Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-01-13

his privation and anxieties TO increase
the tax on his blankets and bed clothing.
or on his salt and mesgre table ware
The American people would have but
small difficulty as soon as the present i'm
provised commotiou had subsidized, in de-
termiuing that the presidents premises
his arguments and his conclusions were
alike impregnable and alike dehed as
sault. Voorhees, also quoted from the
republican platform of 1854. wherein Il
pledged itself to correct irregularities
of the tariff and reduce the surplus"
The pledge has never yet been attemp ed
TO be carried out to tais day. If now. after
the long delay the leaders of the re
publican organization in congress and
elsewhere, assumed the attitude of tariff
| reformezs it would only be
UNDEB CONFUSION OF PUBLIC OPINION,
| invoked and aroused by the powerful
statement and appeal of Cleveland.
The tremendous financial power and
endurance OF the American people
WAS glorious to manhood and
the resources of the republic, but in CIV
ing orders, in shaping policy By which
the American people have been SO
strained, taxed and bitterly tested, all the
world knew that q blunder equivalent to
crime had been committed and stub
oornly persisted in. The. question recur-
red as 10 the disposal of the results of
this laundering policy. generous pen
sion roll, with all arrears paid, liberal
appropriations for the improvement of
rivers and harbors, construction of pub
lie buildings were all laudable objects,
out would fall far short of
RESTORING THE IMMENSE SURPLUS TO Or
CULArIoN,
and atfOrding relief As further remedy
and indeed the greatest and most potent,
the American people would be best
pleased 70 see the public debt diminish
ed, and If the authority to purchase bonds
not yet due was not to be found in exist
ing law, congress should promptly supply
the defect. There was no bondage
so cruel as that of debt, and
when the last government bond was paid
and the last vestige of tine national debt
wiped out, there would be a Jubilee year
beside whose glorles all other jubilee and
centennial years would grow pale and il
significant. He had faith in its COM
ing, because the administration had
at last been placed upon sound
principles and was being carried
or by honest and able hands. The
American people would see to it that no
backward step should be taken for the
future.
AT the close of Voorhees, speech Sher-
man moved that the message be referred
to the finance committee, but action on
that motion was withheld to give Teller
an opportunity to make some remarks.
TELLER SPOKE BRIEFLY
in reply to Mr.. Voorhees, criticisms of
his former statements. There were $780,
100000 to become payable four years
hence, and how was this debt to be pro.
vided for if the revenues were to be re-
duced to the level of current expenses.
When some years ago it was pro
posed to exclude the Chinese because
they came here to compete with Ameri
can labor for wages, while their habits
were such that they consumed little or
nothing produced by American labor,
nearly all the democratic senators favor
ed the proposition. Now it was
proposed TO extend to the Chinese
the privilege of doing the labor at home
and sending the manufactures here. He
doubted if the democratic house, even at
the behest of the president aud at q risk
of loss of favor for refusal, would venture
to face the American laborer with such
record.
Pending the resolution to refer, the
presidents message to the finance com
mittee was not acted upon.
The Judiciary Committee Give Mr. Lamar a
Black Eye But Villas and Dickinson Meet
With Favor.
WASHINGTON, Jan. I0.-In the executive
session of the senate to-day Senator
Edmnnds, from the judiciary committee,
made an adverse report on the nom ina
tion of l.. Q. G. Lama to be associate
justice of the supreme court and Sen
ator Pugh, iu behalf of the
minority of the same committee
submitted a favorable report. Senator
Edmunds made a favorable report from
the judiciary committee on the nomina
the interior. Senator Sawyer from the
postOffice committee made favorable re
port on the nomination of Don NJ. Dick
inson, to be postmaster general.
Wisconsin Members Greatly Excited over
Omissions in the Urgent Deficiency Bill -
WASHINGTON, Jan. lO.-The ugency
deficiency bill was reported from the aP-
preparation committee to-day, but con
tanned no provision for the overflow dam
age awards on lake Winnebago, though
the same appeared in the bill as it passed
the last congress.