The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
WILL not
PRESENT ONE.
Views of the Minority in the House
of Representatives.
MIR. BAILEY STATES THE POSI-
T1oN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PAR.
TY UPON THE TARIFF PRO
TEST WAS MADE AGAINST THE
SHABBY TREATMENT ACCORDED
THEM BY THE REPUBLICAN,
PARTY.

Washington, March 22.-The views OF
the minority of the committee on WAYS
and means upon the tariff bill were pre-.
sented to the House this evening by Rep
resentntve Bailey, of Texas, the leader of
the Democracy. The report devotes 1000
words to Il general arraignment of the
protective principle, and concludes with
the statement that the minority care I'M
abie To offer Il substitute for the pending
bill, because we have not been allowed u
reasonable time to prepare one. Con.
Bress convened in extraordinary session
on Monday, the 18th day of March, ard
this bill was introduced the same day and
referred to the committee on ways and
means, which met the next incoming, and
on Thursday it was ordered to be reported
to the House. The majority of the com
mittee had spent three months of the last
session of the last Congress in the prop
aratlon of their bill, and yet they refused
to allow the minority three weeks in
which to prepare substitute. We are
unwilling to propose n measure that has
not been carefully matured, and we must
therefore content ourselves with protest
ing against the passage of the commit
tees bill"
AT the evening session of the House
acout !eO members were in their seats,
while Che galleries, as at all night ses-
sions, were filed to OVERLOOKING.
Mr. Taylor, of Indiana, was the first
speaker in opposition to the bill He de-
voted some time to criticism of the ma
l"rity for rushing through the House the
four appropriation bills last week, and,
turning his attention to the tariff bill,
ridicuied the free list
lie was followed by Mr.. Greene, of Ne.
braska who made general political
speech around the question chow are the
people to buy the products of idle mills
which are to be started by the Dingley
bill, when they can't buy what the mills
now open prpducey'
= Mr. Gree has some of the arts of the
| orator. and is likely to be heard from
again before the session closes.
Toward the close of his speech, Mr..
Greene was asked what relief he proposed
for the farmers, in whose behalf he WAS
attacking the construction of the tariff
bill.
II will tell you," was his response, fol-
lowed by derisive laughter from the Re-
publicans go back to the use OF money
OF the constitution of which you have de-
prived them" Democratic applause).
"And I'll tell you another thing Jcu can
do-you can keep your hands out of our
pockets Democratic applause). "All
we have ever asked was that laws be
passed so that the people of the East, the
West, the North and the South should
enjoy equal prote elton in the products of
their labor
A Republican asked; ''Whose hands are
in your pocketss'
Cpl tell YOU" sharply RESPONDED Mr.
Greene, tine hands Of the protected mo-
nopolies and trusts of the East are in
them" Democratic appause).
Prosperity will moi return to the
land" Mr.. Greene said, "until plenty was
restored to the home of the consumer and
that could be secured best, all history de.
nonstrated, when the volume of circula a.
ting medium was greatest among the peo-
pie. The friends of silver wanted that
restored to its old-time privileges and.use,
and they proposed to haveit. Then there
would be protection to the farmer, the
wife, the miner, and the time would come
when equal rights should be extended to
all and special privileges to none. f" cloud
applause on the floor and in the galleries
Mr.. Carmack, of Tennessee, also OPP
posed the BILL saying that there WAS ab.
solutely nothing in the last campaign
and election which justified the assump-
tion on the Republican side that the people
either expected or desired the passage of
any such measure as this tariff bill
That was not the issue upon which the
Republican party won its victory.
lHe laSt speech OF the evening was
made by Mr.. Brucker, of Michigan. who,
ms the representative of the Saginaw val
ley district, inveighed against the iniqui-
ty of the proposed increase in the duty
on lumber. He denounced any protec.
tive tariff on lumber as an outrage.
81 At lO:3O, half an hour before the limit
OF the session, no one else was DESTROYS of
addressing the House. whereupon the
committee rose and the House adjourned
until 10 o'clock tomorrow.