for
tariff legislation, but in protest against
| administration.
The Mckinley law was, said the SEN
ator, as strictly high protection, 50
/ high that some Republican Senators
nov on the floor of the Senate doubted
/ It's expediency, and would, IL the Re-
| publican party was fully restored to
| power, oppose its re-enactment. But
| the Dingley bill was not measure de-
signed for protection or revenue. II
was, he believed, a political measure,
and ii was framed without due consid-
/ Grafton to western interests.
/ In view Of these facts Mr.. Mantel
/ suggested that the efforts made to rend
/ him and his silver associates out of the
RepSI5lican party had better be re-
considered by the eastern press and
| that these Senators be permitted 70
| remain in the party.
Dir. Hawley (Rep. Conn., question:
ed some Of the wool figures which had
| been given by Mr.. Mantle, and spoke
| of the idle woolen factories and stag
nant condition of the industry IN the
East.
Mr.. Hoar added that the remarks
| of Mr.. Mantle implied that Eastern
manufacturers were willing to leave
western wool in the lurch, after get
ting protection for their own manufae-
lures. But Mr.. Hoar declared that
| eastern Senators had voted here for
protection on wool, while the western
States had sent Senators here from
Kansas, Texas and Oregon, who had
voted for free wool.
This brought Mr.. Mills tC his feet,
who declared that against the state
plents made that the wool manufac-
tnre had suffered from the Wilson
tariff law, he would place the fact that
there was a greater use Of wool than
ever; every fibre was manufactured by
American labor; the people Of the Uni-
ted States got cheaper goods than ever
before from wool, and wool itself had
advanced
'Let me add the further facts" in
terjected Mr.. Hoar, "that wool manu-
facturers are still falling, and the Coy
crnment is still bankrupt"
Mr.. Mills reioined that every parti-
Gle OF the wool now manufactured was
made by American labor. Then he
added, "a protective tariff Is a protcc-
tive humbug."
Let me ask the Senator from Texas
inquired Mr.. Mitchell, If there has
not been vast decrease in the number
OF Texas sheep since the Wilson law
went into effect ?''
7 don't believe it, responded Mr.
Mills
''But the statistics of the state show
it," insisted Mr.. Mitchell.
The statistics are made by the wool |
men, in the delusion that. they will be |
benefited" said Mr. Mills.
After the furry had subsided, MIR.
Butler (Pop., N. C. was recognized for |