The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-24

Nd. MAINE. WEDN ESDA
manufacturer had lost his market be-
cause his customers were too poor to
make purchases. Relief could not come to
the manufacturer till the price of wheat,
cnrn, oats, tobacco, and other products
increased. The cost of these products he
ascrlbed to the appreciation Of gold,
which would continue as long as silver
was oemonetized. He stated that sugar
trust would, unoer this bill have more
complets control of the$American market
OF retiDed sugar than it ever had.
Mr.. Swanson claimed that the prOvls-
ions of the bill would make possible the
| reorganization of the steel pool which
was recently broken. He said that since
that pool was dissolved the price of steel
| rails had fallen from $25 to Sl5 and
Carnegie now claimed to be able to make
a profit. of 81 per ton at the price of Sl5.
| Ii this WAS so nothing showed more COM
pletely the iniquity of tariff taxes than
the history of the steel pool.
| Mr.. Swanson pointed out how several
schedules of the Dingley bill, had been
prepared absolutely by she protected in
dustries seeking TO tax the people. The
bill proposed to collect about one-fourth
| of all the customs duties from the wool
en- clothes of the people. The rates OF
duties, he said. were on the avarage IL
per cent. higher than in the Wilson bill
and per cent higher than in the McKin-
| ley bill. 1t was the most exOrbitant
most prohibitory, most ubiquitous tariff
bill ever sought to be enacted in this
country.
| Mr.. Cochran, Democrat of Montana,
said the underlying cause of the present
| depression was the demonstration of
l otl I'D Il. f,u
a .tributing this trouble to that "emi-
nent Republican leader, Grover Cleve-
land, aided by his distinguished associate,
| John Sherman.
When MIR. Cochran concluded, the COM
mittee rose and the Senate joint resolu-
tion authorizing the Secretary Of War to
provide tents for homeless sufferers by
the Mississippi river floods was agreed to.
1t appropriates SIS, 900. The House tfen
| took a recess until s pollock.
| The first address of the evening was by
Mr.. Howard, PoDulist of Alabama. He
said that he would vote for the tariff bill
because he believed in the broad patriotic
principle OF protection to American in
| dustries.
Mr.. Spsrry, Republican of Connecticut,
presented petition of the president and
\ faculties of Yale university asking that
| books and philosophical instruments used
in educational institutions be continued
on the free list. Believing that no
principle of protection was involved in
the proposition, Mr.. Sherry said that he
would move to amend the bill In accord
ance with the plea of tina petitioners.
| Mr.. Kelley, Populist of South Dakota,
| denounced the bill as specimen of
"robber' protection.
j Mr.. Clarity, Democrat of Kentucky,
devoted himself to an exposition of the
amendment he proposed to offer to the
| II inH A <r.Io Il I1o
admitted In the ordinary channel of trade
to countries in Europe which now debar
1t from entrance except under conditions
that practically prevent its sale.
| AT TO- 80 the House adjourned.
IN THE SENATE.
These bills were reported and placed on
the calendar:
To amend the Act repeating the timber
10 establish uniform laws on the ques-
tion of bankruptcy throughout the Unit
| ed States.
| A constitutional amendment to make
April 80, inauguration day was intro
duced by Mr. Hoar and referred to the
committee on privileges and elections.
| A resolution was offered by MIR. Allen
| in relation to the dismissal of several
mioroscopists from the bureau of animal
| industry at South Omaha, Nebraska, and
| instructing the committee to examine
the different branches of the civil service
| to inquire whether those dismissals s
| were for political reasons.
| Mr. Allen made q lOpg explanation OF
circumstances and declared that these
employees had been discharged for no
other reason than because they supported
Mr.. Bryan and the cause Of free silver
during the late campaign. He oharac-
tertzed 1t as an absolute and unqualified
falsehood the excuse put forward by the
civil service commissioners that they
could not investigate the matter because
they had not the means to do so, and as
| serted that they we're as great a detri-
ment to the public service as SO many
tramps or common beggars.
| The proposition to refer the matter to
a different committee that on civil SER
Mr.. Hoar expressed thY hope that no
Investigation at all should be ordered
| just now. He said he. was chairman Of
1 the COMMITTEES designated In the resolu-
tion and also chairman of committee
on privileges and elections which com
m1ttee had important questions referred
to it, affecting the rights Of three sena-
tors but which had been delayed in
action on account of vacancies on the
com mituee. He did not think at this
special session suoh herculean task
should be thrown on any committee.
Mr.. Gallinger, a MONT Der OF the COM
mittee mentioned in the resolution said
that it would be impossible for him to
give any time to the proposed investiga-
tion. as heswas chairman of the com nit
rec on pensions, TO which had been re-
ferred more than half of 1900 bills intro
tduced at the present session. More than
twenty similar grievances had been
brought before him in the shape of CON-
munications and life was not long
enough for the Senate to undertake their
investigation. He looked upon the
civil service es'adminstered today. as ga
monumental humbug from top to bottom
and from beginning.t to end"
(applause in the galleries promptly re-
proved by the Vice President)
81 have voted against it, he said, Sin
| the other house and desire to have an
opportunity to cast my vote to blot out
the statute and let us return to con-
dition of things that will give to every
man and woman an equal right to hold
office with every other man aud every
other woman" (Ronewed applause.
''If that is the senator's doctrine about
| civil caryjcp caid Mr. Hrar tsand ar