Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-10
House Of REPRESENTATIVES.

WASHINGTON, May 9.-The joint resolution
reported from the committee education and
labor for enforcement of the eight hour law in
all departments of the government gave rise to
lively discussion, in the course of which
Mr., Banks denounced the disregard of the law
by the government as scandalous and Infamous,
and Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts,, advocated a
penalty for its disregard, and said there was
more powder and ball wanted in the admins
tration Of the laws. Tho joint resolution
passed.
The House then went into committee of the
whole, MIR. Sayler in the chair, on the tariff
bill.
Mr.. Kelley, member Of the committee Of
ways and means, said that the most noteworthy
part of the speeches of the gentleman from
New York (Wood) was where he declined to ex-
plain in detail the provisions of the bill. No
part of the people had asked Congress to revise
the tariff. From no city, town or county had
there come such proposition. The loom and
spindle were standing still, the mine un-
wrought; the fires were out in the furnaces,
the captains Of industry, by thousands, were
passing into bankruptcy, and the laboring
people, by millions, into want, if not into pau
perism. They were not permitted to endure
the primal curse, and earn their bread by the
sweat of their brows. They appealed to Con-
gress to relieve them, but not one Of them
suggested that it could be done by a revision
of the tariff in the interest of foreign produ-
| GERS, who were supplanting American mer-
| chants in New York and elsewhere.
| He spoke of the absence of specific protest
in the bill as a fatal defect. If the committee
on ways and means had listened to the state
| ments of men who understood the tariff, a free
| list would have been inserted, and the commit
tee would have been saved the shame of having
reported SO ridiculous abortion. The COM
mittee hAd no particular malice against any
body, but general malice against all
| industries There ugly habit in
some countries of running a muck, where
a man intoxicated with arrack, on horse.
back, armed himself with sharp knife
and hacked and played upon whoever he might
meet. He had no malice against anybody ir
particular but ran muck against all mankind
He, Kelley, thought he could show chat the
committee, inspired by the wonderful writing
of British free trade dreamers. had determined
to run a muck among the American manufac
turers. To borrow simile from the former
Senator from Oregon, Nesmith, he could onl,
compare the bill to a mule with no pride o
ancestry, nothing like it having gone befor
and no hope in posterity because it was no
possible that any delberative body would &C
cept it as model of future laws
He denied Mr.. Woods statement that tn
bill had received the assent of those engage
in the iron and steel trade, and said that thos
gentlemen who had been invited to Washing
| ton mao Decu assured GQdU UQc Dill WOulO IN
: evitably pass, and had also been told by tn
highest authority in the House that their onl
chance was to make a concession, and to stat
the lowest terms under which they could live
But even then they refused, as body, to max
any terms, and they said let US down if it b
, the judgment of the country that the iron an
) steel industry must be Frustrated.
. 1t was the very madness of theory to asser
that the tariff which stimulated production
and which added to the worlds supplies, e1
: HANGED prices. In view of the fact that price
of goods are lower now than they ever were, r
l one could tell whether the pending bill woul
: most promote free trade or protection. If
: were free trade bill it was against the te
: dency and drift of the age. Even England wi
beginning to realize the sad mistake she mat
: when she did not confine the freedom of trat
:, to raw materials and food.
e The bill, as q whole, was disturbing indu
try. 1t involved revolution. Industry sto,
: appalled,. The wool grower of the West cou
It get no price for his wool because the VIC
d manufacturers of the East did not know VIII
/ the tariff was to be-, and did know that if Il
e tariff was to prevail his mill must go, wi
d the millions Of idle men now unemploye
'e with the FORCES and furnaces and factories
ID tirely closed. How would the working peol
T. feel and what army would keep them in orde