The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-10

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Senator Blair looked upon the commits
sion to be appointed under the bill as fal
better fitted to exercise the tremendous
powers conferred in the bill; as far more
likely to exercise these powers and to re-
sist the malign secret iufuences alluded
to by the senator from Kansas than the
subordinate officials of the department OF
agriculture.
The bill then went over, and, after ex-
ecutive session, the senate adjourned till
Monday.
On motion of Mr, Rogers, of Arkansas,
senate bill was passed auth lrizing the
construction of railroad bridge at Little
Rock, Ark.
Mr.. Belmont, of New York, presented,
and the house adopted, the conference re-
port on the joint resolution on behalf
of the United States invitation from
the French republic to take part
in the international exhibition, to be held
in Paris in 1889. (The commissioner rep
resenting the United States will receive
salary of $lO,OOO)
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia, member
of the ways and means committee, said
that the opponents of the bill represented
the is sue to be between free tcade and
protection. 1t was rather an effort of the
people TO recover the right to tax them
selves. He repelled Mr.. Burrows criticisms
of the manner in which this bill was pre-
pared, saying that such criticisms could
not safely be made by those who stood
fnT Ea of hn ayic loU rph nh
he said, was prepared in secret confer
ence and hurriedly put through congress
without being sifted or read. Protection
acted on the rule of the Ohio politi-
cians-to claim rything-whatever we
had gained in common with all other en-
lightened people, by our efforts, and
thereby the means of gaining control
over the powers of nature from the ad-
vance of science, and of invention; what
ever added wealth had come to us
in rapid settlement of a great con-
tinent, all these, it calmly sorted
out as its frui although it had
had nothing more to do with them than
with the motion of the planets and the
tides of the sea. But those things for
which it is chiefly or partially responsible,
it studiously ignores. 1t says nothing of
the growing antagonism of capital and
labor, aud the twenty and odd
thousand strikers and twenty and odd
hundred lockouts in our industrial
establishments in the past SIX years; nor
of industrial depressions, the building up
of great wealth by faYoritism which, in or
der to retain its privilege, was every ready
to corrupt the ballot box and intimidate
voters; nor of the rapid cen
tralization of manufactures and
the recent fusing of formidable
trusts. In arguing that the tariff did not
regulate the price of labor, he contrasted
the prices paid in the same line of en-
ployment, aud stated that as a result of
the contrast man in Maine was only
worth two-thirds of man in Connecticut.
Mr.. Bputelle, of Maine, inquired how
high tho wages of common laborers were
in West Virginia.
they would be if we had protection off.
Applause.
Mr.. Boutele I want a caudid reply, Or
1 want to have the gentleman retract
'ignominiously" from the question.
Mr.. Wilson, cannot yield for speech,
but accept the gentlemans full explana-
tion why man in Maine is worth only
two-thirds of a man in Connecticut.
Laughter and applause.
Mr.. Boutelle reiterated his question,
but Mr.. Wilson declined to answer him,
and continued his speech. In conclusion,
he said this fight will go on. There will
be no industrial peace in the country un-
til the tax laws are established upon a
basis fair to all. Applause. We will
keep the country rocking from ocean to
ocean tillwe secure justice and fair dealing
among all citizens. You may strike down
that tribune of the people at the other
end of the avenue, who, putting aside all
ideas of prudence, shook out that ringing
summons that rallied the people as moth
ing else ever did. You may strike
down the leaders of this fight,
as you struck them down in the
last congress and previous congresses.
Those who hold the standard may sue
cumb, but other hands will take it up and
move forward. The spirit of our liberty
is behind. All we can hope for in the
destiny and greatness Of this
country urges US forward, and, in
the language of our speaker, whoever
may falter, whoever may fail, the people
VI 'iO SOuhpIJ LhOuh ITO BbOllOuo hOopihlOo
shall be perpetuated; that they shall be
transmitted unimpaired to posterity; that
the country shall neither belong to the
monopOlists or the one hand, or to the
communists on the other, but shall be, as
it was designed, of the people, for the
people and by the people.
AS Mr.. Wilson concluded, he was rap
turously applauded by his party friends,
while many republicans Joined in the
compliment, and, amid the cries of
"Vote," the members crowded around Mr..
Wilson and warmly congratulated him
upon his speech.
Mr.. Dingley, of Maine, spoke against
the bill, and Mr.. Mckinney, of New Hamp-
shire, in its favor.
The committee then arose. The house
passed, with amendments, the joint reso-
luton providing that certain public lands
in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas
shall be sold.
Adjourned.
A Child Killed.
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