Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
TARIFF REVISION. !.

Debate Continued ON the Senate Se1th
dakota BIZ : Presidential Aspirppts
/ Heard From The Deadlock In the
i House Finally Broken by Adjournnent
| WASHINGTON, April 12.-Stewart offered
a resolution which was adopted calling on
the Secretary of State for information as
/ to the case Of John Prussia naturalre
American citizen who has been pressed ITO
the military service of France.
| TO BE INVESTIGATED.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-Reports having
been made to the treasury that several
steamers on the Pacific Coast are n}ing
petroleum as fuel and that it causedIthe
recent boiler explosion near Vallejo, Heres
| tary Fairehild has instructed Supervis!Ag
Inspector Lubbock to make an investVt
tion and report the result to the dep
mant
The motion to refer the President
nual message was taken up and Coke adj
dressed the Senate. Speaking of the sur.
plus OF ons hundred and forty millions in
the Treasury he said that the causes which
tOOk JudI HiOucy HCcuiccciy ioIi eHO
pockets OF the people and the channels OF
trade were continuing and produced more
aggravated results each successive year.
Unless the causes were removed ormcdified,
calamity fatally involving al the in
dustrial interests of the country must
follow. In view of this emergency
the President had urgently recon-
mended such revision OF the
tariff and reduction OF duties on imports as
would reduce the revenues to the limit re-
quired for the support OF Government. The
President was simply voicing demand
that came from the people OF the whole |
country. Coke said that consumers did
not complain OF the tax on distilled spirits,
malt liquors and tobacco: as that tax
added nothing to the cost OF living and 1t |
was not strange that the President should |
recommend its retention and that the |
necessary Ieducti II OF revenue be made by |
cutting down the tariff taxes. II the re- |
duction should be made in this way SIS Of |
tribute paid by the ..eopla to manufactur- |
ers would be cut off for every
dollar cut off from revenue. High |
tariff protection was demanded on the |
ground of the necessity of protecting |
American labor against European pauper |
competition. A more false, heartless and |
groundless pretext had never been invented |
to justify or cover up great wrong. 1t |
was on the farmers OF the country that the |
protective tariff fell with most crushing |
weight. Wool should be placed on the free |
list, but it ought to be done in the interest |
OF the consumer, not OF the manufacturer.
He regarded sugar as the best revenue pay
ing item on the tariff list and one carrying |
with it less of incidental burden thin any
other, and he thought it would therefore be |
wise to leave the duty on sugar as it was.
The attention OF the people could not be |
diverted from the real question at issue. |
A sectional "bloody shirt" canvass had /
already been commenced by the Republican
party for the purpose of binding the people |
with passion SO they might not see how
and by whom they were being plunderedF
At the close OF Cokes speech the Senate
resumed consideration of the bill to pro-
vide for the admission OF South Dakota /
urpie spoke in opposition to the bill OF |
the majority of the committee, and in
support OF that of the minority. South
Dakota, he said, is not a Territory or di-
vision of the Union. 1t was merely a |
geographical expression. He denied the |
right of the people of the Territory to e.
ia blish division OF it, and said the peo-
pie OF the whole Union had d right to be
heard as to the propriety of such a divis,
ion. There had been an expression OF the
popular will st a convention Isid n ,Ssessai
whole Territory were against division, and
desired an enabling act, as provided the
minority bill.
Cullom spoke in favor Of the majority
bill. Reviewing the history OF the ques-
tion he declared that in every instance
where vote wss taken in favor OF admis-
sion OF the State OF South Dakota Repub-
lican Senators had all voted for it and the
Democrats all against it and when the bill
went to the House of Represen tatives
that distinguished Democratic body re-
ferred it to the Committee on Territories
where it was at once reported back ad
verseIy This Territory had been knocking
AT the doors OF Congress for years with a
population very much larger than any
other Territory ever admitted as a State.
The opposition to the admission OF Dakota
was based on the fact that the Democrats
did not want any further political COM
plications thrust upon the country until
after the next Presidential election.
Butler, OF south Carolina, said that he
had voted steadily to admit the whole OF
Dakota as State, and would do SO now.
Mr.. Cullom continuing: The figures OF
the electoral college viii not be changed be-
fore 1892. You may prevent US changing
the figures through the admission OF South
Dakot a but we intend to change the figures
by an honest vote of the States already in.
l think am warranted in saying that this
bill has come to be the subject OF serious
caucus convention by the Democrats OF
the two houses and suppose il has been
decreed that no bill shall pass Congress ad-
mitting Dakota as State until after the
next Presidential election.
Butler: I am sure my friend from Illi-
nois will MT require the votes OF that Ter
ritory at thenext election. | understand
he has been announced as q Republican
candidate. think he will have enough
votes without Dakota.
Cullom Qaugbing): think 81, too, but
still 1 would like TO have them, neverthe-
less.
Butler: Our amiable friend from Iowa
may have something to say on the sub |
ject?
Allison iatimated by gesture that he
had nothing to say.
"Then perhaps the eSenatorfromVe Yer 90
may have something to say" 81 I4s1 ii |
Butler.
II shall have something to say oa the |
subject" was Edmunds' response.
The Senate proceeded to executive busl- |
ness, and soon adjourned till Monday.