Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-09
Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Upon the ex
piration OF the morning hour Senator Morrill,
addressed the senate at considerable length
upon the tariff commission bill. The speaker
said our nearest approaches 10 free trade had
been seasons Of national disaster, as were the
years 1888, 18a7 and 1857, and the further we
had receded from free trade the better had
labor Jared and the greater had been the mat.
erial and educational advancement of the
country. The evidences that the free
trade prosperity of Great Britain was
on the wane were apparent in the g. GOO bonsas mas
in Sheffield and the 10, 600 in Birmingham now
marked 'to let" He contended that ths !"
British policy had been everywhere regretted
AS result of this policy British agricuitnra
was now threatened with ruin bv forai rn
competition, and Lord Derby, in late sneech
to the Lancashire farmers, had sur.
gested the desperate remedy Of
immigration to some 200 O0o
OF them, SO that those who remain might
farm on better terms. Moreover there were
recent evidences OF change in British opin-
ion, 10 the extent that while free trade would
De Inc pest talng for England if ther nations
would follow her example, it was not the best
thing for her if left as its sole adherent. The
axiom OF British free trade economy. that
1or any branch of manufactures to
rest on safe foundations it was Indispensable
tnat skilled labor and raw materials should he
indigenous, If applied to the British Islands.
would strip them of a great share of their in
dustry, as cotton, hemp, silk, lumber. steel
and other articles, and Various machinery.
were not home products. Referring to the
custom OF innexiblllty adhered to on
the English turf, Of handicappinp
races for the protection of native tbor9n rhs
breds against competitors from abroad. Nor.
rlil suggested that If English horses. conld
with propriety be given this advantage. as
against our Parole and Iroquis, nations yonng-
er ana less experienced in manufactures oupht
not to submit to be distanced by previous
winners In many contesting fields; vet
tne owners OF Manchester and Birmingham,
many years old, refused to be comforted, when
tney were finally handicapped by protective
Ia!lns ID matcn with Atlanta and Indianap-
oils-two- year-olds. He continued with ref.
erence to the prosperous condition of our 40.
rlcultural community under protective tar
III, IN contrast with the poorly-fed, coarsely
under-clOthed and down -trodden British farm.
ers, ana asserted there was not state where
industries would not be jeopardized by free
trade. N " NV
The president pro tenn submitted the re-.
sponse OF the secretary of the interior to the
senaGe reso1utlon, transmitting list of names
OF omcers, clerks and other EMPLOYEES on the
rolls of the department, with salary, date of
appointment and grade of each state to which
charged, and indication of who served in the
Union and who in the confederate armies
Tabled and ordered printed.
A large number of bills were introduced.
among Them one granting cabinet officers
seats on the toOr of the senate; for bridge
over the missouri near st. Louis; also, pro-
vlding tnat the widow or minor children of
every soldier or officer who served in the mill
tary or civil service of the United States dur
ing tne rebellion, for ninety days, and was
honoraoly discharged, shall be entitled to 1850
acres OF government land.
A Dill granting the widow of the late Presi-
dent Garfield the franking privilege was unan-
imously passed.
Pending the motion for adjournment, presi-
dent pro tenn. Davis, addressed the senate as
ioilows: "Senators-Youw will pardon my GO
ing OUTSIDE tne rules in calling attention to
the fact that the 5th of December. the day on
wnicn congress convened, was the flftieth an
nivsrsary of the day when Isaac Bassett, the
mucn esteemed doOrkeeper of the senate, be-
came connected with this BODY. Half CEN
tury ago he entered our service as page,
through the influence of Daniel Webster. In
all the mutations OF parties no attempt was
ever made to disturb him. Surely
no higher tribute could be paid to his integ-
r1ty than that he had been SO long and so sat.
lsfactorily identified with the history of the
senate. am sure the sentiment on all sides
Is cordially expressed, when wish him health
ana happiness in the name of the senate of the
United States" Adjourned till Monday
next