The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-05
Tariff Schedules Laid Aside to Per-
nit Display of Oratorical Abil=
ity by Mantle and Butter.
AN ATTACK ON AN ALLEGED TRUST.
Some Progress the Bill When the Fireworks Had
Been Given Their Opportunity
to Explode.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-The senate
had period of speech making today,
and, as result, little progress was
made on the tariff bill. The advance
covered about two pages, or seven par
agraphs, and brought the senate up to
the wood schedule, the first item of
which was considered but not complet
ed. Mr.. Mantle CMont.) spoke for two
hours on the wool schedule. urging in
creased rates for the wool grower, and
Mr.. Butler IN. c. made plea on be-
half of the income tax
Mr.. Mantle was recognized at the
opening of the session and spoke at
length. His speech was interrupted by
demand for quorum. It took half
hour to secure the quorum, and then
bill was passed appropriating $225,000
for public building at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, and the house amendments to the
relief resolution for the sufferers by the
Rio Grande river were agreed to. Mr..
Mantle then resumed his speech. While
he was referring to the opposition of
the wool manufacturers against the
wool growers, Mr.. Platt Comm inter-
rupted to state that he did not regard
the remarks fair to the bulk of the
wool manufacturers. Some wanted free
wool; some did not. But he believed
that the general sentiment of wool
manufacturers throughout the country
was favorable to a sufficient duty on
wool. Mr.. Mantle answered that he
did not mean that there was an active
warfare, but experience had shown that
there was a hostility by the wool man
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MIR. Mantle received close attention
from the Republican side He was
followed by Mr.. Butler On. c. on the
subject Of an income tax. The SEN
ator referred at the outset to the re-
cent supreme court decisions on the
income tax and on the antitrust law
He added an expression Of surprise at
the indecent haste with which the pool
ing bill was being urged before con-
g;ress, Immediately after the decison of
the supreme court on the antitrust
law.
This aroused Mr.. CulIom, chairman Of
the interstate commerce committee,
now considering the pooling bill, to a
spirited reply. The senator from North
Carolina was making statements about
which he knew nothing, said Mr. Cul-
lom. The pooling bill had been before
congress for months before the su-
preme court decision, and it sought tC,
strengthen the interstate law He re-
sented the statement of indecent
haste" and said such a characterize
tion was a misrepresentation Of facts.
Mr.. Chiffon CTexas), another membsr
of the interstate commerce committee.
said he had been on the committee
for two years and he had never known
of the pooling bill being pressed until
after the recent supreme court de-
cision against railway pooling. He
differed in both, he said, with the
chairman Of the committee, that the
pooling bill ought to strengthen the law.
In his Judgment it would destroy the
interstate commerce law, and the pass
age Of the bill would be a fatal expert
ment.
Mr.. Butler, resuming, said Mr.. Chill
toms statement had fully justified his
original assertion, and he would leave
it to the public to judge whether there
was indecent haste. He would, he said,
insist on the consideration of a measure
authorizing an income tax before any
pooling bill was brought before the
senate. He declared that the pooling
bill was in the interest Of the most
gigantic trust in existence, compared
with which all other trusts are pig
mics. The senator then spoke on the
merits Of an income tax. .
The consideration of the tariff bill
by paragraphs began at 8 o'clock.
Lead ore, lead dross and metallic min
eral substances Q79 to 1S1 inclusive)
were passed over. The mica paragraph
Q82) led to contest Mr.. Pettigrew
IS. d. moved to increase the rate by
adding a specific tax of 10 cents per