Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-16
STILL TALKING TARIFF.

SATURDAYS SESSION OF THE HOUSE
DEYOTED TO 1T.
both sides of the Subject fairly Stated by
the Orators OF the Respective Parties
The Debate to Last All this Week.
| The House.
| WAsHINGToN, May 12.-The house after
| passing the Senate bill granting the right OF
| way to the Fort Smith & El Paso railroad
| through the Indian Territory, went into
committee of the whole on the tariff bill.
| The Delnocratic members of the house COM
| mittee on ways and means have decided to
consent to extension OF general debate on
| the tariff bill, which was to have closed on
| Wednesday next, to the following Satur-
day. The decision was arrived at this
morning after consultation with leading
representative. members and the assurance
was said to have been given that the extern
sion would not result in any postponement
of final action on the bill.
Hougten of Wisconsin concluded a speech
in opposition to the bill. He addressed
himself especially to the labor question, as
| it was effected by the tariff.
TowNsHEND OF ILLINOIS
spoke in favor OF the bill. The issue, he
| said was not between protection and free
trade. The only issue raised by the biff
was whether Congress would reduce the
1 u 4aI IT,, he Oh
was wholly unnecessary now, and pro-
ductd distress among the masses OF the
people. The bill did not go far enough. 1t
did not 20 SO far as the President intended
it should 90, nor SO far as Senator Sher-
man had declared it might safely go, yet it
gave relief to the overtaxed people, and
would have his cordial support. 1t was
Pconservative and judicious, a modifica-
ton of the tariff on a fair business basis.
He denied that the bill was sectional one.
Several gentleman had been wild with fear
that coal and iron were pat upon the free
list by the bill He denied that the bill did
this. but even if it did. it was strange that
Democrats should be arraigned in bloody
shirt speeches as disloyal, when they SIM
ply stepped in the footprints OF leading Re-
publicans in the Senate.
KELLY SAID
the bill did in roundabout, but effectual
way put coal and iron on the free list.
Townshend replied that he had been in
formed that if the bill was equivocal on
tLuL Joint, it would be amended. but
even il the bill did put coal on the free list
was that crime? When the gentleman,
who were among the most potent of the
Republican leaders demand that coal
should GO on the free list at time when
the rate OF taxation was less than it was
to-day. In 1871, General Garfield had
voted to put c,,al and salt on the free list,
as had FRYE, Hale and Dawes. Kelly then
explained Garfield's conversion to the
protection doctrines. Mr.. Townshend
asked, what was your reason for disobey-
ing the action OF the Republican caucus the
year after Garfield's conversation?
Kelly: What right have you to inter-
rogate as to my personal relations and
personal reasons? There are other questions
than tariff in the world.
Townshend disclaimed any intention OF
desiring to pry into Kelly's personal affairs.
Passing to consideration OF the bill
TowNsHEND DECLARED
that no representative from the West
could vote for it without betraying his con-
stituents. He did not charge improper
motives The gentlemen might be deluded,
but if they were sincere in the advocacy OF
protecti n, they were deluded to such an
extent as to obstruct what was the best
interests OF the people. The time for &C
ton was at hand. The Democratic party
must redeem the pledges it has given the
people. The line of demarkatiOn between
the two great national parties was clearly |
defined in the bill. Cannon, of Illinois, |
said it always occurred to him that when
his colleagues (Townshend) spoke, that his
colleagues highest ambition was not to dis. |
cuss the question on the broad ground OF
principle but to delve b ck in the past and
try to establish his case by showing that
somebody who disagreed with him now
agreed with him.
SOME TIME AGO
his colleague had said he (Cannon) misap-
pretended his constituents interest of
Massachusetts. Illinois had to-day more
wealth than Massachusetts, and had as
many manufactures as Massachusetts,,
and some OF these days the Rip Van Win
kle sleep which overspread the district his
colleague represented would be broken, and
the sound Of the hammer and the hum OF
the spindle would be heard there. Then
his colleague would be converted. Mllliken
of Maine, alluding to the remark OF Towns
hends g to the effect that Blaine had been
repudiated by the people, thought it was
very wonderful that the gentleman in a
foreign land, pursuing his own business in
his own way, troubling nobody, taking no
part in American politics, except to be in
terested, as every patriotic American must
be, should be
THE SOURCE OF TOO MUCH ANXIETY
as he was. The gentleman had said that
Blaine had been repudiated by the people,
but the statement was not true. He had
been repudiated by certain Democratic
methods which, in certain sections OF the
country, prevented the people from speak
ing their voice. He (Milliken) would say
to the gentleman that neither he nor his
party dared to accept the honest verdict
of the people. Kean of New York spoke
against the bill. He characterized it as a
sacrifice OF the Industries of the country
to the interest of President Cleveland.
Allen of Mississippi, referring to some re-
marks made by Foran of Ohio, concerning
the South. said he considered where the
gentleman learned all he knew about the
South. If the gentlemen knew no more
about the doctrines OF protection and
free trade than he did about the South, he
never ought to speak about the tariff.
Foran suggested that he had learned
SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOUTH
in 1864. Allen, referring to a remark made
by Morrow, of California, that the recent
failure OF VIM. T. Col man & Co., was at
tributed to the fact that the Mills bill had
put borax on the free list, said the firm
was engaged in a combination to raise the
price of borax from to TX cts. per pound:
Morrow suggested that before the native
article of borax was produced, the price
never had been below % cents per pound.
Allen hoped that the Mills bill would treat
every other trust in the same way. Ii
there could be no graver charge brought
against the measure than that it had burst
trusts, he said, let the good work go on.
LEHLBACK, OF NEW JERSEY, SAID
that the President deserved the admiration
OF the Republication party for having
| taken away all possibility Of a deceptive
campaign, in the manufacturing States OF
the Union. For years the Democratic
party had deceived people OF his district as
| to the true status OF that party. In vain
| would the Dem ocratic political managers
again attempt to inaugurate the dishonest
| methods of campaigu The President has