The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-20
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Senator Voorhees, Makes a Free
Trade Stump Speech.
THE WIND is KNOCKED OUT
ofhis Tirade by Three or Four Judi
clous words-The Arrangement
for the Tariff Debate and
Recess as Proposed.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. l9.-ThC
Senate at l2: 40 resumed consideration o
the tariff bill. Mr.. Reagan called atten
ton to paragraph 176 fixing the duty OF
lead ore and lead dross at half a cent pei
pound, with proviso that lead ore con
tanning silver or silver ore containing
lead shall pay duty of half cent {
pound. He referred to it in connection
with ores from Mexico, and said that the
adoption OF the proviso would break uE
the smelling establishments in FL Paso
He moved to strike out the proviso. Mr.
Allison said that the Finance Committee
believed that lead introduced in connec'
tion with silver ore ought to pay the
same duty as other lead did. He did
not see why the lead contained in sill.
yer ore should be exempted from duty.
Mr.. Voorhees, arose to make q speech
upon the bill itself. He spoke OF the
palpable role which 1t had been desig.
mated to play in the presidential canvass.
1t was not OF natural birth. 1t had been
conceived in dread and fear of an awak-
ening OF public opinion on the subject Of
unjust, oppressive and dishonest taxa.
tion. Its object was not the general
welfare, nor the reduction Of taxation,
but merely to gain temporary political
success. Il was the offspring Of secret
caucus conclave. The country could not
soon forget the extraordinary features OF
the long session OF the Fiftieth Con-
gress, and now this bill was being hur-
ried through the Senate as il to avoid its
exposure. Was it an honest measure to
abolish that species Of human serfdom
which compelled people to pay double
prices for the necessaries OF life in order
to enrich the manufacturers who sold
them? Or was it mere make-shift, n
fraudulent pretenCe, sham assumed in
the face OF a dire emergency, tub
thrown to the whale in the furry; u
semblanceof reform ofabuse? Anex-
animation OF the details OF the bill
would, he said, give an answer TO those
inquiries.
He then attacked the sugar, salt and
wool clauses in the bill separately. Re-
ierring to the schedule on wool and its
manufactured products, he said that the
substitute increased those duties at
least four millions year. Not only,
therefore, was there no symptom oi re-
form in the substitute, but it was u gross
exHggeration OF the worst features OF the
present Vicioussystem OF over.taxed and
enslaved labor. The bill was, in every
part OF it, cheat and fraud. The in
crease OF duty on flannel goods, he said,
was so rank and ilagrant, in its wrong
and oppression, that it would go far to
educate the people as to the true intent
and meaning of tariff by the Republican
party.
As to blankets, ,Ihe said that u pair
worth s. would .be-raised by the pro.
posed rates OF duty s. s., the duty be-
ing equivalent to % per cent ad valorem.
1t would be difficult to convince the
plain laboring men and women OF the
country that the huge tax should be al
lowed to creep into their beds with them
at night and like hideous aud perpetual
nightmare rob them OF their rest, all for
the sake OF giving soft couches, downy
pillows and sumptuous homes to a few
protected millionaires, A close inspec-
ton OF the whole preposterous measure
disclosed its consistent and coherent
character as fraud on the tax paying
people OF the United States brought for
ward at the behest OF insatiate monopo-
lies, dishonest companies and arrogant
trusts.
|. Mr.. Hawley said it was amazing to re-
fleet that after all which the Senator
had said about the great evils OF the
tariff the Democracy had not during the
last twenty.siX years passed a tariff bill
through Congress, and had never passed
one through its own House OF Repre-
sentatiyes until last July. II as the
Senator had declared in his horid and
exaggerated language, the tariff was
worse than African slavery, why did
not the Democratic party ever have
sense and unity and courage enough to
pass tariff bill before last July?
After further debate the vote was
taken on Mr.. Vance's amendment, and
it was rejected. Yeas, IS; nays, %.
Paragraphs us, l79 and $50. referring
to lead in sheets, metallic mineral sub.
stances in crude state, were read and
no amendments offered.
Schedule D, relating to wood and
wooden wares, and +, relating 10 sugar,
were passed over informally with the
statement that paragraphs so laid aside
would not be taken upbetore the end oi
the bin was reached.
This brought the consideration OF the
bill down to Schedule +, tobacco
cigars, etc." when it was laid aside,
about three pages OF the bill having beer
actually disposed OF to-day. After ar
executive session the Senate adjourned
This evening the indications are that
an agreement will be reached tomorrow
by the Senate upon the question OF hol
Iday adjournment, and in connection
Herewith an agreement as to the length
OF debate on the tariff bill. The Demo
cratic Senators held a caucus after ad
| tjournment this evening, and author
ICED Messrs. Harris and Vest to propose
to Messrs. Morrill, and Sherman, repre-
senting the Republican Senators, aprop
osition embodying the following proVi
sions: To adjourn on Friday next unit
January Z, as fixed by the House reso
luton TO hold daily sessions beginning
at II a. m. and continuing till at leas
$50 D. m. until the tariff bill is disposed
OF, and finally TO vote on the tariff bill
January 20. This is in practical bar
mony with the Republican proposition
save in the matter OF night sessions,
AsugEe.tton to France.
wAsurSoroS, D. c., Dec. la.-Ip tn
Senate to-day Mr.. Edmunds introduce,
and had referred TO the Committee OIL
FOREIGN Relations the following reso