The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-25
JERRY READS.
Mr. Simpson of Kansas Enter
tains the House
By Reading a Passage From
McKinley'S
MINNEAPOLIS TALK.
Every Day Will Be Sunday Over
Here He Says,
If We But Tax the Foreigners
High Enough.
Declares Himself to Be a Free
Trader.
By Reading a Passage From
McKinley'S
MINNEAPOLIS TAI

Washington, March 25-This was the
last day of the general debate on the
tariff bill in the house. Mr. Talbert
CDem., S. c., in the presence of a very
scant audience, both on the floor and
in the galleries, opened the debate.
The house. however, rapidly filed. Mr..
Tafbert talked a great deal about the
robber barons
Mr.. Champ Clark (Dem., MOI, who
followed him, said as a Democratic
politician he reiOiced in the passage of
the pending bill, because, after it had
become a law, every storekeeper would
be obliged to make a Democratic speech
every time he made a sale. The pass
age of this bill he said, would give
the Democrats 100 majority in the next
congress.
After some brief remarks by Mr.. Ma
guire (Dem., CALI and Mr.. Gum tPop-,
IdahO), Mr.. TaWney (Rep., Mimi, a
member of the ways and means COM
Inittee took the floor for twenty min
utes. Mr.. Tawney defended the lead
schedule, which had been attacked by
Mr.. Gum. The latter said he had no
criticism to make of the rates. He only
asked that they be collected.
Mr.. Tawney asserted that the classi-
ficatiOn in this schedule was such that
the duties could not be eVade6. The
purpose of the trainers of the schedule
was to give American labor employ
1nent in the smelling of Mexican and
Canadian ores and at the same time
fully protect the American lead miner
Mr. Tawney sketched the attitude of
the two parties on the subject of the
tariff to show how steadfastly the Re
publcans had clung to protection and
how the Democrats had backed and
filed in their national platform.
Mr. Simpson Pop-, Kan.) entertained
the house for five minutes. He read
from Mr.. McKinley's speech at the
Minneapolis convention the declaration
ho q state
ment, he said, was ridiculous.
The last congress, he proceeded to
say, had increased appropriations $50
900 00O and now, according to Mr.. Nc
Kinley's theory, the taxes on foreigners
We're to be increased to pay for the eX-
travagance. The foreigner should be
glad. he said, that the last congress had
not been a two billion dollar congress.
If the taxes on the foreigner could be
sufficiently increased, he observed sar-
castically, the surplus could be dis
tributed among our people and every
day would be Sunday over here
Gaughter) He said he was himself a
farmer, who farmed the farms, not the
farmers. If the Republicans had de-
sired to do something practical for the
farmers, why, he asked, had they left
hides on the free list?
Mr. Simpson announced himself afree
trader
Messrs. Cox. (of Tenn.). and Nc,
Crea. (Dem.. Ark). opposed the bill and
Mr.. Grow. iRep.. Pas favored it. Mr.
Curtis, (Rep., Kan.) defended the agri-
cultural schedule and Messrs. Burke
CDem.. Texas and LentZ, CDem., %
attacked the whole measure
Mr.. Dalzell, CRep.. Pa.) made warm
speech in defense of the bill and an at
tack on the Wilson bill in which he
said had been marked by idle men and
women, busy soup houses and starva-
ton" He defended the pending bill
against charges that it fostered trusts
and said free trade England had far
more trusts than the United States.
SENATE.
Washington, March 25.-The senate
today, after a brief discussion, referred
the amended credentials of John A.
Henderson of Florida to succeed ex-
Senator Call to the committee on priv
ileges and elections and then went into
executive session on the arbitration
treaty