Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-08
TARIFF YINKERS AT WORK
Manufacturers of Fabrics of Earth,
Glass and Stone Before Ways and
Means Committee.
PACIFIC RAILROADS IN laE HOUSE
Lively Debate on the Pending Pacific
Railroad Funding Bill-Important
Facts May Be Brought to Surface
Sensational Charges.

washington, Jan. S.-The schedule O
the proposed tariff bill, including earth
en.ware, glass ware, marble and stone
brought fewer business men to the way
and means committee than had the othe
schedules considered this week.
H. W. Parker, of Beaver Falls, spoke o
tiles, asking for a reotifcation an
specific duties. On tiles now paying q
per cent ad valorem he recommended l,
cents square foot or 4 cents pound
on those now paying 40 per cent, 20 cent
a square foot or 6 cents pound.
There was large delegation of glass
blowers.
Louis Irrington, Of Alton, ILL.,, an
nounced that they desired the re.enact
ment of the Mckinley rates.
Edgar A. Gard, of Streator, ILL.,, read g
statement describing the Decentralization
to the glass bottle blowers business
brought about by the Wilson act. Under
the Mckinley act the business increased
three-fold, while prices fell 20 per cen,
under the new act. Under the Wilson
law the prices of bottles had decreased
from IL to 40 per cent and the loss had
fallen mainly on the workingmen, whose
wages had been decreased from Is to 20
per cent and the hours of labor had been
increased aim ost beyond human endur-
ance.
He recommended that the bottles in
which wines, liquors and mineral waters
were imported should pay the same duty
levied on empty bottles as we'll as duties
on the contents.
Chief officer of the flint and lime glass
workers, W. J. Smith, of Pittsburg, Pa,
asked for tariff which would secure the
manufacture of American used goods by
the American workmen.
SESSION OF THE HOUSE TO-DAY.
The house to-day resumed the debate
on the Pacific railroad funding bill.
Mr.. Patterson, Democrat, of Tennessee,
member of the committee, opened with a
half hour speech in favor of the measure.
1t was useless to discuss wrongs, he SAID,
which had no standing in court. The
truth was that the government had loaned
it's bonds to the projectors upon security
which the United States accepted. The
projectors occupied no trust relation to
the government. The second mortgage
held by the government covered 1898
miles and each mile carried an indebted
ness of $53,545.
~ confess" said he, "thst my face is set
like flint against government control of
these roads," Applause.
In conclusion he said that he believed
that the bill presented the best bargain
the government could make.
Mr.. Harrison, Democrat, Of Alabama,
another member of the committee, fol-
lowed in opposition to the bill. He be-
lieved that the time for action had come,
but the pending measure was too liberal
to the companies. The proposition made
by the Union Pacific to the government
was much better than this bill. The Union
Pacific was in better position to pay than
the Central Pacific. Why should both be
placed on the same footingf
Mr.. Harrison proposed a substitute,
which would create a commission con-
sisting of the secretary of the treasury,
secretary of the interior and attorney
general, with full power to settle the in
debtedness of all the bonded railroads.
In support of this substitute he urged
that congress could not obtain informa.
tion on which to negotiate; second, that
the house could not agree, and, third,
that the com mission could conduct
settlement in businesslike way to much
better advantage than the government
could by the passage Of hard and fast
bill.
Mr.. Boatner, of Louisiana, antsgonized
The bill. He insisted that the govern
ment to-day, by the execution of the
Thurman act, had lien on all the prop
erty of the road and that it obtained no
additional security by the pending bill.
He declared that the government was not
q helpless creditor of an insolvent debtor.
The government could not afford to dis.
regard the fact that these roads had been
aespoiled of enough money to pay the
entire debt.
He declared that the government had
the right, after it had exhausted it's
ability to secure its debt from the roads,
10 proceed against those who had de-
spoiled them. He wanted it distinctly
understood that this or any other funding
bill would give these men quit claim.
us not that the real purpose of the
owners of the Southsr, Pacific?" asked
Mr.. Maguire.
In my opinion tn6t If tne prime mo-
i've of all this legislation" replied Mr..
Boatner.
"The owners of these colossal fortunes
Ire more interested in relieving them
,elves of this liability than in settling the
lights OF the United States."
Mr.. Swanson, Democrat, of Virginia,
asserted that this bill constituted the
poorest proposition, from the stand
point Of the government, ever submitted
10 congress. Two years ago, be said, the
Union Pacific reorganization committee
offered proposition twice as good as
his.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES.
johnson, of California, in speech in
avor of the Pacific railroad bill, this
lfternoon, made sensational attack on
Mayor Sutro, of San Francisco, and Edit.
u Hearst, Of the San Francisco Examin-
r. johnson made serious allegations
gsiDst Hearst, and said that every mem
'er from California, except Powers,
sould favor the bill ii he dared to ex-
,fess himself.
pUNIsHMENT TdR CONTEMPT.
The bill limiting the power of judges
o punish for contempt OF court, which