The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-28
Oaly Il Pages of The Tariff Bill
Finished.
BAILEY WAS NOT ON HAND
McMILLIN AND RICHARDSON
BORE THE BRUNT.
SOME POINTED EXCAA NGES
Old Man GaIusha Grow in Eiis p ;tage
Turns to Personal Abuse and is
Rebuked by Vanaiver.

progress of the House on the tariff bill
was even slower to-day than yesterday.
Only five more pages of the 162 pages of
| the bill were disposed Of making four
| teen pages in all in the two of the five
days allowed for consideration under the
pages of the bill will be disposed of be-
| fore the bill comes to final vote. But
| five amendments were adopted to-day,
| all of minor Importance, and each an
amendment of the Ways and Means COM
mittee. All the questions involved in the
| tariff, with occasional incursions into the
realm of the financial theories, furnished
| fruitful topic for the members. Fully
| two hours were spent in the discussion of
| whether the foreigner or the consumer
paid the tax. This question bids fair To
| consume more time before the debate
| closes.
Mr.. Bailey, the leader of the opposi-
| ton, was absent almost all day, and Mr..
Richardson and McMillin, of Tennessee,
| bore the brunt of the hard fighting. The
Democratic policy, so far as it has been
disclosed, seems to be to attack the bill
| at every point, making trusts the especial
objcts of assault. The Republicans are
trying to advance the consideration of
the bill by refraining from debate, but
| they are forced by the attacks of the OPP
position to defend their measure. If
| more progress is not made, night sessions
may be held next week
Despite the admonition of Mr.. Ding
| ley just before the House adjourned yes
terday to the Republican members to be
| on hand promptly at 10 o'clock this morn
to prevent possible delays from the lack
of a quorum, there were only 10 mem
bers present when the House met to-day.
Mr.. Richardson Dem, Tenn, prompt
ly blocked proceedings, but the members
streamed in rapidly, and in - minutes
a quorum had appeared.
The Ways and Means committee con-
tinued to offer amendments from time to
time and these were mostly adopted
without opposition. The rate on acetate
of white lead was increased from 311a to
cents per pound; in colors from 212
to 3 cents. There was sharp exchange
of personalities between Mr.. Grow (Rep.,
PENN, and Mr.. Yandiver Dem, Mo-
The former was explaining how the duty
on tin plate had esta blished that industry
in this country.
You admit that Immediately after the
duty was imposed the price went up
seventy cents box?" interrupted Mr.
yandiver. who paid that taxY'
The price went up 20 cents, but the
duty was $1.29," replied Mr.. Grow.
who paid the difference?'
s1pYt hn pa;I tho IN nov, e.
Mr. Vandiver.
Mr.. Grow replied that he declined to
discuss the question with man who had
not the brains" to understand him.
This aroused the ire of Mr.. Vandiver
and he warned Mr.. Grow Indignantly
that if this line of argument was insisted
upon, there were those on his side who
could indulge in the ''unenviable act of
personal denunciation."
The debate branched off to the iron
schedule. Mr.. Wheeler Dem, Ala,
and Mr.. Cox Dem, TENN, asserted that
the Southern iron industry did not want
any protection. 1t was selling iron in
Pittsburg and the old iron centres, and it
was invading England without the aid
of protection.
Mr.. Dalzell (Rep., Pa.), said that CON
in the production of cheap iron in Ten
nessee
Mr.. Underwood Dem, Ala.), said it
was absurd to claim that the reason
Southern pig iron manufacturers were
able to ship their labor abroad was be-
cause of low prices paid to labor in the
South. He said that the report Of the
Labor Commissioner showed that the av-
erage cost of a ton of pig iron in the
North was $147, and in the South $1.52.
1t was true that the wages paid per
day in the South was probably lower, as
negro labor was employed, but the labor
cost was higher. In the rolling mills of
the South the wOrkmen received the
wages, fixed by the Amalgamation of
Steel Workers, the same wages paid at
the North. The fact that the iron coal
and lime were found side by side in the
South constituted her advantage.
Mr.. Newlands (Silverite, New, after
delivering some remarks in favor of in
creases on several articles warned the
"allied forces" of silver, as he termed
them, that they must allow the widest
divergence of views ON the tariff and 9th
err questions, if they were to live In har-
| mony. "Once we can organize the
| friends Of silver" said he, "seven- tenths
of the people of the United States will
be with u.s.
Mr.. Hahony Rep., N. ~, and Mr..
Lentz (Dem., o., got into a political dis
| cussion which aroused considerable par
tisan rancor. In the course Of his re-
marks, Mr.. I.entz denounced Mr. Cleve
land as the agent and political bedfel-
low Of the Republicans and when taunt-
ed with the fact that he himself had
been a "goldbug," he said he gloried in
the fact that he had graduated from the
class of ''gold fools'' into that of silver
| cranks."
Mr.. Mahony, speaking of Mr.. Lentxs
| avowal that he had once been gold
| fool" and was now "silver crank"
| created laugh by asking what could be
expected from such miscegenation. He
also caused a laugh at Mr.. Ientz's ex-
pense by charging that he had stood
shoulder to shoulder with Mr.. Cleveland
until the moment of his nomination for
| Congress.
At Ais the House adjourned until