The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08


The discussion went on Tor some time,
veering from lumber to hides. In the
course OF 1t Alien spoke of thousands and
thousands of millionaires" on the Atlantic
coast
"How many mi!lionairesP" Chandler
asked, with an air OF surprise.
About 4000." Allen SAID. II do not
know that the Senator from New Hamp-
shire is one of them. l hope not. A
third OF century ago and before the in
PRODUCTION of protective duties there was
no millionaire who had grown rich
through manufactures"
ThurSton and Spooner defended pro-
tective duties. Spooner spoke OF the mi ag
nitDde OF the lum Der industry, $3.50, 0OO. .OOO
being invested in it, and giving employ
ment in its various departments to 100 eco
men, so that nearly 100000 people were
depending on it He could not understand
how any Senator could arrive at the con-
ciusion that ii was fair or just or logical
to take The duty off white pine and keep
it on the spruce and hemlock OF Maine,
be yellow pine of Arkansas and the
South and the timber OF California, Wash
ington and Oregon.
Pritchsrd (R.) OF North Carolina said
that while Northern men had been sup
porting tariffs that encouraged the indus
tries of that section the Southern men
had been wise enough to do so. As
representative of the State of North Caro-
lima be proposed, as far as he could, to
have his State put on an equality with
the States of the Northeast and give it
equal advantage with them.
Gray denied the right of North Carolina
or any other State to levy tribute on the
people OF non-tim ber growing States. He
called 1t ''desp potism of wealth" In reply
to some remarks oy Wilson of Washing
ton, 10 whom he had yielded for a few
minutes, Gray declared that freedom of
fraH do h. 4 sss
an exception.
why do you draw line" Tillman broke
in, at the free coinage OF silver?" [ G neral
laughter
Free coinage OF silver" Gray replied
pleasantly, like flowers that bloom IN
the spring, has nothing to do in the case.
L think that protection and free silver
ought to go together; they belong to the
same class OF economy. Both want to
raise the prices by law"
May l ask the Senator a question:"
Stewart of Nevada broke ins
us it nything about Tree silverP" Gray
asked with a touch of sarcasm.
NC" Stewart reiorted. ~ am not
gong to ask you question about what
you cannot understand. Laugh ter.
What l want YOU TO explain is how can
revenue tariff be levied without increas-
ing prices?"
"Oi course it cannot be-" Gray replied.
But that is no reason why you should
levy tariff for the sake OF protection on
articles that produce no revenue. | no
more believe in the virtue of incidental
protection than l believe in the virtue of
incidental prostitution"
Rawlins of u iah condemned the Demo-
Gratis Tor Ignoring the silver question in
the last Presidential campaign, and CAT
iery, defending that action and declaring
ms eelief that Tree coinage of silver at 10
TO is more dangerous TO the prosperity
and peace of the country than eny tariff
law that could possibly be framed.
Finally vote was taken on Vests mo-
tion to insert the words, Except white
pine, so as 10 put that on the free list.
1t was re jecied; ayes 20, noes 38. All the
Republlcans voted IN the negative, as did
these Democrats: Bacon, Clay, McEnerny,
McLauien, Martin, RawLns, Tiliman and
White.
Allen moved as a substitute for the
wood schedule the provisions of the exist
ing law. This was rejected-2l to 81.
All the paragraphs of the schedule hav-
ing been disposed Of, Vest inquired of Al
llson as TO whether tbs sugar schedule
would be brought up tomorrow. Allison
replied that some changes woald possibly
be made in that sched ule by the finance
Committee and that these changes might
or might not b. ready tomorrow; tnat
Aldrich desired TO be present while the
IL
But he had been i'll for a week or so and
might or might not be able 10 be present
to- morrow; that if the sugar schedule was
not ready the tobacco schedule would be
taken up and failing that, the agricul-
tural schedule.
Jones CD of Arkansas, complained of
the am biguiiy of Allison's statement and
asked HIM to state definitely whether the
sugar schedule would or would not come
up tomorrow. Thereupon Allison gave
notice that the sugar schedule would be
passed over tomorrow and that the to-
bacco schedule would come up.
Quay gave notice that Tomorrow he
would submit amendments. One is to
strike out the section putting a duty on
leather. substi uting for il the section put
ting duty Of 10 per cent on all articles on
the free list, and the other is 10 add to the
paragraph as to the iron ore provis! on
that all iron ore produced in foreign coun.
tries from mines owned by citizens of the
Unites States or by corporations or part
nerships, controlling interest of which is
held by citizens of the Un ted States and
imported for their own use and not for
sale shall be exem ut from duty.
Platt of New York presented twenty
protests, containing several thousand sig
natures of citizens OF New York, Brooklyn.
and other cities of New York State. against
the proposed increase OF the beer tax.