Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-27
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, March 81.
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session TO- day
HOUSE.

Inc Senate was nOG III SeSSiou uou"J
HOUSE.
The necessity of the continued pres
ence of quorum of the committee OF
the whole was demonstrated at the be-
ginning of to.day's session. 10 the
first paragraph that was read after the
House had gone into committee on the
tariff bill, Mr.. Richardson moved an
amendment reducing the duty on
| whiting from one cent to half cent.
On the division the vote was yeas ii,
noes 81, and upon the announcement
MIR. Richardson made the point of no
quorum. He said that o measure of
this Importance should not be consid-
cred by fifty men only.
Mr.: Dalzell, innocently-YVhere are
all the democrats this morning?
Mr.. MISUNDERSTANDING with the
republicans. There are proportionate-
ly as many present on this side of the
ball as on yours.
Chairman Sherman counted slowly
and in ten minute was enabled to an
nounce 101 members present and that
Mr.. Richardson's amendment had been
rejected.
The duty on acetate OF lead, white
and in colors, was increased half cent
q pound to 4 and 81 cents respectively.
MIR. Richardson called attention to
the increase Of rates proposed in the
pending bill on the articles in the chem
ical schedules and in reply to Mr..
Dockery said the duties in the Dingley
bill were absolutely greater than in the
Mckinley bill. He gave in detail the
average percentum of duties on the sew
eral schedules, IA in number, showing,
as he claimed, an increase all along the
liue. MIR. Richardson said the figures in
! the comparative statement furnished
| by the committee did not bear out the
assertion of Chairman Dingley in his
opening speech that the duties in the
pending bill ranged between those OF
the Mckinley and Wilson bills.
MIR. Dockery said that bill that in
creased the taxation upon the people
100000 and imposed an average
rate of duty of 5703 per cent, while the
Wilson bill was but 1904 per cent.
and the Mckinley bill 1855 per cent,
was likely to cause the people to call
attention to it frequently and forcibly.
! Mr.. Hopkins.-The bill proposes to
increase the revenue of the government
100000, not the taxation of the
people, because we believe that the
bulk of that sum will come from the
foreigner who pays the tax. cloud
democratic laughter.) And if the
gentlemen had taken as long to study
the question as they have to perfect
:, that guflaw they would know il to be
true.
Replying to question Mr.. Hopkins
said the reason why no duty was put
on hides was because they were a by
product and the country could not pos
sibly produce enough hides or more
than small percentage 10 meet the
demands of trade.
Mr.. Walker was asked by Mr..
Richardson if the protective tariff re-
duced the prices of manufactured ar.
ticles why they wanted tariff. To
this MIR. Walker replied that it was for
the purpose of preserving the American
market for American workingmen.
Mr.. Terry asked if Mr. Walker claim
ed that the tariff made hens lay more
eggs.
"Well," answered Mr.. Walker amid
laughter, ''if that isn't democracy for
all the world. The democratic mind
cannot comprehend the idea of more
hens, but thinks that tariff makes the
hens lay more eggs. We claim that
The tariff makes more hens"
MIR. Simpson, recurring to the mat
ter Of hides, said that if a duty was
imposed on hides it would do the farm.
er more good than the duty on every
article in the agricultural schedule. He
discussed briefly also the proposition
that the foreigner pays the tax, and
suggested that the experience of the
people would be that the foreigner
would object and refuse to do it. La
conclusion he said SIN my boyhood
days read of the labors of the early
republicans in behalf of humanity and
human rights. Among the prominent
leaders of the party then was the VEN
cradle ex Speaker of this House from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Crow, and I re.
joiced in his. labors in defense of human
liberty. And it is one of the regrets of
my life, that coming to this House, find
him here in his old and declining days,
tie defender of trusts and combines,
whose purpose it is to enslave the
American people, white and black.
1t shows the decadence in that party
that he stands on the floor of the House,
the defender of every organized band Of
plunderers in the United States.
AS to Mr.. Simpsons contention re.
garding the payment of the tariff, Mr.
Payne said he knew no better answer
than the experience of two farmers, one
a resident of his district and the other
q resident of Canada just across the
river, MY constituent" continued Mr..
Payne, took 100 tons of hay to
Buffalo and sold it for 81 900, which he
brought back and put in his
home bank. The Canadian farmer
also took one-hundred tons of
hay to Buffalo and sold it for $1,000.
But he had to leave $500 with Uncle |
Sam as duty, lit was under the Nc
Kinley law and he took home with
him but 5000. And all the sophistry of |
democratic and populist free traders
cannot convince him that he didn't
have to pay that tax"
Responding to this, Mr.. Terry said
the fallacy of the gentleman's conclu-
sion was that it failed to take into con-
sideration the effect of that forty per
cent. duty on the market price. Had
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