St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-02

less they come INTO the party lines
while there is yet time to reform.
A bill has been introduced into the
House to erect a monument IN this city
to the memory Of Gen. w. 5. Hancock,
and the bill will 90 through this SEES
sion, if it is not overlooked in the bur
ry and excitement Of rational cOnven-
with the Presidential campaign.
The Republican Senators who are
members of the Judiciary Committee
are ia no hurry to make a report on the
nomination of Mr.. Fuller for Chief
Justice of the United State. Still the
report will be all right when it is made,
because they can find no reason for its
being otherwise, and as tho Supreme
Court adjourned to-day until next DC
tober there is no particular hurry about
confirmation.
Owing to the large number OF mem
bers who are down for speeches on the
Mills tariff bill, it has been definitely
settled to continue the general debate
until Saturday, the 10Th inst. inclusive.
At a caucus of the Democratic MEM
bers it was decided that all Democrats
proposing to offer amendments to the
bill should submit them to the Demo-
cratic members of the Ways and Means
Committee for consideration and re-
port to another caucus to be held this
week. Mr.. Randall gave notice that
he would not be bound by caucus ac-
ton on this question.
A large number of amendments have
been submitted to the committee III ac-
cordance with the above, and Saturday
afternoon was spent IN considering
them and in hearing the statements of
J. = To- ,,t,n
decision has yet been arrived at by the
committee, but it lis probable that
they will report in favor of some amend
ments to the bill, in the interest Of par
ty harmony. The final passage OF the
bill is still doubtful owing to the stub
bornness of the Randall Democrats.
The River and Harbor bill which
passed the House appropriates $4,000
600.
The Senate has ratified the Chinese
treaty, and passed the international
Copyright bill also the bill FORGETTING
of all unearneA railroad land grants.
There was no division on any OF the
above measures except the copyright
bill and only ten Senators voted
against it.
One of the abiest speeches yet made
on the tariff was on Friday last by Con-
gresham Scott, the millionaire of Erie,
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Scott is member
of the Ways and Means Committee !;
a confidential friend Of the President,
and the owner OF large coal mines
and iron manufactures. For these diff
ferent reasons his speech was attentive
ly heard. He made strong argument
hristlng with figures and facts in ia
vor of the bill and in conclusion, sad !:
CO. tIIn Itu NJ
the Ways and Means Committee of this
House-in defense of American in
dustry. We alone offer it protection !;
we seek alone the independence and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of domestic labor by
liberating it from unnatural restraints
and allowing it the undisturbed pos
session and the complete enjoyment of
It's own earnings. The other side offer
it-what9 A monopolized market in
which to buy the nccessaries of life on
the one hand, and on the other a labor
market subject 70 the caprice of trusts"
Among the distinguished people wi o
heard Mr.. SCOTS speech where Mrs.
Cleveland, Postmaster General
Dickinson, and First Assistant Post
master General Stevenson, who by the
way, has declined to allow his name to
be used in connection with the guber
material nomination in Illinois.
WASHINGTON, May 21st, 1888.
On Saturday Speaker Carlisle closed
the general debate on the Mills tariff
bill with ringing speech for revenue
reform. Referring to the opposition Of
some of the New England members to
the measure he said Gentlemen from
New England predicted in 1916 that the
duties fixed by the law of that date
would ruin their textile industries. In
1857 all of the New England members
voted for a still further reduction of
twenty per cent from what they had
called tie ruinously low tariff of 1916.
Tn the free trade period, as the Repub-
licans called the decade from 1850 to
1860, the wool manufactured product
increased forty six per cent and wages
thirty-seyen per cent. In hosiery the
products increased four hundred and
twenty-one per cent In cotton the
product increased seventy-one per cent.
In boots and shoes, upon which the du
ty had been reduced sixteen per cent,
the increase in New England was
eighty-t three per cent; the product in
1860, in New England was more than
the entire product Of the Union in 1850.
This is what tho Republicans from
New England SAW uHuef ~ low GaflH.
Within eleven years after the passage
of this bill the members from New
England will vote for a still further re-
duciion, or, il they did not, the people
would send somebody here who would"
And now that the general debate on
the tariff bill is over, few people are
under the necessity of asking which
party has the best of the contest thus
far. The Democrats have won an in
telIectual and political battle, and the
Republicans know it. They hesitate to
accept challenge to direct vote on
the Mills bill without amendment, and
they have taken Mr. Randall's bill as an
expression ofRepnbliean opinion, only
because they are utterly unable to for
mulate bill Of their own upon which
to place their faith in the coming cam
paign before the plain people of the
country.
The Mills bill may not pass. although
the outlook is very favorable for it just
now. But the Democrats who favor
that measure have the satisfaction of
knowing that they have furnished the
issue upon which the Presidential cleo
ton will be contested. Mr.. Mills is
ven confident that his bill will pass the
House, so confident that he proposed to
Republican leaders Of the House that
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