The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-30
THE TARIFF DISCUSSION
Enlivened by a Day of Sensational
X, $50. Episodes.
REPUBLICANS OPPOSE THE Bill L
Two Massachusetts, Members Declare That
the Proposed Duties Are Higher Than
Necessary-Mr. Morgan Attacks the Cen
tral Pacific Road in the Senate.


Necessary-Mr. Morgan Attacks the Cen
trsl Pacific Road in the Senate.
washington, March 30.-Yesterday
was by far the most exciting DAY the
house has witnessed since the tariff
oepate begun. The proceedings through
out were OF lively order. and several
times bordered on the sensational. the
Democrats blocked proceedings in the
first instance until quorum appeared,
and then by strategic movement
forced meeting or the ways ana
means committee while the house was
considering the bill. The majority
members OF the committee had agreed
on some amendments which they de-
sired to offer without the formality OF
a meeting of the full committee.
Mr.. Bailey, the opposition leader,
said the minority would agree to this
IL assurance were given them that
they could offer two amendments.
When the majority ascertained, how
ever, that one of these amendments
was aimed at the steel rail pool and
the other to strike out the differential
on refined sugar they declined the pro-
SO obstreperous at one stage of the
proceedings in his efforts to check ir-
relevant debate that the speaker had
to be summoned to the chair to restore
order
But by far the most interesting and
important feature of the day occurred
toward the close of the session, when
Mr.. Mccall and Mr.. Lowering, two
Massachusetts Republicans, success
sively assaulted the BILL the former
charging that the duties were higher
than were necessary, and the latter
that the manufacturers wanted bill
that would live. I'VE don't want to
be strangled by free trade" said he
neither do we want to be smothered
by protection" This was the first
break over the party traces, and the
action led to some very plain words
from the Republican leaders. 1t was
a family row, which the opposition en-
joyed hugely Mr.. Russell, one of the
members of the ways and means com
mittee from Connecticut, poured hot
shot into the camp of the Massachu-
sets dissentors, exposing the fact in
the course of his remarks that Mr..
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turer, had asked for increases on the
finest grades of cotton yarns.
Mr.. Walker, of Massachusetts, also
attacked the position of his colleagues,
and the extraordinary discussion" as
Mr.. Dingley termed it, drew from the
majority leader vigorous statement
concerning the cotton and wooden
schedules. Not line of the bill was
read yesterday, the committee on ways
and means retaining the floor through
out the day with committee amend
ments About 20 of these were offered
and adopted. Most of them were not
of great Importance. The most i'm
portant placed copper on the free list.
Before turning to the arbitration
treaty the senate yesterday gave an
hour to routine business in open ses-
sion. Resolutions were agreed to, by
Mr.. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, asking
the secretary of the interior for infor-
nation relative to President Cleve-
lands sweeping order establishing for
est reserves, and by Mr.. Gallinger, of
New Hampshire, calling on the civil
service commission for the reason why
certain classes of workmen were sub
trary to the law of exempting laborers
from the classified service.
The first phase of the tariff in the
senate made its appearance in a senate
resolution by Mr.. Allen, of Nebraska,
declaring that tariff taxes on articles of
daily consumption should not be laid
so as to enrich one class at the ex-
pense of the masses. It went over.
Mr.. Hoar, from the judiciary commit
tee, reported favorably the bill to pre-
vent kinetoscope exhibitions of prize
FIGHTS in the District of Columbia and
the territories, and to prohibit the
sbipping of material for the exhibition.
MIR, Morgan, of Alabama, submitted
a minority report on the bill for a
commission to settle the Central Pa
cific railroad indebtedness to the gov
ernment, The report asserts that the
real occasion for this bill is to avoid
the disclosures and to provide for the
condonation of frauds and breaches of
trust on the part of owners and di-
rectors of the Central Pacific railroad.
(Which. IL thew were dealt with in
the spirit of Justice. would fasten LA
exceed the vast sums which the COM