The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-05-23
Done at washington, the Twelfth Gay Q
April, eighteen hundred and forty-four.
j. c. CALHOUN, [Seal.]
ISAAC VAN ZANDT, [Seal.]
j. P. HENDERSON, [Seal.
Washington correspondence of the Bait. Pat.
THE " BRITISH TARIFF BILL" DE-
FEATED.
WAsu1NGToN. May 10. 1914.

WASHINGTON, May 10, 1914.
This has been a day of unusual interest
in the House, owing to the circumstance
that the fate of the " British Tariff Bill" was
decided on. | have the satisfaction 10 an
nounce to you that that abominable bill, so
fraught with evil to the country, and so es-
sentially British in its character, has gone to
the tomb of the Capulets-is defunct.
After the transaction of some miscellane-
Gus business, which you will see noticed in
the report, Mr.. MCKAY, who was entitled to
the floor, yielded to Mr.. BARNARD, who pro-
ceeded to address the House in sound and
argumentative speech against the bill. He
confined himself to a view of it in the light
of a revenue measure, and contended that
it would prove wholly inadequate to the pur-
pose of bringing into the treasury a suffi-
cheney Of revenue to meet the wants of the
Government. After he concluded, MIR.
MCKAY, the chairman of the committee of
WAYS and Means, who is regarded as the
author of the bill, addressed the House in
its defence. His speech fell far short of
what we had a right to expect from one oc-
cupying the responsible station he fills. L
say it without prejudice and because | am
convinced | do not do him injustice, that his
effort was an utter failure, as coming from
the chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means Of the House of Representatives
of the United States. When he took his
seat, Mr.. CULLAM got the floor, and without
discussing the bill, moved the previous ques-
ton. Instead, however, of bringing the
House to a direct vote upon the bill, as the
Wings were most anxious should be done,
Mr.. ELMER, of New Jersey, a Loco Foco,
moved to lay it on the table. The object OF
this movement was TO relieve the Loco Foco
party Of the odium of a positive rejection OF
it. The motion to lay on the table was car
ried by a vote of 1O5 to 80, and is a riTtuat
rejection of the bill. In order TO seal the
matter, and to leave the bill III a condition
that would preclude its being resuscitated
during the present session, Mr.. IRWIN, OF
Pennsylvania, a Wing, moved a reconsidera-
ton of the vote by which it was laid on the
table. H~ereupon, a good deal of shutting
took place among the Loco Focos, in order
10 get rid Of the motion to reconsider,
and although it was only about two O'Clock,
they tried hard to get al adj ournment. Sew
eral motions of that kind were made, but the
Wings always brought the yeas and nays to
bear upon them, and their object was de-
feated. Their design in wishing TO adj ourn
no doub; was to hold a caucus, and to try and
whip in the New York and other Loco Fo-
cos, who Ivoted for laying the bill on the
table. The question oil the motion to re-
consider was at last taken and decided in the
negative by nearly the same vote by which
the bill had been laid on the table.
After these proceedings had ended, and
when the finishing stroke had been given
Mr.. STEWART, of Pa, rose and remarked
that as a death had just occurred, he would
move that the House conform to the usages
in such cases by adjoGrning. He made q
motion to this effect, and the House adj
iourned. 1t was not surprising that Mr., S
did not carry out the idea by %pronounclng
the eulogy of the defunct bill, and moving
that the House 90 into mourning on the oc'
casion. This is generally done by the
friends of the deceased, and certainly nc
one would expect such a service from hin
I, in regard to this bill.
: The fate of this measure cannot fail &c
f make a deep impression upon the people O
this country. There is no question in re,
/ gard to which party lines are more distinctly
: drawn than this. The Wings hold it as one
+ of their cardinal principles, that in imposing
I duties for revenue, it is proper to make dis
| examinations for the purpose of protecting
: the industry Of our W citizens against the
D competition of foreign pauper labor. Gu
2 opponents, on the other hand, as aSparty, are
y against protection, and contend that in ad