Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-01
WASHINGTON.

WASH1NGIUN.
Action on the Mills Bill
Resumed.
DISCUSSED PRO AND CON.
Decision Rendered by the Su-
preme Court in the Cali
fornia Fox Case.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HRRALJ
WASHINGTON, April 30.-The House
went into Committee Of the Whole on
the tariff bill. Grosvenor, Of Ohio,
took the floor. 1t was strange. he
said, that the Democratic party ar
rayed itself, led by an amateur states.
man, the President of the United
States, in defense Of the internal rev.
enue system-that suddenly the DEM
ocratic party had become the cham
pion of that system. For twenty
years the gentlemen represent
ing the Southern States had
not only denounced the General
system of internal revenue, but had
opposed all the efforts of the Govern
ment to enforce the law, and had SO
thoroughly educated the people Of the
South into the belief that the system
was tyrannous, that they had built up
a great sentiment in the South that 10
defeat and violate and destroy that
system by fraud and violence and
bloodshed and murder was but the
God-given
RIGHT OF REBELLION
Against the tyrannous enactment OF
tyran nous Government. Now the
Demo cratic party, directed by the
message of the President, ordained
that the most sacred monument of
taxation in the country was now, and
must be in the future, the internal
revenue system. Discussing briefly
the subject as handled by gentle-
man from Minnesota. (Nelson), he
quoted portion of speech in which
that gentleman put free wool and free
lumber against free whisky and
tobacco. When the gentleman
undertook to put the Republicans
who favored the repeal of the internal
law in the category of those who
were in favor of free whisky and free
tobacco, he made great mistake.
The proposition to repeal the tax ON
whisky was to remit the power of
taxation to the States and permit the
States to take the place of the general
Government. The mission of the
Statesmen was to see to it that the
laboring men of the country should
have higher wages than the laboring
men OF other countries. He quoted
statistics in behalf of the association
the condition of the farmers was pros
porous, and he argued that the num-
ber of mortgages on tho farms of the
Western States, which had been
ABsURDLY EXAGGERATED
BY the gentleman from Missouri (Mr.
Bland) indicated not that the farmers
had grown poorer, but that they had
borrowed money, either for the pur-
pose Of improving the property they
already owned, or else to buy out
their neighbors who had concluded to
go still further west. The prosperity
of the country had met with no check
until the Morrison bill menaced the
industries of the United States. The
disaster which was threatened by the
Morrison bill would be quadrupled by
the passage Of the Mills bill. He
looked for the restoration of the Re-
publican party to power, which laid
the deep and strong foundation on
which the great tariff structure had
been builded. The party had grown
wiser by the assaults made upon the
system by its enemies, and 1t would
then be able to reburnish and rebeau-
tify the magnificent structure which
was to-day the pride and glory OF
every American citizen. [Applause.
Raynor, of Indiana, did not think
the duty on glass should be reduced
TO the extent proposed in the bill, but
there would be plenty of duty left to
make up for all difference in the rate
Of wages here and abroad, and if any
glass manufacturer put down wages,
he would be using the bill as a pre-
text for depressing hisemployees; but
no matter how the bill came from the
Democratic party, he would vote for
it. Applause.
Nuttipg regrettedto hear the gen.
| tleman say that, although there was
wrong in the bill which might put
thousands OF laborers at disadvantage,
still he would vote for it.
Raynor replied he would follow his
great party on this great issue. He
had no right to look to any industry
| in his district, when the question be-
fore the country was whether sys-
tematic plan of
ROBBERY AND PLUMBER
Should be continued. Passing to a
consideration of the question OF trusts,
he said unless heroic steps were taken
to impede their advance, private en-
terprise would be seriously affected !,
and the prices of the principal commo-
dities of the country would be arbi-
trarily fixed. The Standard Oil trust
was one Of fraud, corruption and op-
preston.
Cannon, of Illinois, inquired
whether the gentleman did lot know
that the present administration had
appointed one of the principal repre-
sentatives of the Standard Oil Com
pany Cat least by relation, ifnot other
wise) the Secretary Of the Navy, and
that another representative was the
Senator OF his party from Ohio.
Raynor replied that the fact that a
man was the son-in-law of somebody
connected with a trust did not mix
him up with the fraud. He believed
he could vouch for Secretary Whitney