The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26
-FOUR DAYS OF GENERAL DEBATE
ON THE DINGLEY BILL
CLOSED.
AMENDMENTS COME NEXT.
UNTIL WEDNESDAY THE FIVE
MINUTE RULE WILL BE IN
EFFECT.
BAILEY UNABLE TO CLOSE DEBATE
By Special Agreement He Will Have
an Hour Before the Final Vote
Is Taken.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The four
/ days of general debate in the house
on the Dingley tariff bill closed to-
/ night. Beginning tomorrow the bill
/ will be open for amendment under the
1 ive-minute rule until next Wednesday,
when the vote will be taken. Mr.. Bail
/ ey, of Texas, the opposition leader, who
! was to close the general debate for his
/ side today, was unable to make his
! speech, owing to a severe sore throat,
and & mutual arrangement was made
for an hours debate on a side just be-
fore the final vote is taken The
I speech-making was not Of a very lively
order, but the crowds in the galleries
! continued. Five members of the ways
and means committee spoke today
/ Messrs. Tawney, Dalzell, Russell. Payne
and Steele.
1 Mr.. Talbert opened the debate this
/ morning, and was followed by Champ
/ Clark Dem, Mo-, Mr.. Mcguire Dem,
Calo, and Mr.. Gum pop, Idaho, who
offered only brief remarks. Mr. Taw-
ney Rep., Mimi, a member Of the
/ ways and means committee, then took
/ the floor for twenty minutes Mr..
/ Tawney defended the lead schedule.
I which had been attacked by Mr.. Gum.
/ The latter said he had no criticism to
make Of the rates. He only asked that
/ they be collected.
I MI Tawney asserted that the CLASH
+ hcatlon in this schedule was such that
/ the duties could not be evaded. The
purpose Of the trainers Of the schedule
! was TO give American labor employ
ment in the smelling Of Mexican and
canadian ores and at the same time
/ 1uliy protect the American lead miner.
! MI. TaWney sketched the attitude of
1 the Two parties on the subject Of the
/ tarlH to show how steadfastIy the Re
pubhcans had chung to protection. and
how the Democrats had backed and
filled in their national platforms
Mr.. Simpson pop, Kan) entertained
the house for five minutes. and Mr.
! COZ dem. TENN and Mr.. McPa4
tDem., Ark followed The latter
rldlculed the idea that prosperity had
existed under the Mckinley law or
would exist under the Dingley bill
II 1t became a law
THEORY OF PROTECTION.
Mr.. Grow, the venerable ex-speaker
mace a general speech in favor of
IIe theory OF protection. The latest
democratic cry for more money and
/ less taxes, he said, was preposterous
Inc Democratic administration had
! demonstrated its lack of statesman shin
/ by belng unable to keep out of the
I poorhouse. -
Mr.: Burke Dem. Tex said the hin
should De entitled "A bill to build IN
trusts and corporate influences and OBJ
press the agricultural people of the
tinted states Mr.. Lentz Dem. OF
protested becaTse but twenty minutes
/ were given to the six Ohio Democrats
representing 100000 persons who had
voted for William J. Bryan. Demo
cratic applause)
Mr.. Dalzell reviewed the results of
! the Wilson and MCKINLEY bills and d.
4 nounced the ad valorem system of the
/ nrst as giving opportunity for i'm
mense undervaluations. He defended
4 the bill against the charge that if
/ fOstered trusts
The political economy Of Adam
4 Smith has long since been relega4ed
! where 1t belongs" he said. The in
1 dustr1al world has been revolutioniznd
/ Dy the introduction of the factory
! system 1t IS no longer the single
! FARMER or the single mechanic. but the
! great aggregatiOns of wealth necessary
! 70 carry on vast enterprises. which are
] recognized by the laws Of every state"
He would not say there were not
/ abuses incidental to the tariff system
! but in free trade England there were
/ more monstrOus trusts than the United
! states knew anything about, and he
oted Tor example the English steel
! ran trust and read from an English
/ paper concerning a new combination
/ OF the great armament manufac curing
! nrms- All the cry about trusts was
an exhibition Of ignorance of economic
conditions Mr.. Dalzen was warmly
congratulated when he concluded.
! MIR. Colson Rep.. XVI argued in
favor of a higher duty on camel coal
He said if the issue in Kentucky had
/ been free silver alone. Kentucky's vote
/ would have gone to Bryan Mr. Steele
/ Gtep-, Ind member of the WAYS and
means committee, gave ii as his opin-
! ion that the pending measure was the
most complete tariff bill ever framed.
not only because of the duties imposed
but because Of the superb method pro
/ VlCed for the collection Of those duties
At 8 o'clock Mr.. Bailey CTex0 was
! recognized TO close the general debate
for the opposition, but he stated that
his voice was in no condition to speak.
and that an arrangement had been
reached with Mr. Dingley by which
! the house would be asked TO modify the
] special order so as to allow an hour
10 each side to close after the conclu-
4 sion of the five minutes debate next
! Wednesday.
QUESTION OF SURPLUS
Mr.. De Almond charged that the real
purpose Of the Republicans was to
pile up surplus in the treasury which
could be used to lock up the green
backs and treasury notes. and thus
contract the currency so that the peo-
PIE IN desperation would eventually
be forced TO accept one of the schemes
! for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the natiOna /
| banks.
Gould not the surplus be used to paw
| off the $3.50, 000, 600 of bonded indebted
| ness contracted by q Democratic ad-
! m1nlstrauon? asked Mr. Milliken
(Rep-, Me).
1T was not a Democratic administra-
! tion," replied Mr.. De Almond. TT was
| an adminiSrra ion 1,r,fc,-t..-. . IL L..