The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
Five More Pages of the
Dingley Measure Dis
posed Of.
Wide Range of the Discussion
Taken Covering Varied
Propositions.
Some Dem oc-atic Member of the
House Have Decided to Vote
for Protection.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 27.-The
| House in the committee of whole pro-
| ceeded even more slowly IN its considera-
| ton of the tariff bill to-day than yester-
day, having disposed of but five and a half
| pages, against eight and half the day
before. The ilatory method of handi lin 2
the bill provoked Johnson (R. of Indiana
to protest against the irrelevant discus
sion, which imneded progress and in
which the members of the Committee of
Ways and Means in charge of the bill in
dulged as well as the Democrats, and to
ask Chairman Dingley if a change could
not be made which would result in more
rapid work. When the House entered
upon it's work this morning there was not
quorum present, as revealed by a vote.
After wait OF fifteen minutes ten men,
bers appeared.
The discussion to-day took wide range,
covering the propositions that the for
eigner pays the tax under a protective
tariff; that duty on hogs would be more
beneficial 10 the farmer than all the duties
in the agricultural schedule; that pig iron
can be produced in Alabama and Tennes-
see in competition with the North and
foreign countries with smaller duty than
s4 ton. although no motion was made to
reduce it, so that trusts are in the main
beneficial TO the consumer. As result of
the days work few immaterial changes
were made in the chemical and earthen-
ware schedules proposed by the Com nit
tee on Ways and Means, and at 4:15 the
House adjourned until Monday next at
10 A.
The necessity o. the continued presence
of a quorum of the com mittee of the whole
was uemonstra led at tile beginning of to-
days session OF the House.
To the first paragraph that was read
after the House had gone into committee
on the tariff bill, Richardson CD OF Ten
nessee moveo an amendment reducing the
duty on whiting from l cent TO u cent.
On the division the vote waS-ayeS IA
noes 81, and on the announcement Rich
ardson made the point of no quorum.
Chairman Sherman counted slowly and
IN ten minutes was enabled to announce
101 members present and that Richard
sons amendment had been rejected. Tie
duty on acetate of lead (white and in
colorS) was increased n cent pound
to cents from 8 y cents.
Richardson called attention to the jn-
crease Of rates proposed in the pending
bill on the articles in the chemical sched-
ules, and in reply to DocKery (D.) of Mis-
souri, said the duties in the Dingley bill
were absolutely greater tran in the Nc
Kinley bill. He gave in detail the aver
age per centum OF duties on the several
schedules-fourteen in mum mber-showing,
as he claimed, an increase all along the
line.
Dingley, responding to Richardson, said
his speech showed how a Juggling with
figures could be made to show an p
parent increase OF duties, when in fact
there was an actual decrease. Except upon
earthenwaTe, glass, tobacco, sugar and
silks, the duties in the pending bill were
less than those in the Mckinley bill, and
in many other schedules the duties were
the same as those of the present bill.
Dockerv said that bill that increased
the taxation upon the people $113 600, 600
and imposed an average rate OF 81 03 per
cent. while the Wilson bill was but 80 o.
per cent and the Mckinley bill 49, 5S per
cent, was likely TO cause the people to call
attention to it frequently and forcibly.
Hopkins (R.) Of Illinois-The bill pro-
poses 10 increase the revenue of the Gov
ernment $113. 900 900. not by the taxation of
the people, because We believe the bulk of
that sum will come from the foreigner who
pay the taxs. Loud Democratic laughter
And if the gentlemen had taken as long
to study the question as they have to per-
feet the guffaw they would know it to be
true.
Replying to question Hopkins said the
reason why no duty was put on hides was
because they were by-product. No one
raised cattle for the hides, but for the meat
prod ducts; ana the country could not pos
sibly produce enough hides or more than
small percentage to meet the demands
of trade. They had been on the free list
since 1878 and the consensus of opinion
was that there should not be change.
Simpson (Pop.) OF Kansas said that if
duty was imposed on hides it would do
the farmer more good than the duty on
any article in the agricultural schedule.
He discussed briefly the proposition that
the foreigner pays the tax and suggested
that the experience of the people would be
that the foreigner would object and would
refuse to do it. In conclusion he said:
''Iu my boy hood days read of the la bors
of the early Republicans i'll behalf of hu.
manity and human rights. Among the
prominent leaders of the party then was
the venerable ex-Speaker of this House
from Pennsylvania Grow, and rejoiced
in his labors in defense of human liberty;
and il is one of the regrets OF, my life that
coming to this House l find hin. here, in
his old and declining days, the defender
pose it is to enslave the American
people, white and black. Applause
1t shows the decadence in that party
that he stands on the floor of the House
the defender of every organized band of
punderers in the United States" lap.
plause.
Payne (R) of New York replied to
Simpsons remarks regarding hides. The
whole situation as to hides was this;
Nearly all the hides imported into the
United States came from hot countries
where nature has provided the animals
defense against insects and other pests in
the shape of thick hides and thin hair.
They are brought in for tanning into sole
leather ana do not come into competition
with the hides of the cattle in Kansas. In
the cold climate of the United States
nature protects the cattle with thick hair
and thin hides and they are used for the
uppers of boots and shoes. A dnty on i'm
ported hides would not profit the farmers
of the United States penny's worth.
A general debate on the cost of produc-
ing pig iron in the North and South and
the necessity OF continuing the duty of 81
ton followed upon statements by
Wheeler CD of Alabama and Cox Cd of
Tennessee, that the duty was OF essential
to the successful production of pig iron
in these States.
DalzeIl (R.) of Pennsylvania argued
that it was to the advantage of the South
ern States to maintain the duty, notwlth-
standing the advantages they possessed
In cheap labor, convict and negro, and
the close proximity of stone, coal and iron
deposits The shipments abroad which