Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-06
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Spirited Discussion on the
Mills Bill.
WOODBURY., OF NEVADA, TALKS
Golden Club Members Arraiened-
Lively Scenes on the Floor
Of the House.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, May 5.-The House
devoted great part Of the morning
seFsion to a discussion of the Tariff
bill. Wheeler, OF Alabama and
Bland, OF Missouri. were the first
speakers. Bland bitterly opposed the
protective system, denied that it was
the cause of the progress of the coun-
try. and inveighed against POOLS
and trnsts, which he denounced q
evils directly traceable to high tariff.
Woodburn, Of Nevada, controyerted
the claims of the Democrats that their
party was the friend of the laborinp
man and cited the fact that the Dem.
ocrats had inaugrated their entry into
power by cutting down the salaries Of
the Government employees: that their
Secretary Of the Treasury had reduced
the pay OF the laborers at the San
Francisco custom house and that
their Secretary Of the Navy had seen
fitto. put down the wages Of the hired
carriers at Mare Island navy yard.
lie proceeded to make speech BIT
terly denunciatory of their policy.
which he said, as outlined by Mills.
was but the surrendering Of the
American markets and American
labor to the free traders OF Great
Britain.
Turning his attention to the Golden
Club, Woodburn said it was an assoc
citation OF British manufacturers with
the avowed purpose of destroying the
protective tariff system OF America.
to facilitate the sale Of British goods
in American markets. 1t had estah-
lished agencies in New York and Chi
cago for the distribution of British
free trade documents in the POLITICAL
canvasses Of this country. On the
roll Of membership appeared the
names Of dukes and earls, marquises
and lords, peers and counts and
princes. He had in his hand list Of
the members of the Golden Club, on
February LIST, 1883, and on the back Of
the book Of record was the motto of
the club: Free trade, good will
among nations" and "God save the
Queen"
He proceeded to read list Of the
members, and caused much amuee-
ment by sandwiching the names Of
the untitled members among those Of
Earls and Dukes. The essential quail
ifications of membership was, he
said, that the applicant for admission
be either q manufacturer or q NOBLE
man.
In the list Of members he found the
names of Senators Beck and Vance.
and William Endicott, Jr.. Of
Boston. A Cabinet officer Of
this Republic was admitted in 1877.
This ought to create no surprise
if a Commoner reported him arieisr-
he permitted no visitor to ESCAPE
without inficting an essay on the
antiquity of his Angio-Saxon ancestry
and the aristocratic color of his Puri-
tanical blood. Thomas f. Bavard
was on the roll OF American noble
men. Recently, when Chamberlin.
in speech in England, mentioned
the name of Bayard, the cheers Of the !
multitude drowned the voice Of the
orator. From his (Bayard's) acts and
utterances q stranger, unacquainted
with our forms of government, would
be justified in concluding he was
acting the dual capacity of American
Secretary of State and British Envoy
Extraordinary.
w. r.. Morrison was q member of
the club. Was it wonder that he
was continually tinkering at tariff
revision, in the interest of Great
Britain, that resulted always in the
stagnation of business, that engen-
dered strikes, begot violence and de-
prived him Of his seat in Congress?
| Last but not least on the Golden
Club roll of membership, was that
able and impartial parIiamentarian
who possessed the almost god-like
power of shaping the legislation of
this country. the present Speaker Of
this House. John Griffin Carlisle,
who was comparatively young mem
Der, having been elected in 1888.
These were few of the names of
the members who had combined to
conquer and subdue American en-
ergy and enterprise. They shono
out ON the British Golden Club list
like apples Of gold in pictures Of
silver.
Bynum inquired whether Garfield
had been member of the Club.
Woodburn replied in the negative.
Bynum--Is not Murat Halstead, the
friend Of Senator Sherman, q member
of it?
Woodburn (holding up the list)
There is not Republican to-
day in public life on the roll Of menu
bership OF the Golden Club. Gap
plause.
Bynum denied that the list was .
| true one.
Woodburn replied it was . true list,
| the last one published.
Bynum-Then those names have
been removed.
Farquahar, of New York-By what
authority do you make that state
ment?
Bynum-H alstead is . member be-
cause have it from . member Of the
Club.
Woodburn-Here is the record.
Continuing, Woodburn said it was
strange that the roll of American
noblemen did not contain the name
of the Democratic Secretary who by =
stroke of his pen had permitted the
Canadian railway to be Subsidized by
q foreign government to the extent Of
1896, 600, 600 to carry freight and pas
sengers across American territory.
and to compete with American lines.
thereby crippling their ability to pay
their just debts to the Government.
He was agreeably disappointed ct
not finding among the names Of the
American noblemen the distinguished
gentleman from New York, Hon. Tim
Campbell. That gentleman had once
been Jealous protectionist, and in
the trying moments when the MoFri-
son bill came up for consideration.