The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-24
DEBATE ON THE TARIFF
Gibson Of tennessee Argues in
Favor of Protection.
TALK OF IDOCKERY OF MISSOURI.

He Ridicules the idea That the Tariff Law
Now i'm Force Was the Monster Which
Had Destroyed Our Industries -Sarcas-
tic in His Remarks Concerning Alleged
Protection to Agricultural Products
Newlands Speaks for the silverites.
Washington, March 24.-There were
less than fifty members on the floor
when the house entered upon the second
day Of the tariff debate at 10 o'clock
Tuesday. There were only few strag-
glers in the galleries, AS the day ad-
vanced the members poured in and the
galleries became crowded. Gibson OF
Tennessee was the first speaker He de-
voted himself to a general argument in
favor of protection. Dockery Of Mis-
souri,, who followed, said 1t was not
matter of surprise TO him that the dis
cussion of the bill thus far had been
tame and uninteresting. THE truth is,
said he, "the people of the country want
more money and less taxes This bill
does not represent the issue OF the late
campaign. The people would prefer to
see $l1S,0O0,00O more money put in cir
culation than to see that amount alb
sorbed by the treasury
The Recent Bond Issues.
Dockery said it did not lie in the
mouths OF the Republicans to criticize
the bond issues of the last administra-
ton. "Mr. Cleveland was criticized or
this side of the house, said he. while
you indorsed his policy in the last con
| N
means refused to give the house an op
portunity to vote on the senate resolu
ton prohibiting bond issues becaus'
your leaders had been notified by MT!
Republicans from the west that the!
would be compelled to vote for 1t.
Dockery ridicued the idea that tn
present tariff law was the monste
which had destroyed our industries i
it had been so, why, he asked, had IN
Republican members of the ways an
I means committee lifted the metal an
cloth schedules almost bodily from TN
monster law? He denied that there wa
an era of prosperity for labor during tn
existence of the Mckinley law ana III
stanced the Carnegie strike.
THAT catastrophe" interrupted Da
zell, was the result of a contest pe
tween organized labor and the oppC
| nents of organized labor The McKinle
law had nothing to do with II.
; What a Republican Told Him.
eyes. and the protected employ
: hired Pinkerton detectives to sho
down organized labor" returned Docl
cry. "A distinguished Republican sci
ator. then a member of this house. TO
me at the time that that was the wor
disaster the Republican party had e
perienced in twenty years.
Dockery was especially sarcastic
bis remarks on the absurdity of givii
alleged protection to agricultural pro
7 nets OF the 1863, 900, 900 Of products
norted by the United States last ye
s504. 900 900 was agricultural produc
- In conclusion he said that the poilcy
~ protection had driven our flag from ,
~ high seas, impoverished the laporl
10 man. and multiplied farm mortgag
Newlands (silverite Of Nevada) TN
'o took the floor as the spokesman or
Marty which numbers three members
~ the house.
,o Doings in the Senate.
~ rho se,ate concerned itself Tuesd
Oc with civil service debate arising or
VI resolution offered by Allen to inves
gate removals in South Omaha N
He and Wilson of Washington and u
linger of New Hampshire denouced
civil service law vigorously. while Ha
lev of Connecticut and Hoar OF Mas
cbusetts supported It, The sen
. adopted the resolution for an investi
t,on of federal removals
south Omaha, but added an anne
ment directing the civil service comm
tee TO examine into the general ac'
Of the civil service law, and whe'
q shall be continually amended or
. pealed."