Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-18

Spooner) had waved yesterday that en-.
ssnenined garment known as "the
bloody shirt and scattered its ruddv
remains around the chamber. He had
spoken OF secession. and said that there
was no difference between States irving
to break out OF the Union and States
trying TO break into it but what did that
Senator say of State neither in nor
out of the Union which claimed
TO exist as State in spite
OF the laws and in defiance OF CONGRESS ?
II any southern community had under
taken to do what the people of Dakota
had done there would have been an out
cry Immediately only exceeded by that
IN regard to Fort Sumter, and the Sena-
tor from Vermont would have proposed
a piece of legislation equivalent to that
celebrated legislation which he carried
IN ls16 which pat Hayes into the presl-
dental char, and "Io arms TO arms !"
would have been the cry all over the
North.
Mr.. Edmunds wished TO say with en-
phasis that he believed and that nine
tcnths OF the people of the United
States who know anything about 1t
believed the thought that President
Hayes was lawfully and fairly and
justly elected by the votes of the States
according to the Constitution of the
country, and that the only evil which
had existed IN regard TO that matter was
the attempt Of body of men at the
headquarters in New York TO buy the
electors OF the State Of South Carolina,
and those men had not been kopubli-
cans
In the further discussion of the same
subject Mr.. Vest declared that in his
judgment there had boeu no necessity
for the electoral commission that the
Democrats who consented to it had made
a great mistake, and that if they had
only stood 10y their legal and constitu-
tional rights with the great public opin
ion Of the country behind them hlden
would have been seated 10y night indis-
putable in the executive chair.
AS to the object OF the Democratic OPP
position to the bill, being the keeping
out of three electoral votes OF South Da-
kota. Mr.. Vest denied 1t emphatically,
and declared his belief that Mr. Cleve-
land would be elected 10y majority IN
winch three votes would be so small
fraction IS not TO affect the result to any
appreciate extent Democratic senators
were willing to admit the whole Terri
tory Of Dakota as a State, but they were
notwiling 10 divide 1t. He had be-
heved that the bin to admit South Da
kots had sprung from personal motives
and TO achieve personal and party ends.
Mr. Edmunds took the floor TO speak
in support of the bill, but it was laid
aside with unanimous consent that =
vote shall be taken on it tomorrow.
The House bill sppropriating $4,000
for q public building st Chattanooga,
and increasing the limit of the expendi-
ture to f215, 0Oo. was passed.
The Senate then took up the private
pension bills on the calendar and passed
all but one Of them-thirty-1iye in num-
Der
On the very last one (Which WAS a bill
70 restore to the pension-roIls widow
who bad been dropped because OF re-
marriage there was good deal OF DIS
cussion turning OF the point that there
was no proof OF the second marriage, but
that on the contrary the woman had
been living IN such promiscuous inter
course with men that she was not living
long enough with any one OF them to
establish the assumption Of marital rela-
tlons.
MIR. Cockrell sought to amend the bill
by making the pension date from the
time of the restoration instead OF
dating back to 1873, when her name Was
dropped but Mr. kdmunds srgued that
It was not for us TO make inquiry INTO
the moral conduct Of pensioners, end
that If the woman had been deprived OF
her pension illegally she was entitled TO
her bach pension, Finally the bill was
rccOmmitttd.
Adjourned.
house o. Representatives
in view Of the fact that the contest
over the the tariff bill was to open III the
House to-day the galleries were unu-
susllv we'll filled when the House was
called to order at noon.
After the reports from the committee
the House went into Committee OF the
Whole (Nlr. Springer in the chair for
the consideration Of the tariff bill. No
opposition was made to Mr. Mills's mo-
ton To this effect. NIr. Mills began his
speech BY saving that the great increases
IF duties made during the war had been
st the time they were made stated to oe
only temporary. Yet quarter of cen
tury later these duties were higher than
they were during the war, and they now
averaged 47-10 per cent. on imports
Apincome tax had been imposed to meet
war expeDers. it was gone. Ii Was &
tax on wealth. and the $4,000, OOO an
nnsllv realized from that source was
swept away. But the war tax on
clothing. on food, on implements OF
labor. remained and the war WAS still
being prosecuted against the people,
fiscal war eXhsustlnR III It's demands
and every effort to remove or lower that
taxation had been resisted and defeated.
The Democrats had been tsunted with
the charge that they had failed to reduce
taxation. This charge had been made
bv tue minority which had been guilty
Of preventing action on many bills
brought into tine House by the Commit
tee on WAYS and Means.
MIR. Mills turned his attention TO wool
len manufactures, and argued that the
public At large Was annoyed 10y the pres
emf excessive tax ana nobody benefited.
higher duties prohibited and limited
iuportations ana expectations. All we're
feeding the people OF Europe, and when
We put high duties on goods they sent
ms in exchange for food It amounted to
taxing our agricultural exports. Kcduc-
ton OF duties would not, as asserted,
check manufactures and cramp labor
We always imported more goods when
prices we're high. Under lower duties
we could export more goods, our
manufactures would run steadily, AMI
labor would be constantly employed.
Not more than 10 per cent. OF the goods
consumed in the United states would be
imoorted ii all the custom-houees were
TORN down and the Government sup
norfed bv direct taxes. Prots ctomsts
sroned that manufactured articles were
cheaper here than IN any other country.
lie of nrotectiOu II was not SO {;