St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-15
DEAD ISSUES.
Perkins Talks on War Issues in
the House and Is Called Down
nv Allen.

Perkins Talks on War Issues in
the House and Is Called Down
by Allen.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-In the house
to-day the legislative, executive and ju-
dicial appropriation bill was reported
and referred to the committee of the
whole. A number of bills were re-
ported from committees and placed on
the calendar, among them bills for the
er ection of public buildings at
Charlotte, N. c.; Elmira, N. Y;
In the morning hour the bill authorizing
the payment of claim of the state OF
Florida, on account of Indian depreda-
tions, was taken up and discussed, but
went over without action. The house
then went into committee of the whole
on the Indian appropriation bill. Mr.,
Perkins, of Kansas, took the floor, and
after alluding in his opening sentences
to one of the provisions in the bill,
passed from the subject of Indians to
that of tariff, and made speech in fa-
vor of protection. He argued that the
great wealth of the country was attrib-
utable in an equal degree to the present
system of protection, and criticised the
Mills bill because every article raised by
American farmers was put upon the free
was left for capital. He hoped that
in the coming debate on the
tariff there would be no hypoc-
risy, and that the mask Of
hypocrisy would be removed and the
hideOus face of free trade exposed with
all its deformities. While the Towns
hends and Springers and others had
been allowed to indulge in platitudes,
the gentlemen from the South had
been admonished to sit still; but
he hoped that now they would
demand to be heard. They gave
to the Democratic party 153 electoral
votes, and it was well that they should
be consulted. After they had flibus-
tered against bill which proposed to
pay 81, 100000 to the Northern states, it
was right that Democratic house
should surrender to them. Mr.. Allen,
of Mississippi, thought that it
WAS A GREAT PITY
that the gentleman from Kansas
Perkins) could not get his head out of
the cupboard, and walk squarely up to
the issues of to-day, instead of going
back to slavery and rebellion. Mr..
Perkins, Mr.. Allen said, reminded him
of the story of the two men who, when
travelling, went to sleep in a room with
a cupboard in it. In the night one asked
the other to look out of the window
and see what kind of day it was
going to be. The latter by mistake
opened the cupboard window, and
after looking around while, exclaimed:
1T is dark as hell, and smells like
cheese" Mr.. Perkins instead of get
ting his head out into the daylight of
1888 had got it up the cupboard of re-
bellion, and everything was dark as
hell and smelled of slavery. [Laughter.l
1t was to the credit of the Democrats
of the house, Mr.. Allen said that they
had something better to talk about than
issues which had been dead for twenty
years; and if any Democrat got up and
instead of discussing living issues had
nothing to talk about but dead issues,
he hoped that he would be expelled
from the Democratic side, and made to
take a seat beside the gentleman
from Kansas, where he could stick
his nose into the cupboard, where the
gentleman had his. Mr.. Joseph, of
New Mexico, embraced the opportunity
and made speech in favor of the adj
mission of New Mexico, as state, into
the Union. The Indian appropriation
bill was then considered by sections,
and after making little progress the
committee rose and the house, at 6:10 p.
M. adjourned.