Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-03-26
TARIFF,
The Long Debate Has Closed
And the Five Minute Rule VIII Be
in Force.

WASHINGTON, March B.-The fOuE
days general debate. 10 the house, On
the Dingley tariff bill closed. The
bill will open for debate, under The
fve-minute rule, until Wednesday,
when q vote will be taken.
Bailey. the opposition leader, who
] vas to have closed the general debate
. for his side, was unable to make his
I speech. owing % a sore throat. and a
! mutual arrangement was made for an
hours debate just before the the final
vote Is taken. SpeechmakiBg was not
Of a lively order, but the crowds in the
galleries continue.
Five members Of the ways and means
committee spoke, Tawney, Dalzeli.
Russell, Payne, and Stone. The other
members VI the session were Talbot,
Clark, Mcguire, Gum, Cox, McRae
Grow, Simpson, Curtis, Burke, Lentz,
/ Colson, Hawley, DeArmond and Fitz-
gerald.
Dalzell reviewed the results Of the
Wilson and Mckinley laws, and de-
nounced the ad yalOrum system as
giving an opportunity for an immense
differentiation. idle men and
women, busy sOup-houses and starYa-
ton, had marked the period Of the
Wilson bill. He ridiculed the state
ment Of the minority, that it offered
no substitute for the bill because it
bad no time to prepare Une, and in
quired IL the Democrats expected that
the country would be willing to have
them air their theories at a cost Of
81 900, 600 a day. He defended the
bill on the charge that it ''foste red
trusts"
THE political economy OF Adam
Smith has long since been relegated
where IL belongs" he said. THE in
dustrlal world has been re yolutionized
By the introduction Of the factory
system. 1t is no longer a single far
mer or a single mechanic, but great
aggregations OF wealth are necessary
10 engage in the vast enterprises
which are recognized by the laws OF
every state"
We would not say there were ne
abuses incidental TO the system, but
in free trade" England there were
more mOnstrous trusts than the
United States knew anything about,
and he cited the English steel-rail
trust, and he read from an English
paper concerning the new comoina-
ton OF the armament manufacturers.
The cry about trusts was an exhibi-
tion Of ignorance of economic cOndi-
tion.
DEBATE.
This was the last day Of the general
debate of the tariff bill in the house.
Talbert, Democrat, of South Caro-
lima, in the presence of a scant audi
ence, opened the debate. The house
rapidly filled. Talbert talked a great
deal about robber barons.
Champ Clark, Democrat, of Missouri,
followed. He said as a Democratic
politician he rejoieed in the passage
of the pending bill, because after it
had become a law every storekeeper
would be obliged 10 make u Demo-
cratic speech every time he made a
sale. The passage OF this bill he said,
would give the Democrats a hundred
majority in the next congressional
election.
After brief remarks by Mcguire,
Democrat, OF California, aud Gum,
Populist, OF Idaho, Tawney, Republl-
can, OF Minneapolis, member OF the
ways aud means committee, took the
floor for twenty minutes. Tawney
defended the lead schedule, which
had been attacked by Gum. The
latter said lie had criticism TO make
of the rates. He only askid that they
be collected,
Tawney asserted the classification
OF this schedule was snch the duties
1.-THE maEer pays the gro
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