The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-09

to be done with that surplus and with that
surplus of wheat, corn and meat, il it could
not be disposed of in foreign markets II
| American producers were confined to the
home market they would have 10 DO wha'
American manufacturers did when they
found themselves i'll the presence
| of an oversuocked market-shut down
their works and turn the blessed
American laborer i'll the streets TO beg bread
for himself and his children. The Demo
cratic party, he said, had for the last ten
wears made honest efforts to reduce taxes
to the requirements of the government. and
had been at every step thwarted by the Re
publican party. The finance committee
Acknowledged the imperious necessity of re-
| duction bu blamed first, the President of
| the United S ates fo- the existence of the
surplus, and said that he could have ex-
| PEE ded il in paying a premium of 30 per
cent to their friends, the bondholders.
ABLE TO DO 1T.
1t is very true that ne could, said Mr..
Vance, or could have squandered it, as
| countless millions have been sQuandered
under the administration of his predeces-
| sors but he did not choose to do it.
| They say, in tn second place, that re-
sponsibility rests on the party that controls
the House of REPRESENTATIVES, and that this
| is the first bill which the House has sent to
| the Senate for reducing the revenue i'll sew
eral years. Nobody will be deceived by
| that, for it is as well known to the
make this bill that almost the
entire body of republican members in the
| House have assisted in every bill that tie
| democrats have tried to pass within that
| period, and were able, with the help of Il
| handful of democratsl, to defeat every such
bill, and that those democrats who
! aided the republicans u defeat the
-a1t nTFNlan6R1
the skies, aud made patriots and
moral heroes by brevct on the field of ba
tie. They know that for ten years past no
republicans in the House of Representa-
tives certainly no considerable number of
| republicans, had 50 much as proposed
bill TO reduce taxes. The House bill is
framed not only to relieve the treas
ury, but TO relieve the people, while
the Senate bill is framed so as to relieve the
treasury and increase the burdens of the
people, and, after ali that can be said, that
is the difference between the two bills
Mr.. Hisc elk obtained the floor, and the
bill went over till tomorrow.
After a short executive session, the
Senate at $50 o'clock adjourned.
TO HUNT FOR FLAWS.
Several of the democratic members of the
committee on ways and means, and Repre-
sentative Hatch of Missouri, who has Just
conference this afternoon respecting the
new phase In the tariff question resulting
from the report of the substitute bill to the
Senate and the beginning of Its consid-
Grafton by that body. 1t was decided
that an expert should be employed to
make an exhaustive analysis of the substi-
tute for the purpose of bringing to light
such flaws and defects as might be found
for use IN debate in congress and speeches
nnTlnrr RamnAlUn lnRldRnfaIlV
question of ad journmeIt was discussed, ard
the conclusion was reached that it would
not be polite, under the present conditions,
for the democrats in the HouSs to send any
question of adjournment to the Senate.
OPIUM FOR SMOKING NOT FREE.
BY an error made by the committee in
preparing for publication the additions to
the free list contained in the substitute
tariff bill reported by the Senate committee
on finance, it was made TO appear that
opium for smoking had been freed of duty
As matter of fact, the substitute bill ex-
pressly prohibits TIE importation of such
opium. The committee also desires to have
corrected an impression which prevails to
the fact that it had added eggs to the free
list Eggs are made free Of duty by the ex-
istlng law and tie substitute bill does not
change that provision, although the matter
is under consideration. Undoubtedly an
mittee imposing a tariff on eggs.
WHEELER ON THE TARIFF.
In the house to-day, Mr.. McRae of
Arkansas, who, as representing the public
lands committee, was entitled to the floor
yielded to Mr. Wheeler of Alabama who
addressed the house on the tariff question.
The first business laid before this con-
gress, he said, was the message of the
President recommending revision of the
revenue laws The necessity of such re-
vision was clearly shown by the unanswer-
able logic of that remarkable state paper,
and the democrats of the House at once ad-
dressed themselves to the task. The
republicans, after long and
fruitness search for faults or
defects in the present administration
seized upon this demand for revision of the
laws, and reduction of surplus as the key
note of their campaign and misrepresenta-
lions of democratic purposes were relied
upon as the chief effective party ammuni-
ton. Denupciations came with the force
of an avalanche from the republicans in all
stations and from all sections The I'M
crowned king, Blaine, dispatched his famous
message from the imperial courts where for
nearly year he had been seeking state
craft. The inspiration and cry was re-
echoed by the leaders of all grades down to
the newest fiedged espirant for political
preferment, until the chorus resounded
through the republican camps from the At
lantic to the Pacific.
HOWL OF THE PRESS.
From the editor of the New York Tri-
bune to the printer of the smallest and least
known republican weekly, from Maine to
Texas, and from Oregon to Florida, there
came but one sound, as it were, the echo of
the slogan from across the Atlantic. Tink-
ering with the tariff, as they chose to de-
scribe our efforts. was specially denounced,
and they demanded that the customs laws
should be left untouched. Every intelligent
man in the United States knows that this
| position was taken by the republicans be-
| cause they felt the necessity of aggressive
| antagonism. These purely political STRAIT
agems were not concurred in by
| the real statesmen and sagacious
| business men in the republican party. The
charge so often made by the republicans
that the democrats could not unite upon q
| tariff measure, was exploded and rebuked
| by the almost unanimous democratic vote
upon the excellent bill passed by the House
| in July. The most astute and far-seeing re-
publican politicians insisted that their best
policy was to criticse all democratic meas
| ures, and though tainted to produce some
thing better. they by non-action, admitted
| their inability to do SO.
OBJECT OF THE BILL.
When our bill reached the Senate, the
party leaders who engineer the political