, 1888-06-14
GENERAL NEWS.
The Tariff Debate Becomes u
pOlitica, Wranglp-
Sheridan Improving
Rapidly.
WattersOn Serenaded and Makes
a Speech.
CONGRESSIONAL.
House..

CONGRESSIONAL.
House..
WARRINGTON, June 0.-Rayner, OF Mary.
land, ridiculed the reference In Reeds tariff
sheet to trusts, and that gentleman,s deciara-
ton that outside of the patent ounce there
xiere no trusts in this company and never
3koul1 be. He defied the republican party
LlAUn1ce IL in it's national platform as the
Z 49, cratic convention had done; plank
lendfng its open antagonisms to conbina-
tions which one by one were draining the
life blood out of the country. (Applause.)
Reed, Of Maine, said this was not the
frs time the gentleman ON the other side
had been in estate of commotion."
(Laughter.) That kind OF oratory was
cheap on the other side and cheap any
where else. He had heard gentlemen on
the other side in "A most agonzed condi-
ton of mind about the running of con.
venton by federal Office holders. yet he
had seen them supinely register edicts of
their own official holders. He had heard
the gentlemen talk about national banks
and vampires Of Wall street sucking the
blood of the nation, and he had lived 10
see democratic administration put sixty
million dollars OF the.people's money into
the Golfers OF the national banks. Zap.
plause) The gentleman from Iowa
(Weaver) was the solitary and cole survivor
of all that wild screaming that
nsed to possess the democratic side. He
would live to see the day when the gentle.
man from Maryland [Rayuorl would have
got over his condition, The trusts on the
dem ocratic side were taking the same po.
sit OH in morality that first were invented
The gentle man from Maryland and his
compeers would tear everything to pieces
s.necause dozen persons were gong to
-X<1Gk out the citizens of the United States
IN gentlemen OH the other side proposed
to destroy trusts by destroying industries,
and then appealed to the people and rent
the atmosphere with their outcries. 1t was
about time that congress talked sense.
Hcmphill of South Carolina, referring to
his recent speech during the general de-
bate, said that his remarks as to free trade
and labor had heen misconstrued. IL he
desired to hire men to perform work for
him, he would hire them as cheaply as he
could, II he wanted to make money. But
when 1t came to the introduction ofCoolie,
italian and Hungarian labor, other things
had to be considered besides the question
of cheap labor. 1t would be very unwse
to advocate the introduction of any set OF
people who had not and would not have a
proper appreciation of the institutions IN
der which we lived, or would not be likely
to assimilate with the people
Hopkins, Of Illinois. asked If the gen.
tleman (HemphilD had been forced into
this repudation OF his former statements
by the 5Ssilt Of the election in Oregon.
There Aas no Disgusting the fact that the
Mills hill leaned towards free trade and
the gentleman's whole agreement had led
up to that.
&Kapaphill replied that he had had no
4 Opportunity to reply to Perkins
he did not favor Chinese Immigration.
Wilson. OF Minnesota. said that his state
produced one quarter of all flax produced
IN this country, and when flax seed or
linseed was reached he believed that be
would have the support of his side of the
house (the democratic side).
Cannon of Illinois declared that every
one OF the existing trusts had grown up
under the administration OF Grover Cleve.
land. He had not heard any proposition
from the democrats to restrict the cotton
seed oil trust, the whisky trust, the sugar
trust, the anthracite coal trust, or greater
than all, and without which no other
trust could exist, the transportation trust.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania repre-
senting the administration, Scott, had
hurried to st. Louis to get in the platform
declaration against trusts. His biography
in the congressional directory showed he
was the greatest railroad king in the land.
Dockery OF Missouri quoted Butter
worth's speech to show his variance from
Mr.. Reed upon this subject OF public
trusts. He SAID no man claimed that all
OF the trusts were directly attributable to
the tariff. Still the tariff, as Mr.. Butter
worth had said, led to vast accum lations
Of wealth that made these trusts possible.
He taunted tho republicans with the fail
to carry out their platform pledges to
Use the tariff,
Butterw orth said there was little differ
ence between himself and MIR. Reed upon
the necessity for preventing the unlawful
exercise OF corporate or syndicate power.
What steps had the committee OF way and
means, or the majority OF the house, taken
to place in tho bands of the members the
information contained in the book he held
in his hand, showing how the bill affected
the articles imported?
Several members Of the ways and means
committee maintained II was not their duty
to supply this compilation. AMI after an
extended colloquy upon this subject the
house rose and adjourned.