The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-03-24
DEBATE ON TARIFF
The House Galleries Filled With In
terestsd Listeners.
DOLLlVER MAKES A SPEECH
Newlands Also Is Heard and Ap-
plauded-He Shows Where .sII-
yer Would Be Mighty Factor
In the Country's Prosperity.

Washington. March ss.-The second
day OF tariff debate in the house was
opened by speech by Gibson, repub.
lican OF Tennessee. In favor of the bin.
Dockery, democrat OF Missouri. followed
IN caustic terms. ridiculing the protec-
tive policy In general. After Dockery
mad closed his remarks. Newlands. sill
Nerite OF Nevada, took the floor New
lands spoke from the standpoint OF the
silver men who had united against IN.
! republicans i'm the late campaign. The
people. he said. had declared i'm favor
or protection and the republicans act
without distractions and with expedi-
ton. Tarin legislation alone. he assert
ed, would not bring relief. Our wages
he continued, are much higher than
other countries and the unit OF all val
ues here Is the daily age. A general
reduction OF wages would bring about
feadJustments of values that would lie
destructive to property owners, pro-
ducers and debtors. We need therefore,
ne said, a tariff law l. protect us
against the products Of cheaper labor
elsewhere. The protective measure that
VIII protect us against the existing ag-
ricultural competition and the threat
ening manufacturing competition must
he the legislat tion which viii resiore The
! uld relative value of silver and gold
Such law would lie euuIyaIent la n
tariff of 100 per cent. ,,pon the p,n.
duets Of silver countries fur il vouId
increase To that extent the gold cost
of such products. The competition OF
Europe Is insignificant as compared
with the existing and Threatened com
, petition of Asia. Il believe" n. added
that the true policy of this countrv IL
tariff and silver legislation ib, one nro
tecting us against Europe the other
against Asia" He argued thai The rs.
cent rise in wheat proved that The price
of that staple depends unon tho nr,ce M
silver, Just as the execution nroves thn
rule.
Ncwands cunterdcd. in conclusion.
that the area of distress for wears
confined to the riininr helt. the wheat
belt and the cotton belt had now ex-
tended tu the middle and eastern states
which were suffering from the loss of
the consuming capacjty of the western
and southern states. The increase of
protection to the factories would not
materially add To their prosperity up
less the consuming capacify OF these re-
gions were restored. The restora,io ion, of
bimetallism cOnjointly with reasona bIe
tariff legislation, would. I'm his iudr
ment. protect every American interest
and thus bring back a revived prosper.
ity to our home industries.
Lacey. republican of Iowa, the next
speaker. commented ON the abuse of
President Cleveland by democrats and
populists and said that i'm the deba te
not one kind word had bepn said In he
half OF the only man who carried the
democratic party to victory I'm a auar-
ter of a century.
Handy. democrat of Delaware-Is il
not pretty hard for the republican Marty
To turn on the gold democrats. who
helped II. with such tariff hill as
this?
Mr.. Lacey-The gold democrats
have no such hostility To the republi
can tariff as they had in 1892. The re-
publicaps had not attacked the Cl.v,-
land administration for issuing hands
but for the policy that made them
necessary.
McI.auren. democrat of North Caro-
lina. member Of the ways and means
committee. was the next sneaker Mr.
McLaurens speech was on prospective
lines for southern Industries. He ad.
vocated a duty on cotton to keep out
Epyptian grown cotton and also fa-
yored protection for cotton manuiac-
tured and other articles Of southern
production
McI,aurln's demand for a duty on cot
ton created a mild sensation. Int IL was
heartily applaudeJ by several of the
democratic members from the cotton
belt. While McI.auriu was contrasting
The vast wealth of the manufacturing
states of the East with the poverty Of
The farming states of the south. Linney.
republican of North Carolina, asked
him what was To hinder the people of
The Carolinas from building factories
and sharing i'm The spoils instead of
.cussing'' their more enterprisinr
rivals
The state Of affairs produced by the
existence of the repuIlicans and the
uopulists I'm the caroIinas" replied Me
J.a,rin .prey.nts the investment nf
ranj,al"
Is moi free raw material IN. bet doc
trine uf III. democracy 81 asked IJnney
III il the pet doctrine" responded
McIaurin with .mnhasis ..nf tho de-.
mocracy represented Inv cleveland and
Carlisle and those who have urostitut.d
the name Of democracy and who were
vour aids and allies in IN, Iast cam
naiyn
A large proportion of the democrats
ON the noor apnlau uded This statement