Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-12
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| WASHINETON. May 1l.-After the morn
| ing business bad been finished the houss
| went into committee of the whole On thu
tariff bill and Mr.. Scott took the floor.
Mr.. Scott began his speech with defenct
Of the science of political economy and the
correctness of its conclusions.
He asked whether this great country
sixty million strong, with inventive genius
keener, with labor more skilled, than any
! other people on the globe, should decline
to compete with supremacy in the marts OF
mankind, and continue forever to trade
among ourselves. under the insane idea
that we were growing rich by the process
Our friends, the enemy, said: Let Us
build Chinese wall around this young
| and vigorous people whose eager enter
prise already chafes under the bonds OF
nature, and if we cannot make it wholly
impervious let us make it as nearly SO as
We can" They were bourbons, bourbons,
and of the densest kind. Their faces were
turned backward, never forward; they
were looking through the dismal shades OF
the dead past, not through the glaring Gay
OF the living present. The bill was framed
in the living interest of the whole people.
1t was intended in the first instance TO stay
the mounting surplus in the treasury,
threatening overwhelming and possibly
immediate disaster, even now vlslbly
impending; Secondl y TO relieve, as lar as
prudence would permit at this time, the
Overburdened industries of the country
from excessive taxation the proceeds of
which do not pass into the treasury, but
go directly to the support OF the grasplng
lnOnopolies which were for the most part
combined In an utterly lndefenslDie and
atroclousiy oppressive trust.
Ii the bill did not measurably accom-
pllsh purpose, it was because the majority
OF the ways and means committee Was
incompetent to frame such law, and OF
that the country would be the Judge.
Mr.. Scott then criticised the provisions
of the Randall bill, especially that portion
OF 1t reducing internal revenue taxes. He
then proceeded to review In detail the
principal point relating to the tariff aues-
ton. In speaking of the wool being placed
had been done not only in the interest of
the wool manufacturer, but in that of
sheep husbandry itself.
Mr. Scott spoke for more than two hours
and was loudly applauded as he concluded.
During the delivery Speaker Carlisle, Post
master General Dickinson and Assistant
Postmaster General Stevenson were aJten
the gallery for short time. The business
of the day commenced by calling the
names OF the different committees.
Mr.. Gear, of Iowa, in discussing the
Mills bill, which, he said, would destroy
American labor, stated that the most
prominent Democrat in his district had
told him that no crew of representatives
who voted for the measure could keep
elected to congress. In this contest be-
twpen free trade and DrOtection the Re-
publican party had on its vote the inter
ests OF manufacturers and Tabor, while on
the other side was a large portion of the
Democratic party backed by foreign infu-
ence. The passage of the Mills bill in the
interest of free trade would be victory
for British commerce.
Mr.. Dibble, of South Carolina, criticised
the Republicans for their proposition that
the only tariff duties that should be re-
duced were those on articles which could
be produced in the south. and for
desiring that everything should
be protected except the rice of the Carroll
mas and the sugar of Louisiana He
thought that this was strange common
tary upon the proffered friendship of the
Republican party for the negro 1aborer of
the south. -e7
MIR. Haugen, of Wisconsin, opposed the
bill, and criticised the president for having
been in part responsible Tor the surplus
which he so much condemned by his fail
ure to approve the river and harbor BILL
by his veto of the dependent pension hill,
and by his neglect to exercise the authority
invested in him by lay to purchase United
States bonds
The committee then rose and the house
took recess until O'Clock, the evening
session to be for the consideration of pri-
vate pension bills.