The record-union., 1897-06-05

WASHINGTON, June 4.-Senator
Butler, in the course of a speech in the
Senate on the income tax to-day, re-
ferred to the Indecent haste" with
which the pooling bill was urged i'm
mediately after the recent decision Of
the United Staes Supreme Court
against the antitrust law.
Senator Cullom, Chairman of the IN
terstate Commerce Committee, resented
this statement, saying that the pooling
bill was not being pressed with indie
cent haste and that such a statement
was a Misrepresentation of the facts.
Senator Chiffon, member of the In
terstate Commerce Committee, in turn
differed in toto with Chairman Cullom
and said the pooling bill had not been
seriously urged until after the recent
decision of the Supreme Court on the
trust law.
The Senate met at IL a. m. with a
view to expediting the tariff BILL Two
speeches We're announced for the day,
one by Mantle (Silver Rep) of Mon
tana on the wool schedule of the tariff
bill, and another by Butler (Pop0 of
North Carolina on his joint resolution
to amend the Constitution so as TO give
Congress the power to impose income
taxes
Mantle was recognized at the opening
of the session and addressed the Senate
for two hours He said that there had
been no opportunity for presenting the
wool growers side of the contention in
the other branch of Congress for the
reason that owing to the brief time al
lowed for debate the wool schedule had
never been reached by the body. He
presented fully and supported with nu-
merous tables and statistics the wool
growers side of the controversy, and
showed the enormous losses sustained
by the wool growers in the depreciation
in value of sheep and wool during the
past six years.
He declared that by reason of the
enormous importationS in anticipation
of the enactment of a tariff law, the
wool growers would not receive much
benefit from a protective tariff for four
years to come.
He asserted that whenever a tariff
law is to be enacted the powerful man.
ufacturing interests of the country, with
their compact and effective organiza-
ton. are always on the ground and IN
the committee rooms pressing their in
terests while the farmers and wool
growers and producers of raw materials
generally are an isolated and scattered
class from the nature Of their vocations,
and thus lacking in effective organiza-
ton: hence in the past their interests
had been neglected and they had not
received their just share of protection
The great majority of wool growers
of the country are, he said, protection
lists and Republicans; most of them are
believers in the free coinage of gold
and silver Independently by this coun-
try. but the question of protection and
free coinage having been divided in the
last campaign, the wool growers, ac-
cepting the pledge contained in the Re-
publican platform in favor of ample
protection for WOOL" and believing the
protection to be the paramount issue,
cast their votes in the doubtful States
for Mckinley and elected him.
The tariff bill as it passed the House,
and as now amended by the Senate, he
said. utterly fails to meet the expecta-
tions of the wool growers, and is re-
garded by them largely as reputation
of the Republican pledge of ample
protection for wool.
The wool growers of the country, he
continued, are indignant over the
treatment of their interests. and he
warned the Republicans that they must
change the proposed rates or they
would lose the support of this numerous
element in ensuing campaigns.
He asserted that the Mckinley law
had not afforded the necessary protec-
ton to the wool growers, and quoted
statistics TO prove the assertion. He
charged that it was full of loopholes.
permitting fraud and evasions, and was
especially emphatic in his denunciation
of the ad valorem duties proposed on
third-class woods.
The Senator quoted Senator Aldrich's