, 1888-05-10
CONGRE ESSlONAL.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-The house went
into the committee of the whole on the
n tariff bill. Bland, of Missouri, bitterly OPP
posed the protective system, denied that 1t
try, and inveighed against pools and trusts
which he denounced rs evils directly trace
able to high tariff.
Woodburn of Nevada, contraverted the
claim of the democrats; that their party
was the friend of the laboring men, and
cited the fact that the democrats had inau-
gursted their entry into power by cutting
down the salaries Of government em-
ployees; that their secretary of the treasury
had reduced the pay of lsborers at the San
Francisco custom house; and that their
secretary Of the navy had seen fit to pare
down the wages of the bired carriers at the
Maryland navy yard. He proceeded to
make speech bitterly denunciatory of
the Mills BILL of surrendering American
markets and American labor to the
FREE TRADERS oF GREAT BRITAIN.
Turning his attention to the Golden club,
Woodburn said 1t was an association OF
British manufacturers for the avowed pur-
pose of destroying the protective tariff sys-
TEN OF America, and 30 facilitate the sale
of British goods in American markets. 1t
had established agencies in New York and
Chicago for the distribution OF British free
trade documents in the political canvasses
of this country. On the roll OF its member
ship appeares the names of dukes and earls,
marquises and lords, peers and counts and
princes.
He held in his hand a list Of the members
of the Golden club on .anuary 1st, 1883,
and on the back of the book of record was
the nj otto of the club,
"rREE TRADE; GOOD WILL AMONG NATIONS"
and "God Save the Queen" He proceeded
to read the list Of the members and caused
much amusement by sandwiching the
names of untitled American members be-
tween those of the earls and dukes. The
essential qualifications of membership was
he said, that the applicant for admission
should be either manufacturer or a noble
man. ON the list of members he found the
names of Senators Beck and Vance, and
william Endicott. Jr., of Boston, Massa-
chpsetts, "A cabinet officer OF this republic,
admitted in 1877. This ought to create no
surprise, for If common rumor reported him
Alright, he permitted no visitor to escape
without infictng on him an essay on the
antiquity of his Anglo-Saxon ancestry and
the aristocratic color of his puritanical
blood. Thomas Bayard was also on the
roll of American mem bership.
Recently, when Chamberlain, in speech
. in England, mentioned the name OF Bay
2nnln1j, the cheers of the multitude drowned
<Sv1S voice of the orator. From his (Bay-
ard's) acts and utterances, q stranger unac-
quainted with our forms of government
wonld be justified in concluding that he
was acting in the dual capacity OF Ameri-
can secretary OF state and British envoy ex-
traordinary.
William II. Morrison was a member Of
the club. Was 1t any wonder that he was
continually tinkering at tariff revision in
the interest of Breat Britain that resulted
always in the stagnation of business, that
engendered strikes, begot violence and de-
prived him Of his seat in congress. Last,
but not least. on the Golden club roll MEM
bership was that able and i'm partial parlia-
snentarian, who possessed the almost
igr nj n
of this country, the present speaker of this
house, John Griffin Carlisle, who was COM
paratively a young member, having been
elected in 1888. These were few OF the
names OF the members who had combined
to conquer American energy and enter
prise. They shone out on the British Cob
den club list like apples ofgold in pictures
ofsilver. Bynum inquired whether Gar
field had not been a member of the club.
Woodburn replied in the negative.
Bynum-Is not Murat Halsted, the friend
Of Senator Sherman, member of IL?
Woodburn, (holding up the lisD-There
= is not a republican to-day in public life on
H the roll Of mem bership of the Golden Club.
fApplause]. Bynun denied that the list
was true one. Woodburn replied that it
was true list, the last one published.
Bynum-Then those names have been re.
moved.
thorty do you make that statement
Bynum-H Halsted is a member, because /
have 1t from member Of the club.
Woodburn--Here il the record. Con-
tinuing Woodburn said IL was strange that
the
ROLL OF AMERICAN NoBLEMEN
did not contain the names of the democrat.
ic secretary of the treasury who, by
stroke of his pen had permitted the Cana
dian railway, subsidized by foreign gov
ernment to the extent OF $1,000 to carry
freight and passengers across American ter
American
thereby cripping their ability to pay their
just debts to the government. He was
agreeably disappointed at not finding
among the names of Americas nobemen
that Of the distinguished gentleman from
New York, Hon. Tim Campbell. That
!. xsntleman had once been u jealous protec-
kjlonist and In the trying moments when the
y14orrison bill came up for consideration,
had voted twice with the republican col
umn. But his conversion was almost As
miraculous aud sudden as that of Saul of
Tarsus. bright light from the white house
fell upon him and new faith was born
within him. He recanted his errors. sup
plicated his party for pardon, and was
baptized by Morrison In the waters of tree
trade, and with all the power of u new
convert he, in stentorian terms, voted the
third time the other way. What he
(Woodburn) said here to day might be re-
garded as sounding brass aud tinkling
cymbal," but as an humble member OF this
duty to PROFOUND the solemn question to
the American people for their solemn an;
swer, whether the craftsmanship Of the
ways snd means com mittee, and the
speakership of the American house OF rep
rescntatives and membership OF the Golden
club were consistent and compatible posi-
tions? (Applause).,
He was anxious To know II the adopted
citizens of Irish birth and their descendants
would continue to perpetuate In power the
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