Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-23

senate had not allowed the retroactive
clause of the bill to stand, at least until
the bill was about to become law. Had
it remained in the bill, he said, S25 100000
of revenue would have been added to the
treasury.
Mr. DoclIery, Democrat from Missouri,
aroused the Democrats by interfering a
remark about the sudden increase in the
value of sugar stock in anticipation of the
enactment of the proposed sugar schedule.
As to the question of revenue to be
raised by the bill, Mr.. Dingley pointed out
the difficulty resulting from the large an
ticipatory importatons. The bill next
year, he calculated, would raise 1925, OOO,.
600, S75, 600, 900 more than the present law.
Over S40,000,000 had been lost in this
years revenues by the importatons of wool
and sugar and other things, the duty on
which was raised in the bill, so that he cal
cuated that the bill this year would raise
S1S5, 900.
Mr.. Dingley declared that there was no
doubt that the revenue produced by the
bill would not only be ample to meet the
expenditures of the government but allow
a Republican administration to. begin again
to pay OFF the principal of the public debt,
which had been increased by the late adj
ministration.
The principal reply to Mr.. Dingley was
made by young Mr. Bailey of Texas, the
recognized leader of the minority. He de-
voted much time to an attack on the bill
as one drafted to prevent foreign compe-
tition and at the same time domestic COM
petition through combinations and trusts
A notable part of his address was that in
which he renowned the doctrine of free
raw materials, saying it was beresy fos-
tered by President Cleveland and not be
ieved in by the Democratic masses. The
wool on the sleeps back, he declared,
was as much the shepherds finished prod
uct as the cloth was the manufacturers,
and the wool growers were entitled to as
much consideration in the laying OF taxes
as the manufacturers Mr.. Bailey's de-
nuucatiou of free raw materials was Wig
orously applauded on the Republican side,
as new statement of Democratic doctrine
modified by economic experience in this
country. 80. "a - -
Mr.. Mcmillan, Democrat, criticised Mr..
Bailey's new exposition of Democratic
policy, and declared that he himself had
never advocated a tariff on wool. Demo
cratic doctrine for free raw materials, he
said, did not begin with Abram S. Hewitt
in the Forty-ninth Congress, but was as
old as the party. Mr.. Bailey, he said, had
voted for free coal and free sugar in the
Fifty-third Congress and didn't then think
it heresy. In the Fifty-second Congress
Mr.. Bailey, he said, voted for free wool
and was in no position now to criticise
him as hereto.
Bailey made a briet reply to Mcmillan,
stating that when he voted in the Fifty
second and Fifty-third Congresses for raw
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his party and subordinated his own judg-
ment to his party platform. He had now
received commission from the supreme
tribunal of his party to denounce this doc
trine which had been reversed by conven-
ton action and he proposed to denounce it
in the future.
The Republicans, by arrangement, re-
Trained from consuming time in debate,
the only speeches from that side having
been made by Mr. Dingley in opening and
Mr.. Payne in closing. The announce
ment of the result was received with great
applause by the Republican members, in
which the galleries participated. Every
Republican in the House who was present
voted for the report.
The tariff conference report was pre-
scented to the United States Senate We'd
nesday, but little progress was made on 1t
beyond the formal reading of about two
thirds of the report. Senator Tillman
threatened a ilibuster until next Decem-
Der If cotton bagging and cotton ties were
not restored to the free list. The sugar
amendment occasioned long debate, dur
ing which Senator Allison stated that the
conference rates were lower than those of
the Senate and largely concession to the
House. Senators Vest, Jones, Berry and
White questioned this statement, urging
that the sugar trust secured larger benefits
from the conference schedule than from
any previously offered. Senators Teller
and Pettigrew criticised the lumber sched-
ule. Early in the day the Senate passed
Joint resolution authorizing and requesting
the President to take all necessary steps
for the release of the Competitor prisoners
from prison at Havana.