Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-05-08

The Excitement puring the Takinl

OF the Vote on mr.. Converse's
MotiOn-IRr Republicans for He.
form-1n Ihippinx Bill Lost.
The vote Tuesday afternoon In the
COMMITTEES Of III whole Of the House,
upon Mr.. Com Is motion to strike out
the epacting OF the Morrison bill,
stood 1866 in kftitma,ivs aud l5l in
the negative The announcement Of the
vote was Z ived with cheers from the
Republisa&Nide, which were taken mp
by the galleries. Ladies' stood up and
waved their handkerchief and men their
hats. Mr.. Morrison, yielding gracefully
to the inevitable, walked smilingly to
his seat and the tariff hill was dead.
Mr.. Brown (Ps } spoks In favor of pro.
lection
Mr.. Townshend CIV } quoted from the
various platiormo Il ina Democratic
party to show that that party had slwavs
been in favor OF tariff reforming, g. d had
slwss declared for revenue tarlh d.
bought the proper time u begin the
work Of tariff reduction was Just prior
to Presidential election, W hen the people
sou express their views.
Mr.. Gibson (W. Va } wa sorry the bill
lid not do jnst'c- e. hls s,a,e, but 1t
could be amended, sud he would not act
as an obstruotionist ~ much needed legls-
lation. He would rot enter In coalition
with Republicans 20 obstrunt wise legs
lstion by the Demo crafts Hs wa wiling
to trust 20 the wisdom. honesy - god
sInse Ct the friends OF the bil ~ 30 las.
tict to all.
Mr. Randsll CD thea tofk III flor
in opposition to tn. bill He poi,ted out
frat how quickly capital takes alarm at
adverse criticism No vipdutive policy
hould be adopted; tor with eisb'iity as
content and accordingly with nuinai
pro fit Bxsgg. ration rhetoric, which has
fecentlv mark, d the debate you'd eeem
"a II those engaged in industrisi pur-
uits we're robbers and ontls~s They
wsr- nothing Of the soft THY are
part, aud no mean part, Of
The business of the oonntry ard
untitled to the protection Of the
law. They are part of our rasourcss
AZ nation and to develop those
resources is true ststesnapship. Ii those
who advocate the bill, could be believed,
the men who bnilt our manufactures had
committed sn objectionable Gin. Mr..
Randall could see why England should
think so, but not why citizen Of the
United States should think 80.
Mr.. Randall said further that England
had tried to ruin this country in 1912
and 1916. Failing, she hs changed her
policy and her lions skin Tor that OF the
fox. We should remember the warning
10 fear the Greeks even when they
brought gifts. He then went on to argue
against tipkering at the tariff and thus
causing doubt aud mischief to haunt the
sleeping aud waking hours Of the
pesple. II would be madness
for any party to pursue that policy. A
horizontal reduction afforded no remedy,
but made bad worse. Common sense
would have waited until the effests
of the lsst tariff bill could
be obtained and thus have saved
from all the passion and turbu
lepoe OF presidential CANVASS 8 ques
ton In which the public is 80 deeply
conoered and which, II possible, should
never be made partisan issue.
MIR. blackburn (Ry.) replied to
Mr.. Randall. He said that "Mr, R ,ndall
VAS very anxious to reduce the tariff in
1882, but now he was opposed to any
such course. The issue presented by the
Republican side was protection for the
aske OF protection. IL 1t Was reve-
uue gentlemen wanted lie. them
take all the government need d but
when they had got that let them stay the
land Of the tax ga,herer, for whenever
they had passed that limit or gone one
inch beyond that line the tax gathere-'s
nsnd became the robbers hand" Loud
I-ipplsuse on the Democratic side,
Mr. Blackburn declared that the Dem
no attic party welcomed the contest, and
would appeal TO the people in this Issue
Of taxation for revenue agsinst taxation
for tribute. He hoped "that it may never
be said that a Democratic House in an
American Congress- refused even 10 con-
slider bill which proposed to reduce
admitted excessive taxation and revise to
4 degree our admittedly bad tariff. -
[Applsuse.
MIR. Kas4oA followed Mr.. Black burn an d
| delivered one Of the best speeches made
ussinst the bill.
At 30 Mr.. Morrison rose to close the
lsbats. He spoke without notes, reply
Jug vigorously 20 the criticisms made Cd
lie bill and was specially severe on Mr..
Randall aud thVse Democrats who were
acting with him against horizontal re-
| duotion.j
| Upon the c0nClue;Jn Of Nr. Morrison g
Fpeech Mr.. Converse moved to strIke ont
the tnaoting clause Of the bill, which
motion caused applause from the Repub,
lican side. For several minutes there
was great excitement aud confusion on
the floor. Hurried conversations we're
held by knots OF anxious members on
both sides, the Respective leaders we're
busy in giving final orders, and pages
were rushing IN and out OF tue
hall IN search of absent MeinberE. Finally
Messrs. Converse and Morrison took then
places 10 front of the clerks desk az
ellrr7, ard those favorlng the motion to
strike out sselled forward to pass
between the teli-rs to b. counted. One
hundred and hty.fve sssed along il
Indian tt, and vera coll, \ the an.
nouns ,nrut nt tht ',rnlh, ny tho cha,r.
inal isi'n st :. lat raj Kuell upon the
sdvCes'r- - the hill The rogativs side
nov passed ana Hefe counted, aud The
chairman announced that 15l had
thus voted. Cheers followed from
the Republican side, aud Mr Morrison
recognized that h. was defeated ia I'll,
preliminary skirmish The Result OF
this defeat gave the enemies OF the bill
the parliamentary iight to control future
movements, and Mr., Converse bsiug again
recognized, moved that the committee
rise and report the action Just taken t,
the House. The motion prevailing, thu
subject was formally presented to the
House, and the yeas and nays wer,
promptly ordered copcurring in the re.
commentator of the committee to strik,
out.
The vote in the House upon the adop
ton OF the report of the committee of tn,
whole was: Yeas, 1853; nays, 1866. Coz,
gresham Lore voted in the negative
The affirmative vote wa composed of IL.
Republicans and the following al Demo
Gratis:
New York, 6-AFnot, Hutchins, Muller
spriggs, Van Alstyne and Wemple.
Pennsylvania, 12-Boyle, Connolly
Curtin, Duncan, Elliott, Erm-n,rout
Hopkins, Mutchler, Patton, Poet, Ran
dali and Storm.
Ohio, l0-Couverse, Forau, G.id-s
Jordan, LeFevre. Murray, Paige, sen.y
Warner and wilkins.
New Jersey, 3-F,rrell, Fielder spt
McAdoo.
California, 4-Budd, Glascook, Sum
ner and Tul'ey.
Maryland, FindIay,
lllinoir, l-Finerty.