| Show AGREEMENT ON WOOL charge of bad faith by republican senators THE WEST AGAINST THE EAST carter cartei arid and foraker assert that it a caucus agreement ARre ement as to certain nates dates was violated by allison when he reported Ee ported the wool schedule of the tax iff bill and declare that there will be a day of 0 vest pours on the file fhe find and starts a name flame washington june 22 an exciting exalt ing debate mai iced the consideration ot of the wool schedule u which filch began in the senate today it developed the first sert acri ou olia disagreement on the republican side of the senate and led to A warra warm personal exchange be belicen ticen senators carter of montana and For forlifer liker of 0 ohio on conr no hand and mr allison 0 f cr iowa in charge of tho the bill on the oth other mr air foraker asserted as x atod that an agree e ment concerning rates on certain wools I 1 was being violated anil and that under the c circumstances every senator would bo be tree free to act tor for himself sir mr allison NN th ith great vehemence declared that ho he could not be driven by threats threat mr carter who inho had aroused the storm endeavored to have the paragraphs relating to carpet wools go over with a view to scouring some united action but sir air vest vent in an ironical speech objected to delaying the era of 0 prosperity and positioning the public business while republican senators held a caucus cu mr teller alio adao spoke against delay dejay and took occasion to say he would never vote vole for the bill unless objectionable tio features were eliminated the wool schedule was taken up as soon as the session opened mr BIT mantle submitted art an amendment covering throe three classes of wool eat prepared by tins the wool growers a association and spoke brielly bri e fly thereon lie he sold said ills amendments gnp U ts were the result of careful investigation ti by men most fa millar with the subject and asserted that as the manufacturing fac turing interests antt resta were mere securing the th e rates they desired in it the pending bill lie he bell believed was ved the great wool industry of the west t should be allowed to say what the rates on oil wool ool should be the paragraphs on wool w were t r then agreed ni reed to as reported up to pa paragraph begraph which was stricken out at mr jr at al request it referred to skirted sk arted wools imported in 1890 and prior t thereto I 1 rare this brought the senate to the rates 0 on a the three classes of wool on the I 1 first class clash the he house rate was ile he per pound the senate committee rate go per pound mr IT allison moved to substitute 10 per on second class wool the house rate was tas lac the committee late i ate de mr fr allison boned to substitute 11 lie per pound sir BIT mills doni dem tex demanded a separate vote on each proposition and the nast vote was taken on mr aill sons motion to make the rate loc per pound on first cl ells wool it tills nas adopted yeas 55 trays nays 13 butler carter dark clark foraker huitfeldt Helt HeIt feldt mcbride mantle pettigrew shout shoup stew art teller turner and warren voted lit in the negative the announcement of the vote was the signal for AT AN unexpected OUTBURST I 1 on the republican side ride 0 of the chamber mr carter rep mont arose and speaking deliberately and impressively said tile the ote ate just given disclosed a purpose to make reductions in the rates on wool there would be a day of reck rech biving for such action in view of 0 N what hat had been done dank he asked that the consideration of odthe the wool schedule be now NIT mr ro foraker rater rep 0 with great eness lit in his tones said he be had supposed there was aoa an agreement as to the manner of dealing with mith this wool liche schedule dule unless tills this agreement was respected then mr foraker dealt declared w rd vehemently every senator sc must act for himself lie ile added that there was an it as ment ament in writing milling and not until ile he had entered tile the chamber today did ile he know of 0 the changes which were contemplated tem plated and I 1 do not propose concluded mr ro raker alth bilth energy to bo be bound hv bv any such pitch action mr allison still preserving ills his outward ward calm said paid that there was waa no written agreement that he knew of and he wished to resent in mild terms lie said eaid the suggestion of IL a combination that had been made by tho the senator from montana tile the amendments now offered he be said were an increase on the original committee rates latea on first and second class wools although a reduction from the house rates mr foraker referred in general tot tims ma to lo the agreement until asked by mr air burrows to specify the agreement then sir mr foraker Eo raker said paid we undra tand that if the third chiss liss wools ocic ere given a duty their the scoured eco third class shot should