The San Francisco call., 1897-03-31

| farmer of the West paid no duty on hides,
while the boot and shoe manufacturers OF
| Massachusetts, had a high duty on his
prod uct. Why was it that the Southern
planter had free cotton and the New Eng
| land manufacturer high duty on his
manufactured cotton. The answer was
| given with brutal frankness by the gen.
| tleman from Indiana Mr.. Franklin), who
said that the people OF the West and
! South must first vote the Republican
ticket, or what Is the same thing, for a
high tariff, before they would be permit
| ted to participate in the DEMENT'S OF the
| protective system.
In conclusion Clark said that the people
of the South and West might be fools,
| ms the gentleman from Massachusetts
| (Walker) denominated them, but they
| knew enough to know when they were
J being sand bagged, and to say to the high
| wayman of New England that they had
some rights that he ought to respect.
| [Applause.
A little later Mahoney (R.) of New
| YORK took occasion to say that he was
tired of the continued unloading of Grover
Cleveland upon their party and that for
one men mber of that party he repudlated
| him.
Carmack CD of Tennessee inquired a
moment later if there was anything in
| the bill which proposed an increase of
duty on Grover Cleveland? If there was
it must have been passed when tallow was
unuer consideration. Democratic ap-
plause.
Bland proposed an amendment author
| iZing the free admission OF articles pur-
chased abroad with the proceeds OF agrl-
| cultural products raised in the United
States and exported. Supporting the
am endment, Bland said the bill was
| framed in the interests of the East. He
appealed from decision Of the chair
Sherman (R.) OF New York; that the
amendment was not in order, and the OBJ
lection was sustained.
Referring to the suggestion by Bland that
the bill was framed in the interests of the
East Henderson (R.) of Iowa called atten-
| tion TO the fact that the West controlled the
| Republican majority OF the committee,
seven to four. He said that no man. dead
or alive ever saw a tariff bill pass through
the House which met his approval in every
respect. Under a protective tariff the
West enjoyed the best prosperity and
greatest happiness it ever enjoyed in the
history OF the Republic. Applause
At intervals during the progress of the
debate the following amendments pro-
posed by the Committee on Ways and
Means were agreed to: PROVIDING that no
gloves above number six should be
classed as ehildren's gloves; making metal
strings for musical instruments dutiable at
| 45 per cent ad valorem; reducing the
tariff on cocoa mating from II to cents
| a yard and on cocoa mats from 10 4
cents a square foot; making siate-pencils
! dutlable a cents hundred instead OF a
gross; making silk boitlng clotn, Tor mill
ing purposes only, duiable at % per cent
ad valorem; permitting the free entry OF
500 worth of household utensils belong
ing TO immigrants 10 the United States ;
of glass disks for scientific instruments, of
dried fish sounds, of dyes produced from
coal tar and not made In this country, OF
crude salts evaporated from mineral
waters, of carbonate oil potash, OF sheep
dip, of shrimps and otner sheiltish
Smith CD OF Arizona and Cowherd I'd. }
of Missouri opposed the proposed increase
III he duty on cattle.
Dingley offered an amendment provid-
ing Tor the Tree entry OF scientific appa-
ratus. instruments, chemicals, books,
| maps, ETC., such as are not made or pub
lished in the United States, when ex-
pressly i'm ported in good faith by and for
the use OF any regulated established or in
corporated institution of learning or sci
entifc society or public library and not
intended for sale.
Pending this an animated debate oc-
CURED on the lumber chedule between
Arnold (R) aud Brucker CD of Michi-
gan, the latter denouncing the duty as
"a bsurd and wicked"
The free book amend ment was agreed
TOLL to 81.
Tawney (R.) of Minnesota moved to
change the duty on horses and mules to
$40 on animals valued at less than $3.50 a
head 25 per cent ad valorem on animals
valued at over that sum.
On this Hill Or OF Connecticut made a
vigorous speech on the lumber duty. He
asserted and defed contradiction that all
the tariff changes had ever added a dollar
to or taken from the price of lum Der paid
by the consumer. A motion by Tawney
was agreed TO putting duty on leather
shoeIaces less tnan yard long of % cents
a dozen pairs and 25 per cent ad valorem,
and on laces over yard long 60 cents a
dozen pairs ami 25 per cent ad yalorem.
An amendment offered by Grosvenor
(R. OF Ohio was agreed to reducing the
duty on bronze or Dutch metal or alumi-
mum, III leaf, from TO cents a package
of 100 leaves; also an amendment increas-
ing the duty on bigh-cIass photographic
! labels of ten or more colors, printed in
white or in part in metal leaf from 80 to
40 cents pound.
i In lieu OF the paragraph in the bill re-
iating to mica. Grosvenor tR.) of Ohio
l offered the following: Mica. cents pei
| pound on dimensions inches square OF
less, and cents per pound additional for
| each ad iltlonal square inch, provided that
the maximum duty shall in no case ex-
ceed so cents per pound.
This. he explained, on the higher grades
of mica was less than the present al
| vaIorem duty of 20 per cent. The amend
ment was agreed 10.
A motion by Evans (R.) Of Kentucky
was agreed 10, amending the paragraph
prohibiting the importation of convic,
labor made goods so as to require the
Secretary of the Treasury to make regula.
tions necessary to carry the provisions
into effect
On motion of Dngley powdered choco.
late. unsweeteaed, was put i'll the list at s
cents pound, considerable reduction,
he said. This ompleted the list of COM
mittee amendments and the reading of the
bill at the point reached last Saturday was
resumed.
Proceedings of the committee were in
terrupted to permit Speaker Reed to an
nounce his signature 10 the joint resolu-
tion appropriating $3.50. 900 for the relief oi
the Mississippi Valley food sufferers and
making appropriation to meet deficien-
| cies.
Lsntz D.) of Indiada made a
speech on the coal duty. He said that
under the operation of the present duty OF
40 cents a ton the mines Of Ohio and
other Western States had exported nearly
| a million and a half tons of coal into
Canada, while Nova Scotia had sent to
the Eastern market OF the United States
less than 100000 tons. He asked why
| General Grosvenor, representing a great
State joining his own, had not protested
against this surrender by the four East
ern members of the Committee on Ways
and Means to the anthracite pool with its
millions of surplus and denounced the
internal outrage of tho increase of dutv
1 from a