The Indianapolis journal., 1883-02-19

that agricultural products of the country were
protected to the extent of S72, ,O0o. 600. Ia the
list of products printed iu the gentleman's IS
speech, he found "plum- pudding" )" "maccaroni"
"yenison," "Chlnese nut OIL" and frogs" If
there was firai which produced such articles,
Mr.. Dunnell, member of the ways and means
committee, expressed his surprise at the
abated interest manifested in the pending bill,
In the light of the fact that there was earthly
hope of its passage. Members had been debat-
ing the provisions of the bill, and at the same
to be passed.
Mr.. McKinley-I deny that, so far as am con-
cerRed
Mr.. Dunnell-The next few days will verify the
truthfulness of my statements. Referring to
the appointment of the tariff commission, he
said he had opposed the appointments because
he saw just what WAS to be fact in the history
of the Forty-seventh Congress; what that Con-
gress ought to have done had not been done,
Now, within few days of the final adjourn
ment, with 0ne-third of ar enormous bill
passed over, everybody was pressed with the
conviction that the bill could never pass; it was
utterly beyond the expectation of its most San
gune supporters that the bill would pass. The
House has been deudng itself, deluding the
country, and unsettliDg the great business inter
ests OF the countfy with the secret flats gone
forth and cherished that the bill should not pass
this Congress. Already steps had been taken to
pass through the House next Monday the inter
nal revenue bills, taking off from capital what
labor demanded should be taken off. There
FORE" Mr. Dunnell concluded, eve are here de-
batting bill. dishOnOring ourselves on this side
as the dominant party, and dishonoring Congress
in ITS treatment of the people" Applause on
the Democratic side.
This speech of Dunnell revived interest in
the debate, and a knot of members who had sur
rounded him during Its delivery moved up the
aisle to listen more attentively to Mr.. Kasson,
who rose to reply. Ii the House, he said, had
confined itself TO q proper consideration of the
business interests embraced In the bi the
measure would have been passed before this. 1t
was not on the Republican side OF the Honse
that the responsibility rested. 1Derisive laugh
and cries of HOhi' from rha DpmOpratip
side. He had advocated the tariff
commission in order to bring the
not leave lobbyists and agents to give iRforma-
ton to the committee on ways and means. That
commission was appointed and its report made;
the ways and means committee took it the
basis of action, made notifications in it prompt
ly as possible, d brought the House bl the
gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. DunnelD had
not been present with the conmitte, AZ he ought
to have been. helping to facilitate its examina-
ton. Applause on the Republican sidel He
wanted the debate closed; he wanted the bill
passed. But you, he concluded tDOlnting to the
Democratic side), stand here Obstructing it.
immediately the hall was in great confusion,
Messrs Morrison, Carlisle and Tucker being OF
their feet in emphatic denial of Mr. Kasson's as
sertion, and Mr.. Haskell demanding % he recog
nized to make privileged morton. Comparative
quiet having been restored, Mr.. Haskell moved
that the committee rise ana report the bill to the
House.
privleged question.
Mr.. Haskell's motion having been agreed to-
the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Haskell
moved that the House again go into committee
of the whole, and pending that moved that all
debate on the pending section of the bill be
closed in one hour.
Not compreheuding the wide scope of this mo-
ton, which would eut of debate the pending
schedule ana all remaiuing schedules, Mr.. Car
lisle exclaimed, we will accept that; hut upon
Mr.. HaskelPs explaining what he intended by
his molten, Mr. Carlisle raised the point of order
that the molten was not in order.
If you will give us a bill making 20 per cent
reduction, exclaim ed Mr.. Morrison, we will pass
it before night.
Cries of ''votel" "Vote!" the Republican
side.
Mr. Carlisle then took the floor in advocacy of
his point of order
Mr. Carlisle said this proposition to do
what had never yet been done in the House since
the organization of the government, far as
he knew, and If the gentleman from Kansas
could cite single instance where such motion
had been entertained he would have nothing to
Mr. Haskell, in opposition to the point of order.
planted himself the fair face of The rules OF
the House. Ee knew perfectly well it had been
the habit OF the House to close debate para
graphs as they were res ehed In committee, but
he alao knew 1t had power TO close debate a
section. as he proposed should be done. The five
minutes debate had begun on the pending ques-
ZION, which was all required by the rules. The
House had power to consider the bill by sections,
1t had power to consider on & !, by paragrapns but
common man might read as he ram il had pow er
after the five minutes debate had begun on the
section, to close all debate on that section.
understand this molten is not one made every
dav, but the great emergency that now rests on
this House is not enc that comes every dav,
| Derslve laughter on the Democratic side.) We
have been challenged by men of the other side
that were derelicJ i'll our own duty
| Mr.. Blackburn-I don't understand that is
argument the point of order.
Mr.. Haskell completing his sentence)-And I
will put the mafter TO the test here and now.
(Apolause on the Republican side)
Mr.. Blackburn said he was not surprised the
gentleman from Kansas wandered from the
point o. order; Eeither he nor any other man
could sue ont a warrant and find precedent for
| the motion he had made never before had 1t
been attempted to close debate upon the pro
visions of revenue bill, tho subject matter of
which had never been considered in committee
of the whole. The first four pages of the bill
have been considered, and the motion was to
close the mouths OF members until the four.
seenth page reached. 1t a proposition
to gag the representatives of the people until
the second section reached. The gentleman
frem Iowa (Mr. Kasson) had brought in a few
davs since a resolution looking TO clos
| ing debate, and it had not yet been
called up. If Won want, he continued,
to silence discussion, why do you not fol
low up your challenge and bring the resolution
up in rhe committee on rules and bring it before
the House. with emphasis)-You have not
dared to do it. We challenge no contest. but we
stand ready to meet it, and the committee on
rules has never been called together to consider
| it. Y0u may succeed in gagging the House, bur
| you cannot gag the American people, and You
| cannot gag their representatives III a fashion
which ia more adroit than ir is either honorable
| or manly, without protest being made.