Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-06
NATIONAL NEWS.
The Bond Bill Passes The
Senate.
A FILLIBUSTERING HOUSE
The Presidents Policy and Pro
tectiOn-A Granger's
GueSses.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

WASHINGTON, April 5.--In the Sen
ate to-day proposal from the Domin
ion OF Canada for direct and imme
date interchange OF parliamentary
publications, which was transmitted
to the Senate by the Secretary o
State, was referred to the Committee
on Printing.
Wilson, of Iowa, then addressed tho
Senate on the Presidents message.
He quoted figures contained in the
last annual report OF the Secretary o
the Treasury, showing receipts and
expenditures OF the Government for
the last, three years. He show et
that the aggregate of receipts
over expenditures was $17S, 200, 900
or an average of $50, 1000, 900 year
The result this disclosed, he said, pre-
sented limit within which Congress.
should move in the matter of reducing
revenue, and all Senators would doubt
less agree that the revenue should be
reduced. He alluded to the grea
achievements Of the Republican party
and spoke particularly of the practi-
cal capacity which could evolve 9
boundless credit for government
that was bankrupt when it took
charge OF its affairs, He refer
red to the railroad land grant
policy, something in which the Repub-
lican party had without due consider
alton followed the precedents of the
Democratic party. The Republican
party should be excused for not at
once detecting the dangerous possihil-
tiles of that Democratic land grant
policy. 1t was not responsible for the
war, but it was responsible for the
maintenance of American institute ons,
the enforcement of the law and the
unity of the Republic. This respon-
sibility it had met and dis
charged faithfully and fully. Refer
ring to the growth AMI prosperity
of the country, he contrasted the
figures Of 1860 and 1880 as to agricul-
ture and manufactures, and said that
the true policy was one which would
plant manufacturing establishments
in every part of every agricultural
State. II reduction of prices for man
ufactured articles was what was
wanted, there was no surer road to it's
realization than the one which would
lead to the distribution " manufac-
turing plants in all Of the localities
where agriculture produced cheap
food and where forests and mines aud
quarries supplied raw materials to be
used. There should be an end of the
policy which tended to central
ize manufacturing plants in the
great cities, and the policy should
be adopted which would distribute
them in all parts OF the country. If,
however, they were to follow the
Presidents suggestion. they would
not multiply and distribute manufac-
turing plants, but they would embar-
rass those now in operation and re-
press the tendency to invest capital in
them. AS to the annual surplus of
about sixty million, he asked: What
is the right thing to do about it?
Could that right thing be found in
any OF the various schemes
urged upon our attention by
the President and other oppon-
ents of protection? Was there
anything in those schemes that could
produce such happy results as had
happened in the cotton manufactur-
ing industries of the Southern States
within the last seven years? The
country was doing well under policy
which the President assailed. What
ever of danger was now menacing the
country came from sources other than
those embraced in the protective
policy. That policy had given the
country strength and prosperity. Pro-
ceeding to discussion of the question
of duty on sugar and. molasses, the
Senator quoted the figures to show
that in spite of the tariff, the prices OF
the articles under consideration had
fallen considerably for several years
past and suggested the removal OF the
duty on sugar and molasses, amount
ing to about $5S, 900, 900, as a means
of guarding against an annual surplus
of $50 600, 600. He quoted some SEN
tences from the Presidents message
and asked whether any better response
could be given to them than by llac-
ing sugar and molasses on the free
list. He would 4 admit free
all sugar and molasses coming
from countries which did not impose
impost duties on those commodities
and which reciprocated by admitting
American products free OF duty. in
their ports and then, why not adopt
the practical business plan which had
worked 30 we'll in European countries
and provide for the paying Of rea'
sonable bounty to producers OF sugar
in the United States. He criticized
the Presidents suggestion on the sub,
iect of wool, and said no one wJuld
infer from them that under the
tariff tinkering the wool produc
Of the country had faller
off 43, ,OOO, 900 pounds in three years
Discussing the wool and flax ques
tions, as affecting farmers, Mr.. Viii
son said. farmers should demand thai
ali articles produced by them should
he taken from the free list, and tina
at least a moderate rate of duty
should be imposed upon them. He
asked whether there was NJ
way of getting rid of the annual
surplus revenue without disturbing
our industrial interests. He woult
make the reduction on Intoxicating
LIQUORS. The true interests OF the peo
ple demands that the revenue system
should be so adjusted as to preven
the tax on Intoxicating liquors from
becoming fixed and necessary par
of it. He should deeply regret th'
passage OF any bill looking to the re
duction of revenue which did no
make a pronounced start toward thu
ultimate elimination of the liquor tax
4 The Bond bill passed the Senate to
day. Following is the text Of the bill
as passed: That Sec. 2 Of the Ac
making appropriations for the sundr.
civil expenses of the Government TO
the year ending June 80, 1882, ant