The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-15
PERKINS PULVERIZED.
HIS INDIAN WAR WHOOP ENDS IN
A VAIL.
After Getting on the Trail OF the APP
preparation Bill He Branches OFF on
the Tariff and Tries to Run Up the
Bloody Shirt as a Flag of Distress.

preparation Bill He Branches OFF on
the Tariff and Tries to Run Up the
Bloody Shirt as Flag of Distress.
WASHINGTON, April Reconsideration
Of the homestead" bill having been post
poned until next Saturday the House to-day
went into committee of the whole on the
Indian appropriation bill Mr.. Perkins, of
Kansas, said that the bill presented no new
legislation but it did contain a provision
for the payment of the Choctaw Judgment.
This claims of the Indians had been referred
to the Court of Claims, which had rendered
Judgment against the government, and that
Judgment had been affirmed by the Supreme
| Court This Judgment, amounting to
| $500, 900, was now drawing per cent.
interest, and he could see no relief for the
| government except by an act of repudia-
ton. Therefore the Committee on Indian
Affairs had provided in the bill for the pay
lnent of The Judgment.
GETTING OFF THE TRACK
Then, passing from the subject of the
| Indians, Mr.. Perkins addressed himself to
| the question of the tariff, his remarks being
directed principally to replying to what he
| called the recent free trade speech Of Rep
J resentative Nelson, of Minnesota. In the
| course of his speech he sent to the Clerks
desk and had read for the purpose Of show
| ing Southern sentiment on the subject Of
| free trade and labor extracts from the Con-
federate constitution, which led to an in
quiry from Mr.. Allen, of Mississippi, as to
what Democratic platform the Clerk was
reading FROM
| AN OLD CHESTNUT.
| Mr.. Perkins criticized the Mills bill as
| striking down the products of the field, and
putting the laborers of America in compe-
| tition with the laborers of the old world,
except, perhaps, in the case of the rice
| growers of the South, and in the case of
those who were binding cotton, who got
their iron bands free of duty, while the
Northern farmer must pay duty on hoop
iron for hopping hay. He hoped that in
the coming debate there would be no
| hypocrisy. He hoped that the mask of
hypocrisy would be removed, and ths hide
Gus face of free trade be exposed with all
| its deformities.
TRYING TO STIR UP TROUBLE.
| While Messrs. Townshend and Springer
and others had been allowed to indulge in
platitudes, gentlemen from the South had
been admonished to sit STILL but he hoped
that now they would demand to be heard,
| They gave to the Democratic party 153
| electoral votes, and it was well that they
should be consulted. After they had fill
bustered against bill which proposed to
pay SIT 10000 to Northern States it was
| right that the Democratic House should
surrender to them. [Applause.1
| TWENTY-FIVE YEARS BEHIND. EHE TIMES.
Mr. Allen, of Mississippi, thought it was
| a great pity that the gentleman from Kan
| sas could not get his head out of the cup
board and walk squarely up to the issues of
to-day instead OF going back to slavery and
rebellion. The gentleman from Kansas re-
minded him Of the story of two men who,
when travelling, went to sleep in a room
with a cupboard in it. In the night one
| asked the other TO look out of the window
and see what kind of a day it was going to
be. The latter, by mistake opened the cup
board window, and, after looking around
awhile, exclaimed "It is as dark as h
and smells like cheese" [Laughter.]
| sMELLED LIKE SLAVERY.
The gentleman from Kansas instead of
| getting his head out into the daylight of
| 1883 had got it into the cupboard of rebel
lion, and everything was as dark as h
and smelled of slavery. [Laughter.l 1t
was to the credit Of the Democrats of the
| House that they had something better to
talk about than issues which had been dead
| for % years, and if any Democrat got up
and, instead of discussing living issues, had
nothing TO talk about but dead issues, he
| hoped that he would be expelled from the
| Democratic side and made TO take seat
beside the gentleman from Kansas, where
| he could stick his head in the cupboard
where the gentleman had his Laughter. ]
| DEAD ISSUE.
| The gentleman had read from the Con
felerate constitution. Did the gentleman
| know that it was twenty-seven years since
that constitution had been adoptedl That
| constitution and what it contained were
| not matters of interest even to the people
no represented, and to the people repre-
sented by the gentlemen who had reported
| the bill.
Mr.. Perkins suggested that those gentle
men had been born when the constitution
was suggested, and he simply wanted TO
know whether their sentiments had changed
| on the question of free trade and labol.
| Mr. Allen declared that no man on the
| Ways and Means Committee was in favor
of slave labor. They all had as much re-
spect for white labor in this country as had
| the gentleman from Kansas, or any ether
person who would vote against the bill.
IN THE OLD RUr.
How about black laborT asked Mr..
| Perkins.
at is free and as independent as white
labor in Kansas, replied Mr.. Allen.
"How about votIngp then queried Mr..
| Perkins.
Mr.. Mcmillan, of Tennessee-T They vote
| as they please
Mr.. Perkins-How about chain-gangs in
Arkansas and Texas
Mr.. Allen-I know this: that there is no
law in Mississippi or Arkansas that does
not consign white felon b. the chain-gang
| just as quickly as a black one, and if the
| gentleman were there / don't know what
| his prospects would be- [Laughterl
| Mr.. Joseph, of New Mexico, ddressed
the committee in favor of the admission Of
New Mexico as a State in the Union.
The Indian bill was then considered by
sectious. An amendment was adopted
adding 700 for an independent band of
Sioux in Minnesota. No other affirmative
action was taken. Without finishing con-
sideration Of the bill. the committee rose,
and tho House at $40 o'clock adjourned