Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-02-12
REMOVE STEEL TARIFF
Babcoek's Drive at Proposed
Trust.
NOT ENTITLED TO PROTECTION.
ais Colleagues Did Sot Take Move Ser
iousiy--A sensations.i Attack on Perry
5. Heath Ia u tetter fead Ia the
House by anlzar.

Washington, Feb. l2.-Representa-
tive suseph W. Baaceck OF Wiscon-
sin, the youngest member Of dhe ways
and means committee, and, more i'm
portant tasn that, chairman OF the
Republican congressional committees,
introduced q bill in the house strik-
Ing down all tariff protection on man
ufaeturers of iron and steel. 1t re,
peals the greater part of schedule
c. of the Dingley tariff law.
The colleagues of Of Mr.. Babcock Oh
the ways and means committee do
not tax the move seriously. They
are as Representative Hopkins at
Illinois expressed il, anxious to hear
what Babcock has to say about it.
They laugh at the idea of anybody
taking the move seriously.
Representative Babcock. of course,
does not. without resentment, let any
one suggest that the bill il for cam
paign effect This bill,' he said, SIS
intended to put on the free list al
articles manufactured by the steel
trust which has just been organized.
This is the most colossal industrial
combination the world has ever
known. 1t was formed for the puf-
pose of preventing competition and
regulating prices. It Is not entitled
to protection of any kind, even If 1t
is needed. Some of the constituent
companies compete with all the
world and undersell all competi
tors"
Washington, Feb. 12.-During the
consideration of the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill an impas
stoned pro-Boer speech by Mr.. Snlzer.
of New York, drew from Mr.. Mahon,
of Pennsylvania, a recital OF the rails
ing OF fund OF about $f,20o for the
benefit of the widows of Boer soldiers
at meeting held in this city at
which Mr.. sulzer presided, He de.
clared that after a banquet, when the
.'tefrapin and cold bottles got in thei.
work, only SIS was left for the Boer
widows. This stung Mr.. Sulzer to re-
ply ut length. He said he had no
connection with the expenditure of
the fund, to which he had contributed
S1I5, besides defraying the expenses
of the committee to New York to meet
the Boers, and, a very lively row fol-
lowed, the climax OF which was
reached when Mr.. Sulzer had read an
anonymous letter which made a sen
sational personal attack upon Mr..
Perry s. Heath, late assistant post
master general, who was secretary of
the Republican national committee
during the recent campaign, charging
him with being Neely's sponsor, and
then denying it after the arrest CT
Nicely. and also making allegations
against Mr.. Heath in connection with
government deposits in a New York
bank. Mr.. Sul2er charged Mr.. Heath
with being responsible for the circu-
lation OF the stories about his connec-
ton with the fund for. the Boer wild
ows. Mr. Knox. of Massachusetts
declared that 1t was contemplate
TO attack q gentleman who could not
reply through the medium of an
anonymous letter and moved that
the infraetion of the rulses be report
ed to the house and stricken from the
record. In the course OF the debate
upon this motion, Mr.. Sulzer declared,
when questioned, that although the
communication was anonymous he
fathered every word of it and would
be responsible for it as a member Of
the house and as an individual The
Democrats flibustered against the
motion to eXpunge the letter from
The Congressional Record, and finally
forced an adjournment, the effect be-
ing to permit publication of the letter
in The Record.
During the session Mr.. Fitzgerald
had also made a speech, in the course
of which he urged that the United
States declare its sympathy for the
Beers, which Mr.. Sulzer had advo-
Gated in the course of his speech.
During the course of the session
some other speeches were made. de-
bates occurred and some business
was transacted, etc.