Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-11
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
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and full competition in the production, man. ufacture or sale, of articles of domestic growth or production, or of the sale of i'm Ported articles, or that are designated, or tend to foster monopoly, or advance artih- cially the cost to the consumer of necessary articles of human life, with such penalties and forfeitures as will tend to preserve free dom of trade and production, the lowering of prices by such competition, and the full ben eft designated by, and hitherto conferred by the policy of the government to protect and encourage American industries by levying duties on imported goods.
 The Senate then proceeded to the consid- eration, in open session, of the fishery treaty and was addressed by Mir. Hoar in oppOsi- tion to it. Among other things Mr. Hoar said: You remember the time when General Grant gave notice that any American citizen who had claim against Great Britain, should bring the evidence to him. That naughty power sent over her commissioners to apologize for her wrong, and was held as dependent to make compensation. You re- member how the diplomacy of the same great administration induced nearly every hrst-class power in Europe to renounce the old doctrine of perpetual allegiance and let our adopted citizens alone. Those were days when the American citizen, national and adopted, held up his head in the pride of his citizenship. Those were the days when our ten thousand millions of wealth
  when slaves were changing into freemen, and freemen into citizens. Those were days when the flag, beautiful as the flower to those who loved, terrible as a meteor to those who hated it, foated everywhere in friendly ports. No pettys British officer hauled it down from an American masthead. No Canadian minister of justice laughed in the face of an American citizen when Grant was in the White House.
 I confess that, muchs meditating on these things, take little satisfaction when think of Grover Cleveland. do not like the policy which everywhere robs American citizenship of its glory do not like the methods of fraud and crime which have destroyed popu- lar elections in so many Democratic States. I would have the box where the American freeman casts his ballot sacred as sacra- mental vessel. do not like this conspiracy between the old slave-holdsr and the English manufacturer to strike down the wages of the American workman and the comforts of the American workman's home. I do not like your refusal to maintain the American navy and to fortify and defend the American coast. And like no better the present treaty. It leaves the American sailor to be bullied and insulted without redress, and abandons the American right to the fisheries, older than the nation itself, which the valor of our fath- CTS won for us and the wisdom of our fathers preserved for us.
 MT. Hoar's allusion to the lack of special ability on the part of the American negotta- tors was taken up and contested by Senators Payne and Gray. In reply to question by MT. Payne, MT. Hoar said that when three men were undertaking to deal with the trained diplomats of Great Britain it was very indiscreet thing for them not to avail themselves of the advice and assistance and suggestions of representatives of the fishery States in the Senate and House.
 Mir. Gray-Will the senator from Massa- chusetts undertake to say that the negotia- tors in the American side ot this treaty, Mir. Putnam and MT. Angel, to say nothing of the Secretary of State, were inferior in equipment for the duties imposed upon them to Mr. Chamberlain or MT. West, or that there was anything in the occupation, his- tory or previous studies of these gentlemen which made them at all superior Gin equip ment for the negotiation) to either of the gentlemen have named. Oae of them was other was not so eminent that any fair Amer ican lawyer might fear to come in competi- tion with him.
 MT. Hoar-I think they were. I think that the training of New England lawyer in 8 country city and the training of a head of university in the West and the training of an able and honored United States Sen- ator from Delaware However honorable those positions and functions in life may bel did not fit them to cope on terms of equality (either in diplomacy or special knowledge) with the men whom Great Britain sent on. the other side, and think that the result of that diplomatic attempt on the part of those gentlemen will abundantly satisfy the Sen ate of that fact.
 Mir. Gray-What special training had MT. Chamberlain or MT. West which rendered them superior to the American negotiatorsa
 MT. Hoar-I suppose that it had been the business of MT. West to study the question for the last tan years
 Mir. Gray-And what better selections could have been made in this country where we have no trained school for diplomatistsa
 MT. Hoar-Ithink that MT. Frye or Mir. Prescott or MT. Woodbury would have saved us from the disgrace and humiliation of this treaty.
 MT. Hoar, commenting on an intimation in MT. Morgan's speech on the treaty, to the effect that if the question were submitted to the South between free fish and war with Great Britain, the result would be in favor of the former, paid high compli- ment to the courage, constancy, affection and capacity for great affection and for generous emotions which had characterized the lead CTS of the southern cai teraey, and express ed his conviction that The thirty-four sena- tors from that section, twenty-nine of whom
 had served in the Confederate army, would not be.willing (when it was question of in suit and dishonor to the United States) to
 take their tone from the Secretary of State or senator from Alabama. There was no occa- sion he said for a note of war. Firmness, strength, calmness and dignity in under standing and maintaining the just rights of the
 United States would be much more likely to insure peace than the yielding diplomacy of
 the administration.
 The delivery of Mir. Hoar's speech, al- though some portions of it were omitted, oc- cupied over four hours. For the most part
 it had been in type for several weeks, but some portions of it were extemporized. Dur ing much of the time occupied there was a very fair attendance of senators, and during the whole time the senators present paid the closest attention to the speech. At the close Mr. Hoar was complimented by several of the Republican senators and the Senate pass ed from executive to legislative business. The conference report on the District bi was presented and agreed to and the Senate adjourned.
 HoUsE.-Immediately after the reading of the journal the House went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill, the pending amendment being that offered by Mir. Nut ! ting of New York restoring the existing rate of duty on starch. Mir. Reed of Maine sup ported the amendment, contending that the reduction of duty would cause the suspension of business of certain starch factories, the in- ! jury of the business of other factories and a contraction of the market of the farmer for A1s poCatOeS. The dmenQmenG WRe IOet. Mir. Hopkins, of Illinois, moved to strike 1 from the definition of uncleaned rice the words ''rice free of the outer hull" In dis cussing the amendment Mir. Gear, of Iowa, ! and Mir. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, criticised the committee on ways and means for placing | the farm products of the East and West on | the free list and imposing duty of fifteen per cent. upon rise, the product of the South. | which criticism called forth the remark from i Mr. Elliott, of South Carolina, that the Re- | publicans having nominated a Chinese presi | dent were ready to sacF. fee the colored Ia | borer of the South by allowing the free inn portation of rice from China. Mir. Hopkins amendment was rejected.
 Mr. Warner, of Missouri, offered au amendment fixing the duty on cleaned rice at 11Sc. per pound. He said that rice should be upon the free list. The rice planter made $33 per acre on his crop. while the wheat grower made $12, and the corn raiser S10 Why this protection of over 100 per cent. or
 rieea The amendment was lost by vote oi | 47 to 70.
 On motion of Mr. McMiIlan of Tennessee l the duty on rice honr and rice meal was fix