The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-15
RAYN0R RIDICULES REED
THE MAN FROM MAINE A HOWL
ING DERvISH OF MONOPOLY

his Attemptto be Funny Both Vulgar
and Offensive-The Close Relations
of the Republican Party with the
Roober Barons of Industry Proven
in Open Court
WASHINGTON, June 14-The house to-
day went into committee on the tariff bill.
MIR. Buchanan offered an amendment to
strike out the words admitting free of duty
plates coated with a mixture of lead and
tin. After another political debate, Mr..
Buchanan's amendment was rejected, as
also was one offered by Mr.. Dalzell of
Pennsylvania to limit free plate TO sizes not
larger than feet and thicker than No. 26
gauge, and another to strike out the entire
tin plate paragraph.
When the next paragraph (beeswax) was
reached, j. d. Taylor of Ohio carried the
discussion back to the paragraph just passed.
POLITICAL SHARPsHOOTING.
When the paragraphs relating to glue
and gelatine were reached, Mr.. Weber of
New York moved to strike them out, thus
forestalling the committee amendment to
the same purpose.
The general debate which followed this
motion became largely an Interchange of
personalities aud political sharpshooting.
Mr.. Raynor of Maryland criticised Mr.
Reeds remark made several days ago to the
effect that it was not worth while to keep
dallying on this subject the tariff, and in
dlgnantly protested against the indirect as
sertion that members were liars.
LIKENED TO CLOWN.
The gentleman from Maine did not seem
to realize that man could try to be funny
without being insolent, and that he could
even succeed in being a clown without
being vulgar and offensive. The gentle
man (Mr. Reed might be right when
he said that there Were no monopolies in
this country, but he (Mr. RaynoD seriously
questioned the integrity of his motives, and
proposed to prove that the republican
leaders were in league with these great
centralizing, wealthgetting combinations
REPUBLICAN RAsCALITY.
Mr.. Raynor then read a newspaper
article, embracing a circular from Mr..
Foster, president of the republican league,
calling for aid to repel attacks on the pro
tective system, and the reply of a
United States senator declining to
contribute, and warning manufacturers
that when the Mills bill reached the senate
action would be taken which would open
their eyes to the fact that the republican
party was no longer their humble servant,
and would no longer contribute to a tariff
campaign while the manufacturers gath
cred the profits.
A CRIMINAL COMBINATION.
Mr.. Raynor added that the facts set out,
which had not been challenged, showed a
criminal combination between the republic
an leaders and manufacturers
That was serious question
and it required more than the prancing of
a butfOon to divert public attention from it,
A man who arose on the floor to declare
that there were no monopolieS in this coun-
try, while he was himself himself the howl
ing dervish of monOpoles, was only fit to
play the part of the harlequin in the polit-
cal menagerie and he figured in a very
poor light before the nation as the Delphic
oracle of the republican party.
WINNING BATTLE CRY.
The democracy would force the republic
ans to the point upon their banner there is
no monopoly in this land" and would fight
them in every town and hamlet until that
banner vanished in the dust. The repub-
licans greeted this speech with a burst of
derisive applause.
The motion to strike glue and gelatine
from the free list prevailed without di-
vision.
The motion to strike out crude glycerine
failed, but by a committee amendment
offered by Mr. McMillin, fishgue, or ising-
glass, was restored to the existing rate of
duty.
PARAGRAPHS PASSED OVER.
PHOSPHORUS soap, stocks soap and sleeps
dip were all passed over.
On extract of hemlock there was con-
siderable debate Mr.. Parker of New York
holding that the duty protected large num-
bers of poor people against Canadian com
petition. The motion to strike out the
paragraph was defeated
Mr.. McMillin moved to strike liquor
juice from the free list, and the motion was
adopted.
Six other articles were then passed over
without debate or objections, as follows
Indigo, iodine, croton oil, hemp seed and
rape seed oil, cotton seed oil and petroleum.
COULDN'T SAVE THE DUTIES.
Mr. O'Neill of Pennsylvania and Mr.
Farquhar of New York pleaded for the
maintenance Of the duties on alum com
pounds, but without avail.
Messrs. Morrow and Vandiver of Califor-
MIA were equally unsuccessful in an effort
| to save the duties on boracic acid and borax
Nitrate OF Soda was placed upon the free
| list IA caucus amendment) and the commit
tee rose on the point of no quorum made by
| Mr.. Foran of Ohio, having traversed forty
| five lines of the bill today, or more than
| had previously been covered during the
entire fortnight's debate under the five
minute rule. 1t is the understanding that
| the tariff bill will now be laid aside for a
time and the army appropriation bill will
| be taken up tomorrow.
The house adjourned.