The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
WASHINGTON.
Still Considering the Fortified
ton Bill and the Senate
Amendments.
The Retaliation Bill Further Dis
cussed in the House, and
the Result.
FIFTlE,rH CONGRESS.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, September S.--Immediate-
ly after the reading of the journal, the
house resumed consideration of the re-
taliation bill, and was addressed by Mr..
White, of New York, who declared for
retaliation such as would retallate upon
the enemy and not upon the people of the
United States. he would vote against
the bill.
While it is thought if the preside mt pre-
vented Canadian fish coming into this
country he could strike blue noses where
it hurt, he favored retaliation that would
hurt somebody.
Mr.. Wilson asserted that ruler who
preoipitated war without an imperative
necessity, and without exhausting every
honorable means to avoid it, would merit
and call down upon himself the exeora-
tions of every just and right-minded man.
He then analysed the act of
1887 to support his assertion that
every mischief and every injury which it
was charged would result to the people of
the northwest from the enactment of the
pending bill would have resulted to them
by the enforcement of the act of 1887.
That act authorized the president to pro.
hibit the introduction of Canadian goods.
Did any one suppose that the Canadian
government would not retaliate in kind?
Mr.. Lind, of Minnesota, asked whether
his colleague did not suppose that under
the pending bill the Canadians would not
apay the United States back in its own
coin.
Mr.. Wilson replied that the bill did not
make any such thing possible or neces-
sary. The pending bill was particularly
guarded so as not to injure the business of
the northwest as the act of 1887 would
have done. Gentlemen on the other side
without exception), while denouncing the
pending bill, had declared their intention
of voting for it. This seemed low state
of morals or lack of independence unbe-
coming in men who ventured to charge
the president with pusillanimity. Re
ferring TO the charge made by gentle
men on the other side,tha the presidents
annual message was free trade docu-
ment, Mr.. Wilson entered an emphatic
denial.
Continuing, Mr.. Wilson said: "Should
war be declared (Which God forbid) a
gunboat of Great Britain would scarcely
have time to reach the shore before Gan
ada would be part of the United States.
He thought there would be no war, but
should the Queen of England, forgetting
the lessons to her ancestors in the past,
aim or discharge at us one unfriendly
gun from her gunboats, he predicted that
the echo which would awaken would not
cease to reverberate before Grover
Cleveland, president of the greatest
republic on earth would salute Charles
Stewart Parnell as president of the
youngest republic on earth. Applause
on the democratic side. The debate was
carried to great length by Messrs
Cochran, Bayne, McAdoo, McNullar,
Seney, Farquhar, Henderson, Caruth and
others.
Mr.. White, of New York, moved to re-
commit the bill to the committee on for
eign affairs with instructions to strike out
the first section, but the motion was lost
without division. The bill then passed
Yeas, ia; nays, 4-the negatives being
Bayne, Dalzell, Lind, and White, of New
York. Adjourned.