Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-04
TWO KINDS OF REDUCTION.

on the finished articles.
 TWO KINDS OF REDUCTION.
 The Senate bill contained 8 positive and unquestionable reduction of revenues to the extent of $72, ,6S8, 900. It enlarged the free list bv adding to 1t certain articles which could not be produced in this country. The House bill went on 8 different principle and placed on the free list some of the most i'm portant products of the United States, such as wool, bringing them into immediate com- petition with the foreign products.
 THE ISSUE SHARPER THAN EVER.
 He believed that the Senate bill was on the whole the best revenue bill ever introduced in Congress, and if it could be taken up free from party asperities and prejudices and con- sidered and debated and amended 1t might be made the most perfect revenue measure ever put on the statute books. The issue was now fairly made before the people and was to be tried by them. It was a plain, fair, square issue between "tariH for revenue only" and "tariff for revenue and protec tion." It was 8 question whether the arti- cIes necessary for human life should be mad @ by American labor or by foreign labor; whether the wages of American laborers should depend on the wages of European la borers or should depend on the American policy of protecting all forms of labor and production.
 sscIvIL SERVICE REEoRM."
  Hale's resolution, calling on the Secretary of War for an explanation of Gen. Benet's cir cular as to discharges of Republican employees in United States arsenals and armories. MT. Hale said that nobody would be removed be- cause of that order, however uneasy the ad- ! ministration might be about it. He (Mr. l Hale) arraigned the President for his hypo- | crisy. If the President had not attempted to set up 8 standard which no other President had ever set up, he would not have been subjected to such strictures. If MT. Cleveland was the sincere reformer which he was claimed to be some- | body ought to be punished for violating | every single principle which he had advanced as the guide and rule of his administration. l Passing on to the question of political contri- buttons he stated that if the President or any | government official had contributed any | money to the national Democratic committee l (which had several Senators among it's mem | bership) such official had violated the statute of 1883. He had not seen any denial of the averment that the President had contributed $10,000.
 HOW ABOUT THAT $10,000a
 Mir. HawIey earnestly invited the attention of Democratic senators to the question ot
 Mr. CIevelands contribution to the Demo
 cratic campaign fund. If it were true tha MT Cleveland sent SIG, ,000 to political com
 mittee on which were prominent officers o | the government, the conclusion was inevlta
 ble that he hsd committed crime punisha
 ble by fine or imprisonment or both. Moth inoa provoked a louder roar of laughter il : Democratic circles than to pretend the ad , ministration was civil service reform ad ministration.
 Mr. Hale moved to amend the resolution ] by adding to it instructions to the Secretar. of War to transmit copies of any further or , ders or circulars relating to the employmen of persons in his department since March 1 } 1885, and copies of any correspondence wit 3 any subordinate or other person relating t ! the politics of any employe.
 = Without action on the amendment or rs 3 solution the matter went over till tomorrow 3 | lAdiouIned.