The Portland daily press., 1888-05-01
TRUSTS REPRESENTED BY DEMOCRATS.
Mr.. cannon's Embarrassing Ques-
ton to a Free Trade Orator.
The Remarkable Change of Policy In
Democratic Ranks.
Raw Material as Viewed BY Mr.. Cal
lInger of New Hampshire.

WASHINGTON, April 10-Mr. Grosyenor,
of Ohio, took the floor when the House went
into committee of the whole on the tariff bill
today. He denounced the Democratic party
for changing front ON the internal revenue
question. He said the party had been de-
nouncing the system for 30 years, had op-
posed all the governments efforts to enforce
the law, and had educated the Southern peo-
pie in the belief that the system was tyran-
mic, and that to defeat and mutilate and de-
stroy it by fraud, violence, bloodshed and
murder was but question Of the God given
right of rebellion against the I yrannous ac-
tion of a tyrannous government. Now, at
the dictation of the President, the party or
dered that the most sacred monument Of tax
alton in the country was now, and must be
in the future, the internal revenue system.
Republicans were not in favor of free whis-
key and free tobacco as charged, but favored
the abolition of national taxes on whiskey
and tobacco, and the turning over OF those
articles to the States fer State taxation and
regulation Reviewing the history Of the
Morrill, tariff, Mr.. Grosvenor showed that it
was not war measure, as charged, but was
passed in 1860, before the war, and was sign
ed by President Buchanan and Vice Presi-
QtuL DItChcuIluBt. u6 ouIpluo Ndo tuc
cause of no honest anxiety. If the govern
ment paid its just debts there would be no
surplus In concluding, Mr.. Grosvenor in
sisted that under the administration of Re-
publicans the country had grown in wealth
and prosperity in ratio never witnessed in
this or any other country, while under the
Democrats it had stood still or retrograded.
Mr.. Rayner of Maryland, said the contest
was between protected monopoly and capi-
tai and the unprotected people and tax-pay-
country, especially the Standard Oil, which
he pronounced composed of fraud, corrup-
tion and oppression.
Mr.. Cannon of Illinois, asked Mr.. Rayner
If he did not know that the President ap-
pointed one of the principal representatives
the Navy. another representative being the
Democratic Senator from Ohio.
Mr.. Rayner replied that the fact of mans
being the s0n-in-law of somebody connected
with trust did not mix him up with the
fraud.
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa, opposed the bill
as crippling where it should support and
tearing town where it should build up.
Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, op-
posing the bill, said the pending struggle
was between England and America. he
characterized the bill as q wicked assault
upon the industries of New England. 1t
should be entitled "a bill to reduce New
England to the position of dependency OF
Great Britain" Mr.. Gallinger preferred
protective to destructive policy. So, he
said, would the South when it came to know
the benefits of protection. He knew of no
raw material except Democratic statesmen.
The surplus was large, not because of tariff
laws. but because of the niggardliness Of the
Democratic party. The Republican party
desired the House to pass general pension
bill, toEprovide for Notifications, ornaments
and for the extending and encouragement of
the American merchant marine, but the
Democratic party shouts, no, with an unanim-
ity at once suggestive and startling. When
Mr.. Gallinger concluded the committee rose
and the House adjourned.