The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-03
GO IT, SENATOR!
MIR. KsNNA MAKEs A BIG JUMP
Out of the Randall Ranks and Lands in the
Administration Free Trade Ring, En-
dOr.ing the PrsIldSnps Message.
West virginia will Soc him Later.

WASHINGTON, D. O., Feb. 2.-Mr. Kennl
addressed the Senate to-day on the sub
iecs OF the Presidents message on tht
surplus revenue and tariff matters, aud o
Mr.. sherman's speech in reply thereto.
He said that Senator Sherman was con
spicuous in the councils Of his party, and
had much to do with the shaping Of ii
policy, 60 that his assaults on the Presi
dents position in favor Of revenue reform
and reduction OF taxation was to be re.
marked as significant. Time and thought
had been devoted to tho preparation oi
that speech and the assault had been de.
liberate.
It might therefore bs fairly assumed
that the Senator'S ''rsply" was exhaustive
OF his own and OF his party's resources on
that important nubjsct. In tho light OF tia.
fact, the speech may justly be regarded as
challenge. ItpresOntsd the pqRars issue
as to whether the Senator's psrty should
stand In that assault or fall in the
defense. Tho speech, tsken in connec-
ton with the senRtor's former u.teranCes
on the same and similar subjects, present.
ed contrast as astounding as IL WAS unex-
pected-a conflict as irrsconcilabls as II
was positive, aud absolutely an enigma
which he would proceed briefly to anRlyse.
After quoting some extracts from Mr.. Sher-
mans epeech and also extracts from the
works OF Jefferson, bearing on the ques.
ton OF public improvement, from meg
sages OF Presidents Jackson and Arthur,
from the reports Of Secretary Folger, Sec.
rotary Mccullough and Secretary Man.
ming, he summed up by saying
that four successive Secretaries Of the
Treasury two Republicans and two
Dsmncrats) and two successive Presidents
Zone Republican and one DSmocrst) had
united in their condemnation Of surplus
and in their demand for reduction 10 the
public burdens. And SO 1t had been, said
he, throughout the history oil the govern
ment.
There never bad been tina when tho
unnecessary Withdrawal from circulation
OF tho currency oil the country, and the
hoRyding in the Treasury was justified or
CALMLY CONTEMPLATED.
The Senator from Ohio was the only
person who seemed to regard such con-
diticn as 81 good fortune" Such con-
dition had always created spprshen.
sion aud had sometimes contributed
to panic and financial disaster, and yet
when the President inspired by the teach
| ing Of his Countty's history dared TO raiss
his Voice to arrest an impending calamity,
the Senator from Ohio would laugh to
scorn the faithful Gdmon!tion and would
hold up the author 10 the ridicule OF
the public. The Senator bad forgotten
his own snxie'its wber, surrounded
lin both houses Of Oongrots by a
majority OF his own pa:ty friends in 1882,
he exclaimed IN the Senate that therO was
no sentiment in the country stronger than
tina: Congress had neglected ita duty in
not repeating taxes that were obnoxious
and unnecessary, aud that he vEs deter
mined that that siu should not lie 81 his
door.
This Senator from Ohio had asJailed the
PresIdent because OF the statement in the
message that there appeared to ba no just
complaint OF the tsxes on spirits, TO.
bacCo and beer, snd had argued
that "lho traditions and policy OF our pee
pie are aGslnat internal taxes" When he
asked) had the Hen. Senator undergone q
change OF hearth
The Senator had denounced Congress
for ite failure to provide subEidtes Tor pos
tai Communication with the South Ameri-
can States and had denounced the Presi-
dent for his failure to approve the
River and Harbor bill. But the question
Of subsidies was familiar to the whole
people. TRe antagonism Of the President
and Of his party to the subsidizlng Of spe'
cial interests or CLASSES
NEEDED no Defense
at his hands. That invention Of tho Re-
publican party had never found favor
W 18th the Democracy.
Turning to the subject OF the tariff Mr.,
KeunG said that the tariff laws in
Iforce nov with some modification
adopted by peculiar and questionable
Imethods In 1852, were substantially those
known as the "Morrill tariff OF 1867" The
Senator from Ohio aided largely in passing
that tariff.
Mr.. Kenna compared the present atti-
tude OF Senator Sherman with his former
utterRnces on the subject oil the tariff,
and asked who would believe that the
same honorable Senator, who gave utter
ance to these expressions upon the sdop.
ton of the laws which have remained
substantially in force ever sinCe, could
acknowledge the authorship Of the speech
which wEs recently addressed TO the
Senate and 10 the country The Senator
had appealed 10 the labor Of the country,
land had declared that to lift the burdens
OF the laboring man and to give him
equal opportunities In the great struggle
lof life would be 10 degrade him. To
show the Senator'S inconsistency on that
point, he referred TO the law OF July 4,
1884, passed under the special patronage
of Mf. Sherman, allowing immigration
under contract. This, he said, was the
lfrsk formal and official introduction oi
foreign seridom into Tree AMERICA.
Iu very recent years the honorable Sen
ator voted sgainst bill to restrict the
IMMIGRATION OF CHINANEy.
He afterwards pleaded for Limitation
Of the term Of five years, and finally
voting for the last bill, ho insisted that
every skilled laborsr in China should be
lexcluded from It's operation. "Fhess are
matters Of public history, Of public record,
and It Is right that they should go to the
country with the spesCh OF the Senator
from Ohio"
tits undoubtedly true thst, while our
excess OF import duties has had tsndsn,
cy TO build up and foster monopolios and
enrich the few Rt the expense OIL the
many, Il han had like tendency to in
woke free competition to labor and to re,
duce the workiDgmen to the minimum oil
compensation.
II has drawn vast army from Elrops
AZ the Senator says, who enter into com
petition with the labor they fud employ
| cd, when lhoE reach Amsrics, and who
enter into like composition among them
selves. 1t has not simply invited tide
Of honorable and manly immigration, Y
which extent We would all concur In i'll
benedcence, brs by the increased cost o.