The record-union., 1897-03-28

ductlOn of iron in Tennessee.
Underwood CD of Alabama said Ii
was absurd to claim that the reason
Southern pig iron manufacturers were
able to ship their product abroad was
because Of the low prices paid to labor
in the South. He said the report of the
Labor Commissions showed that the
average labor cost of a ton of pig iron
in the North was 81 AZ and in the
South 81 %. 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 Anal
gamated Association of Steel Workers,
The same wages paid at the North. The
fact that the iron, coal and lime We're
found side by side in the South consti-
tuted her advantage
Mr.. Dalzell asserted that iron ore was
being made and coal being mined in
Tennessee by convict labor. The scrip
system also prevailed in Tennessee.
Mr.. McMillin denied that the scrip
system prevailed in Tennessee. All the
protection Pennsylvania could pile up,
he said, would not save the Pennsylva-
MIA industry. 1t was the South, he
said, which was driving Pennsylvania
out of the market I'VE have only just
begun, he said. I'VE propose to make
it hot fer you, not only in iron, but in
cotton manufacture and we won't ask
Government aid, either democratic
applause.)
Mr.. Dalzell declared that the South
did not compete with Pennsylvania.
Only forge or foundry iron was pro-
duced in the South, and only bessemer
iron was used in the North.
johnson (R) of Indiana and Dingley
called attention to the slow progress
which was made with the bill. Only
nine pages We're covered yesterday, and
four hours of work had advanced the
consideration of the bill only two pages
up to this time to-day. The House.
Dingley thought, was wasting time in
irrelevant discussion.
Dockery, in reply, said it could not be
expected that the opposition would not
assail this bill in every feature. He
suggested that the time be extended so
that the bill could be adequately con-
sidered.
The little debate served to expedite
{
ceeded with the reading of the bill. A
committee amendment to place a duty
of three cents per pound on chlorate of
soda was agreed to.
Newlands of Nevada, after delivering
some remarks in favor of increases on
several articles, warned the "allied
forces" of silver, as he termed them,
that they must allow the widest diver
gence of views on the tariff and other
questions, if they were to live in har-
mOny. "Once We can organize the
friends of silver" said he, ''nine-tenths
of the people of the United States will
be with u.s.
Mahoney (R) of New York and Lentz
Cd of Ohio got in to a political dis
cussiOn which caused considerable par
tisan rancOr. In the course of his re-
marks Lentz denounced Cleveland as
the agent and political bedfellow of the
Republicans, and when taunted with
the fact that he had himself been a
god bug" he said he glolied in the
fact that he had graduated from the
class Of '"gold fools" into that of ''sil-
yer cranks.' He argued that every high
tariff agitation was an invitation to the
hOrdes of Europe to come here, and he
produced some figures to show that i'm
migration had been largely Increased
after the enactment of the Mckinley
law, and decreased after the enactment
of the Wilson law
Mahoney, speaking of Lentz's avowal
that he had only been a gold fool"
and was now a silver crank" created
a laugh by asking what could be ex-
| pected from such miscegenation. He
also caused a laugh at Lentz's expense
by charging that he had stood shoulder
to shoulder with Cleveland until the
moment of his nomination for Con-
gress.
At 4:15 p. rn., after completing five
pages of the bill, the House adjourned
Until Monday.