Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-10
THE DUTY ON RAW COT TON
Agreed To by the Senate on
 ' Tuesday sss .ss
BRINGS UP A DISCUSSION
Which Prevents Action to Any Great Extent
 on the Tariff Bill Democrats Taken to Task by Their Colleagues.


 period of tariff speeches today and as a 4 resuEs little progress was made. MT. Raw ; line, of Utah. and Mir. Mills, of Texas. discussed the democratic atti ude on the tariff from their respective standpoints. Latter in. the day Mr. Cannon, of Utah, aEH proposed an amendment providing for an " export bounty agricultural products; He spoke for two hours on the need of giving the farmer share of the benefits a of the tariff.
 sa MT. BrI1er, of North Carolina, also elss spoke in favor of giving the farmer equal benefits with oth-r classes under he bill Only half page elf the bill, covering four brief and comparatively unimportant i paragraphs 229 to 293, were disposed of during the day. The session will begin at Il a. m to- morrow.
 Considera ton of the tariff bill was rt- 5 stunned a. 12:s0 today No mention was | made as to the time of taking up the sugar paragraph and the debate contia ued on the agricultural senedule. Wnein Wi rio. was reached MT. Allison withdrew amendments reducing house rates, leav- ing the house ra.es to stand s
 MT Mills moved to strike out the whole rice paragraph and moved substitute el placing a uniform duty of 40 psr cent q ad valorum on all grades of rice; rejected; yeas 19, nays 40. Five democrats, Bacon, :. Clay, McEnery, McLaurin and llllnah, and four populsts Allen, Butler, Hei.e field and Stewart, voted with the fepup- licans in ths negative. The rice paragraph was then agreed to as it came from the house.
 Rye was agreed to as reported. D. Paragraph 291 on tapioca had been struck out by the ssnate. ,.- MT. Rawlins, of Utah, took the floor to answer MT. Vests statement of yes-er7 day that new evangelical or democratic doctrine was being proclaimed. MT. Hawkins said he had bsen a member on the committee on resolutions and plat form and had assisted in preparing the tariff clause which was under discussion. It was under his motion that it was agreed to-
 MT Lindsay of Kentucky, with the platform in hand, interrupted 10 ask MT: Rawlins since he prepared the taI'iff clause why the good old democratic word ''only" after tariff for revenue' came to be omitted. Was it an intentional omission?" MT. Lindsay asked.
 q think not" responded MT. Rawlfns.
 q can throw some ligLt on that sub ject," said MT. Tilman, who was aleo a member of the committee on platform at the Chicago convention. Tt was omitted purposely after discussion" eMr Rawlins reviewed the course of the democra ic party in early tariff iegAia. tion. The essential principle of this was that all burden ard benefits should be borne equally. This was no evangelical evil or raalesnake, as MT. Vest har char aoterized it, and there was no need of amy democratic senator invoking She All mighty against such doctrine. It came to democratic senators pure and unde- filed from the democratic fathers and he would support f..
 Mr Mills severely arraigned the bill as class measure designed to build up a vast fund for dis ribution among the ben eficiaries of the bil and at the expense of the forgotten man." .he taxpayer. He indirectly criticised those democratic Tod fOr Ina a ma md ]r16 to the bill putting tax on cotton and other articlels, con'tending that their course was a radical departure from the tenets of democracy.
 Mir Mills closed with an ominnus pre- diction that the abandonment of demo- cratic simplicity would bring forth out of the dark some his. brian to write the chapter on the 'Decline and Fall of the Great American People"
 Ths senate amendment was then agreed to striking out the house provision on tapioca (23D.
 ,Mr Vest moved to strike out the para graphs (292 and 23S) placing a duty on wheat at 25 cents per bushel and on wheat flour a t 25 per cent ad valorum-s rejected; yeas 15, nays 35.
 Four democrats, Bacon. McEnery, Me- Laurin and Tillman and two populists, Allen and Heitfeld. voted win the repub- licans in the negative.
 grhe paragra phs on wheat and what flour were then agreed to.
 Mir Cannon took the floor to speak on his amendment. but yielded a momen. to allow MT. Thurston of Nebraska to pre- sent what he termed some evidences of returning prosperity in the shape of some editorials from Nebraska papers showing a general revival of business
 .Is not the Wilson tariff law still ,on the statute books?" asked MT. Gray, democrat, of Delaware
 "It Is; but 1t is the expectation of the pa ssage of the pending measure" replied MT. Thurston, which is causing this re-
 Mr Berry, of Arkansas. asked to have read a statement recently made by ex- Postmaster General Wanamaker about the deplorable condition of affairs
 Mir Cannon objected, saying, amid laughter. that it would be cruel. inhuman and unjusifiab ble to have Mr. Wana- makers statement injected alt this point of the proceedings
 After some further crcss firing Mr Can non proceeded with his speech. He de- nounced the pending measure as grossly and palpabably inequitable because it increased the sales of the products of the soil in the lowest market in the world and the purchase of the manufactured arti- cles in the highest market. The original document which contemplated the pro- lection of manufactures, he still sub scribed to. The trouble was that the agricultural world which at the begin ming was ready to support the manufac- turcrs struggling for existence, had fal- len far in the rear.
 The only ground upon which the doc Urine of protection could stand was that it protected the labor of this country from the wolfish pauper labor of the worfd.f But how could any ono contem- plate prdtection to the laborers of the shops and factory and deny 1t to the la. bor of the field. The farmer compel. q with the world If this bill was rot just the country would be plunged next year into the agony of tarid agitation. If it was just it might endure.
 MT Cannon said he hoped that 1t might ep6urA with slight notifications many years because this country was waiting for the settlement of greater question than this. This proposition of fered by him for export .bountIes on ag.S to his attention by David Lubin at the meeting of the Trans Mississippi con-