... On The Tariff

rton, March 23. - There were fifty members on the floor . iouse entered upon the second e tariff debate at 10 o'clock I There were only a few stragle galleries. As the day adï ie members poured in and the became crowded. Gibson of was the first speaker. He deself to a general argument in ; Iprotection. Dockery of Miso foilowed, said it was not a surprise to him that the disf the bill thus far had been u uiiinteresting. "The truth is," "the people of the country want loney and less taxes. This'bill Si represent the issue of the late fïn. The people would prefer to .000.000 more money put in ciri. t'nan to see that amount abfoy the treasury." The Recent lïoncl Issues, ry said it did not lie in the Kof the Republicans to criticize .d issues of the last administra'r. Cleveland was criticized on i" the house," said he, "while 1 sed his policy in the last con ur committee on ways and used to give the house an opto vote on the senate resoluhibitingr bond issues because -lers had been notified by fifty ans from the west that they ie cumpelled to vote for it." ery ridiculed the idea that the tariff law was the monster had öestroyed our industries. If ra so, why. he asked, had the i members of the ways and nmittee lifted the metal and idules almost bodily from this Iw? He denied that thc-re was prosperity for labor during the oí the McKinley law and inie Carnegie sliik.' atastrophe," interrupted Dal3 the result of a contest beganized labor and the oppoanized labor. The McKinley hothing to do with it." :il a Republican Told Him. and the protected employer nkerton detectives to shoot i lized ,.iUir," returned Dockdistinguished Republican sen■n ;i member of this house, told ' " time that that was the worst Jthe Republican party had exin twenty years." ; 'y was especially sarcastic in ; rks on the absurdity of giving tütection to agricultural prodthe $569,000,000 of producís exy the United States last year i was agricultural products. ision he said that the policy of n had driven our flag from the is, impoverished the laboring id multiplied farm mortgages. s (silverite of Nevada) then ij floor as the spokesman of his hich numbers three members in e. í Doinjïs in the Seuato. '■Wnate concerned itself Tuesday ivil service debate arising on a n offered by Allen to iavestlncivals in South Omaha. Neb. ■ Wilson of Washington and Galf New Hampshire denoueed the 'vice law vigorously, while Haw'onnecticut and Hoar of Massa,-iupported it. The sena te the resolution for an investigaof federal remováis at maha, but added an amendrecting the civil service oommitlxamine into the general action B civil serlvce law. and whether ' be "continually amended or re