Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-15
CAPITAL DOINGS.
The House Discusses the
Mills Bill.
THRSUN-FLOWER STATE AGAIN
No Fillibustering Tactics in the
Tariff Debate-River and
HarbOr Bill.

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tAssociated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-Bynum, OF
Indiana, reported with amendments
the Senate bill granting pensions to
ex.soldiers and sailors who are inca
pacitated for the performance of man
ual labor, and providing for depend
ent relatives of deceased soldiers and
sailors. Referred to Committee of
the whole.
Whitthorne, OF Tennessee, from the
Committee on Indian Depredations
Claims, reported bill to provide for
the adjudication and payment OF
claims arising from Indian depreda-
tions. Referred to Committee of the
Whole. !
The House proceeded, in Commit
tee of the Whole, to the consideration
of the bill authorizing the Secretary Of
the Treasury to settle and pay the
claim of the State of Florida on &C.
count OF the expenditures made in
suppressing hostilities.
Perkins, of Kansas, said the bill
presented no new legislation, but it
did contain provision for the pay
mont of a Choctaw judgment. This
judgment, amounting to $1,000, 900,
was now drawing 5 per cent. interest,
and he could see no relief for the Gov
ernment, except an act ofrepudiasion.
Then, passing from the subject of In
dians, Perkins addressed himself to
the
QUESTION OF TARIFF.
He criticized the recent speech made
by Nelson, of Minnesota, and pro-
,ceeded to argue that the wealth of the
country was due in q great degree to
the system of protection. He criti-
cized the Mills bill, because upon ex-
animation he found that almost every
article raised by the American farmer
was placed upon the free list, while
whatever protection there was in the
bill was in favor OF capital. The bill
might be considered to be report to
theHouse of the Representative ! OF the
Southern States, and when the ante
cedents of these gentlemen and
the convictions they have heretofore
entertained were considered. it was
now remarkable that they had made
no provision for labor. A few years
ago they said capital should own its
labor, should lash its labor, should
sell its labor. He sent to the clerk g
desk and had read, for the purpose of
showing Southern sentiment on the
subject of free trade and labor, ex-
tracts from the Confederate Constitu-
ton. Continuing, Perkins criticized
the Mills bill as
A STRIKING DOWN
OF the products of the field and putting
the laborers of America in competition
with the laborers OF the old world,
except, perhaps, in the case of the
rice growers OF the South and the cot
ton growers, who get their iron bands
free of duty, while the Northern farm
or must pay on hoop iron for hopping
hay. He hoped that in the coming
debate there would be no hypocrisy
that the mask would be removed
and the hideous face of free trade ex-
posed, with all its deiormi'ies. While
the ToNnsht a 10 and Springers have
been allowed to indulge in platitudes,
the gentlemen from the South have
been ad dmonished to sit still, but he
hoped that now they would demand
to be heard. After they had fillibust-
cred against the bill, which proposed
to pay $l7,O00,000 to the Northern
States, it was right the Democratic
house should surrender to them. AL
len, of Mississippi, thought it was a
pity that Perkins could not get his
head out 40
THE DARK CUPBOARD
And walk squarely up to the pace of
to-day instead Of going back to slavery
and rebellion. 1t WAS to the credit Of
the Democrats of the House tn
they had something better to talk
about than the issues which had been
dead for twenty Ave years, and if any
Democrat had nothing to talk about
but dead issues, he hoped he would
be expelled from the Democratic side
of the House, and male tc
take a seat beside the gentle
man from Kansas, where he
could stick his nose into the cupboard
where Perkins had his. No man on
the Ways and Means Committee was
in favor of slave labor. They had all
had as much respect for white labor
in this country as had the gentleman
from Kansas or any other person wbt
would vote against the bill. ''Hov
about black labor?" asked Perkins
"It is free and independent as white
labor in Kansas" said Allen. Chow
about voting?" asked Perkins. Nc
Millen, of Tennessee, replied: "The.
vote as they please"
Perkins elbow about chain-gangs ir
Arkansas and Texas?" Allen replied
There is no law in Mississippi or Ar
kansas that does not confine white
felons to the chain-gang just as
QUICKLY AS BLACK ONES"
Joseph, of New Mexico, addresse,
the committee in favor of the admis
sion of New Mexico as State int,
the Union. He pointed out the ef
forts heretofore put forth in the terri
tory to secure statehood and state'
that the population, resources ant
character Of the people were such a
entitled the territory to immediat
admission into the Union on Al
equal footing with the origina
States. He referred to the statement
contained in the minority report {
the House Committee on Territories
and entered solemn protest agains
the charges in that report against th
character of the people Of New Me,
leo. The people were as honest, q
virtuous, as intelligent and as capabl
of Improvement as were the people I
other states of the country. The bi
was then considered by section
Without finishing the consideration
the Indian bill. the committee ros
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