The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-23

A Hot Discussion Of tho Question In Con-

I'm agricultural labor ana productioh, made
In whole or i'm part OF material imported on
which duties have been paid, drawback
equal in amount to the duty paid on such
material This was an opportunity for the
gentlemen on the other side who claimed to
be the friends of the farmer to show they
were in earnest in their protestations OF In
terest in the cause of agriculture.
Mr. Reed opposed the amendment, which
he declared had been offered, not because
the gentleman supposed it would prevail,
but because he thought the country would
nav attention to these attempts to make
record The country was too sensible TO do
ANYTHING of the kind
Mr. Townshend of Illinois, challenged the
production from the history OF tariff leglsla-
tion of a bill which was more oppressive
in it's operation than the bill reported by the
present WAYS and Means Committed No
important measure had ever been brought
before an American Congress where such
unfair and uyrannical means had be n re-
sorted to in its management The bill did
not originate in Congress. 1t was sired by
a lobby of hired agents of the monopolists
and was brought forth in secret conclave.
Mr. McKinley-No Democratic member or
the Ways and Means Committee will say
what you have said
Mr. Townshend went on TO say that
the three gentleman--Messrs. Kelley, Has
kell and McKinley-whO were in charge or
the bill had not yet descended TO the work
of detraction and villifcation. That work
had been assigned TO another referring TO
Mr. Reed, whose voice, manners and char
acteristics peculiarly qualihed him Tor That
work. Every other member on the other
side spoke only apparently by TIC nse was
there ever such shameful proceedings In
auournted in an American Congress on such
an important measurey
Mr. Haskell said he had stood here for
nearly three weeks and had listened TO de-
nunciations coming from the other side
leveled at the Ways and Means COMMITTEES
long enough without reply. The gentleman
from Illinois stood here and charged that
this bill was the creation OF n corrupt and
scandaous lobby Every word OF his declar-
alton was flat falsehood Did he compre-
bend exactly the full length and breadth
and width of that statement? Every word
of this bill had been considered in the Ways
and Means Committee and never from the
day the committee had taken charge OF it
until the day they reported IL was there
manufacturer or a lobbyist to come before
them
Mr. Townshend- to your Repub-
lican papers the lobbyists crowded the COM
mittee-rOom.
Mr. Haskell.Not man was before that
committee when il was in session The gen
tleman from Kentucky (Mr. Carlisle) is as
honorable man as the representative from
Illinois, and Mr. Randolph Tucker, OF Virgin
a.
ist When men like Messrs, Morrison, Ran
dali, Carlisle, Kasson and Kelley are charged
on this floor with acting as the agents OF
lobbyists, the man who charges it utters, l
believe, II deliberate falSehoOd. He knows
better L will go on and brand such state
ments as that publicly. Iput my honor and
character before this whole world and coun-
try. / invite the closest scrutiny OF my
public acts and private acts No hound, no
dirty gutter-snipe ever sunk so low yet as
i, 1,Gl.. in lflDl
my duty on this committee or any other. L
will not stand here TO assert my integrity
1t is known where am known But when
my committee is attacked in the name or
my colleagues on that committee, Demo
cratic colleagues and Republican colleagues,
want to brand here now such declarations
as that with the appellation which belongs
to them.
Mr. Townshend said he did not desire to
handy epithets with the gentleman from
Kansas He did not propose to go to the
cesspools to throw filth at the gentleman
He had not in his remarks intended any per-
sonal application to either of the three
gentlemen to whom he had referred He
simply intended to inform the country Of
the fact, which he had derived from the
statements of Republican organs, that the
committee had been surrounded and crowd
ed by hired agents of the tariff monopolists,
and IL was the influence they had eXerted
(he would not say corruption) on members
OF the committee that had brought forth
this bill He had not any personal ami
| mostly toward the gentleman from
Kansas He had been surprised at tho
ability and information which the gentle
man had displayed in the management OF
this bill, for he was the only one on the
other side who had shown any acquaintance
with ii. He was surprised because he had
never known the gentleman to show any
ability OF knowledge worth considering Of
any subject he had ever discussed. He mr.
Townshcnd) did not know whether the gen
tleman intended TO hurl at him the epithet
of being guilty of uttering a falsehood or
not Il want 10 know" he continued, turn
ing toward Mr.. Haskell, whether the gentle
man charges me personally with falsehood."
Mr. Haekell-Answer me question and l
will answer yours. | want You to answer me
whether OF not Won said that this hill wasnot
made under the rules Of this House, but was
the creation of a corrupt lobby Did you
say that?
Mr. Townsend-I said then, and say again,
that this bill was sired by hired agents of
monopoly. did not say, nor intend to say
at the time, that the gentleman himself was
the tool of the monopolsts. l simply in
tended to assert, what l repeat here, that
this bill was made up by, was inspired by,
was sired by, hired agents of the monopo-
lists and your committee has accepted ii and
the Republican caucus embraced it. wish
to know, before say what / may desire to
say, whether the gentleman desires to charge
me with personal falsehoodg
Mr. Haskell-What / said was that the
statement made was a false statement, and
that repeat
What L want to know" persisted Mr.
Townsend, amid de1.sive laughter on the
Republican side, "is whether the gentleman
draws distinction between a statement
and the personal honor of the gentleman
who makes the statement
Before Mr.. Haskell could reply, Mr. Hen
derson endeavored to bring about peace
by appealing to the committee to proceed
with the business and not turn the hall into
a bear-garden. But Mr.. Townshend persisted
in his demand for an explanation The
statement which have made" he said, "has
been matter of public notoriety. Leading
Republican papers have made it Ii the
gentleman simply desires to brand the
sta ements which have been spread through
out this land, have no personal issue with
him; but If he here shelters himself behind
the privileges OF debate on this floor for the
purpose of insulting me in public, / want to
know it,"
Mr. Kasson-I want TO say in the common
interest of the House that distinction has
always been drawn between a personal
charge and charge of misstatements of
facts alleged The gentleman must remem-
Der that his charge was practically one OF
corruption. Every member of the commit
| tee knows that CHARGE IN no folSe