The New York herald., 1877-11-20


the unconsttutonalliy Of the measure. Ie would not
have The constitution OF the country broken for ali
mo weaith ana ingenuity OF tho world HI warned
his democratic friends to the republican party
steal their doctrine OF tho necessity strct con-
struction OF The constitution He said the republicans
Mote a.teInp.ing 70 DO SO, ms they had shown last
year alter the election. This bill not TO help the
nara iaoofing man, u was TO help the rich man. He
referred 10 the Vienna Exhibition, and spoke OF the
disgrace that had Rested ou the United states on
account OF the wrangling and haggng which had
characterized the conduct OF the American Commis-
sioners. he then turned his attention to his col
league MT. hswt) and ridculed the corn kitchen
proposition He admitted that OF course, the PROPOSE
ton was constitutional. but hts colleague
mad msao .,v great mistake II he supposed
Hundreds OF millions OF bushels oil il were raised and
consumed there. He imagined his colleagu as chief
superintendent of the noniny department al. t.the
fais Exposition, giving receipts IN every language
how 10 COOK corn meal of The s'Henthen CHI
nee coming ana asking the ''Mehcan man" how
''cookee coInce, and he then depicted the Chinaman
(havlng cooked his cake and eaten ~, crying
~ Of .ndisnI,.on, Mexican man. gooee me greenery
cornee. hehce'' tLaughter) He appealed 10 his
colleague 10 say wnat Franco had done 10 him to
justly MN IN his corn INVASION. France mad
turning Board. tI.aughterl France had had nothing
10 do with the Electoral Commission. (LaughterJ
Why then should his colleague propose TO punish
frauce with the general Indigestion OF hot corn?
lI.aughter.) ho ihcn drew Iudcrous picture OF a
corn husAlng match IN France conducted by tho
chairman o the committee (Mr Swapn, Of Md
ana his colleague (Mr. HewiIt), at which one OF
the brown faced wooden snoed girls OF MarseilIes dis
covers RED ear and cries out, 'La rouge! la rouge
embrasscry mol" (soars OF laughterj In conclu-
sion he made an argument iavor Of free trade and
an appeal 10 the Committee OF Ways and Means 10
bring IN Dill Tor the radical modification OF the tariff
REVISION OF rHE TARIFF
On this subject he sand MIR. Speaker-If we would
assist our industries enlarge our market and
With all our forces, social and political other people
TO our Shores let us repeal these absurd rcpel-
lent policies Let us avoid giving bountics to selfish
class II We want an outlet Tor our productions let
US enlarge tho sphere Of consumption. Ii we Will
make an alliance OF physical with intellectual force
aud lit the hierarchy OF labor into higher plane n
we would extend the hand Of fellowship TO other
tions, we have something more TO do than create
simple display OF goods upon stall in foreign land.
What avails a public fete or show, with
Chinese wall placed around our country
by restrictive legislation? Take the duties oil
1900 taxable articles and you have market WITH all
tho world; you withdraw the evil which hangs
our industries and make America itsolf universal
exhibition We want ediilces OF iron and glass To
give impetus 10 manufacturers your enchant ment TO
provoke the Improvement and increase of manufac-
lures Is a cheap market, not merely for your manu-
tactuEcs but Tor your breadstulIs. LiDerates in
change bring the skilled and the
cheap transporter. What France and England did by
reciprocity We may do. No palatal prodiges like tho
Crystal Palace or the Vienna Exhibition buildings
half so potent as cheap market 1t the lamp o Alad
din IL accomp pl!shes miracles, IRON revolution
and distress aud destuton and poverty and despair
and death. Man has made his railways upon the
earth; TIE sea has become an economical means OF
transit; through steam there Is quest evcn to tho
utlormost parts Of the earth in which our enterprise
may not 20 with tho cheap market II, isolated with
all our preemincncc in industry with all our power
TO create, we tail, our mines may givo US silver and
g0d our valleys maize and wheat; war may take
from the nelds Of labor ts millions OF men in other
lands; we may know what Carlyle meant when he
sang Of tools and tho and power Of tho dwarf
but all is oil no avail without outlet
for our products. Governments may give bountcs.
