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ber OF cases, which appeared to fully
bear out the rule.

MIR. Mills closed his speech amid APP
piause at $50 p. NJ. and Mr.. Kelly, OF
Pennsylvania, took the floor 10 reply.
MIR. Kelly said that the enactment OF
this bill would instantly paralyze the en-
terprise end energy OF the people. I'm
der the baneful influence OF such a law
the report of the census of 1890 would
announce the overthrow OF our manu-
featuring supremacy and the reduction
OF our commanding commercial position
TO that OF colonial dependence. 1t WAS
studiously designed to produce these dire
results, and nicely adapted for It's pur-
pose. 1t Was confessedly a partisan
measure. and was framed in the interest
Of party whose leaders appeared 10 he
obliyious TO the overwhelming social and
economic changes wrought by the aboii-
ton of slavery. The gentlemen who
framed this bin and brook neither modi-
ficat;on nor discussion of its provision nv
their associates in the committee to
which the preparation Of the revenue
bills was confided by law. were with but
two exceptions representatives Of what
was slave territory. The bill was an
anGchronism it had no relation to this
era 1t belonged TO the saddest epoch in
our national history the period between
1894 and 1861. During that period
slavery dominated our national counsels
and guided the administration OF national
affairs, in hostility TO the national inte-
rests, and the interest of free trade twice
threatened war. it was in the interest
OF free trade that war was threatened in
support of the doctrine Of notification,
and it was III the interest OF free trade
that the country was involved for more
than four years in n fratricid2l war, the
proportions of which were more gigantic
than ever characterized civil war. The
entire South knew that free trade was es-
scDtial to the perpetuity OF slavery
in the republic. and 1t should also
know that the logic that could
defend free trade IN a country
endowed with boundless diversity Of
elements OF manufacture, and an i'm
mense supply of forces for their CONVEX
sion which We enjoy, vanished when
slavery was abolished. AS measure
proposed for future guidance, the bill
was en- annchronism, and was illustrative
of systems OF ethics aud economic phi
losopby against which history had
written in blood DEGREES that are final and
immutable. None OF the provisions were
in harmony with the spirit Of the age, for
they antagonized the aspirations of the
American people are not adapted to IA
cilitate their efforts 10 supply their
wants. CRAFTY their desires, and provide
for the future Of their families. its first
sct should be enacted into q law TO arrest
the magnificent development Of the
mineral wealth, Of the manufacturing
power, and OF the diversiicalions Of agri-
culture DOW taking place throughout the
South and TO paralyze the organized in
duetries OF the North.
Mr. Kelly spoke for two hours, and
when he resumed bis seat was loudly APP
plaudcd and received the congratulations
of his parry friends.
The committee then rose, and the
House, at $40, adjourned.
It is not expected that the debate on
the tariff viii he continued tomorrow
and the day viii be given up to the con-
sideration Of bills reported by the Com
mittee on Labor