The times., 1897-04-15
GORMAN HAS cAL[EDAHALT
Criticises the Extravaganza Of
the Appropriation Bills.
HE QUOTES THE PRESIDENT
The Indian Appropriation Bill Called
I'D by Senator Peitigrew-Th
Maryland senator Specifies Some
Unnecessary Expenditures-A A Pre-
mature Debate on Wool.

A short discussion of the wooden tariff
schedule precIitated yesterday morn
ing in the Senate when Senator Mantle CT
fered an amendment from the Wuui Grow
ers' Association of OHIO favoTing a tariff
on the raw material Senator Mantle
asked 10 have the paper sent to the Com
merce Committee and made severa! a
iusions to The organized efforts Of the
wutivn manufacturers, whom, he chafSec,
had highly paid representatives 10 defend
their interests.
Senator. Huar defended the manafaetm-
ers. lie hoped that peace and harmony
would continue as 10 the wooen schedule.
Senator Mantle responded thathe agreed
in the main with the Senator from Massa-
chusetts that the interests OF the wU;d
growers and wooden manufacturers should
be the. same 1t was all right IA theory,
but he thought in practice ii was different.
AL the hearings showed that the wooden
ufacturers wanted to get raw wool
as low a 5 possible q nd get as high a price
as possible for the manufactured article.
lie claimed that the wool growers were
scattered about The country and not eff
fectively orga nized like the manufacturers,
whom he charged with having secured
in the old Mckinley bill certain provisions
which enabled the manufacturers TO evade
duties of certain classes OF wool.
Senator Gray secured the floor and re-
ferred to the sixty or seventy millions of
people who, he argued, represented tie
consumers and deserved as much con-
sideration as the manufacturer and wool
grower.
IF am not mistaken it is this seventy
millions of people who are to pay the
taxes imposed by this tariff bill, he said.
Yet they are not represented by any
organized body l desire TO call attention
to the fact that these taxes are levied for
the benefit of those classes outside Of The
seventy million citizens, who have no paid
Representatives
Some one on the Republican side Of the
chamber asked, How about the Demo-
cratic party?'' TO which Senator Gray re-
piled that he was glad that the Democrats
could defend the interests OF the people.
He said that no home market policy was
complete without an agreement between
buver and seller He thought that If
wool was TO get the fatherly and paternal
protection OF the tariff, hides should be
equally protected.
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, stated
that in twenty years experience in Con-
gress he had received but one letter from
a manufacturer favoIing free Wool Fhey
are perfectly willing, he contended, to see
protective duty on the raw material.
AT this point some one interrupted the
speaker and he retorted:
Don't break IA on a mans speech
Now. you made me forget what l WAS
going to say CMuch laughter)
Resumng his remarks, Senator Hawley
gave the assurance that his constituents
wanted a fairly-adjusted tariff which
would command the respect of all busi-
ness people or the country The manu-
facturerS are almost willing, he asserted,
to stand anything il guaranteed that it
would last for Ten years. The trouble was
the awful uncertainty.
Senator Morrill, hoped that the Senators
would not anticipate discussion of the
tariff bill. and then, as there was no OBJ
lection, the memorial was referred 10
the Committee on Commerce.
Senator Vest then called up his resolu-
tion declaring the action of the Secretary
of the Treasury, with reference TO the re-
troactive clause Of the tariff bill Illegal
and void. II c spoke at some length on the
propositiun He said he did not doubt
the power Of Congress to pass retroactive
legislation under some circumstances, Out
he did dispute the legality of any action
by the Secretary attempting to make iegis-
Iatfon operative before it wentlnto effect.
A motion was made 20 refer The resolu-
ton to the Finance Committee This car
ried by the narrow majority of one, silver
men generally opposing the motion, aud Re
publicans favOriHg it.
Senator Pettgrew ,ofSouth d Dakota. called
up for consideration the Indian appropIia-
ton bill, as il passed the Senate OF the last
Congress- He asked that the bill be read
and the committee amendments dispoSedo Of
as reached. When they were disposed of
general amen dments would be considered.
Senator German secured the floor and
made an elaborate attack on the Republi-
can appropriation bills. He Claimed that
an effort was being made to secure the
passage of a hill which really had not
been considered by the proper committee
True, it had been reported by a committee
of the last Congress He called attention to
President McKinley's utteranoe, favoring
the strictest economy.
Here il is proposed to vote away S73,-
600. .000 in the different appropriation
bills" said the Senator from Maryland,