St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-07

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to which her location, her advantages, the
genius and manhood of her people are fairly
entitled. Applause.
He wanted to protest against that in1us-
tice which had created an impression that
| the advocates of the bill desired to exile from
the party any who might differ from them.
He held that there was no power of expul-
sion, and he had no commission to issue q
| threat against any man. 1t rested with each
and every man to determine his party affiia-
ton. Any man could vote himself out of a
party if he wished to. He had no harsh
words to either; but on a measure
so broad and fair as this
one he appealed to those who
sat around him to stand together and keep
the promises he had made to the people,
They had told the people they would revise
the tariff laws, and make them just He
either held the power to make that promise
good, and if they failed to do so, they would
not be worthy to receive the endorsement of
the people. Let him who would strike down
his, party, her principles, her measures, and
| his people, show by his record whose hand the
| blood was to be found upon. Looking ND,
he saw the wise motto of his own common
wealth, and he could no more than empha.
size that motto in an earnest, honest and fl
nal appeal. eff we do stand united we will
conquer; if we are divided, disaster will
surely come" (Applause.)
In conclusion, he said: s'I express the
hope, that in the near future we may be able
to bring to the house enough enlightenment,
| patriotism and progressive intelligence, to
repudiate the bigotry which disgraced politics
in the shape of protection. No matter wheth-
erh he be Christian or politician, whoever con-
tributed one action to the advancement of
humanity's cause, and ask at the han ds of
this house, with firm reliance for favor
able answer, that it may never be said that a
| Democratic house in an American congress
| refused even to consider a bill which pro-
| posed to reduce admitted excessive taxation,
| and refuse, to degree, on an admittedly
bad tariff" [Applause.]
| Mr.. Kasson closed the debate in opposi-
ton to the bill in an arraignment of its pro-
visions, which he declared to be impossible
of administration. He challenged the tar
riffs of the world to present the provisions
! of an enormity and confusion approaching
those of the pending measure, and asserted
that it would require special catechism to
answer the questions which must be asked
| before any goods were imported, and pre-
dicted that if the bill were enacted into law
before year, even the importing merchant
would be clamoring to congress to restore the
old rate of duty. The bill tossed into the lap
of Europe one-fifth of the duties which now
| flowed into the treasury of the United
StBtes without exacting an equivalent from
any of the countries to Europe. To call that
craftsmanship, was to hullify the meaning of
the English language. He then proceeded
to reply to Blackburn's speech, to detail the
benefits the country had derived from the
protective system, and his remarks were con-
stantly greeted with the applause of his party
associates. GAN hail." he said in conclu-
sion, s'to the giant of protection, which
strews his pathway with gold and lines all
his borders with the flowers of popular COM
| fort"
Morrison closed the debate with rapid re-
view of the objections which had been made
to the bill, and an equally rapid and brief
answer to those objections, should
motion to strike out the enacting clause be
agreed to, it would be declaration that tariff
taxation would be continued, and the Dem
ocratic party would appeal from the congress
of the United States to the people, and peo-
pie would so understa.FYft. He referred to
the fact that the Democrats from Iowa, Wis
consin, Michigan and California had been
elected on tariff reform platform, and ex-
pressed his fear that if the bill should be
defeated, they would be succeeded by
by Page, and Burrows, and Hazelton,
and ''my dear ..Hubbel.' He then
turned his attention to Randall, and address,
ing him, said: "You claim to have the power
to strike out the enacting clause of the bill.
If you have that power, you have the power
to amend this bill and makeooit what it should
be-" Loud applause on the Democratic
| side. After few more remarks on the
general subject Of tariff reform, Morrison's
time expired and murmur of expectancy
ran through the ranks of both the opponents
and advocates of the measure, as the chair
man directed the clerk to read the bill
The audience which throughout the day
had crowded the galleries almost to suffoca-
ton, hushed the hum of conversation, and
watched with intense interest the further
proceedings on the floors. AS the clerk be-
gan to read the bill, Mr.. Converse left his
seat i'll the last row of seats, and walking
down to the bar OF the house, stood nervous
ly lingering piece of paper, which he held
In his hand When the reading of the first
paragraph had been completed, there was an
embarrassing pause. Mr.. Converse was en-
gagged in an earnest conversation with Mr..
Hunt and did not appear to know that all
eyes were fixed upon him. Mr.. Kasson
fearful that the time when the motion
! to strike out the enacting clause would
be in order, would expire before
| Converse's attention would be attracted to
the fact, rose, and enquired of the chair
whether the proper time had come to make
motion. Before the chair could respond,
Converse pushing to the front, moved to
strike out the enacting clause. This was the
signal for a volley of Kisses and groans from
the Democratic side, this demonstration
being met by rounds of applause from the
Republican side.
The scene in the chamber was one of in
tense excitement and confusion, to which
the galleries rendered no little, aid by loud
tokens of approval. The tellers being or
dered, Converse and Morrison were appoint
ed by the chair. Before taking his place,
Morrison called to the clerk of the
house, who was standing by
the speakers dest and exclaimed, "Clerk.
see that no damned scoundrel who is paired
goes between the til rs" The clerk prom
ising to see that fair play should be had,
Morrison took his station, giving Converse
very cool shake of the hand as he stood op-
posite that gentleman. Then the voting be-
gan, and the tellers announced the affirma-
tive vote to be 155. The first man to pass
through, in the negative, was Reagan, of
Texas, who had been brought in an invalid
chair, in order to cast his vote. He was
heartily applauded by his friends, and re-
ceived many congratulations upon his ap-
parent recovery from his late severe illness.
The negative vote was announced as 151,
and then George D. Wise, of Virginia, voted
in the affirmative, making the vote stand
| 156 to 151.
Then a cheer followed from the republican
side, and the cheers were taken up by the
galleries and reYerberated from eyary nook
and Granny of the hail. Ladies stood ZIP and
waved their handkerchiefs and men their
hats. Morrison, yielding gracefully to the