as Napoleon aid Tor tEe substitution of flax for cotton,
to destroy the power OF neighbour but the restrict
ing invention returns 20 plague the inventor. rho
active Tree trading nation VIII uecome enriched
thereby. We may havo the process by which steel Is
made III great retorts by tho ton, tho rehuemcnts OF
tho spcctroscope but the gonil that wait upon The
magic ring OF prosperity enter tho unrcstraincd and
cheap market In vain legislatures ondeavor TO oppose
tho designs OF Provdence tor the order OF God is Tree
dom OF exchange. Buy, II you would SELL When this
country, by series OF insane tariffs sought to exclude
the merchandise OF other nations 1t did not grow
rich. When England, in lS46, repealed her corn
laws she made new commercial system that
gave her tho exchanges of the world Maine cannot
Sell her timber abroad with n tarn which taxes tho
salt Tor her lsh Illinois nnd market for
tecmng granarlcs IN the Od World when she stops
the fabrics OF England ana Franco. II we would sell
our machines ana grains to Franco wo must buy her
olive oil and silk. The rule has no exception You
cannot make bargain without two parties; there 10
without receiving IRON him and expect
TO ROMAN solvcnt9 Try to sell abroad
without purchasing abroad and you will
make failure and failure more absurd than any
which Bastial demonstrates or China once illustrated.
II not in expositons, in subsidies that our m,tess
pralres and abounding forests or our commercial and
manufacturing greatness, will attract the ovcr-popu
lated countries Of the Old World Let America open
homcloss over the and land Let item delvo
IN our mines, plough IN our soil. Wo
ver; vr riches & hap happiness ana labor ' for all VINO
come; only ihcre stands In the path tho
one gaunt spectre OF selfish and unmtigated greed,
through Legislation Tho nrst step 10 be akcn by tho
American Congress for the revival and prosperity OF
our country is freedom OF trade without the folly OF
world DO made Ad nos ad sdiutarum undam ueaits
1'o'ult.
Mr Cox's speech was very frequently interrupted.
with laughter and applause and members gathered
around him IN contravention OF all parliamentary
rules TO listen 10 It.
MR. HEWITT.
Mr.. HEWITT, (dem.l Of N. r., responded hts COL
league, Who ne sad. for the purpose OF making him
solI popular, misrepresented his district In speech
calculated 10 do nothing more than anord liltlo
amusement He then proceeded to state tho historical
and other reasons why the United States should bo
worthly represented at the Paris Exposition lie said
that America owed her national independence largely
the fact that Franco had. aided her In her
was the response which France had then given
to the invitation from America, and
that France sent an Invitation 70 America, what
should be the answer There was not man in the
House who would vote to refuse IT. Even his col
league ME Cox would not 80 Disgrace his man nhood
as 10 say 10 that French nation eve will not accept "
Nor would the answer be, "Wc Will accept, but We will
spend no money" II FRANKLIN, Dean and
Lawrence, and the other American Commis-
nation had becn met with tho answer, eve sympa-
tnize with you; but wc can spend no money" what
would thcy have thought Of III But 1t was belittng
the whole question beyond measure TO put II tho
money ground. In this tho money would not Do
expended Tor the benefit ot Francc every dollar ot II
would be spent Tor tho benefit 6l the American people
This was not private enterprise but a national ono.
Prlvato individuals WOuIu not DO rccogLIzcu. IHc
question was purely interpational, and II American
exhibitors were TO be there at all II should
DO through the agency OF the government. lio
then proceeded 10 show the practical results.
derived from International exposltions, specifying tho
Of Bcssemer steel the making OF which, alter tho
Paris Exposition oil 1857, commenced In the United
States, ana the price OF which has thus been reduced
from $ll6 TO $40 ton. He also referred TO the Cor
lss engine when, since tho Philadelphia Exposition,
being made all European countries and Is paying
a royalty to its inventor.
THE KITCHEN.
Coming down to the question OF the "corn Kitchen"
he saiu that he had bcen well awnr0 that the sug-
gestion would give risc 10 ridiculc ani IL
practical suggestion, as much 50 as the Vienna
bakery, whch had conferred groat benefits on tho
country by improving the quality Of the bread. IL
possible, he thought 80 10 pOpuinrizc tho use OF
lndan corn IN Europe as 10 increase us exportaton
from $1,000 bushels TO two, three our million
bushels year He declared I'm reply to Mr. Cox
that he was not high protcctIonist and never had
been. Ho believed that tho progress Of the country
was embarrassed by It's protection laws and that they
were impedments To national progress lie advocated
representation AT The Paris Exposition because no be-
cvcd IT woulu be The linal blow TO system which,
useful IN its day. has ouvcd It's usefulness.
he vcnurcd TO tntnk that wherever there was compc
tItion the Paris Exposition American articles would
mr. thp in hattv