Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-18
Resolution for Five Thousand
Printed Copies Of the Fish,
cries Reports and
Treaty.
Representatives Breckenridge, Stewart
and Cox the Principal Orators on
the Mills Bill.
The Latter Ridicules Protection by Ell.
fusions OF His Characteristic
Wit
WASHINGTON, May Is
Senate.

itHniou udpFiopllhliou ulii WIS tdhtl
up. After loag debate, the amendmen
proposed by Mr. Cockerell was defeated
The amendment reported by the committe,
on appr npriatons was agreed to and the bill
was pas sed.
The amendment provides for striking ou
the woris that in all pensions to willow
the payments shall be made from the date o.
the death of the husband, and inserting 'tha
all payments which have been OF may here
after be Granted under the general laws reg
ulating ensions to flows, in consequence,
OF dealt occurring from any cause which
origina' 1 in the service, since May (, 1861
shall commence from the date of the deatl
of the i md"
The Senate passed a resolution to print
five thousand copies of the reports on the
fishery treaty, with the treaty, the Presidents
message and a map, subject to the House.
concurrence.
Also number of bills and resolutions in
Guiding the Senate joint resolution authoriz
ing BrigadIer General Absalom Baird to ac-
cept from the president of the French repub-
lie the decoration of the commander of the
Legion of H,n)r.
The Senate then adjourned till Monday.
House
The House after cOnvening, went into the
committee of the whole on the tariff bill
Mr. Peters of Kansas argued that if it was
tue as was asserted by gentlemen on the
other side, that the protective tariff was rob
berry, the Mills bill only sectonalized that
robbery. Robbery was a pillaging a taking
away by violence and wrong. If protection
was robbery it was pillaging the people and
taking property by violence and wrong.
Mr.. Anderson of Illinois, opposed protec-
ton.
Mr. Breckenridge of Arkansas, made a
brilliant speech in advocacy of the Mills bill.
He said that the Presidents message had met
with great popular favor and that Blaine's
ithdrawal was practically an acknov ledge
nent of this. The people were approving
the Mills bill all over the country. The
counties and districts and States were en-
Enthusiastically demanding "A reduction of tax
alton. There were three kinds of protection
National protection, such as our fathers prac-
tised with the average rate of seven or eight
per cent. levied to build up the industries
necessary for a young nation. Commercial
protection, intended to establish variety of
industries, whether the country really needed
them or not. The foolish doctrine of mon
opoy protection, which gives subsidies
mountain high, to a few, on the theory that
it is necessary to give privileges a certain
class, doctrine not only bad but criminal.
1t was this kind of protection with which the
Mills bill dealt The democratic party had
recognized that protection had obtained a
foot hold, that inequalities existed under it,
and in all this debate no one had
announced himself revolutonlst as dis,in-
guished from reformer. He argued the
falsity of the charge that pacingwool on the
free list was a sectional measure by the facts
that from 1875 to 1887 sheep in the South
increased from 5000 900 to 5000, 600 and
decreased in the Middle and Eastern
states from 100000 to 5000, 900
The South, If anybody, should compll lin OF
free wool.
Mr.. Stewart of Vermont expressed his un-
Willingness to commit the revision of the
tariff to gentlemen avowedly hostile to the
system. He feared the Greeks even wheu
bearing gifts and could not believe in their
professions of friendship for the protection
system INDUCED in by gentlemen on The
other side The Mills hi was the shibbo-
leth of democracy. A notice had been post
ed on the doors of the White House, that nc
industrial democrat need apply. Laugh
ter. This was modern democracy. He
argued against free wool which was not ask.
ed for by producer, manufacturer or work
men. The only persons who wanted it were
the representatives of the traditions of anoth
er age and British manufactures.
Mr.. Cox of New York, spoke at length
He said that the surplus was the principa
que estion. The question of taxation was in
cidental He would get rid of the surplus
by all means. 1t was as well to try to run
/ IN, h,l1
with plethoric treasury. He woull no
favor spendthrft doctrines. BY an investi
CATION of the New York and Boston custom
Houses. he found that to get 80 millions inte
the treasury the country paid $3.50. 900, ,OOt
which never saw the treasury, He woult
not call this a protection system but rob
berry or burglary and would use some eu
phamistc word. like the gentleman from
Ohio (Butterworth) who said that the custom:
duties were not tax but trade regula
ton" (laughter) He remembered reading
about Catholic priest who met a briganC
who had not knife or pistol but who said tC
the priest venerable elder. your brother i,
cold in the mounta rs, lend me your coat
venerable elder am tired of walking lend
your horse" That was trade regulation
applause and laughter He didn't want tc
quarrel with the gentlemen who had loca
interests at stake. He wouldn't quarrel Will
the gentleman from Michigan
| burrows because he wanted lum
Der and salt protected, nor viii
the gentleman from Vermont (Stewart) wh'
appealed for wool He would like them tt
commit what Bastiat said ought to have beer
done, commit reciprocal robbery. If Penn
sylvSnia has robbed too much from Massa
chuseus let Massachusetts, rob somethin!
! from Pennsylvania. Let Connecticut, tn
/ land of nutmegs and corsets, make a raj
upon Tennessee, North Carolina and Vir
ginia. after peanuts Laughter.) Tha
was the way to carry on the tariff of recipro
/ cal rascality. The Devil, when he came II
/ the earth, was greatly delighted on goin
around and finding that the most select of al
/ his instruments was a cunning old lawye
who was cheated by the statute, but then tn
devil never read the tariff law with its adval
orem and specific duties. If he had he ney
er would have bought the beautiful dress b
wore or would have got it through the Gus
tom house without paving taxes. And ho'
was the devil dressedg" "Oh. he was dresse
in his Sunday best with breeches of scarle
and coat of blue, and there was hole wher
his tail came through" (Laughter.) Tn
gentlemen on the other side said the Mill
bill was radical. He didn't see bow a redut
ton of seven per cent was much of fire.
trade reduction. He wondered that the ger
men on the other side didn't follow the e1
j ample of the tallow chandler of France, wh
4 petitioned for the destruction Of all gas pr
ducing machines and the sun, 80 that the "a