Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-12
Some Red Hot Oratory.
A Lively Political Argument in
 the House.
MEMBERS ENGAGE wORDY WAR
Messrs. Wilson and Phelps and Weaver and Henderson the warriors-The Son. ate Discusses Mail Subsidias-Sunset Cox's Census Bin Passed.


 ate Discusses Mail subsidias-sunsst Cox's Census Bill Passed.
 WASHINGTON, July 12-The feature of the house proceedings yesterday was an animated political debate while ill committee of the whole on the tariff bill, in which Mir. Phelps interview the Chicago nominations and Mr. Ingall's letter were the chief topics ot discussion.
 A conference was ordered on the land for feiture bill
 MT. Hatch, of Missouri, submitted the re- port of the conference committee on the agri- cultural appropriation bill. The conferees disagreed on the senate amendment appro- priating $1O0,0 900 to continue the experiments in sugar from sorghum.
 Mir. Ryan, of Kansas. urged concurrence in the amendment, and made a motion to that effect.
 After debate the amendment was con- cured in, which passed the bill.
 The conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to.
 The house then went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill The pending amendment was that of MT. Phelps, fixing the rate of duty on flax or linen thread, and all manufactures of hemp at 40 per cent. ad valorem In discussing his proposition MT. Phelps charged the Democratic members of the ways and means committee with going in the dark and framing bill code of de- cisions, which like the law of the Medes and Persans, ''altereth not" That was the first step in the great drama, which, if success fully carried out, would destroy the inter- ests of American industry. There was but one step left in their desperation, and they had to take it. MT. Phelps referred to the caucus action, and said that resolution was unanimously passed that no amendment offered in the house should receive the sup port of the Democrats, unless the amend ment was first passed upon and approved by the Democratic caucus
 Mr. Wilson, of Minnesota, denied the state. ment
 Mir. Phelps said that the report had been dicted until now, and however hard it might be, he would accept the contradiction, all though expressing surprise that resolution which existed only in the mind of news paper reporter had been obeyed implicitly by members who had never heard of it. The chairman of the ways and means committee might boast that the house would pass the bill next week; he (Phelps) was confident that the people of the United States would not pass the Mills bill next November (appause). In regard to the pending para.
 
 throw thousands of skilled workmen out of employment and that the machinery which gave them employment would be reshipped to the country from which it had come. The American people said: ''For Gods sake let the Republican party, which devised and which knows and loves this enginery, repair it, if repair is necessary, and not leave it to the blundering of half hearted Democracy
 MT. Weaver, of Iowa, expressed his sur prise to find the gentleman advocating an increase of duty on thread, and exclaiming in the next breath that he was the friend of the workingman. He then sent to the clerks desk and had read portions of the interview with MT. Phelps published soon after the Chicago convention, in which MT. Phelps states that it was polite to select a granger candidate-alluding to Senator Allison. Mir. Weaver, commenting on the interview, said that the farmers of Iowa had been spurned in the convention, and they would not in November ratify their own humilia- tion. Continuing, Mr. Weaver said that Senator Allison had been punished in Chicago because he lived in granger state, which passed laws unfriendly to railroads He would like to hear whether Mr. Henderson indorsed what the gentleman from New Jersey had given as the reason for the re- jection of the distinguished senator M to him it WAS absolute knowledge) that the attitude to Iowa ill respect to railroad legis. lation had lost Senator Allison single vote in the convention He Henderson, was with his colleague ill asserting the right of the people of his state to control the corporations that might be operated within it. His friend and neighbor, Senator Allison, did not abate his belief that the sovereignty of the people should be recognized in the control of cor. porations. Iowa, as ill the past, would, thii fall, in spite of rantings and misrepresenta. tions, plant itself in the front rank of the Re | publican states for Harrison and Morton | (Applause.)
 Mr. Weaver said the house had the open confession of the gentleman from New Jersey that his interview was truthful, and had iu this interview the gentleman's idea of western | men Now he wanted to show what a western man thought of the eastern man He sent to the clerks desk and had read amid much laughter and applause on the l Democratic side, the letter written by Sena tor Ingalls, to a member of the Kansas dele | gation during the Chicago convention. 1 Mir. Henderson said that since the gentle l man had pleased to give the house little literature (and it was believed by some that this literature had been stolen) he (Heuder son) would also give the house a little litera I had read numerous extracts from speeche: delivered by Mir. Weaver from 1866 to 1872 in which he bitterly assailed the Democratic party as party full of stench and poison which should be plotted from the vocabulary of a civilized land and handed over to tht barbarism which it so fitly represented
 Mir. Weaver said that the speeches whici had been read had been uttered by him il times past when the situation was entirely different from what it was now. Derisiv, laughter on the Republican side.) He wen on to explain why he had changed hi political faith. Mir. Henderson implied tha it was because he (Weaver) had been defeated for nomination to be governor.
 Mir. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, opposed the Phelps amendment, and it was rejected.
 An amendment was adopted changing th rate of duty on bags and bagging from | per cent ad valorem to $ of cent pe pound.
 Other amendments were offered and re jected. The wool sections of the bill wer then read as one paragraph.
 Mir Caswell, of Wisconsin, offered al amendment to the wool sections, substitutin, N-1.