Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-01-11

SENATE.

nil from the committee on finance On ohi
to restore certain articles of silver ware to
Mrs Isabella S. McCrea; also substitute, in
the nature of an amendment. to the bill to
fx the term of Office of collectors Of internal
revenue.
By Mr.. Maxey from the committee on mil
itary affairs, reported favorably the bill to
amend article lO3 of the rules and articles of
war. With written report
By Mr.. Morrill,, from the finance commit
tee, reported back the resolution referred to
that committee in relation to trade marks,
and the same referred to the committee on
patents.
Mr. Bayard, from the finance committee.
reported with q recommendation that 1t pass.
Mr. Morrill, from the tariff commission.
bill. and al<o with an adverse report on the
Garland commission bill. He said he favor
ed the mode Of constituting the commission
prescribed in the former. namely. from among
the civilians as tending to remove the tariff
question from the arena of sectional or par
tisan feeling. and argued tine necessity for
immediate action to correct the incongruities
and inefficiency of the existing tariff
He believed the manufacturers we're not in
sensible to the fact that their own interest
required stability and permanency in legis-
lation and he would now adopt means for
relieving IDih titcIu any Sdusc ioi "PttShCh-
sion from Congressional interference. No
poor man had been heard before Congress
pending the agitation Of tariff questions, and
he wanted information from the laboring
classes well as from all others. Through
the instrumentality of the commission this
information could be secured, and Congress
enabled to legi.late infellgently.
The facts that no action on the tariff had
been taken BY the House. and the difficulty
in securing joint actions by the Houses. with
the means Of that proposed, were controlling
reasons in behalf of the proposition. 1t would
facilitate rather than delay the framing of a
harmonious plan of excise tax. He (Bayard)
believed that men could be found, who by the
weight of their personal character, by rea-
sonable gist of their deductions. would fur
nish Congress with . scheme of reform taxa.
ton, internal or external, compared with
which the present system is but as darkness
to light. He was willing to try an expert
ment that was the first of its kind in our
history.
Upon the conclusion of Bavard's remarks.
the morning hour having in the meantime
been extended, the Sherman funding bill
came up, but was temporarily laid aside with
out vote.
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Bavard Mr..
Beck addressed the Senate, the galleries hav-
ing meanwhile filled up in anticipation of an
oratorical display.
Mr.. Beck opposed the bill as a cunning
scheme of mOnopolists for delay. He wanted
immediate actions upon the tariff, and as
serted that all the commission would find out
as the basis of judicious reduction of tax
alton, could be presented by the committee
of the Senate and furnished to the ways and
means committee of the House in six weeks.
He regarded the term Free Traders" as an
piled to the democratic party, because of its
Tariff for revenue only" planks of 1876 and
1880, as an absurdity, for that party favored
the raising of much the largest portion of the
necessary revenue from custom duties. For
one he would arrange the taxes so as to aid
all industries, and particularly those which
were started on the belief that they would
be fostered by Congress.
Taking up the denunciatiOn of the Morrill,
tariff in the democratic platform of 1876, he
asserted that each of the specific charges
therein contained, were equally true today as
they were then, except in the last few years
the revenue from the tariff has risen, not
dwindled. yearly. This, however, was not
because of, hut in spite ofprOteciion, and due
to the scarcity in Europe and abundant har-
vests at home, and the latter being stimula-
ted by land grants to corporations and set
tiers. The protection that gave Congressional
license to wealthy combinations to extort
from American farmers and laborers a large
percentage of their earnings, was such pro-
lection as the wolf gave the lamb. Another
evidence was our commercial degradation, as
shown in the loss of our carrying trade, thus
compelling us to pay foreigners $3.50, OOO,-
600 year for acting as our carriers, brokers
and insurance agents in our commercial re-
lations, together with the almost total disap-
pearance of our 60, 900 sailors of 1860
Beck argued that the manufacturers should
exert themselves in foreign markets, and
closed BY criticising with some severity, the
recommendations of the Secretary of the
Treasury, for the withdrawal of silver cerfi.
hcates and the placing of currency in the
hands of the National Banks.
At the conclusion of MIR. Beck's speech,
Mr. Morrill, addressed the Senate at some
length in advocacy of the bill. He had never
sought to make the tariff a party question.
The Senator should have understood that the
country cannot have a export trade until 1t
has home trade, aud can supply the article
at lower price than that at which it is furn-
ished else. here. As to the loss of our carry.
ing trade, our vessels were swept from the
ocean by privateers fitted out by the very free
trade power which that Senator now COM
mended.
The debate which had continued by unani--
nous consent, terminated, and the Chair
laid before the Senate the unfinished Sher-
man funding bill.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
BENJAMIN Wood Of New York, appeared
and was qualified as a member. The House
resumed the consideration of the Utah con-
tested election case pending resolution, being
that offered by Haskell. oF Kansas, declaring
that Allen G. Campbell, delegate elect from
Utah, is entitled to be sworn in. on his prima
facie case. Mr.. Reed, of Maine, offered 40
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