The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-09-09
AN EASY PASSAGE.
Only Four Votes Against
the Retaliation Bill.
DEACON WHITES OPPOSITION.

A Railroad Man Himself. He Think.
IL in the Interest Of millionaire
seott's Road. the Canadian Pacific
Lind Of Minnesota Protests. I'm
the Name Of Northwest Wheat
Growers.
WAsHISGTes, Sept. s.-Immediately
after the reading of the jsurnaI the
house resumed consideration OF the
retaliation bill and was addressed bv
White Of New York, who declared for
retaliation such as would retaliate
upon the enemy and not upon the
people Of the United States. He be-
iiesed the first section OF the bin would
iDure 10 the benefit OF Canada and to
the permanent injury OF commerce OF
the country and Of American labor.
The American workingmen would lose
So ~, 600 year If the provisions OF
the bill were carried into effect. The
question came to him whether under
his oath he should vote for a measure
which he believed directly detrimental
to the laboring men of his district in
behalf OF what had been characterized
By the gentlemen from Illinois fCan-
nom as beating gong and furnishing
another mallet for the purpose. He
would not vote for putting
maliet in the hands OF any man
10 beat a Chinese gong, who as he
struck the gong, of necessity hit the
head of American workingmen and
American enterprise. Applause on
the Republican sidei He Believed the
bill unjust. illogical, wrong, and If
he voted alone tas he probably wouldl
be would vote against the h;Il.
The discussion was continued at
length and participated in by O'Nel
ana Dalzen of Pennsylvania. Lind
and Wilson. The latter thought there
would be no war, but should the queen
OF England. forgetting the lessons to
her ancestors. in haste discharge ut US
one unfriendly gun, he predicted that
the echo which II would awaken would
not cease TO reyerberate before Grsyer
Cleveland, president OF tho greatest
republic on earth. would salute Charles
Stewart Paruell as president OF the
youngest republic ON earth.
Lind Of Minnesota, said If the pend
ing bill become a law the president
could by a single stroke of the pen re-
duce the value of 100000 bushels OF
Minnesota and Dakota wheat : cents
buShel. He could enhance the ex-
actions OF the Northwestern railroads
at least ~ per cent. He could rob
Duluth OF half her shipping. He
could ruin the trade OF the twin cities
pride OF Minnesota and of the North
west. He could cripple the enterpris-
ing men Of the Northwest.
Cochran of New York, referring 10
the speech of Hit of Illinois. said the
gentleman from Illinois had charge
the representatives OF the government
in treaty negotiations with a BETRAYAL
of American rights. He said the intro
ducticn of the Mills bill and the vote
by which it passed was a betrayal
secretly entered into and carried out
almost with treason. The gentleman
from Illinois knew that the official
acts OF Grover Cleveland needed no
explanation to the country. 1t would
not do at this stage of the campaign 10
attempt TO manufacture campaign
thunder OF this character He adopted
the declaration of the gentleman from
Missouri tO'Neilll that the message
was a campaign document, and ii was
great one because IL appealed 10 the
intelligence asd patriotism OF the peo-
pie. The gentleman on the other side
might say President Cleveland was
not great man. No one would dare
deny that he was honest and that he
was q great man in the ewes of the
country-not because he was the pos
SCISSOR of qualities which lifted him
above all others. bat because he was q
noble type of the American citizen
The Republicans had their unerowned
king; they had their shepherd OF the
peOple; but before the American peO-
pie at the ballot box be had been van
quished by that simple type of the
American citizen, Grover Cleveland
Bayne OF Pennsylvania said the
president wanted more power, that be
might throw on - the Canadian rail
ways traihc amounting to perhaps
SO. .ua0,090 and take il away from New
England railways, and a member of
the Kitchen cabinet a director OF
the Canadian Pacific. and a man
whose fortune would be advanced by
the gift OF that traffic. came here and
made four hoars' speech in support
Of the object 10 be sabseryed. The
message OF the president was nothing
more than an effort TO create diver
sion from the tariff issue and in favor
Of some issue which the administra-
ton sadly needed az this time. bat
which would not rescue il from the
oblivion and defeat which awaited it
In November
Henderson of Iowa said Grover
Cleveland might be the Democratic
tyre Of American morals and Ameri-
can citizenship, bat for him he would
not point the young men OF America
to him as a model to man who was
noa bursting with war spirit and had
hired a substitute whe. the land was
in hattie
Mcmillan Where was Biaine2
Henderson. disregaTding the inter
ruption, proceeded and declared that
the molel American for tie ~ (n1,0
Americans vas Benjamin Harrison
The deAate having ceased, White OF
New York moved to reeommit the
biA to the committee on foreign affairs
with instructions To strike out the
first section. hut the motion was lost
without division
The bill was then pasSed-Ne Ia,
nays 4-tbc negatives being Bayne,
palzell, Lind and White OF New York.