id have a it laiple aiple duty duly just as aa first and second bools havo have a triple duty dull we lid did not suppose there was illy any filli digi sent from that peabody Per Fer body acquiesced in it han ten consulted in regard to I 1 it I 1 arid and our agreement was maiji made with that distinct understanding now for the farst time lime we are arc notified there Is objection to it SOMEBODY IS 19 mr platt plait rep conn here arose and declared that tin the Fl earn cittee had never heard hard of at this apropo Isit ilfin foll 1 I suggest rt list hat the senator did hear of it insisted mr foraker Poi Foi aker and an lie he in may a y havo have forgotten it it I 1 carried I 1 it to the he committee rom and the senator hilus himself elf 1111 dealt alt wrote I 1 it t doun don with nith a id lilai ue pencil in his copy of thi ill tarin bill the senator benator from ION lofta a mr NJ r tariff at aall I 1 son alm wrote it in it ills copy lip HP addad that twenty senators Sena torn were present at the time and every item of the agreement wil uit 70 ov ovar and a written don in the ilia of f mr al llna a arid and mr BIT platt thus reminded remind tid mr alt platt wald suld h he would modify niely chiq statement thor e eMas uan a at filch car certain tain suggestions were mere presented as to what list niti its wanted anted but these were not assented to mr foraker agger amercer amerced ted that chat ire ir al it sun pori had paid fald that in case specific rates were placed maced on third class wools the tha duties on scoured scorned wools would be t trebled re tied sir mr penrose took part in the ballato to briefly a aycart crt that the agreement which the amator front bioni ohio paid fald ex listed could not haxe been as lie he and mr foraker lied had been up until after midnight lat night trying arylne to adjust differences mr foraker replied that the difference last night as aa not on third class claas i wools but another matter mr air hales effort to calm the dist disturbance th by suggesting a postponement t in order to secure united action re seemed eme d about to quiet the storm when alie n mr vest nest smilingly arose and said 1 I object j at till THE ILAND MR VEST attention was waa now flow directed to tho the al I senator aiho hit apke in ironical terms l 1 I have had it a novel experience today lie began for the tha first time in illy life I 1 have ben be n accorded the privilege ek at t listening llaU enin to the deliberations tit nf a M rautu caucus let JAIL mo me BUY interposed mr bir allison All lson that the lb question of wool was waa never before the republican caucus NIT mr vest gave a a derisive shrug of his big shoulders and proceeded the senate had ju juat s t 1 epard ipa r il proceeds h he e said edn I 1 1 ealor l fr from y n nn fin enal lacart nn that t lean senator Vo I raker 1 that w e n t y g senators c sia t r v e ra p present r e sent during the on consideration ns Ide ration or of a certain bertal 11 tit forms formal and written no that the statute of frauds would not it apply against it senator had bad heard else also mr bir vest tit nt or on that their ean can brothers were together until tile the woe wee aina pula hours of last night in a fruit la lesa an e effort lit in harmonize and now he br proceeded we hear live gi near car pacificator from maine ialo hale appealing fur for penro peace but I 1 have no 80 often hoard heard big assurances that peace prevailed in cuba I 1 that I 1 am inclined to doubt him no nou ju jul t its as prosperity was in right flight mr vest went on ironically just an the puns sun liSne hine was mas illuminating tholand the land the senate was asked to stop lit in tire the tart tariff ff bill and wait while hlll republican serve tora for ald a caucus 1 I demand that the public business proceed exclaimed mr air ecat 1 I if f RePublic all senators cannot off agac then let them retire arid anti confer but bui do not halt the business of tire the senate trill nd tile the country while the republican senators reach an agreement as aa to u who ho 9 shall hall have tile greatest prea test part of if the swag I 1 TELLER TAKES A HAND sir air teller sit rep colo followed mr vt vest in opposition to a postponement ent of the 1111 lie ile referred to the man many delays in maturing the bill 1111 ile he had there haq ai an fegre agreement ment a L m republican republic a n senators senator toward u united n 1 t c 1 I action although ho be added not being a member of tire the republican caucus he was wait not conversant its secrets mr jr teller dwelt at some length upon I 1 the he ante election promise that the passage or of the tariff bill to result in the certain prompt rjay of the country ile he referred to a recent utterance of I 1 the ha president indicating his confluence conn dence that the e enactment ae ment of lie bill into a law would have this effect arid and oaf sahl ho he wished this could ile