The sun., 1897-06-05
SPEECHES DELAY TARIFF.
.y,y sEvEN PARAGRAPHS OF THE
VIII DISPOSED or YESTERDAY.

,,.,t,e Occupied Two Hours in Urging the
,,..,.lty OF n TariT sn Raw wooi-The
80, schedule or tho TariH nil Cone
",.,sd and tho wood Schedule Taken Up.
,p,su,SoroS June A.-Although the Senate
-, all o'clock TO-DAY and did not adjourn |
In half past B. tho progress made with tho |
S.s,g hill was very small. That was partly |
Ing 10 the fact that the first four hours Of the
...sion wcro consumed by two long speeches, |
-, In fnyor Of high duties on wool by Mr.. Man |
Al, ncp.. Monl, and the othor for q constitu- |
,lonal amendment to permit an income tax by |
wr butler Pop, n. O.. 1t was nearly o'clock |
nan the Tariff bill was actually taken up. The |
.,o,,l ,chodulc was completed, except as TO |
,hose paragraphs which had already been
nsssed over and except those relating to lead.
Mia. nickel, and watches, which were passed
ov,r to-day There we're only seven paragraphs
ar.lly prted on to-day when the wood schedule
m, was reached. Tho discussion of tho first
paragraph In that schedule, relating to timber
h,vn. sided or squared, was not finished when
the Senate adjourned.
Mr.. Mantle discussed the wool schedule, argu-
inr In favor OF a high duty on raw wool for the
hspeft OF American growers. While criticising
,bo position of the wool manufacturers no was
Interrupted by Mr.. Platt tRep., Conn.,, who said
that the Senator's remarks were scarcely fair to
whether they thought it an advantage to their
suslness TO have free wool or not he (Mr. Platt)
could not say. somo of them did, some did not.
with very few exceptions he beloved that tho
,,ntiment of the wool manufacturers was that
there should DO sufficiently protective duty on
wool.
Mr. Mantie's speech occupied two hours. Its
closing ideas were that no protective tariff
could exist in this country which did not fully
nrotect wool; that that was the corner stone of
he great arch OF protection, and that without 1t
tho whole structure Of protection would fall to
the ground.
Mr.. Butler Pop. N. C.) spoke in favor of q con-
,ttutional amendment authorizing the levying
Of an income tax. He had not proceeded far be-
fore one Of his statements ATTRACTED the atten.
ton OF Mr.. Cullom (Rep., ILL.,. Chairman OF tho
Committee on Interstate CommeFee, M who who con, On,
he matter Of a pooling Bill. Mr. Culiom said that
sessions, and had shown no undue haste in tho
matter. He added that as the committee antict-
Which would weaken the authority Of the Inter.
pal i'p purposes Of the bill which the committee
l the recent decision OF the supreme Court would
| not apply to II; In other words, that the com.
S aEirsn I railroad rate % was TOO high, but that
another rate would be regarded as reasonable
Mr.. Clifton Dem, Tex.,, another member of
the Interstate Commerce Committee, disagreed
with the Chairman as e & an at aSssnSc , Of desire
Ssen l member len Of the committee but had hoard
nothing OF pooling" bill until after the deci-
sion Of the Supreme Court.
mittee would report bill which would satisfy
the Senate and the people.
Mr.. Butler then went ON with his speech. He
declared that the Sugar Trust was an infant and
the Standard Oil Trust ,pigmy In comparison
with the transportation lines. The proposed
pooling legislation was intended to protect
In fact, he said they did not compete now ex-
eept at terminal points.
!. wa: nearly o'clock & when 1,t the Tariff bill
l79, $50, and 1917 were passed over.
Paragraph 1s7. relates to quicksilver. The
MAKES
The paragraph gave rise to much discussion, in
which the ownership Of the quicksilver mines
4 made the most OF BY Senators Stewart and Per
II kins. The committee amendment was agreed to.
II Mr.. Jones Of Arkansas moved reduction Of
cents pound tor the lead to three-fourths OF a
cent. and on new type from 20 per cent ad
s 10 ss Rs sSd eoet
MASH Is'-s5
uodifed on motion OF Nj, NJ. Allison By making
the duty on zinc in blocks or pigs l Z cent q
pound; in sheets, 2 cents. and on old and worn
The ~ wood schedule, D, was then reached.
Mt Allison .Rep ia:l moved to mi make Is the duty
n Mr.. Allison 8 amendment was agreed TO, but
u the paragraph was not completed when the bill
was laid aside.
The House amendments to the Senate bill.
providing system of signals on vessels in the
internal waters OF the United States, were
agreed to, and the Senate, after q short execu.
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