Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-23


United States and the lowering of
wages to American lAborers. Ap-
plause on the Republican side.] | was
condemned in some quarters for tnat vote.
l went with the rest of you Undressing
the Democratic side to the National Con-
yention, where l was told that l would
have no Republicans to help me. What
was the result of that conventiOn2 Does
any man here attempt to say that the
measure reported to this House by the
Committee on Ways and Means is in har-
mony with the spirit of that convention,
or the enunciatiOns OF those who took the
stump in its behalf? No. l am just to-
day where stood then.
WHAT HE FAVORS.
am in favor or revision Of the tariff
and the lowering OF the rates Of duty and
the repeal in part Of the internal taxes
upon which the Ways and Means Com
mittee of this House has denied anyone
the privilege OK a vote. Applause |
have only TO say to the gentleman from
Wisconsin that he has from me as much
contempt as | can well send to him.
Laughter and applause. And / am
ready to discuss with him the propriety
OF my course either here or In my own
city, where the gentleman from New
York { MIR. HewitC) recently took occa-
sion to go. l invite that gentleman from
New York to come and partake Of the
canvass in my district in November next.
Laughter and applause.]
Mr.. Hewitt-The gentleman asks
whether the measure reported by the
Ways aud Means Committee WAS in ac-
cordance with the Chicago platform.
say it was, and on that question | will go
to his district and talk to his working
men. Apphuse.l
BoASTING OF HIS SERVICES.
Mr.. Randall know we'll the conduct
OF the gentleman in the Chicago COnven-
tion. l know this, that neither he nor
any other man went on the stump in his
State and declared in the direction of the
bill, as conceive it TO be, from the Commit
tee on Ways and Means. On the contra
ry, not only know that, but know was
invited there and stumped your State in
the exact line Of the declarations | make
here now. know that when GOV. HHrs
canvass came last fall you took care to
invite me again and invite mary other
men who agree with me in their concep-
tion of that platform, and failed to in
vite any man to speak there who thought
as you now declare. Applause and
laughter.]
THE INCREASED MAJORITY.
The Democratic majority of she State OF
New York increased from 1,000in 1884 to
1,l00 in 1885, and it was not on any free
trade doctrine whatever. Ivdeclare that
am ready and willing to vote with any
body who will seek intelligentIy to reform
the Inequalities OF the tariff. But how
have we been met in this particular? We
have had to take one particular bill or
nothing. 1t is asserted that we cannot
put on the customs bill anything that
looks TO a repeal of internal taxation. l
believe that atinternal taxation is un- Ameri-
can and un-DemOcratic. 1t was so pro-
nounced by the father of our country, and
| shall never waver in seeking its repeal
in part or in whole.
MORRISON HEws TO THE LINE.
Mr.. Morrison-I do not intend to be
driven away from the subject before the
House, as the gentleman from PeBnsylva-
mia very we'll understands. He very we'll
understands that l cannot go into the
tariff question now. 1t is true he claims
that no bill is fair and in the spirit of the
Chicago platform that does not present
him an opportunity Of voting on internal
revenue taxes, and again and again he
makes his promise as TO what he would
do; and here we are repr0ached by the
other side because at Chicago we
pledged ourselves against a repeal of in
ternal taxes and in favor Of revision Of
the tariff.
Mr.. Henley, Of California-You are TAX
ing the representations OF the other side
in arraignment of the Democrats on this
side who voted against you.
Mr.. MOrTis0n-l am arraigning nobody,
and least of all the Representative from
California. Applause and laughter on the
Democratic side. | am talking to the
man whom he followed and invited me to
speak here. l share with the gentleman
from Pennsylvania in feeling that this
onhfnnf halonU Wa pa
here for another purpose. But will take
early occasion to reply in detail to what
he has said If he will only afford the occa-
sion, and to prove that there is not word
of truth in his promises.
BACK TO THE sKIRMIsH LINE.
After short speeches upon the question
before the House by a few Republican
members, Mr.. Morrison recurred to the
subject Of his controversy with the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania Mr.. Randall J,
because the gentleman seemed TO invite
it, because in replying to the gentleman
from Wisconsin Mr.. Bragg he had gone
out OF his way TO say that the proposition
presented by the Ways and Means Com
mittee was not within the spirit OF the
Chicago platform. He wished to call at
tentiOn 20 the fact that in nearly every
paragraph OF that platform the Democracy
had pledged itself as party to a reduction
OF tariff taxes, and had especially de-
clared in favor Of a continuance OF
internal revenue taxes. The war taxes
remain substantially as they did at the
close of the war, and tue party promised
a reduction. Yet the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, Notwithstanding the
promise OF a reduction, and his desire 70
keep faith with the platform, would not
vote TO consider the bill unless it gave
him an opportunity 20 do that which he
had pledged himself not TO do. The gem
tleman knew that the Chicago platform
required additions TO the free list.
CLEvELAND's ELECTION.
Mr.. Randall asked IL the gentleman be.
leved that President Cleveland could
have been elected # the convention had
declared for free raw materials.
Mr.. Morrison replied that Cleveland
would have gotten more votes than he
did. He bad not carried Ono anyhow.
and had not carried Pennsylvania by
$4,000 votes, and would not nave carried
them II the tariff on wool had been piled
mile high. II the Democracy never
voted TO reduce taxes until the gentle
mao from Pennsylvania voted that way 10
would never vote at all. Many OF the
gentlemen who bad voted for the bill re-
ported by the Ways and Means Com
mittee did not favor many Of its
provisions, yet they had voted for its
consideration because the bill would
bring the whole subject before the House
for consideration. Taxes could not DO
reduced unless the bill received consider.
alton, and the gentlemen who bad refused
% permit consideration were iuatiy
chargeable with a desire 20 keep taxes as