The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-10
THE SALT SECTION.
Debate on that Portion Of
the Tariff Bill.


CHAIRMAN MILLS TAKEs PART
TAe Members Indulge In Sarrsssz
ssd Rias~ule. with Here aaa rAers
m ArguReas sanAwteh~d Ia
Trusts ere Dtsc1ssed.
WAsHzSsrox. June a.-In the kocss
today Mr. Nils took hand when
that part OF the tariff hsil placing far
straw On the free iiss was taken up.
While incidentally referring to shs
Irish Tax trade he was adding that hi.
sysrpathies were with down frosslen
Ireland when Mr.. Funston of kanszs
called out, under free trade Eng
! land
Mr. Mills retorted thai i; vas unde,
/ the nsercileSs carpet hagsers Of Eng.
land, OF the great centralized power o!
| England He wcsfid be unxs Hing e
help even ireland 81 the expense OF his
feilox x-eeuntrymcsi. but in this case be
could help Ireland and at the same
time hep his owr people. When we
took the. rroiurt OF Irelani's labor we
helped her just in proportion as VIC
helped ourselves.
The rnosion to strike ous the clause
advocated by Mr.. Mills was defeated
by vote OF "a 10 a.
Mr. Raynor. OF MARYLAND. riIirt,lesl
the reference in Mr. Reeds tariff
speech 10 frsf~ts and fhst gentleman :
declaration that outside OF the patent
Office there was no trgi>f in this eonE-
! try and never would be- He desiesl
the Republican party 10 place in lis
national Platform, as the Democratic
convention had done plank avowlng
it, open arEtagonlssn to the combina-
tsons which one BY one we're draining
the life blood OF the country tap
plSgsel
Mr. Reel, of Maine. said this was
not the first time he had seen the gen.
tiemen on the other side in q state Of
connipfion" Naughter); that kind of
orafogy was cheap on other side and
cheap anywhere else. He had heard
the gentlemen on the other side in a
most agonized condition OF mind
] about the running OF conventions hy
federal Office holders, yet he had seen
them stipinely register the esiiefs Of
their osn Office holders. He had
heard the gentlemen talk ahou. the
national banks, the vampires of Wall
street sucking the blood of the nation,
and he had lived TO see Democratic
administration put 0e,0se.aoo OF the
peoples money into the Golfers OF
those national banks tspplausel.
On the Republican side of these
gentlemen, the gentinan from Iowa
tWeaverl was the solitary survivor Of
all that wild screaming that used 10
possess the Democratic side. He
would live TO see the day when the
gentleman from. Maryland tRaynorD
would have got over his condition.
The trusts on Democratic side were
taking the same position in mora ity
that TITS were in the medicine. The
gentleman from Maryland and his
roIapeers woaid tear everything TO
pieces because a dozen persons were
going 10 crush out the citizens OF the
United States The gentleman on the
other side proposed to destroy trusts
by DESTROYING the industries. They
appealed 10 the people and rent the
atmosphere with their oiterins Ii
was aloat time that congress talked
sen~c.
Mr.. He,aphili. OF South Carolina,
refcrrin. % his recent speech during
fhe general debate said that his re-
marks as TO free trade in labor had
been niiscons.rued. If he desired 70
hire men to perform work for hiia he
would hire them as cheaply as he
could ii he wanted to make money,
but when it came to the introduction
OF coolie, Italian and Hungarian labor
there were other things to be eonsid-
cred icSide'the question OF cheap la
hor. II would he very unwise to advo-
cate the introduction of any set Of
people who had not and would not
have an appreciation OF the iastitl-
iions under which We live, or would
not be likely to assimiiate with the
people.
Mr.. Hops ins, of Illinois. asked il the
gentleman.t Heinphili) had been forced
into q reputation Of his former state
ments by the result Of the election In
Oregon. There was no Disgusting the
fact that the Mills bin leaned towards
Tree trade. and the gentleman's whole
argument had led up 10 that. Hemp
hill replied that he had no proper OPP
rortaiiity to reply to Mr.. Perkins
criticisms. To Mr.. Hermann he said
he did not favor Chinese immigration.
Mr.. Wilson, OF Minnesota, said his
STATE produced one-qnarter OF all the
fax produced in this country. When
faxSeesi or linseed was reached he be
licved he would have the support ot
his side OF the house. tpenocratic
side.)
Mr.. Cannon. OF Illinois, declared
that every one of the existing trusts
had grown up under the adrainistya
ton of Grover Cleveland. He had not
noted any proposition from the DEM
ecrats 10 restrict the rotton-seesi oil
trust. the whiskey trust. the sugar
trust. the anthracite coal trust or the
greater than all and without which no
ether trust could exist, the tranpoFta-
ton trust. Tn. gentleman from
Pennsylvania representing the admin
istration tscott) had hurried 90 ~.
Louis To get in the platform a aselara-
ton against trusts. His biography in
he Congressional Directory showed
thar be was one af the greatest rail
road kings in the land
Mr.. Docker.v. OF Missouri. quoted
Mr.. Butterworih' speech 20 show his
variance from Mr. Reed upon the sub
icct OF trusts. He said that no man
Claimed that all Of the trusts were di-
rec.lv attrihutai lie To- the tariff, still
the tariff. as Mr.. Bu,terworth had
said. made the vast Accommodations ef
wealth that made these trusts possible.
He tainted the Republicans with fab
ure to carry out the platform pledge.
to revise the tariff.
Mr.. Butterwerih said there vas
little difference between himself ard
Mr.. Reed upon the Necessity for pre-
venting the unlawful exercise OF cor
rorate or syndicate power What
steps had the committee on ways and
means, or the naaiority OF the house.
taken to place in the hands Of the
members the information contained in
the book be held in bic haad. showing
how the bill affected the articles ina
portei7
Several members of the ways and
-a. N. fr...s NJ. s.atsss.i thai J.