The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-17
HOUSE.

The House went into committee OF
the whole on the tariff bill. ..-.-..
Baker, of New York, spoke against
the bill. He wished to give an object
lesson, and produced three pairs Of
stockings, displaying the colors OF the
American flag, which were manu-
featured in Rochester. He presented
the stockings to the gentleman from
Texas (M,lls). with the suggestion that
he send the red ones to the President,
the white ones to the Speaker, and keep
the blue ones himself as typical OF his
own feelings at the end of the session,
when he beheid the defeat OF his meas
ure. He predicted, on account OF the
Mills bill. that an increased Republican
majority in his district would be given
to the Republican candidate for the
Presidency. provided that be steered
clear of aIljteratiVe divines. (Laughter.)
Bound, of Pennsylvania, regarded the
Mills bill as q long stride in the dlrec-
of free trade and the inauguration OF
tariff policy which must eventually
prove ruinous and disastrous, In when
his people were largely interested.
Fsrduhar, OF New York, said that
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country, whose interests were placed
at hazard by this bill were, Democrats.
He had letters from the most pro-
nouuced Democrats in his district pro-
testing against many features OF the
measure. These men had come to
Washington, had had partisan door
shut in their faces and had gone home
like all disappointei men, with revenge
in their hearts There were revising
committees in all of the labor assemblies
which would pass upon the merits OF
this bill, sud the laboring men would
decide it's fate at the ballot box.
Bayns, of Pennsylvania, criticized
the President for not having permitted
the House to formulate proper bill for
a revision of the tariff. No other
President in any emergency OF the
country had sent to the House q
message so positive and so nearly indi-
eating the line of policy on an econo-
mic question. The President had not
only done that, but it was said that
through the influence Of the ad-
miuistration the Democratic noml-
nations in the various districts had
been controlled in the interest OF
free trade policy. Democrats of good
standing aud influence, who heretofore
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party, had been denied the benefits of
patronage, had been denied access to
the Presidents councils and were being
driven by every means at the command
of the administration from the ranks of
the Democratic party. Ithas ever been
asserted that public measures, involv-
ing public interests. had been denied
the executive sanctum because OF the
attitude of certain representatives in
Congress on the question of the tariff
revision, and 1t has been shown that
the administration had rewarded a
recalcitrant Pennsylvania for having
espoused the cause of Mills bill on the
floor of the House. (Applsuse.) Presi-
dent Cleveland had been elected on
atraddling nlatform, which meant pro-
section in New York and free trade IN
the south. Was it fair play that Pfesl'
dent elected on straddling platform,
should influence the House In favor OF
free trade?
Laird, of Nebraska, declared that the
surplus policy of the administrators
had disastrous effect upon the farm
ing interests of the country. Whether
the origin OF that policy was IN. ignor-
ance. indifference or mendacity, Its
culmination had its result in costing
the farmers millions in addition to tbs
interest charges on loans. He dwell
upon the dangers flowing from the sur
plus. and announced hls readiness tt