The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-03-28
.THE SOUTH DOESN. I
Ned ASS|STANCE. l |:
Will Manufacture Cotton
Without Government Aid.
CAPTURED Iron MARKET.
She vii! Yet Do The Same In Cotton
Manufacturing.
HOT DEBATE YESTERDAY.
McMillin Propticsics Future In
dustrini Greatness Of the South
Pittshur= Has Already Lost the
Iron Mnritei-StoW Progress of tho
DinGiey Bill Washington News.

Washington, March 27.-The House in
committee OF the whole progressed even
more slowly in It's consideration Of the
tariff bill to-day than yesterday, hav-
Ing disposed Of but five and i half
pages against nine and half The day
before. This was at the rate exactly OF
one page an hour. and if the same rate
should be maintained until the expra-
ton OF the period allotted foy discussion
by the order adopted last week. there
wtll be 81 or the 1913 pages OF the bill
considered when the measure comes to
vote.
MAKES a REPuBLIChAIN TIRED. #
The lnnority's methods Of handling
the bin provoked Mr.. Johnson. Rcpubli-
can, OF Indiana. to protest against the
Irrelevant discussion which impeled
progress, and IN which members Of the
Committee on Ways and Means. III
charge Of the 'Dill, induiged. as. well -as
Democrats, and to ask Chairman Ding
ley If q change could not be made which
would 1'esult In more rapid work.
When the House entered upon Its
work this morning there was not q quo
rum present, as revealed by 4 vote, and
there was j wait OF fifteen minutes un-
I'll 1Ol members appea red. The discus
sion took 4 wide range, covering the
propositions that the foreigners pay the
tax under a protective tariff; that duty
Oh hides would be more beneficial to the
cultural schedule; that pig iron can be
produced III Alabama and Tennessee in
competition with the North and foreign
countries with 4 smaller duty than 81
ton (althcugh no motion was made to
reduce it,: that trusts are III the main
benefit TO the consumer
SOUTH ASKS NO F.AVORS.
y general debate on the matter OF cost
Of producing pig iron In the North and
South and the necessity Of continuing
he duty Of 81 q ton, followed on state
ments by Wheeler. Democrat, OF AlaIba-
ma, and Cox, Democrat, Of Sennessee,
that the duty was not essential to the
successful production OF pig iron III
those States.
Mr.. DalZell, Republican, Of Pennsyl-
rania, argued that 1t was to the advan-
tage Of the Southern States to maintain
the duty Notwithstanding the advanta-
SeS they possessed in cheap labor, con-
Wet and negro, and the close proximi-
ty OF stone, coal and iron deposits. The
shipments aboard wlich had been
spoken OF, he said, from accumulated
stocks for which the producers were
glad to find market anywhere
IN the course or further debate Mr.
McAlillin said the South had driven
Pittsburg out OF the pig iron market,
and that It would make things hot for
the North in the matter Of cotton manu-
facturcs. "And we won't ask the United
States to hold us UP while were doing
It, he added amid applause.
AS q. result or the days work q few
immaterial changes were made in the
chemical and earths and earthenware
schedules, proposed by the Committee
on kays and Means. and at AIS the
House adjourned until Monday next at
10 q. M