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Show toemisio VI. The Artuy Apttropriitllau Till!. The TartiriSill Acaln I P Washington, May 10 .Irrtbe Senate the anu appropriation bill was taken up. Hda"! amendment, amend-ment, .providing that no alcoholic liquors, beer orwiue be sold and supplied enlMed men in any canteen can-teen or building a garrison or at a military iot; was agreed to yeas 20, nays IT. Co krell's amendment, striking out the words "beer or wine," was defeated. The bill was then passed. The calendar was then taken up and the following bills, among others, passed The Senate bill appropriating ap-propriating $10,000 fur two wagon roads through the Fort Can! y military mili-tary reservation In the State of Washington; the Sen-it' bill appro-priatlng$I2,otV) appro-priatlng$I2,otV) for a steam launch for the collection district of Puget Sound. The .Senate then took up the Individual Indi-vidual pension bills on the calendar aul pafcaudaltpf then). (135) In an hour and a half. Montr. Washis-citon, Ma 10. The House went Into cummltteo of the wholeonthe tarllTbill. Mr.Lan-ham Mr.Lan-ham (X. J.), in a speech generally critical of the measure, urged the impoitance of reciprocity with Mexico. He especially antagonized the features of the bill which places a duty on silver lead ore, declaring that it wonld destroy the smelting Industry of Texas aud neighboring States and would, invite reuliatorj legislation on the part of Mexico. McAqoo (X. J.) opposed the bill, and In the .course of his remark sarcastically taunted the republican party with failure in its ante election elec-tion promises. La Follette XWls.) drew a comparison com-parison between the Mil's bill and the pending measure. The rejubli-can rejubli-can bill favored protection to American Ameri-can agriculture, manufacturers and laoor; the democratic bill opposed that n.easure; the republican Lilt proposed to hold the mirket for Americans the democratic bill proposed pro-posed to invite all other countrin to take this market from our eople whenever It was In their power to do so The Issue was made and he, as a republican, welcomed it. The n publican policy would ftrengtben the alien labor law. The democriUc' policy would nullify thaiaw, -be-causeit was cheaper to import th product of cheap labor than it was 16 import the cheap labor itself. HE THKf ENTMIED , into a detailed- explication and de fenseof the various ichedules of the-; bill. Inconduslon he said-"Whatr does the democratic system oStr? The gentleman from Texas (MULO hsatohl u. I listened to his gleeful glee-ful description of the world's uurct our farmers would find if the blinders blind-ers of protection were removed from their eyet. He descanUd In enthusiastic enthu-siastic and robust speech cf 'the government soophouses of the old w orld established to feed the hordes of hungry inr,' and mounted to his supreme clluurx with thu declaration declar-ation that 'men "were slaving for bread there.' I waited breathjessly for more, but in vain. In God's name, U this the market you ask the American farmers to sell tbelr wheat In? Are they to trundle their pain from the Dakotas to the Old World and wall far the aristocratic totron of the 'government foeip-houe foeip-houe and" other subjects starrlag for bread' to bid against each other and Hx the price"" bpringer (III.) Dired the. hill. He denounced the granting of bounties on sugar and raw silk and then, iuia facetious manner, proceeded pro-ceeded to, point cut the benefits which would ensue to TJIF' I-HtlMKltS Ol IlilNOl'j from the provisions of the law. Cabbages were Jiow taxed 10 per cent, adialvrent. It was proposed to tax them 3 rents a head. Ac coming to the agricultural reports, no cabbages were Imported at 10 per cent. How man would be imported import-ed at 'an equivalent of 50 per cent.? Laughter After ridiculing the Imposition of a duty oh eggs as a measure of protection protec-tion to protect Hayes, who had gone into the chicken business, he reviewed re-viewed the free list, aud declared that the American hog was die-criminated die-criminated agaln-t, In tliat bristles were placed on the free list, while a high duty was j laced uron wool. H as itfor the benefit of the Illinois farmer that his sleek, fat hogs were placed ouau l-qualltywlth the rasor-backs rasor-backs of Mexico? Laughter. The democratic party was read to meet the lstue In the bill and he Predicted that the Houh. in the 1(ty-"ccond Congress would have a majority at Sft. In 1SJ0 there 'would be a democratic Congrets pledged to the repeal of this bill, ir it hhould .become a law. Hlngley(Me) supported the bill aud Uarnra(Ga.), Audrews (Mass.), Cummlngs (X. V.) and lluckner (WI ) opiased It. The committee then rose and took a receta until evenlDg At the. evening fref-alon of the House, the tariff debate was continued, con-tinued, Walker(Mass.) Grosvenor, Hayes (Texas), UIIss (Mich.), Wade and Henderson (Tcsas), favored the McKinley bill, while Chapmau (Mich ),3Icltae (Ark.) and Mansur I Mo ) crilltl'ed the measure. |
