The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-04-02
READY FOR A VOTE.
The Discussion on the Dingley
Bill About Over.
MANY POLITICAL SPEECHES MADE.
An Attempt Made to Extend the Debate
but 1t Was Lost-Hides on the Free
List Causes some Debate-WiH Vote
on the Bill Today.


tariff debate in the house. Political
speeches were wedged in at every op-
portunity and there was constant ma
noeuvering for political advantage.
The opposition directed their efforts as
far as possible toward stirring up dis
sensiOns on the Republican side, but
they succeeded only in exposing sin
gle instance of revolt. That was on the
subject of free hides. The Democrats
pressed the question of a duty on hides
for the benefit of the farmer with such
vigor that Mr.. Hepburn (Rep.. La was
drawn into the debate, and made
strong plea for dutiaDle hides. He de-
manded that the house be given an OPP
portunity TO vote on this question, and
declared that every western Repubh
can was in favor of it. Mr.. Cannon
Oils also gave qualified endorsement
TO this demand. The Republican lead
ers defended their bill with vigor.
The ways and means committee held
the floor with their amendments for six
hours. About 30 were offered and
adopted Among them was one ad-
mitIing, free of duty, books, scientific
apparatus, charts, maps, etc, for
scientific and educational purposes.
After that five more pages of the bill
We're read, making 20 pages III all of the
l62 pages of the bill.
The bill was open for amendment un-
til l o'clock today. an attempt to eX-
tend the debate having failed, after
which an hour on a side will be allowed
TO close. The voting Will begin at >
O'Clock The Democrats displayed a
good deal of anxiety to get i'll an
amendment TO strike out the dlfferen-
tial on sugar, but they probably viii be
frustrated in this. The only motion
they may be able TO secure a vote on is
one TO recommit with Instructions.
This nation has been prepared in the
shape of a resolution, and Is the Dock
cry amendment to suspend the duty on
articles whose prices are controlled by
trusts or combinations. Even this
motion may be held to be out Of order
under the special order. There is some
talk of number of Republican votes
being cast against the bill, but after in
vestigatiOn 1t seems probable that those
who may be dissatisfied with particular
provisions of the bill will line up on
the final vote, and there Will be no
break IN the Republican ranks.
Among the amendments adopted
were the following:
Paper not specially provided for, %
per cent ad valorem; hats, bOnnets,
etc, unbleached, 10 per cent, bleached,
% per cent making the duty on brushes
uniform at 40 per cent safety fuses, So
per cent qualifying the duty on crude
tartar dutiable at ! cent per pound so
as TO provide that such tartar must not
contain more than 80 per cent of bitar-
trate of potash; striking out paragraph
3S2 fixing duties on Orienal, Berlin and
similar rugs (Mr. Dingley explained
that the effect of this amendment was
TO restore the duties of the act of 1890
on carpets) TO change the phraseolOgy
of the embroidered glove schedule to
meet a recent decision of the board of
general appraisers. Another amend
ment provided that no gloves larger
than size 6 should be classe as chill
drens' gloves
MIR. Cannon (Rep., Ills) prefaced his
was for the pending bill He was not
pleased with all its features. He never
had been pleased with any revenue
bill. He appreciated that there must
be spirit of give and take, and he was
frank to say ne thought there could
well be duty on hides, as the impress
sion was deeply grounded in the west
that a duty on hides would raise the
price on cattle 81 head.
Mr.. Slayden (Dem., Tex expressed
qualification that the dormant Repubh-
can conscience had been awakened in
spots. He proceeded to argue that a
duty on hides would be of practical
benefit to the cattle raisers of the plains
of Texas, Kansas and the Dakotas.
MIR. Bell Pop, Col warned the Re-
pubhcans that if they passed this bill,
containing high duties, without impos-
ing at least revenue duty on hides,
distinctly u product of the farm, they
would regret it. Why should the wool
men of few states be so generously
dealt with and the cattle raiser denied
anything?
MIR. Dingley defended the action of
the committee, saying that we could
tan hides with our cheap material for
the foreign market. Weighing the bal
ance of advantages, the committee de-
cided against duty on hides,
Our tanning industry, he said, was
adjusted TO free hides. and it was de-
cided that duty on hides would not be
of advantage to the farmer, and would
be a distinct disadvantage to our export
trade
MIR. Hepburn (Rep., Ia then came
forward with vehement speech in
favor of a duty on hides. Mr.. Hep
burn declared that the wool interests
dwarfed in contrast with the vast cattle
interests of the country. Iowa was
more interested in hides than wool. She
hides and not 10 per cent of that
amount of wool. He demanded that
the ways and means committee allow
the sense OF the house to be taken on
this question, and affirmed, with great
poSitlveness, that every Republican
from the west favored a duty on hides.
1--WE insist" he shouted, that the
tanning and leather industries of New
York, Pennsylvania and New England
should not be allowed to stifie the de-
mands of the west" Democratic ap-
plause.
Mr.. Dockery contributed to the con-
troversy over hides the statement that
you were notified by a member OF the
senate, then a representative on this
floor, (Mr. Lodge), that if hides were
not left on the free list Massachusetts,
would defeat the bill"
Mr.. Norton Dem, o. } made a vicious
assault on the majority. Instead of de-
nouncing Mr.. Cleveland on every occa.
sion. he said, the other side ought to be
down on their knees at the feet of his
''perspiring obesity and ponderous pom
dsrosity," thanking him for the oppor-
tunity he had given them to again "rob
the people"
An amendment rating steel strings
for musical instruments at 40 per cent,
one putting bolting cloths for milling
purposes at % per cent free under Nc
hlnley bill and reducing the duty on
cocoa fiber and rattan mating from to
cents per sqnare yard and on mats of
a similar material from TO cents
were adopted.
Mr.. Perkins rep, ,Ia.) made humor-
ous speech of five minutes, deriding the
Democracy and its panaceas for the
peoples ills. Magnesia. not medicinal,
carbonate of potash and sheep dip were
placed on the free list.
Mr.. Henderson la-) took occasion at
this point to deny that this bill was
framed IN the interest of the east. He
pointed out that the west held a major