Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-05

Mr.. Savers, Of TEXAS, a dressed the nous,
At tue evening session 10 general commends
;ioa OF the Mills tariff bill. The house at
O'Clock adjourned.
W~AsHINGToS, April y. On motion of Mr.
Durham, of Illinois, the senate ameudmen
was corcurred III tothe house bill authorlzlu.
the city % Chicago to erect a crib in LAX
Mich gan for water works purposes.
The house adopted a resolution calling o.
the secretary OF the treasury for information
relative TO the seal fisheries in Alaska.
The house then went into committee of thu
whole, Mr.. Springer, OF Illinois, In the char
on the tariff bill.
Mir. Brewer, OF Michigan, gladly welcomed
! the issue presented by the pending measure
For three years OF Democratic administrator
the Democratic party had played last and loose
on the great tariff question, until the necessi
ties OF the government had compelled the al
ministration TO take some decided position,
and he honored the president for having
forced his party to stop its double dealing and
define It's attitude. He then advocated the
protection system. He wanted to see thai
system continued which had made this land
grow and prosper beyond all others. He waf
especially earnest In his opposition to the free
wool clause, which, he said, would ruin an In
durtry national in Importance.
Mr.. Ford OF Mict igan said the question
presented was one Of tariff reduction, no
abolition. Congress had no right To take tn,
part OF a few manufacturers against the grea'
body Of consumers. But that was just wha'
had been done. No industries showed NOR,
poverty, more destitution and more strikes
among their workingmen than those so-calle
protected ones. Referring to the claim tina
the home market was the best market, Mr.
Ford said the result Of this home market
swindle IL that the farmer WAS most besuti
fully deluded. The high tariff party gets hi'
money and the farmer gets the hot end Of the
poker. He attributed the existence Of pool:
to the continuance OF high tariff.
Mr.. Coil Of West Virginia spoke in opposi
ton TO the bill. President Cievelsna's cold
blooded Indifference TO the benefits Of the
people was entitled to precedence over al
emapations from the executive mansion In al
our history. From such a spirit as Presiden,
Cleveland exhibited, dominating almost with
a single impulse the Democratic side o!
the house, he (Gof) would save our In.
du tries AMI our homes. The Mills bill wa,
conceived by minds ~impregnsted with ecouo
mic viciousness. Its passage would be tn,
dcath knell Of protection. While 1t was no
all its fricnns hoped for, 1t wa, in the line OF
legislation they los had sought and mourn.
ed because they found it not. If they sue
cecded now they proposed next year to take
another step and gradually but surely the
people were to be marched into the camp O.
those who conteniei for tariff for rev, nue.
only. That system, as far as labor was in
volved AMI industries concerned, was as bad
as free trade. The people had been deceived
in the last presidential campaign by the dec
l~aration that Cleveland was a protectionist
The hand OF Esau would be offered again, but
the people would not again be deceived. TIL
people had at last found out the Democratic
party. In conclusion he said the protective
system had enabled the government to per
feet a sy stem Of finances which was the mar
vel OF the age. 1t had fostercd our in
dustries, built up our manufacturer
and opened up our wildernesses. 1t had dig
niied our labor and educated our people. i
had made the flag OF our country typify al
that was great ia human action, all that wa
grand In human tho ,ght, and God only knew
what 1t would do for our land IL the Demo
cratic party would let it alone.
Mr.. Landes, of Illinois, submitted an srgu
ment in support OF the bill in opposition tC
the protective theory. While heartily advo
eating the bill he regretted that 1t touched
whisky and tobacco taxes, which, instead OF
being reduced, should be increased.
The committee then rose and the house
took a recess until $ p. IN the evening SEES
sion to bc for the consideration of private
pension bills.