Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-09
FIFTY-F0URTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April 9.
SENATE.

VOORHEES,. of Indiana, and Morgan, of
Alabama-was alluded 10 in the open
ing prayer of the chaplain.
a letter from the general secretary of
the Armenian Relief Association was
read by Mr.. Gallinger. 1t presents the
extreme urgency of the situation in
Turkey and asks that steps be taken to
stop "the most appalling sacrifice 10 the
history of the world"
Mr.. Gallinger expressed the hope that
some means would be found to check
Turkish atrocities.
Mr.. Frye, chairman of the committee
on commerce, gave notice that that
committee would be in session to-mor-
row, Saturday aud Monday to hear any
Senators who might desire TO propose
amendments to the river and harbor
bill, and that the committee would not
hear any afterwards.
Mr.. Mantle addressed the Senate in
support of the famous resolution to re-
commit to the finance committee the
House tariff bill passed in tue early
days of the session. He spoke OF the
unwarranted aspersons cast by the
metropolitan press on the Senators who
favored silver coinage and who voted
in opposition to that bill; and he de-
Tended those Senators and the people
of the silver States from the indiscrlm-
mate charges of selfsbness and lack of
patriotism brought against them. He
gave statistics to show the high condi
ton of prosperity, morality and educa-
ton in those States, as compared with
States further east: and he declared
that, in point of intelligence, morality,
love of home life, love of order, social
status, and civil and political organiza-
ton, and in their answering love and
devotion to everything purely Ameri-
can, the people fthe far western States
were the peers of the people of any
other section of the country.
Mr.. Mantle argued against the Ding
lev bill, declaring that, while it pro-
fessed to be in the interest of the wool
growers, it was really in the interest OF
| the wool-manufacturers A tariff bill,
he said, should be so adjusted as to
guard every American industry that
needed sheltering arms to shield it from
the degrading competition of other
LANDS. He admitted that, while he was
an ardent believer in the principle of
protection. he was an equally ardent
believer in the advantages of bi-metal-
ism; and without bi-metalism no pro
tective tariff could guard against
the competition that is coming,
and to come from China and Japan.
Unless parity was established be-
tween gold and silver one Of two things,
he said, must inevitably happen !:
Either the wages and standard of liv-
ing in Asia must be raised to he Amer
lean level; or else the wages and stanc-
ard of living in the United States
should be reduced to theirs. He was,
therefore, iu favor of uniting the poll
cies of bi .metalisn and protection. He
declared that the republican silver Sen
ators would have been quite as fully
justified in aiding the democrats to re-
peal the Mckinley law, as other reput-
lican Senators were in joining the ad-
ministration democrats to secure the
unconditional repeal of the Sherman
law. He expressed the hope that TIE
resolution would be agreed to, and
that the Dingley bill would be reported
back, with fair protective substitute
and with q provision for bi.metalism.
Mr.. Hawley said that he had few
figures which proved that Mr.. Mantle
was mistaken in supposing that the
wool manufacturers were benefited by
he Wilson tariff bill.
He said be did not call to mind single
New England Senator who had ever
moved, or voted, to take the duty off
raw wool.
Mr.. Hoar made some remarks in the
same line. The Senator from Montana,
he said, had intimated that the repre-
sentatives of New England were per-
fectly willing to leave wool-growers in
the lurch. That Senator, however,
could not find n New England Senator
who had tailed to stand by protection
on wool.
Mr.. Mills said official statistics show
ed that there had been much larger
introduction of wool into the United
States then had ever taken place under
any protective tariff; that every pound
of that wool had been manufactured by
American labor, aud had found
market. Statistics iurthered showed
that the people OF the United States
had got their imported wooden goods
so per cent. cheaper then under the
Mckinley tariff.
E0UsE.
The House, upon meeting, resumed
consideration of the bill to abolish the
compulsory pilota2e system, so far as it
relates to sailing vessels engaged in the
coastwise trade. Mr. Cooper, who pre-
pared the views of the minority of the
committee on merchant marine and
fisheries in opposition to the bill, made
the first speech.
The bill was advocated among others
by Mr.. Elicit (dem., Va), and antago-
nized among others by Mr.. Tyler (dem.
Va.)
The bill was defeated-117 to 80.
ATE A SPoNGE.-Mrs. Jrene Hunter, "a
years old, the wife of a laborer, living at 81
Vandam street New York was committed TO |