Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-27
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.

WASHINGTON, ApEA SO. SENATE.-The Senate resumed considera- ton of the railroad land forfeiture bill and MT. Palmer proceeded to argue against all the amendments as to lands granted to the State of Michigan for railroad papers and by the Governor of the State deeded to the Lake Superior Ship Canal company. The bill was laid aside without action.
 MT. Hale desired 60 call up and pass the Senate bill for the appointment and retire. ment of John c. Fremont as major general in the United States army, but as MI. Reagan said he desired to speak against it and was not prepared Mir. Hale did not insist.
 The Senate at 5:25 adjourned till Monday:
 HoUsE.-The House went into committee on the tariff bill. Mr. Buchanan, of New Jersey, pictured the free trade procession marching over the country destroying Amer ican industries and annihilating American enterprise. In the wake of that procession, he said, the light of the forges went out, the hum of industry ceased and hungry men sought in vain for work. But he saw an- other procession in which the shades of Washington and Jackson led the van. In the procession marched sturdy men with hands hard with toll, with manhood un- crushed, with the united cry, American workshops for American consumers" and with them came the wisdom of the past, the statesnnanship of the present and the hopes of the future. Joining their ranks from the iron fields of Alabama, Georgia and Tennes- see, from the sheep-covered hills of Texas and from the market garden of the southern seaboard came the enterprising sons of the new industrial South, restless as Niagara and relentless as fate, and over them al1 in all it's beauty, foated the flag of common country.
 MT. Hemphill, of South Carolina, contend- ed that as the constitution conferred upon Congress the right to tax the people for pub
 
 that limitation it violated in fragrant man. ner the exalted privilege with which it had been clad. A tariff for protection was illog- ieal and unjust. Under it the entire people were subjected to monoPolies. The only difference between home monopoly and for eign monopoly (adnnitting that there could be such thing as foreign monopoly was that the people had to pay heavy addition al percentage for the poor privilege of hay ing their masters on this side of the water He earnestly appealed to every gentleman who had the faintest conception of justice to lend his aid to the pending bill.
 MT. Osborne, of Pennsylvania, argued against the bill, which he characterized as blow at the dignity of American labor It was an attack on the system of taxation which had brought comfort and even luxury to thousands of homes~in this land of the free. The object of protective duty he said was not to raise the price of goods, but to se- cure 8 market TOT laCOr. G1V6 to GQ6 Am6r1- can workman market for his products and he would take care of the wages. In conclu- sion he protested in the name of the great State of Pennsylvania against the passage of bill which would destroy its industries, impoverish it's farmers and degrade it's labor CTS. This was not question in which one State was interested. It was the United States against the world, and come what would he was for the Union and the protec- tion of American trade and labor. (Applause.) )
 MT. Hurd of Wisconsin, said that the Re- publican party was committed to the atoli- tion of the internal revenue taxation and re- sisted every attack on the tariff because any change in import duties would interfere with it's pets who with Oliver Frist's simplicity were asking for more. That party would battle the tax of whisky and tobacco, because by so doing it expected to prevent such re- vision of the tariff as was now demanded by ths great mass of the taxpayers of the coun- try. The Democratic party had placed it's shoulders against the car of tariff reform and would propel it to the end of the jour ney. He devised that the boasted system of protection had indeed protected Amer ioan labor. There had been strikes in- numeral resulting in the past two years in loss of $20, ,000. Wisconsin as State had never received the slightest bene- fit from the tax on foreign lumber, and aside from the mill owners the people would be glad to have the duty removed. Almost all the pine land in the State was owned by about forty men. The wages of the twenty thousand laborers had not increased, they were as poor as when they frstswung the axe. But the mill men had all grown rich and would continue to insist upon the lumber tariff.
 At the conclusion of MT. Hurd's speech the committee rose and the House took recess until o'clock. MT. Savers, of Texas. ad dressed the House at it's evening session in general commendation of the Mills bill.
 The House at Q:1O adjourned