The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-01


 Washington, March 31.-Closing the debate on the tariff bill in the house, to-day, MT. Key. dem., of Texas. said the proposition of the amendment meant that the people of the country should be required to live under two different and conflicting laws. Even if congress had the power to so enact 1t would not be wise to use 1t. It was a Roman emperor who wrote his laws so high that the people could not read them and then punished his subjects for violations of laws of which they were ignorant.
 The republican party intended to emulate that example which had been the generation of mankind ever since. Indeed they would so further and re- quire the citizens of the United States to live under law and terms and pro- visions of which were still confined within the bosom of the members of the senate. (Applause.)
 Mr Grosvenor offered an amendment to perfect the text, to cover the point suggested by MT. Richardson, dem., of Tennessee, which was agreed to, as fol- lows:
 Provided, That the lien hereby creat- ed and the liability hereby imposed shall be only for the excess of duty imposed by this act over and above the duties, if any, paid and collected at the time of importation of such articles.
 Mr of fered an amendment requiring all em- ployers of labor producing any protect ed article to divide equally with their employees all excess of profits over per cent. on the capital invested. Re- jected.
 The amendment as amended by the provision was agreed to-150 to 120, the vote being taken by tellers.
 MT. Grow, rep, of Pennsylvania, ad- dressed the house briefly upon the as- sertion that a protective tariff was the best revenue producer until the artt-> cles protected were produced in suff1- cient quantity to supply the home mar ket.
 MT. Linney, rep, of North Carolina. addressed himself to the criticisms of the bill by southern members upon the ground that in it's operations it would work prejudicially to the interests of that section. He admitted that there were slight defects in the bill and said he thought that the cotton of the south should be protected again the eighty- three million pounds of foreign cotton. But the defects were but as spots on the sun and the general excellence of the bill would secure his hearty sup- port.
 MT. Wilson, dem, of South CaroIinas said Mr Linney did not represent the sentiment of the great body of the peo- pie of his state, who did not ask duty on their productions.
 MT. Hartman, silver, Montana, said he would refrain from voting on the pending bill because he did not believe it to be the remedy for existing evils. and prophesied republican defeat in 1898 and 1900 for failure to give pros- perity and success under the bill.
 MT. Pierce, dem. of Tennessee, quot- ing Andrew Jackson, said he was ops posed to a republican protective tariff. MT. Smith, rep, of Michigan, said that while the bill contained some feat ures that he did not approve he was willing to take it as 1t came from his republican associates.
 | MT. McLaurin said that the attitude of the people of South Carolina to-day was the same as that of Mr. Calhoun seventy years ago, that protection for protections sake was wrong and a rob- bery.
 | MT. Savers dem., of Texas, moved an amendment to the hoop iron paragraph 1 to admit cotton ties free of duty, sup- | porting it in a vigorous speech. The amendment was not in order. | The committee rose temporarily, and MT. W. H. King, the new representa- | tive from Utah, was sworn in. l As the hour approached for taking the vote on the bill the attendance in and interest in the issue of the deliber- ations of the house seemed to grow. The diplomatic gallery held an unusual number of occupants. All the galleries were crowded and the corridors were 1 filled with anxious applicants for seats, who could not be accommodated. The l last hours for the consideration of the bill were largely given to general de- bate, in which Messrs. Brum, rep, of Pennsylvania, Williams. dem., of Mis- sissippi, Foss, rep, of Illinois, and AL len, dem., of Mississippi took part.
 MT Bolliver, responding to MT. AL | lens statement that binding twine had been placed on the free list, read the provisions of the bill which, he said, 1 put binding twine on the free list, in respect of every country except the only one from which any was imported into the United States--Canada.
 MT. Allen-Why don't you put cotton l bagging and ties on the free list under the same conditions? (Applause).
 MT. Bolliver-Because our experience has been that under a. protective tariff you get cotto nties for less money than under free trade. (Derisive groans).
 MT. Pearce, rep, of Missouri, an ex- pert, told the house that the manufac- 1 ture of cotton ties was not controlled l by trust, and that the price had been lower under a protective tariff than un- der the democratic policy. He gave the range of the market prices under tha Wilson bill to prove the correctness of | his statement.
 MT. Pearce said that under the Will