be so yet he did not believe the bill would accomplish this benign result lie he could not as adient ent to the idea which ahie h was implied that alt all the court country t TV was as suffering for more mor taxation but if thi the passage of the bill NN ft as to be haar e tile tho effect predicted tor for it certainly it was waa not fair for those ii who ho liae hae tire the hill in charse charge to ask any delay in its ith consideration NIT mr teller jefe jeffried ried to the interest of at the western senators in the rates on in wool if the bill he said bald could not ile bo perfected perfect in committee or caucus the bill must be acted on in the senate As for far hinl relf lie he was wa s anxious to sec ate the bill pass pasq but he did not propose to vote for it unless certain object on able be amendments amendia e ants were we r e eliminated lie it desired irod that the 1 bill fit s should hould become a law in the precise shape favored by tho the administration in order that there might be no mistake as to tile the eff cal I 1 clency of at the remedy proposed for tile the depressed condition of the count rys business in mr teller said the wool schedule contained about all there was in the bill for the wet west ile he did not believe eve the schedule was m as a a fair one mr air mantle asserted the ilia bill to be full of loopholes and snares for the unwary and said bald that the situation was fitly described by bret lines and the cards they were stocked in a wnm that I 1 and my feelings were shocked at tho iho state of ills sleeve which was wait stuffed full fuji of aces and bowers and the iho same with intent to Sc doc vve elve ALLISON OFFERS TO AMEND sir mr allison then their offered an at ment requiring scoured wool of the third clam to pay three times the duty of unsecured wool of that of blaas ill mr r aall wi stated that the amandi amendment ne n t waa as made to meet the objection raised ra 1 ad by senators on the floor of the sen senate a te today A debate ensued w which aich was largely technical in character relating to the effect of scouring as com compared pared to washing the shrinkage enta entailed lied ete etc in which gia geay Y war bairen r a n mantle mantie many stewart and jones ark participated mr air jones sald paid he be had estimated all that free raw wool and a 60 per cent a u t average e rate on a a toted coal woolens air aou would id save to tire the p people ople of the country every year and yet this schedule placed place the wool rates higher then than ever making the most inlo altous burden of taxation ever conceived before the vote vot was waa taken mr air allison yielded to appeals find and all changes contemplated hy by the committee throughout the schedule these in addition to the proposed changes a on first and second class wools we as follows A modification of paragraph making the rates on tot top waste sc on shoddy and on other waste paragraph changed by omitting nitting or skirting in two five places paragraph ii amended T by striking tri king out plain in reference once to andels an and 13 I 1 accepting the house clause for underwear d errear also AIR 0 striking out and all flannels other than plain in para paragraph grap h dress goods boods inere increase ai 1 the rate from ac c to gc and the rate of G gc cje to ac per square yard in paragraph dress goods increase the rate from ac to per yard in paragraph roada made clothing reduce the ad valoree valorem v a boram provision front from 60 to 55 5 per cent and 9 substitute four times for four and nair a halt times in reference to the I 1 duty in paragraph 30 reduce the ad valoree valorem valor em from RO 60 to 63 55 per crint cent in paragraph velvet carpets cai increase the llie rate from torn gic coc to file yr per square yard in paragraph brussels carpets increase the rate from ac to 4 bic ic pr per square sard in paria aph and tapestry car carpets petR e the to rata to from 50 to per square yard it in paragraph hapli tapestry brusola bru sols carpets increase the rate from lae to at per square yard in paragraph insert a a marinor a rate of loa per pat square foot font and 40 ver per cent oi ad valorem valoree on oriental keliin all aal similar tugs iusa ind and carpet mr air Alli sont amendment to palo paia graph was then agreed to 29 to 2 26 6 mr offered a substitute for paragraph 53 providing that the a duty ty on first arid and SC second virld class wool was washed hed U shall be twice tice that on unwashed anti and on oil firt second and third class claa W wool 0 1 lectured three times the autv on too tho at mr air carters rubt tu Bt NIT mr allison accepted ton IV that part of tho the amendment amr adment referring to first and second class dru wool washed when nain graph relating to the th rate on oil third class claas enola WAS wa jea Yea hed phed the bill was mas laid ii aid ide at I 1 p m the senate held an executive sabi lon and adjourned |
