Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-16
BUTTERWORTH TALKS.
The OHIO CONGRESSMAN SPEAKS ON
THE MILLS TARIFF BILL.
The Senate VIII Not Disturb Turpie-Im.
portant Amendments te the Pension
Appropriation Bill--Discussion of the
Bill to Create Department OF Labor
The Letter. Carriers work Reduced.

investigation into the tariff revision, was
adopted.
House bill authorizing the construction
of bridge across the Tennessee river at
Knoxville was passed.
Mr.. Blair introduced joint resolution,
which was read twice and referred, amend
ing the constitution to allow the District
of Columbia representation in both Houses
of Congress.
Tha report of the Committee on Priyil-
eyes and Elections on the Turpie case was
called up. Mr.. Chandler dissented from the
statement in the report that the Senate
has no right to go into the question of the
legality Of the elections OF members of
State Legislatures. While this proposition
was generally sound. he could imagine
cases so exceptional that the Senate would
be bound to take action, and this rule would
be bound to take action. and this rule
would be an embarrassing precedent.
Mr.. Hosr made long speech in reply,
maintaining in conclusion that the COM
mittee report was in exact compliance with
constitutional limitations.
Mr. Teller also defended the position of
the committee, and after further discussion
the report was adopted with the dissent
only from Mr.. Chandler and the commit
tee discharged from further consideration
of the subject
The bill for the admission of Washing
ton Territory was made special order for
Thursday of next week, and the bills for the
admission of North Dakota and Montana,
special orders for the same day.
The bill providing for sea coast defenses,
was made 3 special order for June 4.
The bill defining the routes of steam
railroads in the District was made special
order for May 29L And the bill authoriz-
ing the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Company to acquire real estate was made
special order for the 22nd
The House bill limiting the hours of let
tercarrers was passed without discussion.
Ut makes the eight hour law apply to let
ter carriers, giving them extra pay for over
work.
The animal industry bill lost its posi-
ton as unfinished business and took its
place on the calenda.
The Department of labor bin was taken
up and informally laid aside so that the
pension appropriation bill might be consid-
cred. The amendment increasing the
amount of the bill from $4,000, 900 to $780,
5000 was agreed to.
The next amendment was TO strike from
the House bill the words THAT in all
pensions to widows, payments shall be
made from the date of the death Of the
husband" and TO substitute for them:
That all pensions which have been or
which may hereafter be granted under the
general law regulating pensions to widows.
in consequence of death occurring from
any disease which originated in the service
since the 4th OF March 1861, shall commence
from the date of death of the husband"
Mr.. Harris raised the point of order that
an appropriation bill. A prolonged dis
cussion followed on the question of the
right of the Senate to originate appropria-
ton bills. A dozen Senators participated.
1t was finally decided by vote of % to Is
that the proposed amendment was in order
The Democratic Senators joined by. Sena-
tors Edmunds and Ingalls, voted in the
segatiye.
Senator Allison, in reply to q question
st&ted that the amendment would apply in
i702 cases. The total amount reqnired
was estimated at about $4,000
On motion of Mr.. Cockrell, the bill went
ever until to-day, the amendment being
undecided.
The House bill to establish department
of labor was then tsken up, advocated by
Mr.. Blair and opposed by Mr.. Cockrell and
Mr.. Reagan.
Mr.. Reagan spoke Of people standing on
their heads till they almost died of apo
plexy" whenever anything affecting labor
was mentioned.
The bill went over without action, and
the Senate proceeded to executive business,
and st 5:25 adjourned.
The House.
Debate on the Tariff bill was continued
yesterday.
Mr.. Butterworth of Ohio made q lengthy
speech. He called attention to the fact
that the manufacturers of Ohio exceed
those of all sixteen Southern States; that
wages paid in any of the Northern States to
workingmen are greater than any South
ern State, and that in case annual wages
are paid exceed by upward of hundreds of
dollars each or any of the sixteen, but" ="
continued the speaker, "some of you
gentleman will say. Butterworth, our great
hold is agriculture Next to the production
Of statesmen, we will look at the agricul-
tural statistics" He then showed that
while in Ohio products of farms average
upwards of $3.50 per capita in sixteen
Southern States, which furnish statesmen
who are bowling for the passage of this
bill, the average is less than half, and
that in Georgia, whose members are
particularly solieitous for the welfare
Of farmers of the west the average
is only $l55 for each man employed. He
showed. too, that the proportion of pro-
duction in all States where the protection
idea has a foothold in the same ratio. He
showed that Ohio, for instance, has given
l5,3oO,0O0 useful inventions 10 the indus
trial element of the country, which ex-
ceeds by several hundreds the entire num-
Der of the entire sixteen States of the
South.
Continuing, Mr. Butterworth said that
the same conditions existed now as existed
In l7s9 We no longer needed capital or
plants, and in skill and cunning the Amer
lean workingman asked no odds. Capital
and skill were here, but starvation wages
were not here, and never would be so long
as the Republican party wrote the laws OF
the country. Tariff he said, was the par
ent of the influences that multiplied indus
tries and the history of the country's de-
velopment would show that the protective
tariff was indispensable to to the cultivation
Of the genius which diversified industries.
In making a comparison between the Sec
tions where protection prevailed and the
States where the free trade philosophy
existed, he called Ohio to the front. II
paid in wages six millions of dollars more
than all the thirteen Southern States. Yet
these states had population of 5000. 600
while Ohio had only q little over 5000, 600
Whose fault was it that these State.
were not manufacturing states? Nature
had been prodigal in her gifts to the South;
God had blessed that section beyond
compare; but il had not consented to bless
itself. It was the fault of the South, OF
rather it was the fault of the faith whose
works 50 conclusiyely condemned it. He
claimed that the North and West invented
and manufactured everything the South
used. from toothpick to q cotton gin, and
argued that it would be uswise to entrus,
the industries Of the country to the hand.
of men who had shown neither tn,
ability nor the disposition to have indus
sries of their own. Turning to the WOO
question he said that the free trade philos
ophy created an active concern for thu
sheep, while the Republican philosophy
created sn active concern for the shepherd
Mr.. Buckslew, of Pennsylvania, spoke II
favor of the bill. He argued that taxa
ton must be reduced in order TO save thu
nou~-nn~nt frnr,, darnnraliz tinn and hnsi