The record-union., 1897-03-30


aimed, as Mr.. Bailey said, at the steel
rail trust
Mr.. Dingley refused to agree to such
a proposition.
Mr.. Bailey objected to the consider
ation of the amendment, and was sus-
tanned.
While some general debate was in
progress the members of the Ways ana
Means Committee We're convened, and
some amendments formally agreed to-
which were Immediately presented IN
the House. One of them so changed
the paragraph relating to forgings OF
iron and steel as to impose uniform
duty of IL cents per pound ON all forg-
ings, without reference to weight. Ihe
proviso placing duty of 30 per cent.
on seamless steel or iron tubes used for
bicycles was stricken out.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Whee-
ler at the direction of the Ways and
Means Committee, was adopted reduc-
ing the rate on malt extract from %
to &c cents per gallon. The duty on
lead sheets, pipe, shot, etc, was in
creased from 21i to 2l15 cents, to corre-
spond with the duty on lead in pigs.
plates, etc, at 1 cent per pound was
stricken out, and copper placed on the
free hist. Albumen was placed on the
dutiable list at . cents
The paragraph relating to trees,
nursery stock, etc, was recast. The
duty ON dates and currants was re-
duced from 1la to one-half cent, ana
the rate on toothpicks raised from I12
to cents per 200, and 1o per cent.
ad valorem.
Mr.. Simpson at this juncture offered
some amendments, which We're ruled
out of order. He also had read a long
statement which, he said, defined the
position of the Populists toward the
tariff 1t stated in effect that the tar1ff
had been the football of politics for a
century and that the PopuliStS had no
faith in the ability of either the Re
publican or Democratic tariff law 10
remedy the evils of the existing gold
standard.
Mr.. Mccall was the first Republican
to slap the bill in the face. He boldly
expressed the opinion that the duties
in the bill We're too high. He especially
mentioned wool The Democrats forth
Are the duties on woolens manufac-
tured in New England too high?" asked
Hopkins CR.) of Illinois.
Mccall at first evaded a direct reply,
''but / do not hesitate to state" he
continued that the duties in this bill
are higher than necessary for the just
purpose of protection"
But, about woolens,'' interposed
Hopkins, Il insist upon an answer to
my question:
The duties in this bin are too high"
reiterated Mccall. Then, turning de-
family to Hopkins, he continued: ITO
reply categorically to your question, /
do not hesitate to say / think these du-
ties could be reduced without detri-
ment either to the wool growers or the
wool manufacturers.
Grosvenor expressed regret that a
representative of woolen interests
should have criticised the duty on Wool
inasmuch as the duties on woolenS were
far above il ad valorem the duties on
American wool.
Citron and citron peel were placed in
the basket clause, and the rate on pine
apples cents per pound, was changed
to a duty of 6 cents per cubic foot in
barrels and $6 per thousand when in
bulk.
Soon after Lowering (R) of Massa
chusetts, large manufacturer, fol-
lowed McCall's lead, and again
aroused the plaudits of the opposition
by declaring that the manufacturers of
New England did not want the duties
in the cotton and wool schedules in the
bill. neither the compensatory nor the
straight duties. we want tariff law
that will live and stand" said he. I'VE
do not want to be strangled with free
trade, neither do we want to be smoth-
cred with protection"
Russell, one of the members of the
Ways and Means Committee, poured
hot shot into the camp of the Massa-
chusetts dissenters, exposing the fact
in the course of his remarks, that Low
ering, who was a cotton manufacturer,
had asked for increases on the fine
grades of cotton yarns.
Walker of Massachusetts also at
tackled the position of his colleagues,
and the extraordinary discussion" as
Dingley termed it, drew from the ma
jOrity leader a vigorous statement
about the cotton and wool schedules
He said it was the unanimous testi-
mony of the cotton manufacturers that
they could not maintain their own in
the manufacture of the finer grades
without the duties in this bill The
Wilson law furnished adequate protec-
tiOn to the coarser goods which were
being manufactured in the South, but
the New England manufacturers testi-
fed to the necessity for these increases.
AS to the wooden schedule he said it
was substantially the same schedule of
the Mckinley law, and gives the man
ufacturer no more than the cotton
manufacturers obtained. 1t simply
compensated the manufacturers for the
duty on wool. The manufacturer had
as much protection under the act of
1894. bat the duties were reduced at
the expense Of the farmer. The duty
on wool had been restored in response
to the demand from farmers that they
receive the same consideration as the
manufacturers.
This bin" he continued, lis designed
to restore our industries and the oppor-
tunities for labor If the demand for
products is increased prices will be in
creased and we will once more raise to
the condition which made us the envy
of the world"
Fitzgerald and Moody of Massachu-
setts also spoke
The Senate resolution appropriating
S25003o for immediate use on the
| Mississippi. amended so as to carry
Si4o,ooo for clerk hire for members to
July lst; S20.0o0 for miscellaneous ex-
penses of the House, and 81 900, 900
customs deficiencies. was adopted, and
at DO p. m, the House adjourned