Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-26
55th CONGRESS.
Last Day Of General Debate
on the House Tariff Bill.
Supporters Evidently Largely Out
number Opponents Of Measure.
Senate Considers tAs osassal GbIkaiiea
Treaty Ii Secret sesslsa.

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Treaty IL Secret sesslsa.
Washington, March 25.-The House,
today, resumed the consideration of the
tariff bill. Clark, DEM, of Missouri. said
the bill, Democrats would have 100 MAJOR
ity. in the House In the next ConGress.
and In 1900 would elect the President. He
ridiculed the duties laid on agricultural
products asserting that 1t was imposui-
bic 70 give tine farmer any protection on
The free list affcraed Clark field for
a boy he heard George II. Pendieton say
in speech that the most grateful incense
to TIE ncstrils Of man was public APP
plause. There was q man named Good
year. who went before the committee on
ways and means, and he struck the same
philosophical tr.sth that Pendieton had
He read from Gocdyear's testimony the
statement that Maine had always been
In public hfe-Blasne, Reed and III /
nigh. whisper 1t in Ids presence. she has
said Clark. would make 1t harder for
every man to build house next summer.
Dingley swallowed the trap as trap did
Gum. Pop. of Tdaho. asserted that the
relating 10 lead failed to properly con-
sider the interests Of the American pro-
Queer.
Tawney. Rep. OF Minnesota, a member
OF the committee on ways and means. re-
plsed to the criticisms of Gum, defending
the action OF the committee.
-; jerry simpson. Pcp;, of Kansas. made
the House. Referring to the speech OF
Walker. Rep. of Massachusetts,. yester-
day, Simpson sa8d he had carried his ar
gumc1it to It's logical conclusion and de-
clared that the purpose of taxation was
70 distribute the burden among the peo-
President that the foreigner pays the tar
III taxes" Simpson said, I'VE have reach
ed the ideal condition where all we have
to Go Is to pass tariff bills and other tax
more"
Grow. Rep. Of Pennsylvania, presented
two methods of raising revenue-direct
taxation and customs duties. If the
former were resorted to, he said. 1t must
pc assessed upon the states in proper
ton to the population. Massachusetts
ana Indiana would be compelled to pay
the same amount by direct taxation That
statement, Grow said, sufIiced to show its
inequality.
Hurke. Dem. of Texas. thought the
title Of the bill should be changed to
trusts and corporate influences and op-
pose the agricultural interestes Of the
people of the United States
Lentz. Dem, of Ohio, entered protest
methods OF its consideration. The six
Democratic representatives from Ohio on
the, the floor. ne said. who stood for the
emplifed in the Chicago platform, and
with VIM. J.. Bryan for their standard
bearer had 20 minutes given them in
which TO oppose the passage of bill
to deceive and having for its object the
enriching of trusts and the pauperixa-
ton OF the people. The only letter he re-
c s,e,, from his district In favor of the
biil was from whiskey seller. and in
that fact he saw that the whiskey trust
had joined the sugar trust and coal trust
In writing the provisions of the bill
of base IL Rep tS Of PENN ard
means committee. evoked repeated APP
Dlause from his colleagues on the floor.
Ihe crying question of the hour. he said,
was how to provide revenue with which
to carry on the government. This was
q business question and called for a bust
ness-ilke answer, which the representa-
tiyes OF the people in the House were
men, he said, and postpone political ques-
lions until We have made the treasury
secure.
MS remarks to the existing treasury con-
ditions. The existing tariff law. he said.
had given deficient revenues, until the
; ,od a. for the four years aggregated $203,-
Deem
borrowed: Under the operations of the
existing law goods have been imported
winch ought to have been made in Ameri-
AN n LAC laGtories and by the employers Of
factories and starving men and women
from the existing tariff law
made. he asserted. one of the deplorable
'e He rs IN tne history OF the government
lmong Demorcrats-some favoring a
arif for revenue only. others tariff for
'evenue with incidental protection: and |
urther statement that the Republican
,arty stood for revenue tariff, not with
Incidental but real protection to Ameri-
an industries.
Referring to the declaration in the re-
bort OF the minority members Of the COM
mttee that this bill would raise too
much revenue. Dalzell maintained that |
AIRY to pay the interest and principal of |
he bonds that the Democrats had foatei /
Q sustain the national credit.
:Dalzeli analysed the bill to show that
ne uutieS mad been SO adjusted as to il
aise additional revenue from each sched-
lie. He defended the law of 1890 from
ne criticisms passed upon 1t, by show
ng how American industries had thrivei |
lnder Its provisions and how the tim
late industry-an industry unknown in |
his country-had been enormously slim
LATED H, by that law. He denied that this
III would foster trusts. He referred to /
he laws In the several states under
which. combinations of capital were per-
nitted, and did not deny that the sys-
EN- was abused. He did deny that the
reflective tariff bill fostered trusts and
howed that such combinations existed
\ free trade England equally with pro-
ective America. He described the can
ition of living in Sheffield and Pitts
urg. two cities direct rivals In mary
ranches of industry. In Sheffield was
resented the picture OF starved life.
enury, low wages and lack of culture:
! Pittsburg, high wages, free schools.
ltelligence and manhood.
Coison. Rep. of Kentucky, while ap.
rowing the general features of the bill.
ave notice that he would move an
lnendment fixing the duty on camel
BAL at II a ton, IS the domestic mines
ould otherwise be unable to compete
18th camel coal mined in Scotland.
Russell. Rep, of Connecticut, a MEM
# +, Ct the ways and means committee,
Tiled attention to the remarkable call
iiation Just now put forth in the New ,
ngland press by Edward Atkinson OF
0stOn, regarding the wool and wooden
hedu.e of the bill New England knew
r. Atkinson, he said. as a distinguished :
of the free trade senti-
ent and a mathematical caIcula tor !
It'll elastic tendency. He had pfugressed
.yond the school of political economy
presented by John Randolph Of Roa-
Ike, who looked upon sheep as Il mere
ctlent 20 the hillside. whose right to