Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-15
TURPIE CASE IN THE SENATE.
Mr.. Chandler Criticizes the Report
TARIFF DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE
Mr.. ButterwOrth'S Protection Argument
The Senate.


placed On the calendar were the following: Senate
Dill granting the use of certain lands TO the city
on ST. Augustine, Fla, for a public park House
Dlu 10 authorize the construction OF bridge
TO provide for two additional associate Justices of
tne supreme Court OF Dakota.
THE CASE OF SENATOR TuRPIE.
Ine report OF the committee on privileges and
elections in the matter of Senator Turpie was
taken up, the question being on dlscharging the
committee from further consideration Of the me-
MORALS and remODstranceS on the subject.
Mr. Chandler criticized one of the positions taken
Dy the committee (that 1t could not inquire into
the legality OF the legislature by which a
senator was elected), and dissented from 1t as
being too broad The offer of proof had
been that the senate of Indiana had wrongfully,
anu lor the purpose OF having majority to elect
MI. Iurple, unseated two members OF that body
who had been duly elected, and given their seats
o 10 Two men VINO had not been duly elected. He
concurred In the proposition as general and ordi-
nary proposition but he thought 1t was going too
iar 10 exclude such special case as that involved
IN thls matter, where IL might be made to appear
that state legislature, duly OrganiZed, had pro-
ceeded, as preliminary to the election OF United
states senator, and in order to get wrongful and
nctltous majority, to eject members lawfully enti
tied to their seats and TO put others in their places
such rule (he thOught) might work evil result in
the future He thought that the committee had
announced that proposition too broadly. There
might be cases where the Senate Of the United
States ought to inquire into the legality OF such
transaction as was alleged here. He desired,
therefore, to place record his dissent from the
doctrine thus extremely stated.
Mr.. HOAR DEFENDS THE COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Hoar defended the action OF the committee
on privileges and elections. The suggestion pre-
sented by the senator from New Hampshire, he
said, had been the subject OF very grave and anx-
1ouS reflection on the part majority OF that
committee. The theory OF the Government was
one OF checks and balances. Certain duties,
facts were assigned (under the Constitution
and laws to certain tribu2als and every tribunal
was pound TO take as conclusive, the adjudication
OF every other tribunal within its sphere. He re-
Ierred 10 the "wretched slander' which assigned
as the motive OF President Grant In appointing
justices Bradley and Strong to the supreme Court,
the Idea that they might reverse the judgment OF
that court In the legal tender controversy.
There never had been, he said,
any sns NE a
neved lhat there was any motive whatever for the
appointments except the conspicuous excellence
OF those two gentlemen. One OF them had since
retired at the end OF long service model OF the
judicial character; and the other was, by the gen.
era confession OF bench and bar, the foremost
JurlSt OF the country, II not OF the world.
Mr.. Teller also defended the position OF the COM
mttee on privileges and elections, and after fur
Hoar and Chandler the committee was discharged
from the further consideration OF the subject.
NEW STATES.
On motion OF Mr.. Stewart the bill for the ad-
mission OF Washington Territory as q state was
made special order for Thursday OF next week,
ii IL.
bills for the admission OF North Dakota and
Montana, were also made special orders for the
same dayIMr Plat reInarkihg that all three bills
inlght De disposed OF on that day.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
House bills appropriating 100000 for public
building at Columbus, Ga, and increasing the
limit OF cost for the public building at Charleston
s. C., to 100000, were taken from the calendar
on motion of Mr. Dolph the bill to provide for
fortifcations and other seacoast defenses was
made special order two weeks from Monday
next.
House OF Representatives.
The Speaker appointed Mr. Henderson, OF Iowa,
Clements, Of Georgia, and Butterworth, Of Ohio,
as a conference committee on the Northwestern
exposition bill.
On motion of Mr.. Shively Qnd) the Senate bill
was passed granting right OF way through The
CGur dAlene Indian reservation to the Washing
ton and Idaho Railroad Co.
Mr.. BUTTERwORTH ON THE TARIFF QUESTION.
The House then went into committee OF the
whole, Mr.. Springer Qll) in the chair on the tariff
bill, and was addressed by Mr.. Butterworth, OF
Ohio. He said that in immediate results and far
reaching consequences the pending bill dwarfed
all other measures before the House. No other
measure reached to every hearthstOne In the Re-
public as did the Mills bill. Every gentleman on
try to secure that Kind OF prosperity that reached
to every home The issue between the majority
and minority was not whether the tarff needed re-
viSing or not. Whether the rate Of duty imposed
On this article or that was too high was not the
line on which they divided. Whether a lower rate
cerned, would yield sufficient revenue and sum-
cient protection to American industry was not the
point on which they were In antagonism.
THE LINE ON WHICH THEY WERE DIVIDED
was on the economic principle itself. Gentlemen
on the other side had asserted time and again,
and persistently, that to levy tarif, except for
revenue for the purpose OF conducting the affairs
OF the Government, economically administered
yUn nrCfff al rpv-ion
robbery OF the people. The two parties divided
not as to the wisdom OF revising the tari, but as
as to destroy the system itself. The point Of con-
test was upon the policy itself, and not upon the
manner OF application.
IT WAS MERE JUGGLING
to say that tarir for revenue would afford SUM-
cient protection. That was not the question but
would the tarin be arranged with reference to the
dictates of the protective system He greatly mis-
apprehended the people OF the country If they
would be mislead into the belief that the contest
manner Of revision only. The majority assaulted
the system and had sworn to destroy it, and II 1t
was not destroyed 1t would not be the fault OF the
majority, but the fault OF the patriotic people OF
the country. The passage OF the Mills bill would
De direct condemnation OF The protective policy.
was perfect or not the democratic party was not a
nt instrument TO perfect IL.
The mission OF the protective tariff was to place
the people OF our own country on an equality with
the producers OF the Old World. The protective
tarin dealt with conditions and not with boundary
lines. From those nations against which the
United states held the cOlgn OF vantage no odds
were asked, but when the republicans found con-
ditlons which would strike down our industries
and the rate or wages OF our wOrkingmen there
they erected the wall OF q protective tarif. LAD
plo0se.]
ORIGIN OF THE PROTECTION TARIFF.
Mr.. ButterwOrth then proceeded to give history
Of the origin OF the protective tariff which, he
said had been adopted by the fathers Of the re-
public, when the young country lacked capital
plant and skilled workmen. But 1t might be said
the conditions were such as to justify the fathers
In levying protective tarifY for the purpose of
founding and building up industries, unless the
reason and influences which controlled their action
had ceased to exist, the protective tar1T was as
Justinable now as then. Did these conditions stiu
exist?
We no longer needed capital or plants, and in
skill and cunning the American workman asked no
odds. The capital, the plants and the skill were
never would be here so long the republican party
wrote the laws OF the country. [Applause.l
A Proposed Tariff lmvcsti1aaiOm.
THE SENATE FINANCE C0NNrTTBE WILL ASK FOR
AUTHORIrY TO TAKE TESTIMONY.
The senate committee on finance this morning
adopted resolution TO ask authority OF the Sem
ate TO employ stenographer for the purpose OF
taking testimony on such subjects as might come
before the committee. IL also authorized the
chairman 70 appoint subcommtttee TO 1nvesti-
Is understood to look TO Q thorough inquiry into
the subject OF the tar, with probability that II
the House sends over tartn bill the COMMITTEES
will hear testimony upon the interests to be A.