Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-25

| Commenting on the surplus Mr. McMillar said: We are drawing money from com
 merce and locking it up in the treasury al such rate that it is only question of time | when stringency will set in, panics begin and ruin follow. We are robbing not only com 1 merce of it's life blood, but the people of the means of paying their taxes and their debts | to their creditors. All sorts of jobs are pro- i posed to Congress and all sorts of jobbers I are Hooking here. There is nothing con- ! ceiyable more eorrupting to government than plethoric treasury. It reEiyes State de- nands, it encourages the prosecution of mat ters long since set at rest" The plain, sim pie question presented to day in this tariff matter was whether to take of the burden of $24, ,455, 900 of internal revenue taxes and $53, 72O, ,000 of tariff taxes proposed by
 the Mills bill or leave it on. Tariff taxation
 he insisted costs not only what is paid in the custom houses, but the incidental increase of
 expense upon all or greater part of the du-
 tiable goods made and consumed in the
 United States. Before we attempted to ex-
 and forced the people to buy in
 the dearest markets we had commerce carried
 on in American ships with the nations of the
 earth, but we had driven our carrying trade
 from our own people. Pretending to pro-
 tect we had done nothing but destroy, pre-
 tending to assist we had only crushed our own seafaring industry; pretending to be 6 1AA2OAAScaA had been it's worst enemy and we carried but twelve per cent. of our foreign commerce and paid millions to other governments to do our work for us. ss
 In touching upon the decay of our foreign commerce and attrlbuting it to high tariff ley with the question whether that commerce had not fallen off from 1855 to 1861 prior to the enactment of the high tariff. MT. McMil- Ian admitted that there had been falling off, but declared that owing to the present high tariff the commerce had fallen into 8 state of utter decay. In the further course of his speech Mir. Me- Milan referred to James Russell Lowell as @ distinguished member of the Republican party reference which was received with derisive laughter from the Republican side Mr. McMillan remarked that Mir. Lowell had been the representative of the last administration to the Court of St. James.
 Benedict Arnold was major general in the Continental army, was MT. Kelley's com- ment.
 Mr. McMillan concluded his speech amid loud applause from his party colleagues.
 Mir. Burrows followed in opposition to the bill The possible s75, 1000, 900 surplus at the An ever accommodating surplus not only invited .proAigacy, but invited swift financial disaster. The solution of the problem of how the surplus should be reduced would be attended with little diff- cu1ty if no other result was to be obtained than the reduction, but the reduction of the revenue was not the snly nor, indeed, the chief end to be obtained. The method by which that reduction was to be accomplished had become the main point of the controver- sy, the only point about which there was any serious conflict of opinion. Should this re- duetion be taken from internal or from GUS toms revenue or from both, and if from both -I-,A- -4s, |, Do,, party insisted that the protective system should not be disturbed except so far as it might be necessary to correct it's incongrui- ties and harmonize it's provisions. If Congress followed the lead of the President in his bold declaration and secuted a reduction by such 8 revision of the tariff as he proposed, lesv- ing untouched as he suggested the internal system not only would the protective system be destroyed, but the nation would be out on the highway of free trade. This meas ure stood without parallel in the history of conceived in darkness, brought forth in secrecy, its percentage carefully coR- cealed, at last laid at the door of the commit tee of ways and means where the majority took it up as tenderly as though it were offspring, hurriedly brought it into the House to be adopted by the Democratic party and nursed by the harlot of free trade. Mir. Burrows said the Republican party took the side of protection and would resist to the utmost any attempt to cripple Amer1cap ln- dustry, destroy American capital and pau- perize American labor.
 When Mir. Burrows concluded the commit tee rose.
 MT. Reed said that it was well known to the Rouse that efforts had been made to reach an agreement as to the time to be given for debate on the tariff bill He stated the Republican position-ten days on their side, night sessions not to be included, and recitsd the proceedings in committee and his under standing of the temporary arrangement that had been made for the continuance of debate during to-day or tomorrow. He asked MT. Mills to fix upon some time for debate and suggested that ten days be allowed on @ side with so many evening sessions in addition as the House might be disposed to have. There had been no consideration of the bill, no public hearings. If it should turn out that it was not necessary to prolong the discus sion for so long time was suggested the debate might be shortened.
 MT. Mills. in answer to Mir. Reed, spoke in favor of night sessions. However, he would be glad to meet the gentlemen tomorrow in the committee room to make another effort for arrangement. In the meantime he would move a recess until 8 o'clock. The yeas and nays were taken resulting-ysas 131 nays 13. No quorum appearing, Mir. Mills moved to adjourn. The motion was agreed to and the House at 6 o'clock adjourned.