Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. April 26, 1888.
Senate.

Among the bills reported from com
mittees and placed on the calendar were
the following To provide for the en-
largement Of the dimensions Of the
wharf at Fortress Monroe appropri
of General Zachary Taylor in the city Of
Washington.
Mr.. Ingalls, gave notice that on Tues
day next he would submit some remarks
in reply to the speech of Senator Noor-
bees OF yesterday, in which he would
touch upon some points omitted by that
Senator.
The Senate then took up the lsnd-for-
fixture bill, and was addressed by MIR.
Palmer in opposition to all the amend
ments granted 70 the State of Michigan
for railroad purposes and by the Cover
nor of that State decided TO the Lake
Superior Ship-Cs Company.
Mr.. Dolph followed in a speech upon
the general land policy of the Govern
ment.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Dolph's
speech the land bill was laid aside and
number of bills taken from the calendar
and passed. Among them, House bill
for the relief of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Alabama, and
Senate bill appropriating $4,000 for a
public building in Norfolk, Va.
Adjourned till Monday.
House of Representatives.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, from
the Committee on Ways and Means, re-
ported resolution calling on the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury for information as
to the number OF persons IN the United
States engaged in manufacturing and
agricultural pursuits, who are subject to
competition from foreign countries.
Adopted.
The House then went into Committee
OF the Whole (Mr. Springer, of Illinois,
III the chair on the tariff bill.
Mr. Buchanan, of New jersey, criti-
cised the composition OF the majority OF
the WAYS and Means Committee and the
method on which it had formulated the
pending measure in secret, after much
consultation with the speeches OF Frank
Hurd and the tracks Of the Golden
Club. He arraigned the committee for
its refusal to grant hearing TO the in
dustries Of the country or TO consider
the petitions against the measure which
poured into the committeeman from all
parts of the country. He protested
against the reduction of duty on earth
enware, and read petitions from working
men in his district against the principles
embodied In the bill. 1t struck blow,
he said, at almost every industry in his
district
Mr.. Hemphill. OF South Carolina, con-
tended that as the Constitution conferred
upon Congress the right to tax the peo-
pie for public purposes only, every time
it vent beyond the limitation il violated
IN fragrant manner the exalted priv
lege with which 1t had been clad. A
tariff for protection was illogical
and unjust Under it the entire
people were subjected to monopo-
lies. The only difference between
home monopoly and foreign monopoly
admitting that there could exist such a
thing as foreign monopoly was that the
people had TO pay heavy additional per-
centage for the poor privilege of having
their masters on this side Of the water.
The system OF high-tariH taxation was
depominsted q protective system. What
did 1T protectg The only protection the
Government had any right TO exercise
was the protection OF Itself against any
enemy that threatened il and OF
Its citizens from an injustice at
the bands Of any other nation. 1t
was peryersion OF the power
of the Government when protection
was accorded for any other purpose. and
especially when il was made the means
OF helping one set OF citizens at the eX-
pense OF another. Phe protection ac.
corded by high tariff was protection
against the right OF the American people
10 buy when and where they pleased
That protection was demanded by manu-
facturers, not against any wrong, but
against the right OF their own country
men-demanded in order that one citi-
zens privileges should be increased by
having those OF another curiaiied.
Mr.. Perkins. Of Kansas, inquired whe-
tier, il the gentleman believed that an
American citizen should be permitted to
buy where he pleased. he did not also
believe that he should be allowed to hire
labor where he pleased?
Mr.. Henphill rsplied in the a1irns-