Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-01

SopyIlShb .hehsHres
wAsAISGroS, May The feature in the
House proceedings yesterday Was tariff dis
cussion.
The call of States for the introduction OF
bills for reference was dispensed with and
the members were permitted TO file their
measures at the clerks desk.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole on the tariff bill, and Mr.. Grosve-
nor, of Ohio, took the floor in opposition to
the bill. He said the internal revenue
system ought to have been the first to have
disappeared. after the close of the war, and
claimed that the Morrill, protective bill
was O political measure and was passed by
the House in 1860, being defeated in the
Senate that year by the Southern Senators,
whose absence from the Senate in 1861
made it possible for the bill to pass the
Senate in that year. and that i: was signed
by President James Buchanan and Vice
President John c. Breckenridge, and it
was the irony of fate that the gifted son OF
the latter was one of the men who to-day
denounced il in most eloquent language.
Mr.. Grosvenor said that the representa-
tives of the same states that prevented the
passage of the Morrill, tariff bill in 1860,
were those who few weeks ago stood in
the way of, and defeated q just measure for
bAlC VI a QutstlOh
which sollowed the war Mr.. Grosvenor
had no fear of anxiety in regard to the sur
plus. If the Government would to-day pay
its honest debts there would not be a dol
lar of surplus. In reply TO a remark from
Mr.. Hemphill, Mr.. GroSyenor said that If
the internal revenue system was abolished,
the present tariff would not produce
more revenue than the Government need
ed The proposition of the Republicans is
remove internal taxes was not in the inter
est of free whisky or free tobacco, but was
to remit to the States the power of taxation
and TO permit the States to take the place of
the general Government. In concluding
his argument Mr.. Grosvenor insisted that
under the administration of the Republf-
can party, the country had grown in wealth
and prosperity in ratio never before wit
messed in this or any other country, while
under Democratic administrations the
country had stood STILL or refrigerated.
- MIR. Rayner, of Maryland, in supporting
the bill said the Democratic party had
issued tariff reform notes to the people, and
the question was whether it would pay or
repudiate. The people wanted the Govern
ment to stop robbing them. The Govern
ment did not require the surplus to pay its
debts. The contest was one between pro-
tected monopoly and capital on one hand,
and unprotected people and taxpayers on
the other and he stood with the unpro-
tected people for revenue reform. Mr.
Rayner criticised severely the trusts of the
country, especially the Standard Oil, which
he pronounced one of fraud, corruption
and oppression.
Mr.. Cannen, of Illinois. asked Mr.. Ray
ner II he did not know that the President
had appointed one of the principal repre-
ssntatives of the Standard 0il-a represen-
ntive by relation if not otherwise-Secre-
tsry of the Navy, and that another repre-
sentative of that trust was the Senator of
his party from Ohio.
Nr. Rayner replied that the fact of .
mans being the son-in-law of somebody
connected with the trust, did not mix up
with the fraud In concluding, Mr.. Ray
ner denied that any man could be . DEM
ocrst and remain in favor Of the protec-
tue system. II the party broke its
promise now to the people, they
would never again believe it. II
the pressure OF local interest was re-
gsrded ROW, the party was doomed, and
doomed it deserved 10 be, for the party
did not deserve TO live that had not the
moral courage of its convictions
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, opposed the
bill. The Democrats, he said, snapped and
snarled at the tariff laws, and none of
them had kind word to say about the
revenue policy which had taken bank
rupt treasury and impoverished country
out of the hands of the Democratic party,
and made the country the imperial, incom-
perably happy and prosperous country of
the earth. He criticised the bill as Grip
pling where 1t should support, and tearing
down where it should build up.
Mr.. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, in op-
posing the bill, said that the pending strug-
gle WAS one between England and America
And he characterized the bill as wicked
assault upon the industries OF New En-
gland. 1t should, he said, be entitled
bill ITO reduce New England to the posi-
ton of dependency of Great Britain"
Mr.. Gallinger preferred the protective to
the destructive policy, and so, he said.
would the South when it came to know the
benefits Of protection. As to raw material
so much talked about-what was it? 1t
was not pig iron, or even the water we
brought into our houses, each and all repre-
sented labor He knew of no raw material
except the Democratic statesman. Coming
TO the surplus question, he said the sur
plus was large-not because of the tariff
laws, but because of the. niggardliness of
the Democratic party. The Republican
party desired the house to pass general
pension hill, to provide for fortifcations
and ornaments, and for extending en-
couragement to the American merchant
marine; but the Democrat party shouted
no, with an unanimity that was at once
suggestive and startling.
When Mr.. Gallinger concluded the COM
mittee rose, and the House at $50 ad-
journed.
The Senate.
The feature of the Senate proceedings yes
terday was discussion of the internationl
copyright bill. Among the bills reported