The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-11
GE0RGIANS TALK TARIFF
MR.. TURNER SHOWS UP THE RE-
PUBLICAN SHORTCOMINGS.
Their Party Criticised for It's Failure to

WASHINGTON, May l0.-The House to-
day went into committee ofsthe whole, with
Mr.. Springer, Of Illinois, in the chair, on
the tariff bill.
Mr.. Turner, of Georgia, criticised the
Republican side for not having formulated
some bill to revise the tariff i'll the interests
itself with an effort to attant the Mills bill
and attaint those who were its reputed
authors and an effort to defend the general
policy of protection. The Democrats were
asked to defend the bill against charge of
infamy. The question, therefore, was be-
tween the pending bill and that abomina-
tion of errors, known as the tariff act of
1888. 1t was not decent, it was not be-
coming the manhood Of the gentlemen on
the other side to complain that the Demo
cratic members of the Ways and Means
Committee chose to retire among them
selves, and formulate bill which they
might regard as being in accordance with
the recommendations of the chief execu-
tive, and in accordance with the verdict of
the people who elected him to that high
Office. The minority of the Ways and
Means Committee had given themselves up
to the policy of non-action.
NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR.
He had nothing to apologize for, and
nothing to condone in the action of the
Committee on Ways and Means in refusing
TO give public hearings to outside parties
1t had refused to hear speeches, and, for
one, he took his share of the responsibility
for that refusal IF that is treason make
the most of it q 1t had been said that gen
tlemen coming from the old slave States
were not capable of dealing with question
which involved the wages of labor. If
they were undt on account of their
incidental relations with slavery, to
consider public questions affecting the
burden of taxation, why should it not be
said with equal propriety that those who
brought Africans over on New England
ships could not be intrusted with the task
of revising the privileges Of fremont Mr..
Turner impeached protection of high
crimes and misdemeanors; denied that pro-
lection had raised the wages in this cOun-
try, and attributed the difference in the
rate of wages here and abroad to the Demo
cratic policy.
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH.
Referring to the devastated condition of
the Southern States after the war, he said
that the South had begun to emerge from
a scene of wreck and ruin, and begun to
feel that the desolation was behind it,
1t was not q new South added to new
Union, but it was the old South rehabilitated
add ed to the Union of our fathers. APP
plauseJ In tie new era, in this better era,
which was now near at hand, as one of the
representatives of the South, he did not ask
the government to help her Far from it.
But it asked Congress and the government
in Gods name to take its hands otf her and
let her ambition soar.
AN ANTI-INTERNAL REVENUE PLEA.
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, denied that the
tariff features of the Mills bill would reduce
the revenues one cont History showed that
as duties were lowered the revenue was in
creased The bill had been constructed with
the principle in view of letting into the
country, duty free, such articles as were
produced in this country, and taxing such
as could not be produced here. He never
could be accused of aspiring TO be leader,
but he was willing to hang on the walls a
| banner bearing the inscription Twenty
| four millions Off internal revenue, seven
teen millions off tobacco and seven millions
off special license5,n and under that write
Free sugar and bounty of &c. a pound
| That was all that was needed to reduce the
| revenues $50, 100000. He called for volun-
teeTs from the Democratic side, but there
was no response.
LOUISIANA WON'T SHRINK.
Mr. Wilkinson, of Louisiana, said he
| could not agree with the speaker, who had
held that an industry which required pro-
lection to bring it into existence was not
worthy Of cultivation. While the bill had
not been framed to suit his views or those
of his constituents, he would say to the
friends of honest reduction i'll taxation that
his people would not shrink from bearing
their share in the reduction of taxes now
imposed on the people.
Mr.. Brumm, of Pennsylvania, said that
Grover Cleveland, acting President of the
United States, had soleinnly proclaimed a
doctrine which was the spawn of the cotton
combine of Wall street sharks and Of the
Kentucky whisky ring. BY protection only
could fair, remunerative wages be paid for
labor. He was therefore for protection and
against class legislation in the interest of
cotton, whisky AMI Great Britain. Mr..
Brumm denounced the gall of Southern
Democrats who set up the plea of great
regard for labor That same element had
reduced its laborers to more abject slavery
than they ever were before the war Then
they named them slaves; to-day they added
insult to injury by calling them freemen
and disgracing them by placing them side
by side with convicts, and shooting them
like dogs if they dared to protest.
UNBUsINEssLIKE TREATMENT.
Mr.. Clements, of Georgia, deprecated the
unbusnesslike treatment which the propo-
sition to revise the tarif-a business mat
ter-nad received from Uhe RepuDnCan
side of the House. The present condition
would lead to certain financial panic and
disaster. Should the House go on and
bubble over who was to do the work of
tariff revision-the Democratic or Republi-
can House-in the face of the great peril.
Would it not be well TO do this thing at
once and together AS Americana He asked
what protection was DONG for labor. The
American ironmaster got his labor as
| cheaply as he could even il he hal
to go 10 other countries for 1t;
even if he had to employ Pinkerton
detectives to keep the laboring men Of
America from revolving against him. That
was a practical illustration of tho great
sympathy felt for labor. The talk about
organized labor being peculiar to the North
and not TO tho South, was meaningless
There had risen up in the South to-day
great organizations or federations Of farm
ers There were labor unions Of one kind
or the other too. All of them were the
outgrowth Of the condition in which the
American people were placed to-day
under the system Of taxation. They were
not peculiar to one section or another; they
were peculiar to tho distressing conditions
which surrounded tho laboring men of this
entire country, and were only an indication
that they were seeking in this way and in
that, in every way 10 better their condition.
He adiured tue gentleman tae other side
to abandon their discussion OF the Confed-