The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-17

just debts of the government and by
reduction of the customs and internal
revenue. He attacked the features OF
the Mills bill as being sectional and
unfair. and he advocated the preserva-
ton of fair and honest measure shy Re-
publican representatives.
Weaver, of Iowa, said Mills bill was
fair and reasonable measure. He
declared that the Republican party
was in fight and busy burning
bridges and telling trees along the road
over which the Democratic party must
advance for the relief of the people. He
inveighed against the trusts g nd COM
binations which had grown up under
the protective tariff.
RYAN, of Kansas, said that Cleve-
lands tariff message was his platform
for the coming campaign. he mad
struck at Randall, McAdoo, Foran
and all their jolly fellowship. Were
the powers of the administration ever
before prostitu ted to such base pur-
pose? England, Wall Street, bond
holders and those who degraded Amer
lean labor, wanted the bill, but labor
ers, manufacturers and farmers did
not want it.
Fitch, of New York. made long
speech IN favor of the tariff revision.
He was disappointed that as yet no
Republican bill to reform the tariff
had been presented.
Allen, of Michigan, referring to the
Presidents message, said that this was
not the first time that Cleveland had
conjured up lion to brighten the peo-
pie. He had met the first lion in the
woods of Central New York. when he
wrote his letter of acceptance,
in which he pointed out the
danger to Republican institutions
from the President attempting to
secure a second term, by undertaking
to use his Office to re-elect himself. Now
not a State convention was held in the
| United States to send delegates to st.
Louis, where oficeholders of the United
States, appointed by President Cleve-
land, did not come up and devour the
convention like the lice of Egypt, and
to-day, in every State, officeholders
were deciding who should be the dele
gates, regardless of the wishes of the
Democratic masses. Referring to the
surplus solution and the Beck amend
ment thereto, he declared that it was
smothered in the committee because,
if the President signed it, the gold bugs
would be on his back, and if he vetoed
it, the great people of the west would
defeat hun st the polls.
Bynum, of Indiana, said that when
the gentleman made the assertion that
the bill was smothered, he did not state
fact.
Allen ventured the prediction that the
bill would never be brought to vote
The bill was smothered and is being
smothered. Whether they would ever
let in o little air upon it, he did moi
know, but to-day it was in process OF
dissolution.
Bynum-That statement is not true
Allen took no notice of the remark
and be concluded his speech without
further interruption.
DalzeIl, of Pennsylvania, rose to cor
rect, and he said that some gross mis-
statements had been made in his dis
I trict. He then proceeded to criticis'
, and review Scotts business lie, ano
after reading a list of the mining
manufacturing and railroad enter
prises in which Scott had been engaged
sarca stically congratulated the labor
ing people of this country on securing
, champion so free from the faint o
MONOPOLY, etc. This brought about q
running debate between Scott and Dal-
, cell, of a warm nature, during which
the former assured the latte
> that he cared no more for hi
! attacks than for the barking
! of dog in the street. He deniet
vehemently ever having been an op.
pressor of labor, he had never hired
} detectives to protect his property
against men who were working for hin
: or had worked for him.
Brumm, OF Pennsylvania, also took
hand in the matter, and claimed tina
he could prove that Scott had contrib
uted toward paying coal and iroI
police in the coal region. This charg'
Scott denied emphatically, challenging
Brumm to prove it, and the latte
promised that he would.
The committee then rose and took
recess unit. s O'Clock, when Messrs
Wickham, of Ohio; Montgomery, q
Kentucky. and Shively, OF Indiana
spoke on the tariff question.
Adjourned.