Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-13
WASHINGTON.
End of the Weeks Work
in Congress.
THE MILLS TARIFF BILL.
One Week More Allowed For Its
DiscussiOn-Coleman Failure
Figures in the Debate.
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/ WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE House,
after passing the Senate bill granting
the right of way to the Fort Smith
and Ell Paso Railroad Company
through the Indian Territory, went
into Committee Of the Whole on the
tariff bill.
Hanger, of Wisconsin, concluded
his speech in opposition to the bill.
He addressed himself especially to
the labor question as it was affected
by the tariff.
| Townshend, OF Illinois, spoke in
support of the bill. The issue, he
said, was not between protection and
| free trade. The only issue raised bv
the bill was whether Congress would
reduce the high tariff created by the
war, which was wholly unnecessary
now, and produced distress among
the masses Of the people. The bill
did not 60 far enough. 1t did moi
go 80 far as the President
had intended it should 60, nor
so far as Senator Sherman had de-
Oiai Ou ~ nii6hV ooioiy ", yob ~ gave
relief to the overtaxed people and
would have his cordial support. Il
was conservative and judicious modi-
fication of the tariff on fair business
basis. He denied that the bill was .
sectional one. Several gentlemen
have been wild with fear that coal
and iron ore were put upon the free
list by the bill. He denied that the
bill did this; bnt even if it did, it was
strange that the Democrats should be
arraigned in bloody-shirt speeches as
disloyal, when they simply stepped in
the footprints of the leading Repub-
licans in the Senate.
Kelly said the bid in roundabout
but efectual way put coal and iron
ore on the free list.
Townshend replied he had been in
formed if the bill was equivodal on
that point it would be amended; but
even if the bill did put coal on the
| free list, was that crime, wheu
gentlemen who were among the most
potent of the Republican leaders de-
manded coal should go on the free list
at time when the rate Of taxation
was less than it was to-day? In 1871
Gen. Garfield had voted to put coal
and salt on the free list, as had Frye,
Hale and Dawes.
/ Kelly explained Garfield's conver-
sion to the protection doctrines.
| Townshend-W What WAS your reason
for disobeying the action Of The Re-
publican caucus year after 5ardeId's
conversion?
Kelly-What right have you to in
terrogate as to my personal relations
and personal reasons? There are
other questions than tariff in the
world.
Townshend disclaimed any inten-
ton to pry into Kelly's personal at
fairs.
Passing to consideration of the
bill, Townshend declared that no Rep
resentative from the West could vote
against it without betraying his con-
stituents. He did not charge i'm
proper motives. The gentlemen
might be deluded, but if they were
sincere in their advocacy of protec-
ton, they we're deluded to such an
extent as to obstruct what was to the
best interests of the people. The
time for action was at hand. The
Democratic party must redeem the
pledges it had given to the people.
The line of demarkation between the
two great National parties was defined
in the bill.
i Cannon, of Illinois, said it always
occurred to him that when his col
league (Townshend) spoke, that his
, colleagues highest ambition was
not to discuss the question on
the broad ground of principle, but
| to delve back in the past and try
to establish his case, by showing that
; somebody who disagreed with him
agreed with him some time ago. His
, colleague had said that he (Cannon)
misapprehended his constituents in
terests for those OF Massachusetts.
: Illinois to-day had more wealth than
Massachusetts, and had as many man
ufactories as Massachusetts, and some
of these days the Rip Van Winkl0
, sleep which overspread the district
, his colleague represented, would be
, broken, and the sound of the ham
! mer and the hum of spindles would
be heard there, then his colleage
: would be converted.
Milliken, of Maine (alluding to .
!; remark of Townshend as to Blaine be-
3ing repudiated by the people) thought
} ! it was very wonderful that 9 gentle
man in foreign land pursuing his
I business, in his own way, troubling
, nobody, taking no part in American
: politics, escept to be interested, a.
every patriotic American must be,
should be such source Of anxiety as
he was. The gentleman had said that
4 Blaine had been repudiated by the
people, but the statement was not
true. He had been repudiated by
D certain Democratic methods which in
: certain districts Of the country pre-
a vented the people from speaking their
voice. He (Milliken) would say to
: the gentleman, neither he nor his par
Z ty dared to accept the honest verdict
of the people.
Kean, of New York, -spolD against
the bill. He characterized it as .
D sacrifice of the industries of the coun-
O. try to the interest Of President Cleve-
! land.
Allen, of Mississippi, referring to
some remarks made by Foran, of
> Ohio, concerning the South, said he
wondered where that gentleman
learned all he knew of the South. II
4 the gentleman knew no more about
the doctrines of protection and free
u trade, than he did about the South, he
never ought to speak about tariff.
d Foran suggested that he learned
something about the South in 1864.
al Allen, referring to the remark made
= by Morrow, Of California, that the re-
cent failure of w. T. Coleman & Co
= was attributed to the fact that the
J. Mills bill put borax on the free List,
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