St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-30

or territory to another, out
the so-called splenetic or Texas
fever, is excepted from communicable di-
seases, so far as regards the transportation
of cattle to market Violations OF the act by
railroad companies or vessels, is declared
misdemeanor on the part Of the manager or
captain, punishable by fine, not to exceed
$4,000, or imprisonment, not to exceed one
year, or both. 1t is made the duty OF the
| United States district attorneys to prosecute
the case The sum appropriated for the pur-
pose of the act is $50, 600 instead OF $780,
600 as appropriated by the house. Adjourned.
The House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-Mr. Lamb called
up joint resolution, directing the
attention of the government of Venezula to
the claim Of j. E. Wheelock, a citizen of the
United States; for indemnity, for gross out
RACES and torturs inflicted upon him by an
officer of that government, and to demand
and enforce, in such manner as he may deem
best, an immediate settlement OF the claim.
Mr.. Lamb gave a brief description OF the
outrages committed on Wheelock by the Off
GERS, in order to extort from him confess
sion of the crime of which he was not guilty.
The joint resolution passed.
Mr. Washburn asked leave to report, from
the committee on appropriations joint reso-
luton, appropriating SO, 900 to defray the
expenses attending thespecial embassy from
| Siam to the United States, but Mr. Weller OBJ
| jected.
The morning hour was dispensed with and
the house went into committee OF the whole,
Mr.. Cox in the chair, on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Hiscock instituted comparison be-
tween the condition of the business Of the
country prior to the tariff of 1861 and its
condition at the present time, and from the
comparison deduced the conclusion that the
protective system was q better one for the
people. Agricultural products, he main
tanned, secured a higher price now than
| twenty years ago A result which was at
tributable to the protection, and the policy
which the other side sought to initiate might
have the effect of giving the farmer market
abroad, but it would do it only in one way,
by turning out to agriculture a larger proper
ton Of producers and a lower
ing Of the prices Of the products.
At present prices, the American farmer
could not compete with foreign production,
and must depend ON the home market for
the consumption Of his products. In adj
vocacy of the protective system, he asserted
that it organized manufactures and labor,
melted the inventive genius of the people,
and gave capital an opportunity for safe in
vestment, and he denied it had the effect of
building up monopolies.
j. W. Morse wished he could support a
bill which would reduce the revenue 81 ,000,-
900, and he would vote for the Morrison bill
because its author had informed him it
would result in reduction of thirty millions
Mr.. Hurd advocated the bill. He denied
the right of the government to surrender the
taxing power, and allow an individual to eX-
ercise it. When he earned wages they
were his own and he had the right to eXpend
them if he pleased. If he could make better
contract with Frenchman, q Mexican, a
Canadian or an Englishman, than with an
American, he had the right to do it, and the
government had no right to interpose, except
in so far as the needs Of the revenue were
concerned. He rested his whole case on this
proposition, that, subject to the needs of the
government, every man had the right to sell
where he could get the best price for wheat
he had produced, and buy where he could
buy most cheaply. This was the approved
doctrine of political economy, and
the plainest teachings of justice. 1t
individualized men, it begat in them spirit
of independence, it turned their eyes from
the government to themselves. It fixed the
boundary line between government power
and personal rights 1t limited the authority
of public administration. 1t taught men
that there was no arm so strong for their
support as their own, and no business so
successful as that which their ability and skill
had built up. 1t limited the government
within its proper sphere, and left individuals
free to choose their own careers, to develop
their own resources and build up their own
fortunes. The present American tariff was
an embarrassment to commerce, and injun
Gus to carrying trade, and it was
q question OF only little time
when, under this policy the American flag
would disappear from the high seas. The
oceans were free to all. Any person might
| for all, where was America! The skill of the
sailors of every nation was there asserting
itself, except ours. Fortunes we're being built
up for the people of all nations except ours
and yet this was the ocean that bound the re-
public. Every ripple Of the waters on the
seas here was an invitation to enjoy the
wealth Of foreign nations, and every stormy
wave that beat upon the crags, spoke in thun-
dering denunciation Of tho policy that would
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world. Loud applause.l God speed
the day when the divine thought OF
mans brotherhood to man would
succeed in degrading and humiliating our
national isolation and foreign exclusion.
What was the effect Of this ruinous system
on the farmer? It Increased the price of
all articles which entered in his daily con-
sumption, and this increase amounted annu-
ally to the sum Of s45, OO0, 900. For thi S
there was absolutely no compensation in the
protective system. The system operated to
increase the price of the transportation OF
grain from the west to the seaboard, and
from the seaboard to Europe. When the
grain of the American farmer reached Liver
pool it came In competition with the grain OF
every other farmer of the world. The pro-
tective tariff of America was unable to help
him there, and every dollar of increase in the
price which the transportation occasioned
him, diminished the profits of his sales.
But the protective tariff did more injury to
the farmer, in the injury it occasoned his
foreign market. 1t had already robbed
America Of one-half Of the markets of the
old world. India now furnished England
with wheat The effect of this on the mar
ket of the United States within the last nine
months had bean decline in the exporta-
| ton OF American cereals of more than S47,-