The San Francisco call., 1897-04-01
EBATE EXCITING TO THE END,
Democratic Representatives Go Down Fight
ing Against the Measure That
VIII Reopen the Country's
Mills.

on Ways and Means, making the duties
In the bill applicable to all imports after
April l.
Bailey CD OF Texas made the point of
order that the amendment was not in or
der at this time. He briefly stated that
the amendment was on all fours with the
amendment offered by Mr. Dockery CO..
OF Missouri to the first paragraph of the
bill. It was obnoxious also to The we'll
established principle of law that there
should be no retroactive enactment.
McMillin CD of Tennessee made the
further point that the amendment sought
10 regulate the practice of courts and
therefore was not germane to the bill
Dalzell (R-) of Pennsylvania called
Bailey's attention to the fact that the
amendment was offered as a committee
amendment, to which Bailey responded
that, If that be the case, of course his
point was not we'll taken; but Le insisted
tha. the gentleman from Pennsylvania
should stand in his place and distinctly
state that the amendment had been
agreed upon by the Committee on Ways
and Means.
DalzeQ declined to do that, but stated
that the amendment in substance had
been agreed to by the Committee on
Ways aId Means and referred to a sub
committee to put into shape DaIzeu ad-
mitted that there had been no meeting of
the committee, bur he protested to Bailey
that the only result of his objection would
be to compel meeting of the committee
when the amendment would be ap-
proved.
After further discussion of the point of
order Sherman said his ruling must de-
pend upon a question of fact-whether or
not the Com mittee on Ways and Means
authorized the sub-com mittee to offer the
amendment in behalf of the committee.
Dingley (R.) OF Maine said that to OBJ
vlate all doubt on the question the amend
ment would be Withdrawn and he gave
notice OF meeting OF the Committee on
Ways and Means in three minutes.
Barrows (R.) of Massachusetts, recur-
ring to the amendment by which the duly
on currants was increased from IL TO 9
cents, eloquently pleaded for a substanti tiaI
recognition OF Greece, which was to-day,
he said. giving to the world splendid
exhibition OF heroism, patriotism and
courage. Dingley explained that the duty
was just half of that collected bv Great
Britain. DeVries (Fusion) of California
advocated the amend ment as affording
protection to the fruit-growers of his
district.
While the Committee on Ways and
Means were acting on the Grosvenor
amendment an irrelevant discussion on
the Homestead strike and the general pro-
visions of the bill was engaged in by Jett
(D.) of Illinois, Ray (R } of New York
and Sulzer (D.) of New York. Grosvenor
then, by direction OF the Committee on
Ways and Means, reintroduced the amend
ment, making a new section.
DocKery Cd of Missouri moved an
amendment to the section authorizing
the increase of duty on articles controlled
by trusts. D.ngley made the point of
order that 1t was not germane. relating to
the free list, while the Grosvenor amend
IN mt proposed to fix the day when the
duties fixed in the bill should take effect
The chair sustained the poinl of order.
1t was ruled that I g amendment pro-
posed by Grosvenor should be limited to
half an hours debate. Grosvenor said
that The attention of the country should
from Missouri (Dockery) and his asso-
ciates In their fIautic Efforts to do some
thing about trusts. The amendments
which they had been offering, Grosvenor
said, as bluff, were copied by them from
the Mckinley law. They were repro
duced in the Wilson bill, the authors tax
ing the idea from Republican legislation,
where the Democratic party had got every
good idea of the past half century. These
provisions, he said, were the law of the |
land to-day ard would not be disturbed
Dy the pending bill
9rosvenor offered an amendment TO |
perfect the text to cover the point sug-
gesied by Richardson (D.) OF Tennessee,
winch was agreed to as follows:
provided, that the lien hereby created and |
.ne inability hereby imposed shall be only for |
lhe excess of duty imposed by this act over |
ana ABOVE the duties, il any, paid and col |
ieeteo at the time of Importation of such arti-
cles.
VandiVer D.) of Missouri offered an |
amendment requiring all employers of |
labor engaged in producing any protected |
article to divide equally with their en-
ployes all excess of profits oyer per cent
on the capital invested. Rejected.
The amendment as amended by the pro-
viso was agreed to-150 to l2O, the vote
being taken by tellers.
Smith (R.) of Michigan made few re-