The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-09
VEST and THE TARIFF
An Attempt 10 Deceive The Farmers
as in 1899.
FRAUD, SHAM AND PRETeNSE
Trying to CaJoie the Agricultural
Classes by Absolutely speotacu-
lar Duties-sacon offers an
Amendment.

washington, June S.-When the agri-
cultural schedule was taken up to-day
Senators Jones OF Arkansas and Vest
made strong efforts 10 have the duty
ON cattle. barley and wheat and other
products reduced on the ground that
high duties on them were unnecessary
and merely intended 10 hoodwink the
farmers. but they failed each time and
the committee rates were adopted. Me
Emery. Rawlins and Tilman, demo-
Gratis. voted against their party ON most
OF these motions.
The paragraph relating To- live ami
mails was then agreed To- as reported.
that on hogs being amended to swine"
ON barley, Jones. Arkansas, moved 10
substitute ~ per cent. al valorem for
the rate in the bill. 20 cents per bushel
We now enter upon series Of enor-
nous increases In behalf of the farmer"
said Vest. ironically, and without Vio-
lating the rules of the parliamentary
procedure, | will say II is a fraud. sham
and pretense."
He declared that the idea Of protect
ing the farmer ON barley wheat. oats.
etc, when millions of bushels of these
products were being exported. was
palpable effort to deceive the agrcul-
tural classes. II was designed to cajolc
the farmers by absolutely spectacular
duties. IL was an old stale subterfuge,
he asserted. and the republican party
was trying to play on the ignorance of
the farmers by saying: My dear bu-
collie friend, we, your friends, viii un-
dertake tn deceive You as we did In 1890,
in order To catch your votes
Gear interposed the statement that
the debate was on the barley para
graph. and barley imports from
Canada. where there was cheap labor
and cheaper lands. Were over ll,00o,0oo
bushels the year prior 10 the Mckinley
act. and these fell Ia 3.0oo.oo0 after that
act. Gear said the farmers of his state
supported this increased duty on bar
ley and the grand master Of the state
grange was one of its chief advocates.
Vest turned his attention To the gem
eral features of the tarif debate, re-
verting to the course OF some of his
democratic associates In supporting
revenue tariff rates. There was "A time
once when he, too, was ignorant and
foolish enough to support the idea of
revenue duties with incidental protec-
tion. But he was soon disabused of
that idea. as he had found that II
turned the congress Of the United
States into a convention like that of
monkeys. who. while pursuing their de-
liborations were suddenly thrown In the
cage.
Vest declared he would give up his
seat In the senate rather than vote
against free lumber. free salt or free
wool. the three great achievements Of
the Wilson hill.
Mantle answered briefly that the bar
ley duties would be highly beneficial To
the barley raisers of Montana, Mime
sofa and Wisconsin. The vote was then
nd
disagreed to by vote Of IL To "A.
Three democrats. McEnery, Rawlins
and Tillman. and three populists, AL
len, Butler and Heitfeld. voted with the
republicans In the negative.
Formal amendments Ia reduce rates
on barley malt, buckwheat. corn or
maize. and cornmeal. offered by Vest,
were defeated. and the original para
graphs adopted. on each of the votes
on these amendments some democrats
voted with the republicans, which led
Vest tn remark THE vote upon this
side of ths chamber seems TO be getting
smaller ar mailer"
Lone I'd right" added Bate.
Bacon d an individual amend
ment tn be- fuOwn as paragraph 225is,
placing duty Of 20 per cent. ad valo-
rem ON raw cotton.
Bacon said the omission of this ar
tcle from the dutiable list was a viola
tion of the democratic platform that
tariff taxation shall be so imposed as to
discriminate against no section. The
tariff as a whole fell like "A dead weight
on the producer OF cotton. raising the
prices OF all articles essential to his use.
and yet on any article of protection. on
raw cotton. he was left In the lurch."
Last year the statistics showed that
80. 900 600 pounds Of cotton were import
ed into the United States. valued at
So. 600 900. The arrivals of foreign cot
ton were increasing constantly" said
Bacon. addressing himself particularly
To his democratic associates. why
should cotton be excluded from the
benefits OF revenue"
Stewart insisted II was time raw ma
terials % the South and West received
equal benefits with the manufactured
products of New England. Caffery said
the position OF Bacon had been clearly
exposed as one favorable to protection
for the interests of his own state. with
revenue as mere incident.
The vote was then taken on Bacon's
amendment placing raw cotton In the
bill at 20 per cent. ad valorem. II re-
sulted-yeas ~. nays ~. The republic
cans voted solidly for the amendment.
Allen. Butler. Heitfeld and Stewart
voted for it, Bacon, Clay. McEnery.
McLaurin. Rawlins, Tillman Kyle
populist. voted with the democrats
against II.
Al $50 o'clock the senate went into
executive session and soon after ad-
journed.
ON THE TRACK.
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