Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-02

prohibiting the manufacture, importation,
expectation, transportation and sale oil
alcoholic liquors in the United States.
Senator Cali was authorized to report as
irom the committee his bill OF last Congress,
to establish q national college OF dental
science in Washington.
The House.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-Dunn, from the
committee on the merchant, marine and
fisheries, reported and the House adopted
resolutions calling on tee Secretary OF the
Treasury for information relative to the
seal fisheries IN Alaska. After a short dis
cussion as to whether it was competent for
the House to proceed to-day to the con-
sideration OF private business. the House
went into committee of the whole on the
tariff bill.
REwER OF MICHIGAN.
gladly welcomed tariff issue presented by the
pending measure. In times past the Dem
ocratic party had sought to evade abe issue.
In it's platform OF 1884 it had declared for
protection and free trade; incidental pro-
lection for tariff for revenue only and for
tariff only for revenue, sc that the voter
could construe the platform to suit his
own convictions. In Kentucky the plat
form meant free trade in Pennsylvania,
New. York, Connecticut and New Jersey,
the gentleman from Pennsylvania IRAN
daily was able to make the voters believe
it meant protection. By reason of the
fraud and intimidation practiced in one
section of the country and by means OF the
deception practiced by the Democratic
leaders in another section, a Democratic
candidate for the presidency had been
elected. For three years OF
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.
The Democratic party in the House had
played fast and loose on the great tariff
question until the necessities of the Gov
eminent had compelled the administration
to take Some decided position and he hon
ored the President for having forced the
parts to stop the double dealing and define
it's attitude. He then advocated the pro-
tective system as one which tended to in.
crease the wages Of labor and in support OF
his proposition he cited various statistics
prepared by Commissioner Wright. He
was especially earnest in his opposition to
the free wool clause which be SAID would
ruin an industry which was national in
it's Importance. He contrasted the c,n-
dition OF the country under free trade and
protection. The former, he said, had
brought the Government to q state of
bankruptcy, while the latter had reduced
the war tariff. Referring to the CLAIM
that the home market was the best mar
ket, be said the result OF this home market
swindle lie that the farmer is the most beau
tifulIy deluded. The high tariff party gets
his vote; high trusts and m~onopolists get
his money, and the farmer gets the hot end
of the poker.
GoFF OF IRGINIA SAID
the action of the tariff should be made
by friends OF the protective system, and
not by it's avowed enemies. President
Cleveland's cold blooded indifference to the
benefits of the people was entitled to pre-
cedence over all ~emanations from the exec
mansion in all our history. From
such a spirit as President Cleveland exh:b-
tied, dominating almost with q single
innnn1sa4 tha Dam cra tin -sida-a- tho
and our homes. The
Mills bill. conceived BY minds |
with economic vicious |
ness, it's passage would be the deathknell
Of protection. If they succeeded now, they
proposed next year to take another step |
and gradually, hut surely the people were
be marched into the camp OF those who
,ontended for tariff for revenue only. That
as far as labor was involved and
concerned, was as bad as free
'rade. George Washington was grandly
light when he suggested and approved The
irst tariff provisions. Grover Cleveland
who he hoped would be our last free trade
oresident) was
SHAMEFULLY WRONG
vhen he suggested ard used the power of
lis great Office to secure the destruction of
he protect vesystem. The people had been
'eceived in the last Presidential campaign
y the declaration that Cleveland was a
'rotectionists. The hand of Esau would
offered again, but the people would not
gain be deceived. He did not believe in
zee raw material. There was no such
hing as raw material in the sense in which
was used in the discussion, coal unmined {
as raw material, but when it was mined I
was the miners finished product and en- ]
tiled to protection the same as iron ore.
: was as much entitled to protection as
rice fields OF the South and the sugar
limitations OF the Mississippi Valley. l
fool clipped from sheep, was not raw v
lateral. 1t was the farmers finished |
and the farmers had made up their 7
that it had to be protected. The I
lty OF 1857 should be restored and an :
dustry SO essential to the prosperity as =
le people and our independence as a :
should be stimulated.
IN THE DISCUSSION,
said the protective system enabled o
Q governmentto perfect a system Of inance t
nich was the marvel of the age. It had il
stored Industries, built up manufactures fl
ID opened up wildernesses. It had digni- CT
q o n educated the people. It had O
.de the flag OF The country typify allthat Il
10 great in human action; all that was b
.nd IN human thought, and God only Il
ew what it would do for our land il the q,
mocratic party would let it alone.
LANDEs. OF ILLINOIS,
omitted an argument in support of the d
! and in opposition to the protective 9,
cory, While heartily advocating the N
!, he regretted that it touched the whis-
7 and tobacco taxes which, instead of
ng reduced, should be, he thought, in
ased. The committee rose and the
use took a recess until 8 D.. m. the IL
ming session to be for the consideration
private pension bills.
he House, at the evening session.
'sed IL pension bills, and at 1890 ad. mi
rned. II,