The Portland daily press., 1897-03-26

exlsting law, goods had been imported
Whlch ought to have been made in Ame-
raoan factories and by the employers Of
merican labor Closed mills and fac
resulting from the existing tariff law
ma9e ne asserted, one Of the depl0rab,e Pc
rlods IN the history of the government.
lie referred to the differences OF opin.
lon among the Democrats. some favoring
tarlH Tor revenue only, others a tariff
Tor revenue with incidental protection.
Vigorous olapping of hands followed
can party stood for revenue tariff, not
with incidental but real protection to
American industries.
referring to the declaration In the repor
OF the minority members of the commit
teee that this bill would raise too much
revenne Mr.. Dalzell maintained that
In no event wonld it be more than nsoss-
sary to pay the interest and principal of
| the bonds that the Democrats had 1oated
| to sustain the national credit.
Mr.. Dalzell analysed the bill to show
| that duties had been so adjusted as to
raise additional revenue from each sched-
nle. He defended the law of 1890 FROM
| criticisms passed upon it, by showing
| how American industries had thrived
under its provisions and how the tin
| plate industry-Hn industry unknown III
this country had been enormously stim-
ulated by that law. He enied that this
bill would foster trusts. He referred to
| the laws in the several states under
which com binations of capital were per-
mitted, and did not deny the system
was abused. He did deny the protective
tariff bill fostered trusts and showed
that such com biuati0ns existed In free
trade England equally with protec-
tive America.
| He described the conditions of living
in Sheffield and Pittsburg. Two citiss
direct rivals In many branches of Indus
try. In Sheffield was presented the Pic
ture of starved life, penury. low wages
ana lack of culture; in Pittsburg, high
wages, free school, intelligence and man
hood.
Mr.. Colon. Republican of Kentucky,
while not approving the general features
Of the bill gaveanotiee that he would
move an amendment fixing the duty on
cannel GOAL at 81 a ton, as the domestic
mines. would otherwise be unable to COM
pete with the oannel coal mined in Scot
| land.
| Mr.. Russell, Republican of Connecticut,
a member of the ways and means COM
Emittee, called attention to the remark
able calculation just now put forth In
the New England press by Edward
Atkinson of Boston, regarding the wool
and wooen schedule Of the bill.
i New England knew Mr.. Atkinson, he
said, as distinguished representative of
i the free trade sentiment and a mathe-
matical calculator with elastic tenden-
cy He had progressed beyond the school
1 of political economy represented by Joha
Randolph Of Roanoake, who looked upon
/ iraof nt 10 khn 1o;1
whose right to protection against dog or
man was not to be considered for mo-
ment and who derived great satisfaction
from going many miles merely TO kick
a sheep. Qaughter.)
To have received untavorable notice Of
that gentleman demonstrated that the
committee on ways and means had pre-
pared measure calculated to encourage
the industr,es of the United States and
discourage the Importation of foreign
goods that could be made at home. Cap
plause. g
Mr.. Steele, Republican of Indian a,
also menb ber Of the COMMITTEES argued
that the till was the most complete and
symmetrical tariff measure ever framed.
Mr.. Hawley, Republican member of
the Texas delegation, attacked the atti-
/. tude of the representatives from the
South toward the bill. He charged them
with injuring the interests Of their own
section. by opposing protective tariff
bill. They had stricken wool from the
dutiable list and put lumber OF the free
list. The fields of Texas. where flocks
formerly ranged, were without their pro-
portion of the twentyS:nillions of dollars
which had gone astray to England and
| Australia. for wool that should have
been In America. Under the Mckinley
i law the United States had raised 1900, 600
saoks-nearly the full amount of it's con-
sumption; under the Wilson law the crop
had fallen to half that. Inspired by the hope
that this bill would become a law, the
people of SOUTH Carolina, Louisiana and
Texas were planting rice and by 1899 he
prophesized that the crop Of the United
States would be more than enough to
supply its demands
Mr.. DeArmond, Democrat Of Montana,
charged that corporations, trusts and
great aggre2atinns Of capital bad arrayed