The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-09
THE BILL is PASSED.
The President Granted Re-
taliatory Power.
ONLY FOUR DISSENTING VOTES.
4 Long Discussion Interpreted With
Much Abuse of President
Cleveland.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, September S.-Imme-
diately after the reading of the Journal,
the House resumed the consideration
of the retaliation bill and was addressed
by White, of New York, who declared
for retaliation such as would reta'iate
upon the enemy and not upon the peo
pie of the United States. He believed
the first section of the bill would inure
to the benefit of the Canadians and was
to the pre- eminent injury of the COM
merce of this country and of American
labor.
The American workingmen would
lose So $50, 900 year if the provisions
of the bill were carried into effect.
The question came to him whether,
under ais oath, he should vote for
measure which he believed directly
DETRIMENTAL TO TIE LABoRINe MEN
of his district, in behalf of what had
been characterized by the gentleman
from Illinois (Cannon) as beating a
gong and furnishing a hammer for the
purpose. He would never vote for put
tlng a mallet in the hands of any man
to beat a Chinese gong, who, as he
struck the gong, necessarily hit the
head of the American workingmen and
American enterprise. (Applause on
Republican side.) He believed the bill
unjust illogical wrong and if he voted
alone, as he probably would, he would
vote against the bill.
The discussion was continued at
length and participated in by O'Neill
and Dalzell, of Pennsylvania.
LIND AND WILSON
thought there would be no war, but
should the Queen of England, forget
ting the lessons to her ancestors, in
haste discharge at US one unfriendly
gun, he predicted that the echo which
| it would awaken would not cease to
reverberate before Grover Cleveland,
the President of the greatest Republic
on earth, would salute Charles Stuart
Parnell as President of the youngest
Republic on earth.
Lind, of Minnesota, said: If the
pending bill becomes law, the President
could, by single stroke of the pen re-
duce the value of the 10000, 900 bushels
of Minnesota and Dakota wheat 7
cents per bushel; he could enhance the
| Northwestern Railway at least % per
cent; he could rob Duluth of half her
ship ping; he could ruin the trade of
the twin cities, the pride of Minnesota
and of the northwest; he could cripple
the enterprising men of the northwest.
Cochran, of New York, referring to
the speech of Hill, of Illinois. said the
gentleman from Illinois had charged
Representatives of the government, in
treaty negotiations, with betrayal of
American rights. He said the intro
duction of the Mills bill, and the vote
by Which it passed, were part of the be-
trayal, secretly entered into and carried
out almost with treason. The gentle
man from Illinois knew that the official
acts of Grover Cleveland needed no ex-
PLANTATION to the country. ltwould not
do at this stage of the campaign to at
tempt to manufacture campaign
thunder of this character. He adopted
the declarations of the gentleman from
Missouri (O'Neil) that the message was
campaign document, and it was a
great one because it appealed to the in
telligence aod patriotism of the people.
The gentleman ON the other side might
say President Cleveland was not a great
man. No one would dare to deny that
he was honest and that he was a great
man in the eyes of the country.
Not because he was the possessor of
qualities which lift him above eall
others, but because he was a noble
tyne of the American citizen. The Re
pubIicans had their uncrowned king
they had their shepherd of the people,
but before the American people and at
the ballot box he has been vanquished
by the simple type of American citizen
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Baine, of Pennsylvania, said the
President wanted more power that he
might throw into the Canadian rail
ways traffic, amounting to perhaps
$50 900 900 and take it away from the
, New England railways, and the. mem
: Der of the Kitchen Cabinet" a di
rector of the Canada Pacific and Mani
> toba, whose fortune would be advanced
: by the gift of that traffic, came here
and made four hours speech in sup
port of the object to be subserved. The
message of the President wa:
nothing more than an effort
to create diversion from the tariff
issue and in favor of some new
issue, which the administration sadly
needed at this time. but which would
not rescue it from the oblivion and de-
feat which awaited it in November.
Henderson, of Iowa, said Grover
Cleveland might be Democratic typs
. of American morals and American citi
/ zenship, but for him, he would not
T. point the young men OF America to hin
as model-to man who now bursting
with the war spirit had hired substi.
e tute, when the land was in battle.
McMilIan-Where was Blaine?
7, Henderson, disregarding the inter
ruption, proceeded, declaring the mode
American for 100000 Americans wa
Benjamin Harrison.
The debate having ceased, White, O
New York, moved to recommit the bill
to the committee on foreign affairs
with instructions to strike out the frs
section, but the notion was lost, with
out division.
The bill was then passed-yeas ia
/, nays 4, the negatives being Baine
Dalzell, Lind and White, of New York
Adjourned.
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