Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-12

HsitsCc vi lne Who're on the tdrlu Dill, III
which Mr.. Phelps interview on the Chicago
nomination and Mr. Ingalls, letter were
the chief topics of discussion.
A conference was ordered on the land
forfeiture bill
Mr.. Hatch, of Missouri, submitted ths
report OF the conference committee on the
agricultural ppropriation bill The con-
ferees disagree on the Senate amendment
appropriating 100000 to continue the ex.
periments in sugar from Sorghum.
Mr.. Ryan, of Kansas urged concurrence
in the amendment, and made a motion to
that effect.
After debate the amendment was con-
Cured in. which passed the bill
Inc conference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bill. The pending
amendment was that of Mr.. Phelps fixing
the rate of duty on fax or linen thread,
and all manufactures of hemp at 40 per
cent adyalorem. In discussing his propo-
stion, Mr.. Phelps charged the Democratic
members OF the Ways and Means Commit
BEE with going into the dark and framing q
bill; code of decisions, which like the
law of the Modes and Persians.' ''altereth
not" That was the first step in the great
drama, which if successfully carried out,
would DESTROY the interests of American
industry. There was one step left in their
desperation and they had the nerve to take
? IL Mr.. Phelps referred 10 the caucus
action and said that q resolution was unan-
imeusly passed that no amendment offered
in the House should receive the support OF
the Democrats unless the amendment was
nrst passed upon and approved by the
Democratic caucus.
Mr.. Wilson, of Minnesota, denied the
statement
Mr.. Phelps said that the report he'd been
telegraphed over the country and uncon-
tradicted until to-day, and however hard il
might be, he would accept the contradic-
6oD, although expressing surprise that a
resolution which existed only in the mind
Of q newspaper reporter had been obeyed
implicitly by members who had never
heard Of it. The chairman of the ways and
means committee might boast that his
house would pass the bill next week; he
(Phelps) was confident that the people
of the United States would not pass the
Mills bill next November. [Applausel In
regard to the pending paragraph of the
bill, he would prove that it would throw
thousands of skilled workmen out of en-
ployment and that the machinery which
gave them employment would be reshipped
20 the country from which it had come
The American people said: For Gods
'nke let the Republican party, which de-
vised and which knows and loves this
snginry, repair it. if repair is necessary,
and not leave il to the laundering of q
haif-hearted democracy
Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, expressed his sur
prise to finding the gentleman advocating
an increase OF duty on thread and exclaim-
Ing IN the next breath that he was the
friend OF the workingman. He then sent
70 the Clerks desk and had read portions
OF the interview with Mr.. Phelps, pub
lished soon after the Chicago convention,
In which Mr.. Phelps states that il was not
polltlc to select q granger candidate-al-
luding . Senator Allison. Mr.. Weaver in
commenting on the interview, said that
the farmers of Iowa had been spurned in
the convention and they would not, in
November, ratify their own humiliation.
Continuing, Mr.. Weaver said that Senator
Allison had been punished in Chicago be-
cause he lived in a granger State. which
passed laws unfriendly to railroads He
would like TO hear whether Mr.. Henderson
endorsed what the gentleman from New
Jersey had given as the reason for the re-
lection of the distinguished Senator.
Mr.. Henderson said that he did not be-
heve land to him it was absolute knowl-
edge that the attitude to Iowa in respect
70 railroad legislation had lost Senator Al
leon single vote in the convention. He
Henderson, was his colleague in in assert
ing.the right of the people of his State TO
control the corporations that might be op-
Grated within il. His friend and neighbor
Senator Allison. did not abate his belief
that the sovereignty of the people should
be recognized in the control of corpora
tions.
Iowa. as in the past, would this fail in |
spite of the rantings and misrepresenta-
tons, plant itself in the front rank of the |
Republican States for Harrison and Nor
ton: [Applause.l
"Mr. Weaver said the House had the
open confession from the gentleman from
New Jersey, that his interview was truthful |
and in this interview we had the gentle
mans idea of western men No he wanted
to show what a western man thought of the |
eastern man, He sent to the Clerks desk |
and had read amidst much laughter and |
applause on the Democratic side, tie letter |
written by Senator Ingalls, to mesnber of |
the Kansas delegation, during theI Chicago |
Convention. Mr.. Henderson said that |
since the gentleman had pleased to give the |
House little literature land ii was be-
lieyed by some that this literature had been |
stolen) he Henderson, would also give |
the House little literature. He then /
eent to the Cler's desk and had read |
numerous extracts from speeches delivered |
by Mr.. Weaver from 1866 to 1872 in which |
he bitterly assailed the Democratic party
as party full of stencil an poison which
should be blotted from the vocabulary of /
civilized land and handed over to the bar
barism which is 50 fifty represented. Mr. |
Weaver said that the speeches which had |
been read had been uttered by him in times |
past when the situation was entirely differ
ent from what il was now. (Derisive |
laughter on the Republican side.) He went |
on to explain why he had changed his po
litical faith.
Mr.. Henderson implied that it was be-
cause he (Wesver) had been defeated for
nomination 10 be Governor.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Arkansas. opposed
the Phelps amendment and it was re-
jected.
An amendment was adopted changing
the rate of duty on bags and bagging from
fifteen per cent ad valorem to three.
eighths Of cent per pound. Other amend
ments were offered and rejected. The wool
sections of the bill were then read as one
paragraph.
amendment to tina wool sections, substi
tuting the schedule of 1867, and il was
laid over until tomorrow.
The committee then rose and the House
at 4:45 took recess until eight o'clock.
THE sENATE.
The feature in the Senate proceedings
Yesterday was a spirited discussion over
what is known as the South American mail
subsidy in the postoffice appropriation bill
This discussion displaced and postponed
Mr.. Georges speech on the fisheries treaty
until to-day.
The House bill for the erection of an sp
pxaiser's warehouse in New York City, WA
reported from committee and placed on
the calendar.
The conference report on the postoffics
appropriation bill was presented. Several
,n;nor na;nts of diffaranca rsere renorta5
agreed to, but on the Senate amendment
known as tie subsidy clause, which appro-
PIRATES $500, 900 for South American mail |
serYica the CONFERENCE committee Lad