Show WANT NEW MARKETS THAT 18 THE NEED OF AMBRI CAN manufacturers democratic MR GILBERT washington feb 29 darlng tho consideration of tho district of colum bla appropriation bill in the bouso today Mr scott of kansas made the declaration that negro had dined at ho walto house with president clove land during tho first administration tra tion abo was prompted i by a reference 0 mr gilbert ot keni tricky to tho dining of booker T at tho walta when tho name wane demanded mr scott said it was C II 11 J taylor who was appointed by president cleveland as recorder of deeds for the district 0 columbia mr gilbert observed that he and others never had heard of the incident but the democrats were not particularly ticul arly claiming mr cleveland and mr cockran of missouri eald it was but evidence that there Is no better republican in the country than grover cleveland A discussion of the question of reciprocity ip by mr dalzell rep pa and mr williams the minority leader consumed the greater part of the day another feature of the day was tho declaration by mr levering of massachusetts chu that tho republican party waa talking about standing pat thousands of dollars were being lost to manufacturers and that our boasted prosperity Is fast coming to an end because of the failure of the party to enlarge the drawback system and give the new markets which he declared were now demanded continuing mr gilbert said that in the spanish war there were general miles commanding general of the army admiral dewey at manila admiral schley generals lee wheeler and bell all of whom were democrats on the other side he said there was a member of the republican cabinet accused of sending embalmer embalmed ed beet to the soldiers then he said there was a republican horse doctor sent to cuba who was accused of befriending the gamblers and law breakers He referred to the conviction of rathbone and neeley and alluded to general funston who he declared had violated the rules of civilized war fare in wearing the uniform of an enemy in the capture of aguinaldo Agul naldo he next referred to general dails who he said sold rice and other provisions to starving natives at enormous profits mr dalzell of pennsylvania discussing canadian reciprocity said he had been unable to find in an exhaustive research a single argument which would justify the negotiation off a reciprocity treaty between tho ugilt ed state s and canada mr lovering Loverl ng differed ho sald mr dalzell in the matter of a demand tor new markets for goods of american manufacturers the manufacturers wanted an outlet for their surplus products and the demand tor the new markets caused them to realize that production had passed beyond domestic consumption he urged the south to increase the output of cotton a na said immigration was needed greatly in the south these things he said would aid materially in solving the race question |