Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-07-07
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
MR.. KELLEY ON PROTECTION.
THE MILLS BILL IN THE HOUSE.

THE MILLS BILL In THE HOUSE.
House Of Representatives.
The Speaker laid before the House various Presi-
DENTAL vetoes OF private pension bills, which were
appropriately referred.
BILLS FROM THE MILITARY COMMITTEE
The House then proceeded In the consideration
morning hour TO the consideration Of measures re-
ported BY the committee on military affairs
The Senate bill was passed providing for the
saie OF the site OF Fort Omaha, Neo., and appro-
priaung 500. 900 for the purchase OF q new site
On motion OF MI. Randall Pa.), the bill was
amended By the insertion OF : proviso. that not
expended for the purchase Of the site.
joint resolution was passed selecting Leonard
A Harris OF Ohio. John A. Martin, OF Kansas, and
c,s sSS1 az ,h harfran Of pennsyvania 70 MI yacsn.
IIor disabled volunteer soldterA
TIE TARIFF BILL
The hour having expired, the House went into
committee OF the whole (Mr. Springer, OF Illinois,
In the chair on the tariff bill the pending amend
ment being that offered by Mr.. Cannon lni., to
The sugar schedule.
Mr.. KKILKY ON THE POLITICAL PLANK OF THE RKPUp.
LcAk PLATFORM.
MT. Kelley (Pa.) announced himself to be a re-
publican, devoted TO the doctrines OF his party
and to the utterances OF Its national convention.
He was protecttontst and believed that the sys-
TEN OF protective duties had developed the coun-
try to IT'S present Industrial position and was
sential to the maintenance OF that position. He
Ii nad been surprised to hear the gentleman from
form recently adopted by the republican party.
The system Of bounties had been pro-
posed TO the country under the highest
the American people under the auspices
OF George Washington. Ninety-eight years
had passed since then, and in NO instance had a
OrRufnd m
early days the fisheries had been sustained by
bounties, avowedly as q school for volunteer
the Government and was not connected with gene
raj Industrial Development He then quoted from
the Chicago platforn the protection plank, and
had been assailed from the seats OF republican
members. From the remarks made by these gen.
tiemen he dissented In the name OF the republican
party, at whose birth he had been, and TO whose
interests he had been devooed from that time TO
this
NOT FOR BouNT1Es. But THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE
SYSTEM.
II the duties on sugar were wrong let them be
rfghted and made proper; but gentlemen should
remember that the republican party had declared
not for the establishment OF the imperial system
OF D0unties, but for the maintenance OF
tIsmaA sas American ile protective system The gen.
that protection did not develop sugar in louisiana
War was the science OF destruction, and Louisiana
was slowly recovering from i've years OF war, dur
machinery went to decay. Impoverished BY the
war, the people who had been making 500. 100000
could produce but io, SOC. 600 POUNDS Under @
protection they had raised the crop from less than
600 600 pounds In lS64-5 TO 303 000. 600 pounds
In 1sS2-3 He would plant himself on the record
OF louisiana sugar-growing since the close OF the
war TO prove the benencence OF the American pro-
tecuve system, which gentlemen proposed
American people would not adopt from Hamilton
and Washington, and which they would not sus-
tan me % House could be tempted TO perpetuate
such oounuss Little had he thought that he
should hear the
KErusIIcAk ECHOES or THE AK71AMERIcAx DOC
enunciated on the other side Of the House. Why,
at this time, when science had come forward and
added from 20 TO 2S per cent to the value Of sorg
hum cane, ordinary sugar cane and the beet; why,
when In Germany and other lands the system OF
large plantations and expensive works was being
abandoned, and central factories for the conver-
sion OF farmers products into sugar were being
established, why should republican voices be
raised Id sander OF their partys platform, and TO
say that Americans were Incompetent TO produce
sugar, but must be paid q bountys He was
NOT THAT KIND OF REPUBLICAN,;
ne was not that kind OF protect1onist Since the
close OF the war Louisiana had built up this in
dustry until it was almost equal to what it had
been previous to 1850; and now millions were
being invested in support OF establishments In
Florida and California and hundreds OF thousands
IN Kansas. Protection was doing its just and
Nj. Nelson lMinn.) suggested that the gentleman
from Pennsylvania was the only man who W as
thoroughly endorsed BY the Chicago convention.
Mi. Kelley accepted the compliment When he
made hts speech IN response TO MIR. Mills a dstin-
guISned editor or Chicago denounced him as
A"cHArTKRIEG OLD CRANK"
and this was rspubllshed In a Philadelphia paper
under the heading. "What a republican editor
thinks Of Judge Kelley" Yet when the conven-
tiOn met they said, "Here Is one man who, since
1881, has pleaded and urged that we follow the
example OF the fathers OF the country and abolish
tnternai-revenue taxes and put the accursed thing
whisky, in all its forms under the charge
OF the respective states or the Union, where It can
oe policed and where the revenue derived from
drunkenness and crime and insanity will 20 into
the Treasury that has 10 bear the expenses vice.
crime, idleness, and the hereditary Insanity en-.
Convention did indorse him, and he was ready 10
say: "LOrd, lettest Thou Thy servant depart In
peace for mine eyes have seen the glory OF the
republican party" daughter and applause.l
Nh. HKRNNA's VIEWS
Mr.. McKenna (CaLl said that he, too, was
republican, and for that reason he rose to oppose
the amendment. 1t had no true basis OF fact or Of
principle. For the same reason urged to support
Il every item OF the Mills bill could be supported
the free list, every American production could be
put on the free list. The amendment was OBJ
posed to the principle OF protection. IL was dis
cago PLATFORM. That platform declared protection rot
to American industries 10 be the supremest
principle OF the republican party. 1t conceded
the necessity OF reduction OF the revenue but
distinctly enumerated the means OF reduction
Protection was not 70 be sacrificed. That was
clear.
Both Mr. Kelley ana Mr. McKenna declared that
the republican platform resolved against the de-
strucuon Of the sugar duty or any other protective
tartn.
Mr. CANNON ON TIE OTHER SIDE
Mr.. Cannon Ql) disputed that the Chicago
platform did anything OF the sort, and de-
ciared that II It did he would not stand
on IT. He said he had always respected
sometimes differing with him, but he would not
permit him 70 say TO hum lCannon) this is republi-
canism, or this u not He would not permit the
gentleman TO cOnstrue the platform for him
and to read him out OF the party,
He contended that the republican platform did
not mean protection TO sugar. He cOntended
that the sugar tax was revenue only tax.
The democrats sat by, smiling and Contributing
applause now and then TO encourage the dispute
between the republican members
Capitol Topics.
The Indications are that the Senate substitute
for the HOUSE tarin bill win propose TO repeal the
entire internal tax on tobacco; to make, perhaps,
50 per cent reduction on sugar, and that it viii
revise some features OF the tariff. There is q
on alcohol used In the arts on rruiJ orandies &C.,
but IL is not easy TO wipe out this tax without
opening the way to almost endless frauds upon
the revenue senator Sherman recently remarked
that to repeal the tax on certain classes OF liquor
for certain purposes would create confusion and