The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-25
LATEST TELEGRAMS,
ALVIIyCONGRESS.
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE.

spent large part of the morning
on the life saving bill.
Kellogg reported Il bill appropria
ting $5,000,000 for the improvement
of the Mississippi and 100000 fol
the Missouri River.
George WAS granted indefinite
leave of absence
The joint resolution for the print.
ing OF Blaine's Garfield memorial
address passed.
The tariff commission discus, sion
resumed, and Miller, of New York,
gave some reasons for his belief in
protection. He said he feared that
unless some southern members
amended their views on this issue
they would be left at home.
Morgan-Let me interrupt the
gentleman to ask whether he expects
that any of the members who will
be returned from the south will be
in favor of tariff on wood pulp.
Miller-I had hoped that, as a
new member and one unaccuStomed
to public speaking, l would be per-
mltted to make my argument on this
question without interruption: but.
as the senator has seen fit to bring
into this debate personal question
and to fling at me fling which has
been thrown at me by all the news
papers in this country-I say to
him, am ready to meet him.
and If he thinks to cover me or
to drive me from my position by
any such accusation as that, he mis-
takes his man. l have said nothing
about wood pulp, but repeat to the
gentleman that L believe the people
of the south, of Georgia and of Ala
bama, who ar deeply Interested in
the manufacture Of cotton and iron,
will see to IL that they are repre-
sented here by men who believe in
the development of the great re-
sources of our beautiful south
Morgan-If the Senate will in
dulge me.
Miller declining to yield, ap-
pealed to the chair for Vindica-
ton Of his rights to the floor. The
Chair overruled attempted inter-
ruption, and Miller resumed. He
said he would answer the questions
in regard to wood pulp, or any other
manufacturing industry of which
he had any knowledge, upon the
conclusion OF his argument, and fin
ally concluded by inviting Morgan
to reiterate his query about wood
pulp.
Morgan replied that he had now
no query to make, that when the
senator intimated that southern
members did not represent their
people, and would be supplanted at
the November elections by protec-
ton advocates, in other words, that
the democratic party of the
south would be overthrow
heput to him the question whether,
in the senator's opinion, new men,
berS would come instructed to vote
on the question of wood pulp. The
tariff on that article was upon the
statute book, but the senator con-
strued the inquiry as a personal al
fusion. If the senator was so much
identified with tariff on wood pulp
that no one could discuss it without
making an allusion personal to him
self, then, perhaps, the inquiry
ought not to have been made.
Mr.. Miller said he confessed his
inability to understand the matter
as partaking of any other than per-
sOnal nature, but took no offenSe at
it. The business of paper and wood
pulp manufacture, in which he was
engaged, he believed to be as quite
as honorable as any which engaged
the attention of the gentlemen in
terested in breaking down our man
ufactures, and thereby reducing the
American laborer's wages. He adj
ded that the operations of the patent
and of the tariff business was op-
pressively burdened, and that he
wanted to say to the press of the
country which had denounced him
for being engaged in that business,
that the time would come when it
would be realized that the efforts
put forth by himself and his associ-
ateS, had done more than all the
others to solve the question of cheap
paper and cheap books.
Sherman spoke of the efforts made
by the treasury department to Sc
cure legislation at different times
within the period of few years, so
as to enforce revenue laws in regard
to sugar duties, and detailed like eff
forts by the department to counter
act and prevent frauds in the arti61
clal coloring of sugars, as to change
them from higher 90 lower grades,
In order to evade higher duties. AL
though it had been shown that the
failure to pass a law regulating
duties involved a loss to govern
ment OF 100000 a year, all efforts
at legislation had proved Intellectual,
pending the general adjustment of
the tariff. He read the recent de-
cislon of the Supreme Court to show
that, under existing law, coloringin
process OF manufacture was not a
fraud, but to become such must take
place subsequent to the manufac
ture. These and like tariff defects
III regard to hoop iron, steel, and
other articles in iron and steel man.
ufacture, had grown out Of
the confusion Of Gd 0Gloren and spe-
CHIC duties caused by revolution
In manufacturing within the last
twenty years. since laws were