Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-20
THE TARIFF TEMPEST OVER.
All Further Debate Under the Five
Minute Rule.
BAKER ASSAiLS BRECKENRIDGE.
He Denies That Morrison Was
Downed BY the Tariff Combine
The Speeches of Reed
and Carlisle.
ASSAILS BRECKENRIDGE.
House.

House.
WASHINGTON, May 19.-Long before the
house met this morning every seat in the gal
leries was occupied and at every door crowds
were waiting for amittance. Spectators had
come to hear the speeches upon the tariff bill
debate which was to be closed by Mr.. Reed
of Maine and Speaker Carlisle. After the
regular morning preliminaries the house went
into committee of the whole on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Baker of Illinois was first recognized.
He said that yesterday, when he was out of
the hall, words were spoken by the gentle
man from Kentucky (Mr. breckenridge re-
fecting on his honor; rejecting on the honor
of his constituents. He then sent to the
clerks desk and had read the remarks of Mr..
Breckenridge rejecting upon the manner in
which the defeat of w. r. Morrison, in the
Eighteenth Illinois district, had been accom-
plished.
"Here is" continued MIR. Baker, "a direct
outrageous attack on my honor and the
honor of the district / represent on this
floor. In my own name and in the nam of
the entire Eighteenth congressional district
of Iowa which he has dared to defame, 1
hurl the words back to the gentleman from
Kentucky and denonnce the assertions as
grossly untrue. hurl the words back into
the face and teeth of the gentleman from
Kentucky with absolute and unmltigated
defiance. Applause and laughter. To use
an expressive but not very elegant figure of
speech, no gentleman from Kentucy shall
swing his black snake whip over my Shout
ders and over tue shoulders of my c~onstitu-
ents with %impunity. If there be a distinc-
ton in the adjective kentuckion, then / am a
Kentuckian.! I first saw the light
80 - No. 49, a
nome of that important Neutrality-suspicious.
Clay. Unswerving as adamant in his great
hearted patriotism, great in all his proper
lions, eloquent as mortal ever was in plead
ing the mighty cause of his country, and his
whole country. and whose old-time seat of
peerless honor and glory in this hall is now,
alasl worse than empty. Applause and
laughter. That old-time seat, / say, is
worse than empty. The colossal shade of
that great man hovers over the republicans.
IL walks the northland and the southland,
and will be a~Bliving inspiration in this
mighty contest, this impending ground
swell which will lift President Cleveland
from the white house and very probably lift
the gentleman from Kentucky from the seat
OF Henry Clay" Applause on the republi-
Breckenridge replied to Baker by send
ing to the clerks desk the CORE
spondence of John Jarreatt, repre-
sentlng the tin plate association, to
the leaders in Bakers district, asking the
support in defeating Morrison. To this
Baker replied briefly.
The tariff debate was opened by Mr.. Reed
OF Maine, whose speech was listened TO with
close attention. Mr., Reed opened with a
general discussion of the principles of free
trade and protection and said, referring to
the presidents tariff message, that incl
dental protection was a sham. The presi-
dent, he said, was the leader OF the democ-
racy. He was also the dispenser of patron
age, and as he was rapidly shaking the dust
OF civil service reform of his feet he was
assuming control over his party. There was
but one free trade ard the president was its
prophet. Whoever fell in battle in the sery-