Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-30

I introduced BY himself, placing sugar. heml
jute, coal, sisal grass on the free Ii:
and said taking sugar all in all, every dollar
worth used in the country paid 50 cents i
taxes; hemp, ju.e. sisal grass. and mauill
twine paid 63 cents. During the last hscs
year on imports of SOS, ,000. 900, there wa
an average advslorem duty of "a 1s-l00 Pc
cent, Didn't these figures speak TO
themselves. He read a letter from
prominent farmer in his section saving tina
banding twine costs l6 l-2 eeuts a pound
which amounted to two cents bushel OF
wheat and some relief should be afforded
Mr.. Wade of Missouri interrupted the speak
er to declare that he bought his twine at
cents per pound.
Mr.. Nelson read extracts from Minnesot:
newspapers and private letters to himself
faroring tariff revision. The reading wa
received with great applause on the demo
cratic side. One of these letters was from a
lumber manufacturer who thanked him Mel
som for including lumber in the free list o
his bill, adding except it would embarras
the measure, he would be glad to see WOO
included also. Another correspondent want
ed relief from the high tax on window glass
saying that il equals the cost of the glass a
Antwerp, and that the country has been Ions
enough at the mercy of the Pittsburg manu-
facturers. Still another writes that Nelson
bill is good enough as far as it goes, but fol
Gods sake amend it by putting wool on tbs
free list. He adjures Nelson not to be afraiC
of the bleating sheep; they need no more
protection than hogs and hens.
Mr.. Nelson next quoted the western re
publican platforms, declaring in favor of d
reduction in the raritf at al early day AMI
added amidst the laughter and applause OF
the democrats land now, my friends, is the
appointed time" Continuing, he said, ever
as s'iff protectiOnist as Senator Sherman
hal been forced at meeting of the home
market club at Boston to admit the necessi
ty of a tariff revision and declare in favor OF
admission, free of duty, such raw material
and articles as didn't compe,e with the do
mestic products. In the face of these plat
form pledges, and these admissions, in the
face of the greatest growing surplus, taken
from the people and used by certain banks
without any consideration therefor, it made
him sick at heart to think that there were
lea'ling men on his side of the chamber who
in this juncture couldn't think of any other
field for tax reduction than that on whiskey
and tobacco. Surely these were not things
on which the poor laboring man kept his fami
~ w oAlu IL uOi Dt belltE " give lHtili
clothes, food and shelter! He would pu,
free sugar, free salt and free lumber against
free whskey and free tobacco. and so would
the great mass of the American people.
applause on the democratic side.)
Mr.. Funston of Kansas, attempted to put
some questions to Mr.. Nelson but the latter
remarked that that gentleman could have the
floor to himself, and took his seat, not re-
Y1y tn Ennstnp'c hal tn by h..
didn't put wheat on the free list.
The committee then rose and the House
adjourned.
General Congressional News.
The republican senators had an order OF
business caucus this morning. The pending
bond bill and the Stewart amendment proved
the chief topics of discussion. No decision
was reached except to have another caucus
Monday. committee will in the meantime
undertake the task of outlining the financial
policy of the party
4 Prof Goldevn Smith addressed the House
committee on foreign affairs in support of
Mr.. Butterworth's bill looking to the estab-
lishment of commercial union between the
Uuited States and Canada He said the Ca
madam people generally favored the plan,
Notes.
Senator Farwell introduced bill today
authorizing the President to prohibit the
products of foreign states in certain cases
as retaliation where the products of the Unit
ed States are unjustly disc riminated against
by foreign states.
Mrs. Marcella NJ. Hill of Dover. n H.,
aged 50, was introduced and spoke of the
work of the Free Baptist society. Mrs. NJ.
Louise Thomas, delegate from Sorosis, gave
an outline of the history of woman's club in
the country. Sorosis in strictly women's
club to which men are admitted but one day
in the year 1t composed almost entirely of
literary women, who meet for intellectual
as well as PHYSICAL refreshment. Three
subjects have never been touched upon, re-
ligion, politics and woman suffrage. Mrs.
Crolly (Jennie June) said that she was the
founder of the "Soross She delighted in the
of good women. Mrs. MAY
Wright Sewall and Miss Willard continued
the subject of organization. 1t was an
nounced by Miss Anthony that the president
would receive the council tomorrow
afternoon at half past two o'clock, The
first speaker of the next session was Lille
Deverau1 Clake on legal disabilities of wo-
men. She said under the English law mar
riage is to woman civil death. Where it pre-
walls in all southern and some northern states
the wife has no right to her property or her
In many northern and most west
ern states these provisions have been modi-
fed to extend property rights to wives. Yet
in states where married women may enjoy
their own earnings they have no claim to
their children. New Jersey, Kansas. Iowa,
alone secure to the mother legal control of
her offspring. In all states the father can
give away his child during his life, and will
it away at death without the wife's knowledge
or consent. One of the most oppressive of
the legal disabilities is that every dollar of
the joint earning of marriage belongs to
the husband alone. The women have never
been secured in the rights of trial by jury
Of their peers, and while treated legally as
incompetent to make laws, are held in full
accountability for their violation. Miss AL
ice Scatcherd of Leeds Eng, spoke of the
legal condition of women in the three king
1oms. Single women in England, Scotland
and Ireland have nearly the same property
rights as men, but the law of intestacy bears
equally hard on all. The next paper was by
Alice Fletcher. special Indian agent under
the severalty bill entitled illegal condition of
Indian women" Matilda Josy Gage read
paper on Law in the Family" and Lucy
Stone of the American Woman Suffrage As
and Indian Princess Niroqua also
made few remarks.