St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
APRIL 22d, 1884.

GuOSO VINO tutbu
their "living issue" record in the intro
ductory stage of the debate may b
mentioned, Representative Blout o
Ga, who believed in getting revenu
from importation, but thought no legis
lation should be enacted which woult
make the rich richer, and the poor poor
er, on the pretense of elevating Ameri
can labor above the pauper labor of Eu
rope, and keeping the home market fol
ourselves. Representative Jones Of Ar.
kansas said it was in response to a wide.
spread demand for reduction of the
Tariff that the pending bill was brought
IN, and that its passage would announce
that the Democratic party was in favor
of reformation. Representative Chace,
Russell, Kelly and Mills made opposi-
tion speeches. Chairman Morrison, in
his remarks which opened the debate
said, that if the Democratic platform
had an honest meaning, it was that the
Tariff shall be lowered to revenue
basis. He held that gentlemen deceive
themselves who expect the people will
be deceived by refusal to legislate in
accordance with this declared purpose.
1t the protective policy was to be the
continuing policy of the Government it
would be, and, he thought ought to be
entrusted to its friends, the Republican
party. Mr.. Morrison referred to the
free trade quinine bill which he intro
duced eight years ago providing for un-
taxed alcohol for use in making it. At
once it was insisted that quinine making
would become lost art if such bill
should pass into q law. Later, ,fwhen
the story of free quinine got among the
people, another placed the bill before
the House, omitting the free alcohol
provision, and the bill became law,
protectionists themselves voting for it.
The great Philadelphia house did not
go into decline, but continued it's busi-
ness successfully as the second largest
quinine establishment in the world, and
the Chairman of the Ways and Means
committee insisted, so every legitimate
industry would go on with revenue
Tariff. While this debate was progress
ing in the House Senators Morrill,, and |
Beck were having a tilt on the same
subject in the other end of the Capitol. |
The Senator from Vermont had under
taken to disprove points made by the
Kentucky Senator in a Tariff speech a
week since. Senator Beck replied that
be could not be annihilated by poetry, /
stale jokes, almanac stories, and unfa-
yorable comparisons between himself
md the statesmen who represented his
state in former days. These had no
connection with the argument, and the
Senator from Vermont would not sue
iced in making Kentucky dissatisfied
With her condition or with her Repre-
JentatiVes.
During the week the Senate passed
he Post Office and Naval appropriation
,ilis, and will probably decide the
Bankruptcy question to-day. The PEN
ion bill is a pending measure in the
Eouse, but on legislative days, the pro-
.ramme for that branch of Congress
will be Tariff, Tariff, until the question |
] disposed of.
Mr.. White d republican member from !
lentucky ran wild the other day on the !
oor of the House, and said that the
iference between himself and the
peaker was that while the latter was '
'ying to get bills through Congress for 4
le biggest whisky monopolies in the .
tate ofsKentucky, he, himself, was en- /
eavoring to defend the rights of the !,
DOR people in his state. Another mem G
er demanded that these words be taken 4
own as unparliamentary, but Mr.. Car a
sic, said amid applause on both sides q
the chamber: "The chair desires .
lat no notice be taken of the words" i
The action of the House committee n
! Civil Service Reform in reporting q
Lversely bills to repeal the existing !.
vii Service law, may be taken as con- 3
1sive evidence that the experimental al
stem now in operation is not to be tC
sturbed. Nor will the law be antago- = =
zed by the committee on Appropria-
ms, as Mr.. Randall himself declares.
10 Civil Service committee also re- l.
rted against the bill to reduce the Ii
aries of the President, Cabinet off &c
IS, Justices Of the Supreme Court. .!
q Members Of Congress. Fl
Postal telegraphy is a pretty well as "a r
cad fact snEnetir1a in the fnt1Ire The ~