The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
TARIFF BNKERING.
Last Day of General Debate
Upon the Climax of
Party Infamy.
UNNECESSARY AND UNJUST
Democrats Think the Bill a Polit-
ical Bonanza But a Ma
tional Disaster.
UNNECESSARY AND UNJUST

on the tariff bill brought forth a REQUEST
at the opening of /. the session by Mr..
Bailey Dem. Tex) for an extension of
two hours of the debate. He stated that
he had been under treatment for sore
throat and his physician said, and he
knew that it would be impossible for him
to occupy the floor for an hour today.
MI. Payne Rep., N " said the feeling
on the Republican side had been that it
would be better to devote more time to
the five minute debate and less to the gem
eral discussion AT least until Chairman
Dingiey arrived he must object to the re-
quest.
Mr.. Talbert (Dem., N. c. opened the
discussion in fifteen minute speech
against the bill He said this tiresome' de-
bate reminded him of a preacher of whom
he had once read who discoursed to his
people on the major and minor prophets.
He dwelt SO long on the first list that
when he came to speak of the minor prop
; hets, and asked ''now, there's Hosea
where shall we put him?" a good old
deacon replied:-.'Wen you can put him
in my seat; I'm going home Qaughter).
The bill, he said, was unnecessary, unjust
and undemocratie. 1t tended to more
widely separate Dives and Lazarus. and
emphasized the statement of another
preacher, who said it was a condition and
theory confronting us, ''the theory be-
ing that there was a few very rich men
and the condition being that there were
a sight of poor ones. Qaughter).
Mr.. Talbert reviewed the free list of the
bill, humorously and sarcasticaly and
was interrupted by Mr.. Grosvenor {Rep.,
o. to ask if those articles were not on
the free list i'm the wilson bill. and if he
did not vote for them.
Mr.. Taabert-Your side In thas dsscus-
sion refused to 90 back of 1909 and am
not .oino bact Of sbss IN, rbo+,. s,,,r,,o+
Tn discussing
..Cbamn,, clarls fT,ano Nh, n,oaa o,a
of his characteristic sneecbes a against the
bill. AS an American citizen ana in sv,o-
pathy with the neonle whom be ranra-
sented he was dead against tho hin A.
a Democratfc y,oIitieia, he 1,,o,,,d ,.a,ci,.,
in its passage for il Womb CONNIE, every
merchant every time he made sala
across his co,nter to make a. I,an,ocr,.atioc
speech to the n,,rcbs, ser IIp,ess t,,a Cor
ate radically amended the hin the zT,e,,,-
ocrats wo,,ld bava oye, ,,,,,,55,,5 -, i,,r;t,
=, -, rJs-.S ~ llu'lui eu
"a n sne nouse IN ehe next congress, and
in 1900 would elect their President. the
people thus gain .,.nrnir,e, To tbof,. ,y,,v,
mr. fs,.,, .s,;5 -. = -
mr. Siark salo tnat ordinarily he was
peaceable man. but charges had been
made on the other side in the conrse of
tl,is dah.+a +hat .,s.ss - - -
low sasast .asa,l''.ps. ,aes mn tne
temporarily suspended
.syV,,en on al,Io- ~. = ,;,, nr
of I,l;no;s l.A W.T. i1ophihs
:. o. LIMOS ana brilliant man like Mr..
Dolliver of Iowa. he said, assert that
the Wilson bill is a free trade measure
it lis an outrage on t,,,+i,
and decencv AZ s.'',un a4 aa,,sa. sense. run
protectionist the right to define what
free trade rneaus,'
Mr. Clark refarred =, t,,1 ,o,,a,u
j IN the Wilson bill by the Senate and ex-
claimed that the debate On the tariff
would go on forever ,,,ti,
- ~ - ioi stl' uileli the people and
congress came to the platform and policy
of common sense and free trade He
ridicuIed the duties laid ~, sevr;o,,,+,,ss,
products assertire tho i 80 sa.sul.usai
.s' ssserelns tnat II was impossible
10 give the farmer any protection on his
products. He made great FIN of +ba At,
of two cents a gallon on mill, ..ra H.
70 see gallon of Canadian milk" he
said, "by the time it got down into Ia,r,,
Simpsons district in Kansas r vsoniS
set the hogs teeth on edge if fed to them them
for swill. - daughter. = '.'e ~
The free list afforded him a fine ia,d
for the exercise of his sarcasm siR,,t
ys;d yoy doubled M,sl the b, duty on white pine he
George H Pendleton saw IN . sneaoh TO- ~.
the most grateful incense to the nostri1s 4
81 man was public applause. There was
went before the Committee on TWavs and
Means. and he struck the same philoso- $50
phicaI truth that Pendleton had ,1ttaroS
He read from Goodyear,s testi,oo,,n NV
the statement thar Maina !. Lo - i,.,o ~