Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-26

Of the bill. which. he said, had no more to
do with the tariff question than the transit
committee. 1t was a plain business propo-
sition. He ridiculed the idea of attempting
republican legislation against the opposi-
ton OF the Inert, populistic mass in the
Senate and the inert, free trade mass in
the White House"
Mr.: Dolliver drifted from the discussion
of the bill Into politics. He paid his re-
spects to ex-Gov. Horace Boies of Iowa
who. he caid, looking in vain through the
dust and ccbwebs of a country law office
Tor a republican nomination, Joined the
anl-prohibitiCn element in Iowa and led
the ueInocrauc party to victory.
On General Politics.
With cutting satire he de. -ibed Mr.
Boies as firing Of the contemplation of the
legal status Of the town pump and turn
Ing his attention to broader fields. He told
or dinner at the New York Reform Club
In 1891 at which Cleveland Carlisle and
boies were present and at which the latter
delivered high tribute to the prosperity of
the country under the Mckinley law. He
eulogized the splendid leadership of Reed
mckinley, Blaine and Harrison, under
which the Mckinley law had been enacted
anu described the Misrepresentation of that
law which had overthrow the splendid re-
publican phalanx and had given Congress
over TO the widest assortment of political
freaks that ever added to the gaiety of ma
tlons He went on to describe how Mr..
Beles had once again shifted his horizon"
ana now sought. with some local success"
70 restore the prosperity of a republican
administration by advocating the "unlim-
tied manufacture Of 50-cent dollars"
The republican side displayed a good deal
Delivers remarks. but Mr.. McAfilin
CIenn.) angrily protested against consum-
ing the brief time for debate with a po-
iltlcal harangue. and Mr.. Knox (Mass.)
n.I N fha l.,,k
speech would furnish but a poor answer
to those whose interests were affected
when they asked for the reasons for the
passage of this bill.
Mr.. Bartlett On. W opposed the bill to
repeal the free alcohol clause In the name
of the druggists and manufacturers of
New York city.
Mr.. McMllin, i'm advocating the bill, de-
MED that the proposed legislation was in
The interest of the whisky trust.
MIR. DinGIey's Closing Remarks.
After some further remarks by Mr.. Col
son (KyD and Mr.. Parker On. j., in op-
position to the bill. Mr.. Dingley, chairman
of the ways and means committee, closed
the debate In favor of the measure. There
were, he said. three facts to be borne In
mlnd--frst. this was not tariff bill; IL
was simply an internal revenue bill; Sec
ono, with claims against the government
p1llng up good administration demanded
Its repeal, and third, the present provision
was absolutely unavoidable II was known
to be SO when 1t was placed in the bill
by the Senate 1t was expected that 1t
would be reframed in conference.
The Commission Amendment.
At 2 o'clock general debate closed, and
Mr.. Evans formally offered the amendment
for the appointment OF commission to ex-
anime all questions relating to free alcohol
and report at the short session Of Con-
gress. Mr.. Quigg (N.Y.) asked why this
amendment could not be substituted for the
bill Mr.. Evans replied that this idea was
fanciful. Mr.. Walker tMass9 declared that
the action of the ways and means commit
tee was a Justification of the admins ira
tion's course in refusing to enforce the law
Mr.. Skinner (N.CD offered an amendment
to exempt from internal revenue taxation
ell brandies, high and low wines and other
spirits distilled from fruit