Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-24
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. DEMOCRATS WHIPPED IN To Help Seat Speaker
 Carlisle. MIR. FRYE ON THE MESSAGE. The Hanging Of The Whyo
 Chief.
IA BIG FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA. Many Of The COllieries At
 Work.
Fiftieth COngress--First Session.
WASHINGTON, Jan. e3.

SENATE.-Mr. Beck presented the remon- strance of the Western Union Telegraph company against the passage of the postal telegraph bill. He said it was very full presentation of the case and that the post office committee desired to have the commu- nication printed and referred to it; so or dered.
 Mir. Edmunds from the judiciary commit tee, to which had been referred the investi- gation into the Jackson, Miss, election troubles, reported 8 resolution authorizing that committee to send for persons and pa pers inquiring into the alleged participation of Federal officials in the suppression of the votes of colored citizens; adopted.
 MT. Chandler offered three resolutions, calling on the Secretary of the Navy for in formation as to the cost, etc., of plans, de- signs, drawings, or specifications of ships or engines obtained abroad; as to changes made from the original plans of the Chicago, Bos- ton, Atlanta and Dolphin; and as to the con tracts made for naval vessels, machinery and armor since March A. 1885. The resolutions were all laid over and ordered printed.
 MT. Frye called up the motion to refer to the committee on finance the Presidents an nual message and proceeded to discuss the message, in which he said the President had clearly thrown down the gauntlet of free trade. That message had been received with unbounded joy in Great Britain and why nota England had been seeking the Ameri- can market for years. But now the President of the United States declared that these de- fences with which she had been met were to be razed. The British press had at once pro- ceeded to oself-congratulations and to strip off mercilessly the Presidents disguise. In this connection he quoted extracts from articles in the Saturday Review, the Spectator, the Scotsman, the Times, Herald, News, Post and other British periodicals. Great Britain had grown suddenly to recognize the fact that this country was her daughter and to evince II tory of Great Britain might be hunted from the beginning and there would not be found single instance where England had ever permitted the rights of any nation to impede or hinder her magnifcent career in commerce and in manufactures. He did not blame her for that, but he declared emphati- calIy that England had never in one single instance evinced any sympathy for this coun- try and that she never had permitted an op- portunity to injure this country to pass un- improved. He declared that the counsel, the advice, the friendship of Great Britain to any nation in commercial matters had invariably and inevitably resulted in injury to the nation which had accepted it. Ireland was an instance of that. In this connection he quoted from speech made by Thomas Francis Meagher in 1847 and yet, said he, Great Brit ain hoped and the Democratic party expect ed the Irish votes next fall for MT. Cleve- land as the Democratic candidate for the presidency. One of the leading free trade speakers in England had declared years ago that the greatest triumph of Great Britain would be the subjugation of the markets of the United States. In the promise of the Presidents message they could see the sub jugation nigh at hand. England heard tho President of the United States declare in his annual message that the tariff (the only ob. stacle to English possession of the American rnarket) was vicious, illogical, inequitable, and what wonder that the English people deafened American ears with their cries of Clear, Hear" They saw him adopt as the slogan of the Democratic party for the pres idential battle of 1888 the old fundamental doctrine of free trade that "duty is 8 tax paid by the consumer" What wonder that they hailed Mir. Cleveland as their champion. Would the Democratic party of the United States, he asked, endorse their new chiefa He was inclined to think that it would. He knew that members of that party had been masquerading for years as Ieformers favoring "tariH for revenue only" with Incidental protection" or "tarif for revenue exclu- sively," and that in manufacturing districts of New Jersey and elsewhere they masquer- aded as mild hammered protectionists: In the South they had more boldness and less diversity of industry, but even there within the last year or two, blinded probably by the smoke of newly built furnaces or disturbed by the hum of looms, there was to be found here and there IrlenQ or prOtectlOn. The Republicans took up the Presidents gauntlet of free trade with great pleasure and joined issue with the Democrats. The Re- publicans declared that instead of the tariff being vicious, illogical and negotiable, it increased marvelously the prosperity of the country and that instead of 8 duty being a tax paid by the consumer no instance could be found in which the duty had not decreas- ed to the consumer the cost of the article consumed. The Republicans further declared that the future prosperity of this country, for twenty years at any rate, depended absolutely on the benign influences of pro tective tariff. If there was any honest pur- pose to get rid of the surplus it could be done without the slightest difficulty. In the first place some of it ought to be expended wisely in coast defenses. in increasing the navy, in building up the merchant marine and in cd ucating the people as proposed in the bill of the Senator from New Hampshire Blair). The Senator from North Carolina (Vance) had indicated way to prevent 8 surplus and the Senator from Georgia (Brown) had proposed way which would do it beyond all manner of question. That was g
 repeal of all the internal revenue laws.
 As Mir. Frye concluded there was consider able applause from the galleries, which were we'll filled, and he was congratulated by sev- eral senators, including MT. Merrill, who has been absent from the Senate chamber for some time past through sickness.
 Mr. Palmer gave notice that ke would ad- dress the Senate tomorrow on the subject of his bill to regulate immigration.
 The Blair educational bill was then taken up and discussed by MT. Blair for nearly an hour, and at 3:50, on motion of MT. Ed munds, the Senate proceeded to executive
 business and at 4:15 adjourned.
 HoUsE.-The resolution confirming the title of Mr. Carlisle to his seat was adopted:
 Yeas 164, nays 2.
 Under the call of States 8 number of bills and resolutions were presented and referred, among them one by MT. Oates, of Alabama, to refund the bonded debt of the United States at 1-2 per cont. By MT. Cummings, of New York, to prohibit absolutely the com ing of Chinese other than diplomatic and con sular officers into the United States. By MT. Durham, of Illinois, by yrequest-appropriat- | ing $15O, ,00o to A. DeBanssel to build an air ship to convey passengers through the air; referred to committee on ventilation and ! acoustics.
 MT. Dingley, from the committee on mer- chant marine and fisheries, reported 8 bill amending the laws relative to navigation; | House committee.
 The House at $50 adjourned.
 DEMOCRATS UNDER THE WHIP.