The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-04-27

q crowd Of democratic members who pressed
Forward to tender congratulations.
MIR. Kelly, Of PENNSYLVANIA, next took the
hoor N opposition W the bill. He said the
enactment would paralyze the enterprise anu
energy Of the people, overthrow our manu-
mandtng commercial position to colonial de-
pendence: II was %studi0usly designed tn
produce these dire results and nicely adapted
forits purpose. 1t was confesscdly a partisan
measure, and was framed in the intcccst Of a
party whose lesders appeared to be oblivious
70 the overwhelming social aud economic
Snehgcs wrought by the abolition OF. slavery.
The gentlemen who framed this bill and could
inrook neither modification nor discussion o,
lte provistons 10y their associates in the COM
mittee were representatives of what was the
slevc territory. The bill was an a~nachropisGa;
y mad no relation TO this era; it belonged to
the eaddest epoch in our national history.
During that period slavery dominated our
anona councils and guided the administia-
u0n OF our national affairs In hostility to M
tionhl interests, and In the interests Of free
trade twice threatened war.
By putting wool on the free list the bill
would abolish sheep husbandry. destroy the
the immense capital embarked therein and
tmpoverish more than ], 100000 men who own
working this ruin it would diminish the SUP
ply OF cheap and healthful animal food now
furnished by wool grower to the mining aud
manufacturing laborers of the country.
1t would also render the production of
American thu plate and cotton ties impossible
by placing those articles on the free list with
wool. BY the transfer of these and other pro-
ducts OF coal and iron ore to the free list, ana
by reducing the duties on steel rails, structure
III iron and many other forms Of iron ami
steel, it would, though 1T maintained the eN-
isttEg duties on coal aud iron ore, close the
majority of the bituminous seal fields and ore
banks which were now giving profitable en-
ployment to hundreds OF thousands Of labor
efs, not only fin the northern states hut in the
south. But while protesting to have aban-
doncd their purpose to put coal or iron ore on
thu. free list the trainers had irgeniously cen
trfveu to make the importation by such meas
ures OF tndirccti0n US might enable them 10
saddle the treasury department or thr %jiulici-
airy with the political consequences OF their
deliberate tcrgiversations.
To illustrate the pucrilc absurdity of Pres
tdcnt Clcveland's assumption that the duty
was always added to the cost, not only of i'm
ported commodities but the price OF like com
modittes produced here, Mr.. Kelley invited
the presidents attention to the fact that
though the iuties on sugar when reduced to
nd valorem, standards were never so high as
now, the price OF sugar was never SO low in
the country as now. The progress Of sugar
making in Louisiana since 1865 might be cited
as an illustration of the vitaliziig influence
Of protective duti.s.
The politics of this country are now DOM
mated by the whisky trust as absolutely as
they were by slavery before the war, md king
alcohol ts proving that he ~ as hostile 10
national development as king cotton ever
was.
In concluding Mr.. Kelley said: 1.-THE per-
petuation of internal taxes is the issue pre-
sented to the American people by the presi-
dent In BIS free trade message and by the FIVE
southern gentlemen who have dominated the
councils of the committee on ways and means.
For myself ! will stand for the protective sys-
tom and the maintenance of such rates of
duties as will insure the development Of nj;
the resources of the country, increase tle
number OF Its industries an pcrprtiate in
national independence the commercial and III
1ustrial as well as the political interests.
This cannot be done If the Internal tax sys-
TEN Is tc he maintained, for the surplus /; in
q condition that it csnrot be perrrtuat:t
With safety to our republican institutions.
The purity OF the government, the sal. t. II
business and the morals of the public lp,Ial Id
the abatement of the surplus by the rcpeal Of
the internal taxes from which 1t tlows.''
Mr.. Kelley spoke for two hours, and wien
he resumed his eeat was loudly applaujcn
and received the congratulations Of his party
friends The committee rose and then the
house adjourned.
Coming to the subject of the surplus NJ
Kelley said he would so lcgislate OH the ques-
ton Of the surplus and the sources whence ii
flows as to increase the wealth, power and
dignity OF the country by promoting the de-
velopment OF its natural resources ard tn,
diversilcations Of its industries arl thus
diminish its dependence upon the foreign i'm
portations upon which duties are collected.
He would derive the national revenues from
customs duties seadiusted Us to stimulate aud
defend home productions, while preventing
combinations, trusts and m%onopolies Of any
kind. The reduction of taxation should be
Effected Immediately by the abolition of the
sources OF iecone, the receipts from which
solutely day by day.
WASHINGTON, April 1s.-The conference
report upon the bill authorizing the president
to arrange q conference between the United
States and the South and Central American
republics, Hsyti, San Domingo aud the cm.
pire OF Brazil (Townshend's zollvereln meas
ure) was agreed to.
The bill to establish a department Of labor
waspsssed.
The bill to create boards OF arbitration for
the settlement Of controversies and differ.
ences between Interstate common carriers
audtheir employees wa considered IN commi.-
tee Of the whole.
Mr.. o'Neill briefly explained the provisions
the measuse.
Mr.. Parker, Of New York, and others OPP
posed the bill a. being weak and insufficient.
Nj. Buchanan, Of New Jersey, aud others
favored II. The committee had avoided pro-
vidinR for enforced arbitration because II
meant enforced awards, and this was going
too far. The debate haally drifted into tie
tarI6 discussion, which continued some little
time.
Finally, on motion Of Mr.. Camden, the sixth
section, which provides for the appointment
BY the president Of boards or arbitration. was
amended by substituting tho words "commis-
sioners' for 'arbitrators" and s'decision' for
s'award."
The committee arose and the hous. adj