Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-01
BILL DAY DISPENSED WITH.
Other Business Waits on the Tariff Debate
in the House.


| WASHINGTON CITY, May There was nj
| call of states for the introduction of bills il
the house yesterday, the tariff discussion set
ting everythin aside and claiming the right
of-way over all other business, and foul
more of the members added their contribu
tionS 10 the literature of the Mills bill.
Grosvenor of Ohio was the first to be heard.
He said the internal revenue system ought to
have been the first to have disappeared after
the war, and claimed that the Morrill, pro-
tective tariff bill was a political measure,
and was passed by the house in 1860, being
defeated in the senate in that year by the
soatbeTn senator's whose absence from the sen
ate in 1S6l made it possible for the bill to
pass the senate in that year. Is was signed
by President James Buchanan and
Vice President John c. Breckin-
ridge, and it was the irony
of fate that the gifted son of the latter was
one of the men who to-day denounced it in
the most eloquent language, The represent
atives of the same states that prevented the
passage Of the Morrill, tariff bill in 1860 were
those who few weeks ago stood in the way
of afld defeated just measure for the ad-
Indication of financial question which fol
lowed the war. He had no fear or anxiety
in regard to the surplus If the government
would to-day pay its honest debts there
would not be dollar of surplus
In reply to remark from Hemphill Gros-
venor said that if the internal revenue sys-
tenn was abolished, the present tariff would
not produce more revenue than the govern
nent needed. The proposition of the Repub-
licans to remove internal taxes was not in
the interest of free whiskey or free tobacco,
but was to remit to the states the power of
taxation, and to permit the states to take the
1,lan nf ha In
Guiding his argument, he insisted that under
the administration of the Republican party,
the country had grown in wealth and pros
perity in a ratio never before witnessed in
this or any other country, while under Dem
ocratic administrations the country had
stood still, or refrigerated.
Raynor of Maryland, in supporting the
bill, said the Democractic party had issued
tariff reform notes to the people, and the
question was whether it would pay or repu-
date The people wanted the government to
stop robbing them. The government did not
require the surplus to pay its debts. The
contest was one between protected monopoly
and capital on one hand, and the unprotected
people and Taxpayers on the other, and he
stood with the unprotected people, for reve-
nue. reform. Raynor criticised severely the
trusts of the country, especially the Standard
Oil, which he pronounced one of fraud, cor
rNption and oppression.
Cannon of Illinois asked Raynor if he did
not know that the president had appointed
one of the principal representatives of the
Standard Ola representative by relation if
not Notwithstanding of the navy, and
that another representative of that trust was
the senator of his party from Ohio
Raynor replied that the fact OF a mans be-
ing the son-in law of somebody connected
with the trust did not mix him up with the
fraud. In conclusion he denied that any man
could be Democrat and remain in favor of
the protective system. II the party broke
its promise now to the people they would
never again believe it. Ii the pressure of To-
cal interest was regarded now the party was
doomed, and doomed it deserved to be, for
the party did not deserve to live that had not
the moral courage of its convictions.
Henderson of Iowa opposed the bill The
Democrats, he said, snapped and snarled at
the tariff. Jaws, and none of them had kind
word to say about the revenue policy that
had taken bankrupt treasury and impov-
erished country out of the hands of the DEM
ocratic party, and made the country the
most imperial. imcomparably happy and
prosperous country of the earth. lie oriti.
cised the bill as Gripping where it should sup
port, and tearing down where it should
build up
Gallinger of New Hampshire, in opposing
the bill, preferred the protective TO the de
structive policy, and so, he said, would the
south when it came to know the benefits of
protection. As to raw material-so much
talked about-what was itl 1t was not pig
iron or even the water we brought into our
houses; each and all represented labor. He
knew OF no raw material except the Demo-
cratic statesman. Coming to the surplus
question, he said the surplus was large-not
because of the tariff laws, but because of the
n ggardliness of the Democratic party. The
republican party desired the house to pass a |
general pension bill, to provide Notifications
ana ornaments, and for extending encour-
cement to the American merchant marine;
ouu tne Democratic party shouted Ano' with
uiiliiliity that was at once suggestive and
s'ir Galhngers speech closed the de
bate for the day.