The herald., 1897-03-26
TAKERS
ON TARIFF
Exhaust the Four Days
Agreed On
GENERAL DEBATE Is ENDED
OFFERING OF AMENDMENTS
BEGINS TODAY
GENERAL DEBATE is ENDED
Final Vote Will Be Taken on We'd
:nesday Next-Nothing Done
in the Senate
ssociated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The four
days general debate in the house on
the Dingley tariff bill closed tonight.
Beginning tomorrow the bill will be
open for amendment under the five
minute rule until next Wednesday,whe
the final vote will be taken. Mr.. Bailey
of Texas, the opposition leader, VINO
was to have closed the general debate
for his side today was unable to MAKE
his speech owing to sore throat, ana
a mutual arrangement was made for
an hours debate on each side just before
the final vote is taken.
The speechmaking today was not OF
u very lively order, but the crowds IN
the galleries continue.
Five members of the ways and means
committee spoke today, Messrs. Tawney
of Minnesota, DalzeH of Pennsylvania,
Russell of Connecticut, Payne of New
York and Stone of Indiana, all Repub-
licans.
The other speakers at the session were
Messrs. Talbot of South Carolina, DEM
ocrat Clark of Missouri, Democrat;
Mcguire of California, Democrat; Gum
of Idaho, Populist; Cox of Tennessee,
Democrat; McRae Of Arkansas, Demo-
crat: Grow of Pennsylvania, Republican,;
Simpson of Kansas, Populist; Curtis
of Kansas, Republican; Burke of Texas.
Democrat; Lentz of Ohio, Democrat;
Colson of Kentucky, Republican; Haw-
| ley of Texas, Republican; Dearmond OF
Missouri, Democrat and Fitzgerald Of
| Massachusetts,, Democrat.
Talbot in the presence Of scant au-
| dience, opened the debate. The house
| rapidly filled. Mr.. Talbot talked great
| deal about the robber barons.
Champ Clark, OF Missouri, Democrat,
| who followed, said that as Democratic
| politician he rejoiced In the passage OF
! the pending bill. because after it be-
came a law every storekeeper would be
| obliged to make Democdatic speech
every time he made a sale. The passage
| of this bill, he said, would give the Dem
ocrats a hundred majority in the next
Congress.
| After brief remarks by Mcguire Of
California, Democrat, and Gum of Ida
no, Populist, Tawney of Michigan, Re-
publican, a member Of the ways and
means committee, took the floor for
twenty minutes. Tawney defended the
| lead schedule, which had been attacked
by Gum. The latter had said he had
no criticism to make of rates. He only
asked that they be collected. Tawney
asserted that the classification of this
schedule was such chat duties could not
| be evaded. The purpose of the trainers
of the schedule was to give American
] laborers employment in smelling Mex
lean and Canadian ores, and at the same
| time fully protect the American lead
miner.
Simpson of Kansas, PopuEst, enter
tained the house for five minutes. He
read from President McKinley's speech
at the Minneapolis convention the dec
laration that the foreigner paid the tax,
which he ridiculed. The last congress,
he said, Increased appropriations $780,
O00, 900. and now, according to McKin-
ley's theory, taxes on foreigners were
| to be increased to pay for the extrava-
gance. The foreigner should be glad,
he said, that the last congress had not
been a billion-dollar congress. If
the taxes Of the foreigner could be suf-
flciently increased. he observed sarcasti-
cally, the surplus could be distributed
among our people, and every day would
be Sunday here. Laughter.) He said
he was himself farmer who farmed
farms, not farmers. If the Republicans
had desired to do some thing practical
for the farmers. why, he asked. had they
left hides on the free list? Simpson an
nounced himself as a free trader.
| Cox of Tennessee, Democrat, and Nc
Rae Of Arkansas, Democrat, followed.
The latter ridiculed the idea that pros
perity had existed under the Mckinley.
or would exist under the Dingley bill,
| II 1t became a law.
Grow Of Pennsylvania, Republican.
| the venerable ex-speaker. made speech
in favor Of the theory of protection. The
latest Democratic cry for more money
and less taxes, he said, was preposter-
Gus. The Democratic administration had
i demonstrated its lack Of patriotism by
being unable to keep out of the poor
house.
Curtis (Kan., Rep.) defended the agri-
cultural schedule of the bill. He depre-
Gated attacks by the west upon the east.
Burke (Texas, Dem.) said that the bill
should be- entitled, "a bill to build up
trusts and corporation influence and op-
press the agricultural people OF the
United States. =
Lentz Of Ohio protested because but
twenty minutes were given to the six
Ohio Democrats. representing 100000
people who had voted for William J.
Bryan. Democratic applause.)
Dalzell penn, Rep,) reviewed the re-
suits of the Wilson and Mckinley laws,
and denounced the ad vadorem system
as giving opportunity for immense un-
| LIBERALIZATION.
| idle men and women, busy soup houses
and starvation had marked the period Of
| the Wilson bill. He ridiculed the state-