Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-18


and dealers. Price. 81 per bottle.
TIVE DBFYY MALT WHISKY Co.,
Rochester. New York.
sage, by the assumption that the duty was
always added to tine cost, not only of i'm
ported commodities. but to the price of like
commodities produced in this country.
shows how profoundly ignorant he was Of
economic science. To illustrate the alb
surdity Of this assumption, he invited the
Presidents attention to the fact that
though the duties imposed by our Govern
ment on sugar, when reduced To advalorem
standards. were never so high as they now
are. The price of sugar was never so low
in this country as it now is.
An incalculable elment of the value of
beet and sorghum industry to the farmer,
is found in the fact that both serve to re-
generate the fields, the fertility of which
has been impaired by the constant growth
of wheat or corn. The exhausted lands of
Germany and France have been reinvigor-
ated by beet culture and the manufacture
of sugar, ''and fail" said Mr.. Kelly, ito
see how Congress could infict so fatal
stroke on the interests of the farmers and
the industrial classes generally. as by de-
claring against the culture of sugar in the
United States by reducing duties upon it
and molasses below an assuredly protective
| rate.
In conclusion. submit that it was by the
! provisions of law imposing taxes on distilled
spirits that the Whisky trust was called in
I TO existence and was enabled to accomplish
the revival of the despotism which paraded
/ the Southern States before the war. and
| that the power of the trust and the COM
binations of the Democratic politicians and
| the banking influence of Kentucky can be
/ broken only by repeal of the internal taxes,
the perpetuation of which is the issue pre-
sented TO the American people by the
| Presidents free trade message, and by five
Southern gentlemen VINO have dominated
the councils of the committee on ways and
means and submitted this bill to the House
( for consideration.
For myself l will stand for the prac-
! tical system and the mainten-
ance of such rates of duties as
will insure the development Of all the re-
sources of the country, increase the num-
Der Of its industries and perpetuate its
national independence, commercial and in
dustrial as we'll as political. This cannot
| be done if the internal tax system is to be
maintained for the surplus IS = condition
that cannot be perpetuated with safety TO
our republican institutions.
The purity of the government the safety
OF business and the morals of the public
demand the abatement of the surplus by
the repeal of the taxes which flow from il"
Mr.. Kelly spoke for two hours, and when
he took his seat, was loudly applauded and
congratulated by his party friends. The
House then at s. % p. m. adjourned.
Senate.
The principal feature in the Senate yes
terday, was the speech against the admis-
sion of Dakota.
Among the bills reported from commit
| t.a, I'D NJ. h. q. -.
the following: Appropriating $50, 900 for
the enlargement and improvement Of the
public buildings at Charleston, W. Va
elc0 900 for q public building at Wichita,
Kansas; $50, 0Oo for one at W0onsocket, R.
l.: $67. 600 additional and changing the
limit of expenditure to SITS, 900 for one at
Key West, Fla. and $4,000 for one at
Burlington, Iowa.
Mr.. Plumb, from public lands, reported
resolution instracting his committee to
investigate alleged fraudulent conveyknces
of public lands in Florida The resolution
went over.
Mr.. Riddlebersers's resolution of yester-
day, looking to the consideration of the
| fisheries treaty in open sessions, was then
| laid before the Scnste.
Upon demand of Mr. Edmunds. the
doors were closed for consi Grafton of the
resolution, and in q very few minutes it
was determined to postpone the proposition
| until the Committee on Foreign Relations
shall have reported on q similar resolution
now pending.
The bill to forfeit certain lands granted
in aid of the construction of railroads was
| taken up and yariouSly amended. One of
| the amendments excepts from the opera
ton Of the act until January Ist, 1889,
grants for the Gulf and Ship island rail.
road, and for railroad in Alabama from
the Tennessee river TO the Coosa river and
| provides that in all cases where any of the
lands have been entered in good faith un-
| der the homestead and preemption laws,
the right and title of persons holding or
claiming such lands be confirmed.
Consideration of the bill for the admis-
sion of South Dakota and for the organiza-
ton OF the territory of North Dakota was
resumed, and Mr.. West addressed the
| Senate in opposition to the bill.
Senator Spooner, he said. had yesterday
waived that onsanguined garment known
as the bloody shirt, and scattered the ruddy
remains about the Senate chamber He
| had talked of secession and said there was
no difference between states trying to break
out of the Union and states trying to break
into it; but the people of Dakota had
| undertaken to set up State government
| without the consent of Congress.
Mr.. Vest declared that il any Southern
community had acted like the people of
Dakota, the Republicans would have shout
ed rebellion: that Mr. Edmunds would have
hastened to bring forward some legislation
of the character he aided TO frame in 1876
| the result of which was to seat Hayes in
the Presidential chair that belonged to
| Tilden.
Mr.. Edmunds declared that he believed
then and believed now that Hayes was hon.
eetly and fairly elected, and that nine
tenths of the people Of the country so be-
| lieve.
Mr.. Vest took issue with this statement,
and for a time there was sharp colloquy
between himself and Mr.. Edmunds as to
the political events of 1876
Mr. Vest said that Mr.. Conkling, the
foremost man of the Republican party, had
spoken Of Hayes on the Senate floor as
''Rutherford' Hayes
Mr.. Edmunds was satisfied that Mr..
Conkling believed in the election Of Hayes
When Mr.. Vest finished Mr.. Edmunds
took the floor to speak in support of the
bill, but it was laid aside with the positive
understanding that vote shall be taken
to-day.
A number of private pension bills were
taken from the calendar and passed, and
the Senate, At $50 p. m, adjourned
sect there, get to work, get through, get
awayr Win. Bitters does this and you get
oil