The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-20
HOUSE APPROVES IT
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Mr.. Lewis asked Mr.. Grosvenor wheth
err /: was not fact that the duties or
white lead gave the lead trust $500,
900 of protection.
II do not know, and 1 do not care,
replied Mr.. Grosvenor, smiling.
Il knew the latter was true,," respond
ed Mr.. Lewis with his most debonair air
1.-The Republican party does not care
what outrage it commits
The house, then, at o'clock p. m. took
a recess until p. m, under the agree
ment made carrier in the day.
At o'clock, when the night session be-
gan, the galleries were crowded, many
ladies being present. Mr.. Dingley stated
at the outset that he hoped to secure a
vote by 10 o'clock. Mr.. Riley said II
o'clock was too early, but he thought the
vote could be taken by IL o'clock. He
would not, however, make a definite
agreement on the vote. Thereupon Mr.
Dingley gave notice that he would move
the previous question not later than II
o'clock.
IN me galleries were many 0iStAn-
guished personages OF both sexes.
The Republicans Still pursued the tao
tics that they had adopted during the
session. None Of them claimed the floor,
and the minority were compelled to put
forward their speakers. Therefore, after
Mcdowell of Ohio and Berry of Ken
lucky, bottle Democrats, had made brief
speeches, Mr. Bailey, the Democratic lea
der, who had been reserving his speech
for the close, took the floor. He made a
carefully prepared argument, dealing
more with the general principles than
with details Time and again during the
progress of mis- remarks, the Democrats
wer. aroused by his eloquence to high
pitch Of enthusiasm.
Just before the close of Mr.. Bailey
remarks, the most sensational incident
occurred. He had been assai.ing the doc
trine OF free raw materials as compar-
alive innovation in the Democratic
creed. In order to demonstrate that ii
was a product of Clevelandism. he sent
TO the clerks desk and had read an ex-
tract from a newspaper commenting on
the fact that in the Forty-ninth congress,
Senator Mills, then a member Of the
house, Mr.. McMiilin of Tennessee, and
two other Democratic members of the
ways and means committee had voted
against free wool. Mr.. McMillin jumped
TO his feet and demanded TO know wheth-
er it was charged that he had voted
against free wool.
Mr.. Bailey spoke for about two hours
and half.
Mr.. McAIil.in Dem., Tenn.,) who had
twenty minutes Of his hour remaining,
consumed this time in condemning the
sugar schedule, which. he said, had ad-
ded So, 900, 900 to the price of sugar certifi
Gates today, and in replying to Mr.. May
leys remarks about his record. Any
statement from any quarter that he had
ever advocated a duty on wool, Mr.. Nc
Millin declared, was unjust to him and
incorrect He had been consistent.
Moreover, Mr.. McMillin in turn delved
into Mr.. Riley's past and pointed out &C.
casions when the Lone Star statesman
had voted for free coal, free barbed wire,
free sugar and even free wool in the
Firty-second congress. Mr.. McMillin's
comment on the inconsistency Of MI.
Bailey's free wool caused much merri-
ment.
In conclusion, he appea.ed to the de-
mocracy 10 go into the battle again, with
its banners bearing the old notices.
Mr. Bailey got the floor after Mr. Nc
Millin finished long enough to say that
when he cast the votes referred to by
Mr. McMillin, the endorsed doctrine Of
his party was for free raw materials
and as a trial Democrat he supported its
platform declarations. He now held a
commission from the Democracy to OPP
pose that doctrine, and he should do
so.
Mr.. Payne and Mr.. Dingley successive
" took the floor for some c.osing remarks.
The former devoted his time to a de-
Tense OF the susSr schedule. He figured
out a differential in favor Of the refiner
in the present law, at the prices pre-
vailing in 1894, of 521a cents per 100
poupnds. Taking Mr.. Swanson's illustra-
ton Of the 80 degree sugar, Mr.. Payne
figured on the basis Of the amount of raw
sugar unrefined Ql1s pounds) that The
refiner under the present law had a diff
ferential OF .314 cent per 100 pounds,
against .1Io cent OIL OlliSl ctilidl III iie
proposed schedule.
Or. Dingley openly avowed that the
schedule gave a slight additional pro-
tection to refined sugar. but at the same
time, it raised raw al along the line.
Trusts he said. sould not be eradicated
by epithets.
The way to break down the trusts
he cried, lis to establish a beet sugar
factory in every district in the country,
and make competition. That is the way
10 clip the wings of the trusts
Amid a storm of cheers, Mr.. Dingiey
then demanded the previous question on