Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-12
WASHING TON.
Cullom and Platt Speak on
the Tariff Bill.
TEARS FOR ROACH AND RANDALL.
Mitchell's New Postal Bill-Chinesp
Exclusion Meant to Exclude.
Adjournment.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERAI,

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD |
WASHINGTON, October IL In the Sen.
ate the House bill appropriating $5O,-
600 for the enforcement of the Chinese
Exclusion act, was reported by Allison
and passed.
Mitchell then proceeded to address the
Senate in advocacy of the bill heretofore
introduced by him to reduce letter post.
age to one cent. In the event of the
proposed letter postage reduction being
carried out, Senator Mitchell thought
there was no good reason why the unit of
weight should not be fixed at two ounces
instead Of one, and why fourth-class
matter of merchandise should not be
put on an equality with third-cass
With these changes all the present absurd
distinctions between first, third and
fourth class matter would be wiped out.
The uniform rate of one cent for every
two ounces would exist on all matter ex-
cept newspapers and periodicals sent to
subscribers. The annoyance that so
often results from the detention of mat
vi iOi ihcuLiiSlCht POStdRC WOulu QlSdD-
pear. The temptation to petty fraud by
the concealment of written matter in
matter of a lower grade would vanish,
and absolute privacy could be given to
every parcel of matter mailed, for there
would no longer be any reason why it
should not all be sealed. The bill was
referred to the Postofiice Committee.
The Senate then resumed considera-
ton of the tariff bill, and was addressed
by Cullom.
A FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
In the course of his remarks Cullom
made reference to Vests letter hereto
fore frequently referred to as the struggle
being a Eight to the death"
Vest said he wanted to make state
ment as to that letter. 1t was a private
letter written on his desk in the Senate
during debate and afterward type
written by his secretary. If he had the
slightest suspicion that it would have
been made public he would certainly
have been more particular in framing its
sentences and in the verbiage used, but
to any fair minded man the letter was
plain and unequivocable. He sent it to
the Clerks desk and had read the orr
ginal memorandum from which the let
ter was written, including the following
sentences: 1--WE are entering upon
most fearful Presidential contest, the
most important since that of 1900. Cleve
land by his message (for which sim
cerely honor him) has challenged the
protected industries of the country to
fight of determination. The men who
are accumulating immense fortunes un-
der the present laws are determined to
defeat Cleveland if money and industry
will accomplish it. 1t is useless to dis
guise the fact that the fight is to the
death and we would be idiots to ignore
that fact'
Vest added that any man who did not
the difference between a letter
written under the circumstances under
which that letter was written and one
written to be submitted to the fierce
criticism of political opponents, would
have no further explanation from him.
What he had written and what the letter
fairly construed-did say was that the
issue was between the principle of abso-
lutte and unlimited protection, which he
the Republican party advo-
Gated, and incidental protection from
revenue taxes properly adjusted, and
that on that issue the fight was to the
death.
Collum remarked that the explanation
made the matter no better.
At the close of Columns speech Platt
addressed the Senate.
THE WOODEN NUTMEG BLovIATER.
Conspiracy against labor, Platt said
pervaded not a chapter merely, but a
whole volume of American history. 1t
had often seemed on the eve of victory,
had often seemed to triumph; but in the
hour of its victory it had been beaten
down and baffled and overthrown, now
by the ballots of the laboring men, and
again by their bullets on fercely con-
tested fields. That conspiracy against
labor had early obtained control of the
Democratic party; through the success of
that party it hoped for the accomplish
ment of its purpose, and now it seemingly
awaited but the reelection of Grover
Cleveland to carry out its ruinous de-
signs. 1t was and always had been
sectional conspiracy, and its name was
Free Trade. Its chief conspirators had
always had their home in the same Sec
tion of the country. 1t had started IN South
Carolina with Calhoun. Its desire had
been two-fold first, to extend the Southern
system, where labor should be unpaid
and ignorant, and second ito circumscribe
the Northern system, system which in
couraged intelligence, virtue and self
respecting and respected labor. The
means by which this was to be accom-
plished was Free Trade. What he meant
by Free Trade was not the closing of the
Custom Houses, but what all CONNER.
cial nations meant by il was a system
opposed to protection. There was not a
leading Democrat in the United States
to-day in full communion with his party,
enjoying the confidence of the adminstra-
ton, who dared to say that he was Pro-
tectionist; whatever of1protection senti-
ment and courage there had been in any
leading Democrat, had been crushed out
under the iron heel of the administration.
If t,y the means the Democrats are now
employing, by the deception they are
now using, by the imposture by which
the are now attempting to secure the la
boring-men of the North, Grover Cleve-
land should be reelected, these men
would rise in their might once more, put
down Free Trade and demand Protection.
But it would be sad experience for
them to 60 through.
HE wEEPs FOR RANDALL.
He mentioned as one of the saddles
incidents in American history the party
ostracism of Randall and his defeat for
the Speakership because he was a Pro-