Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-13
SENATE AND HOUSE.
The Presidents Course
Ably Defended.
THE DEADLOCK NOW BROKEN
The Debate ON the Admission
and Organization of
Dakota.
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bills reported from the committees
and placed on the calendar, except as
otherwise noted, were the following
Senate bill for the relief Of captains,
pilots, engineers and mates of steam
vessels, indefinitely postponed; SEN
ate bill to increase the pay of arm y
chaplains, indefinitely postponed.
Stewart offered resolution, which
was adopted, calling on the Secretary
OF State for information as to the case
of John Prussia, naturaiized Amer
ican citizen, who has been impressed
into the military service Of France.
A motion to refer the Presidents s
annual message was taken up and
Coke addressed the Senate. Speak
ing of the surplus of $l4,000,000
in the treasury, he eaid that
other causes which took that money
needlessly from the pockets of the
people, and the channels of trade
were continuing and produced more
aggravated results each successive
year. Unless the causes were re-
moved or modified, calamity fatally
involving all the industrial interests
of the country must follow. In view
OF THIS EMERGENCY
The President had urgently recon-
mended such revision of the tariff,
and reduction of duties and of i'm
ports as would reduce the revenues
to the limit required for the support
of the Government. The President
was simply voicing the demand that
came from the people of the whole
country. Coke said that the con
sumers did not complain Of the tax on
distilled spirits, malt liquor and to-
bacco, as that tax added nothing to
the cost OF living, and it was not
strange that the President should rec
ommend its retention, AMI
that the necessary reduction Of
revenue be made by cutting down
the tariff taxes. Ii the reduction
should be made in this way, s. of
tribute paid by the people to manu-
facturers would be cut off for every
dollar cut off from the revenue. A
high tariff was demanded on the
ground of the necessity of protecting
American labor against European pau.
per competition. A more false,
HEARrLEss AND GRoUNDLEss
Pretext had never been invented to
justify or to cover up great wrong.
1t was on the farmers of the country
that the protective tariff fell with the
most crushing weight. Wool should
be placed on the free list, but it ought
to be done in the interest of the
consumer and. not the manufac-
turer. He regarded sugar as
the best revenue-paying item on
the tariff list and one carrying with it
less of the incidental burden than any
other, and thought it would therefore
be wise to leave the duty on sugar as
it was. The attention of the people
could not be diverted from the real
question at issue. The sectional
bloody shirt canvass was already COM
menced by the Republican party for
the purpose of binding the people
with passion, SO that they might not
see how and by whom they were be-
ing plundered.
At the close of Coke's speech, the
Senate resumed the consideration OF
the bill to provide for the admission
OF South Dakota and the organization
of the Territory of North Dakota.
Tarpie spoke in opposition to the
bill of the majority Of the committee
and in support Of that of the minor
ity. South Dakota, he said, was not
a territory or division OF the Union,
but was merelya
GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSION.
He denied the right of the people ol
the Territory to establish division OF
it, and said the people of the whole
Union had right to be heard as to
the propriety of such a division.
There had been an expression OF the
popular will at the convention held at
Aberdeen last December, and the
people of the whole Territory were
against the division, and desired an
enabling act as provided in the
Minority bill.
Cullom spoke in favor of the maj ,r-
ity bill. Reviewing the history of the
question, he declared that in every
instance where vote was taken in
favor of the admission Of the State Of
South Dakota, the Republican S;na-
tors had all voted for it and the Demo
Gratis all against it, and when the bill
went to the House the representatives
of that distinguished Democratic body
referred it to the Committee on Terri
tories. where it was at once reported
back adversely. This Territory had
been knocking at the doors of Con-
gress for years with, with a population
very much larger than any other Ter
ritory ever admitted as a State. The
opposition to the admission of Dakota
was based on the fact that the Demo
Gratis did not want any further politi-
cal complications thrust upon the
country until after the next
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Butler of South Carolina said that
he had voted steadily to admit the
whole of Dakota as a State, and
would do so now.
Mr.. Cullom, continuing, said: The
figures of the electoral college will not
be changed before 1892. You may
prevent us changing the figures
CnTOuSu iuo duiuincioA u Ooumi
Dakota, but we intend to change
figures by our honest vote of the
States already in. think am war
ranted in saying that this bill has
come to be subject Of serious caucus
convention by the Democrats of the
two Houses, and Isuppose it has been
decreed that no bill shall pass Con-
gress admitting Dakota as State
until after the next Presidential cleo
tion.
Mr.. Butler: / am sure my friend
from Illinois will not require the
votes Of that Territory at the next
election. / understand he has been
announced as q
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.
I think he will have enough votes