The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-13

; telling me of the outrageous injustice
heirg done to the industry they are
. following. They threatened us in
1879, when the bill was passed taking
the tax of this drug, with the stop
page of their factory. But they are
running still. and two additional facto-
ries have started since the removal of
the duty. Sow, Mr.. Chairman. the
case before the house stands thus !:
Powers IL Weightman against The sick
people Of the United States; Rosengsr-
zen Il Sons against.the fever hospitals
Tne majority Of the Ways and Means
committee appear for the plaintiff, anc
| desire. Mr. Chairman, to have my
name entered as attorney for the de-
Tense. Applause l realize the num-
hers and ability arrsyed against me,
but. poor advocate as am, feel that
nv cause is SO just l can plead it sue
cessfuiiy before that great jury To
whom you last appealed. and who
brought in q verdict of guilty without
the recommendation Of mercy.
Laughter and applause You may
defeat this amendment here; you may
fail TO strike these two lines out Of this
Infamous bill ; but We will appeal it to
the spread of the maiarial fever and
| want every man as he passes between
the tellers here, who desires to promote
the establishment Of pesthouses and
fever hospitals. who wants tn add rack
and pain to beds Of sickness, who
wants to appear as the confederate of
death, to record himself in favor of
the -esto. alton of the duty on quinine.
Laughter and applause. .
want to call the attention of the
house tn the fact that last year, as
members Will possibly recoilect, | OBJ
jected to the delegation of the powers
Of the committee of Ways and Means
10 that association of middle-aged and
highly unprejudiced specialists known
as the Tariff Commission Laughter.
did not then believe that the Tariff
Commission had any more ability to
revise our system of revenue than had
the committee on Ways and Means.
But after reading the bill reported by
that committee and comparing it with
the report of the Tariff Commission
and its concentrations. | desire
publicly TO retract every utterance /
made on that occasion. Laughter.
Now, look at the free list of thii
bill (; it is full Of goodness and wisdom
and besevolence.
see here. aud thank God for it.
that the committee on ways and
means have put "blood' on the free
list. Laughter Sir, if you were
to levy tax IF only one cent a gallon
OH all the blood which you have ex-
tracted through the means of your III
famous tariff from The American pep
pc, you could pay the national debt
in twelve months. and have q large
surplus in the Federal treasury. Con-
sidering the enormous amount that
you have heretofore extracted, you
need not levy any prohibitory duties
on it, nor need you permit it to come
in free. 1t is already drug in the
market.
Then find that the committee has
put ''bone dust" on the free list. My
God, gentlemen, you are manufacture
ing bone dust in pauper grave wards
whenever you propose to tax quinine,
and you are making it very fast
Laughter You have put "musk"
and ''civet' on the free list. Now,
when | come to contemplate this bill.
looking at it in its altitude and pull
chritude. its concavity and its convex
ity. iu its obliquity and iniguitv. l
feel like exclaiming with old King
Lear. when contemplating the ingrat-
itude of his daughters: Give me an
ounce of civet, good spothecary. to
sweeten my Imagination" Laughter.
You have exempted "ipecac" from
duty. All, gentlemen, you need not
put that on the free list, to create |
nausea enough in the stomacbs of the
American people to lead them to spew
your party out in 1884. daughter
And you have put "leeches" on the
the free list. That, / suppose. is for
the purpose of exempiing the pro
tected ''BarOns" and the committee on
ways and means. (Laughter.) Then
you have put upon the free list an
article called "Divi divi" and what
that is God Almighty and few pro-
tected individuals only know. l pre-
sumo it is meant to protect these
"Barons." and to suggest that the
committee on ways and means wants a
double quantity of whatever "Divi" is.
Laughter. You have put diamonds OH
the free list. Now, gentlemen, if
there is anything on the face of the