Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-15
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WAssnaror May IA.

| D CT, by request, for the issue of 2L per cent l fifty year bonds. By MT. Stewart, proposin | an amendment to the Constitution of th United States so as to reduce from two-third l to majority the vote in each house overrid | ing presidential vetoes. He remarked tha | the time had come for such change, ant said he would at convenient time mak, some remarks on the subject.
 The House bill authorizing loan of arm and equipments to the Ancient and Honora ble Artillery company of Massachusetts wa passed.
 Mr. Vest offered 8 resolution for the ap pointment of 8 select committee of five Sen ators to examine fully all questions touching the meat product of the United States, an( especially as to the transportation of bee and beef cattle and the sale of the same il the cattle markets, stock yards and cities and whether there exists or has existed any combination of any kind by reason of whicE the prices of beef and beef cattle have beer so controlled or affected as to diminish the prices paid to the producer without lessening the cost of meat to the consumer; the com mittee to be permitted to hold it's sessions during the recess at such times and places as it may determine with power to send fol persons and papers, to employ stenographel and sergeant-at-arms, and to report at the next session. He asked that the resolution be printed and laid on the table, and gave AOblC0 LudG A6 WOUlu GAL IL up GO-MOIEOW
 At 2 o'clock the presiding officer (presum ably under an order agreed upon in execu tive session last Thursday ordered the gal leries to be cleared and the doors to be closed and the Senate proceeded to the considera- tion of executive business.
 The Senate continued in executive session until o'clock when, without resuming legis. lative business, it adjourned.
 HoUsE-Mr Mills, from the committee on rules, reported and the House adopted with out discussion or division, resolution pro- viding that the general debate o. the tariff bill shall close on Saturday next.
 The House then went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill, and was address ed by MT Hatch of Missouri in favor of the bill He said the protective tariff protected the manufacturer, not the farmer. Review ing the speech of the gentlemen from the New England States in reference to the great prosperity of that section under a pro- tective tariff he admitted the prosperity of these States, but denied that the farmers re- siding therein had had any share in the gen. eral prosperity In 1850 the total value of farms, stock, etc., in the six New England States had amounted to s4a5: 5:oooooo; aze1 In mn odS 1860 it 1azo had d hsd farber i to @ Oo6 sS'v vha in 1880 after ten years of profound peace and the largest accumulation of wealth New Eneland had ever seen it had fallen off to $671, ,000, ,000. This protective system, mer- ciless as death itself, robbed alike the neigh bor and the stranger. Gentlemen from the West were asked why that section did not diversity it's interests and become rich like New England. The West did not wish to get rich in the same manner. Its moral plane was so high that it rejected with scorn and contempt the proposition that it should rob nine men in order to make one man rich.
 Mir. Cheadle, of Indiana, inquired whether the gentleman in referring to the farm values of New England had taken into considera- tion the money deposited in banks by the farmers.
 , Mir. Hatch replied that while the farmers had money on deposit between 1850 and 1S6C they had little on deposit now. Quoting from MT. Burrows speech he ridiculed that gent1eman's characterization of the wool in dustry as an infant industry and referred the gentleman to the fourth chapter of Genesis to learn that "Abel was a keeper of sheep, J and to the thirty-ninth chapter of the same book to discover that Jacob made peace offering to Esau of two hundred ewes and lambs. Wool growing an infantl It was the oldest in the history of man, coming down consecrated by ages aud marking the foot steps of civilization. He spoke he said for declared that they were almost unanimously in favor of free wool and reduction on manufactured woolsn goods.
 Mir. Symes, of Colorado, referred to the cry for free raw material coming forth from the Democratic side like the spouting of fountain from the earth with. spontane- ous and native force. It had issued forth as free and as raw as the whiskey which oozed through the worm of the illicit distilleries in the most reliable Democratic districts. The President had shown an entire want of com prehension of the whole tariff system when he told the farmer in one paragraph that a protective tariff was wrong and in the next attempted to show the manufacturer that he would be benefited by the placing of raw materials on the free list. The President had forgotten or ignored the fact that the placing of raw material on the free list would ruin the agricultural, mining and other industries of the country. Turning to a criticism of the bill he asked why it was that the measure did not put su- gar on the free list and pay bounty to the producer if it's object was to reduce the rev. enue. He would not tax sixty million peo- pie for the protection of this small industry. He would so reduce the tariff on sugar Gf it could not be placed on the free list) that it would yield just enough revenue to pay the bounty. It was only the Bourbenism of the free trader or the Anglomania of the college professor or the mugwump that would ooun- tenance the adoption by this country of the
 
 might be laid down in one of our States Free trade in Great Britain had injured England and Ireland and benefited their continental neighbors. He argued that it was the capi- talist, the monopolist and importing mer- chant and those who derived their income from bonds and other investments who were clamoring for free trade; that it was the em- ployer, the workipgman and those who built up the industries of the country who wanted protective rariff He (Symes) was for what Henry called the American system. He was for a national as opposed to an inter- national system of political economy. Inter national free trade was not only impractica- ble; it was impossible. There could be no such thing as universal free trade except by reciprocity treaties between the com mercial nations of the world. Our political institutions, the future well fare of the country demanded the permanent establishment of a national system of political economy entirely free and independent from the commercial and indus- trial well as the political institutions of other nations. (Applause.) He would make the protection of American labor from for eign competition the keystone in the arch of American institutions. He would protect the laboring men of America from the importa- tion and immigration of convict and pauper labor as well as from the importations of
 
 tective system had it's origin and continuance in legislative statutes was ignorant of it's his tory. It was the result of 8 growth; it was the crystalized sentiment and opinion of the American people; it had been evolved from the necessities and conflicts of our industrial system as much as our national unity had been evolved from the necessities and con- flicts of our political system.
 Mir. Thompson, of Ohio, said the Demo- cratic party was absolutely hostile to protee- tion A tariff for revenue only would result in lowering of the wages of labor to the level of those paid in the old world and would mean danger to the peace of the na- tion.
 MT. Sherman, of New York, said he wished to present petition from hundreds of peo- pie in his district protesting against the pass age of this most unwise and uncalled for measure He believed the verdict of the people at the polls in November would an swer the British free traders and their allies.
 MT. Struble, of Iowa, said among the things-some commendable, some despicable done by the present administration at least three could not escape the condemnation oi the people. The President had first attacked the silver dollar, then the greenback and then the tariff system under which the gov- ernment had grown and prospered, and by reason of which it had attained financially, commercially, intelligsntly and nationally
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