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every household. There We're compensa-
ton taxes for everybody dealing in the
goods except the woman who buys them.
He Illustrated his remarks by exhibiting
two samples, one of French Cashmere
and another of German henrietta The
present price of the former is 1-2 cents
per yard; under the propose d law it Will
be 2S1 cents. The present price OF
henrietta Is 90 cents; the future price
81 cents Mr.. Gray didn't know exactly
how many yards of these things IL took
to make q dress, but Senator Faulkner
promptly supplied the information. Mr..
White also exhibited O flaming piece Of
French serge. Mr.. White said that he
could shake that kind of a rag at the
other side only at the risk OF breaking
up the session.
Nj. Warren said that every one of the
articles exhibited by MI. Gray could be
manufactured In the United States, and
that competition would keep the prices
down, as 1t does on all manufactured
articles. Mr.. Warren was in favor OF a
prohibitory duty on al things which could
be manufactures in the United States. He
would state that the price OF goods never
depended for any length of time on the
tariff.
Mr.. Gray said that the fact that the
price OF raw wool decreased under tariff
contradicted the position assumed by Mr.,
Warren. He further argued that there
was no end to the exactions of the tariff.
He challenged Mr.. Warren to tell him one
instance In which protected industries ever
said they had enough. He asked Mi. War
ren If he expected the tariff to increase
Mr.. Warren said it would.
He then asked Mr.. Gray If the wooi-
grower gets higher price and the man
ufacturer gets higher price how can it
be argued that there viii be no rise in
price to the consumer.
Mr.. Gray and Mr.. Warren had a warm
coiloquy. both talking at times at the
same moment. Neither admitted that the
other had proved anything Mr.. Gray
said In conclusion that there was no other
const, uction to be placed on the present
wool schedule than that it involved wool
growers trust, wool manufacturers trust
and all under the approval of law. Mr..
Warren, he said, was contending for
tariff to protect sheep of his great State,
which roamcd at will, and which had, in
that respect, an advantage over the sheep
OF other sections.
Mr.. Warren asked leave to have printed
In the Record ain statistics to disprove
the position of Mr.. Gray.
Mr. Jones also had submitted tables to
maintain what Mr.. Gray had argued.
Mr.. Jones also exhibited a lot of .;ress
goods samples and showed the increase of
price for them under the new tariff In
each case he showed that the hemanufacturers
were to get compensatory duty without
paying a tariff on the raw material. 1t
was plain robbery. He could not find
polite word. The compensatory duties 10
some cases, he saic, were equal to the
price abroad, and In some cases more, but
in all cases about 1 90 per cent Mr. Jones
selected coarse cloth costing Al cents, ON
which he showed that the compensatory
duty would be A cents.
The development of the country, he saiG,
offered no excuse for 1t being considered an
infant, as we need more raw material of all
kinds. 1t needed no protection, but a fair
field for work and opportunity.
The vote was then taken on MI. Vests
motion. and it resulted, yeas, 22;nays, 30
The motion was lost.
Mr.. Vest moved to substitute the Will
son bill provisions for the proposed law
on ready made clothing Lost; yeas, 90;
nays, %.
His amendment to substitute the Demo
cratic tariff for the proposed tax on web
bings. gorings, flounces, etc, was also
defeated, as were a few other paragraphs
toward the close Of the wool schedule,
which win be disposed of today
Tie formal announcement OF the death
of Congressman Cooke was made, and
on motion OF Mr. Spooner the Senate ad-
journed out Of respect to that event.
The committee OF the Senate to act
with that Of the House Of Representatives
upon the occasion of the funeral is com-
posed Of Mcssrs Mason, Spooner and Clark.