The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-12
PARTIZAN POLITICS
And Personalities Give the Tariff
Debate a Lively Turn.
WALTER PHELPS
Tells Plain Truths. Under Which
the Democratic Majority suuIrm.
Irrelevant Matters Brought
In as an Offset.

the Democratic Majority Squirm.
Irrelevant Matters Brought
In as an Onset.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July ia con-
ference was ordered on the land forfeit
ure bill, and Mr.. Holman, Of Indiana,
Mr.. Stone, of Missouri, and Mr.. Payson,
OF Illinois, were appointed conferees.
Mr.. Hatch, of Missouri, submitted q
report Of disagreement on the agricul-
tural appropriation bill, stating that the
point OF disagreement was the Senate
amendment making an appropriation OF
SlOO,OO for sorghum sugar experiments.
Mr.. Ryan moved concurrence in the
Senate amendment and after debate his
motion was agreed to, yeas l26, nays 90.
This completes the consideration OF the
bill and it stands as finally passed.
The House then went into Committee
OF the Whole on the tariff bill. The
pending amendment was that offered by
Mr.. Phelps, OF New Jersey, fixing at
forty per cent ad valorem the duty on
flax or linen thread, and all manufac-
lures OF fax. He did not, he said, ex-
pect that anything he could say would
change the vote upon his amend
ment. He recognized the fact that he
was speaking to a court which
had already made its decision.
The committee had refused to ht
any laborer or any manufacturer
tell them about the facts; they had re-
fused to let any representative OF the
people make arguments, and then the
maj jority members had gone into the
dark and prepared a bill.
Mr.. Wilson, OF Minnesota-Do un-
derstand you to say that this side OF the
House imposed either an oath or a
promise on the Democratic members
that every one OF them would favor the
Mills bill rs it stood?
MIR. Phelps-I cannot say how bind
ing a caucus resolution may be on the
consciences OF the Democratic gentle
men who attended, but l am here to say
land defy any gentleman to contradict
it, that resolution was introduced and
u resolution las l am informed and be-
lieve) was unanimously passed that no
amendment offered in the House should
receive the support OF Democratic votes,
unless it was an amendment first passed |
upon and approved by the Democratic
caucus. Am right? Does the gentle
man deny that resolution was intro
duced in the caucus and unanimously |
agreed to?
Mr.. Wilson-That is simply untrue, |
stand on my personal honor to say that
it is not true.
TRUE, NEVERTHELESS.
Mr.. Phelps-I am glad to hear that
report tclegraphed by the Associated
Press to every portion of these United
States (which has never before been
contradicted) is contradicted to-day by
the gentleman and, however hard it
may be to believe it, / accept the con-
tradiction, though am filled with wOn-
der and amazement that result which
existed only in the imagination OF re-
porter has been obeyed by members who
never heard OF it. Laughter.
Mr.. Weaver, OF Iowa, expressed his
surprise to find the gentleman from New
and exclaiming in the next breath that
he was friend Of the workingman. He
sent to the clerks desk and had read
portions OF the interview with Mr..
Phelps published soon after the Chicago
convention in which Mr.. Phelps states
that it was not polite to select n granger
candidate-alluding to Senator Allison.
Mr.. Weaver commented on the inter
view and said that the farmers OF Iowa
had been spurned in the convention and |
they would notIin November ratiiy their
own humiliation.
MISUNDERSTANDING INTERVIEWS.
The New York candidate had also
said, in an interview, that Allison had
not been endorsed because he was from
n State whose legislation was unfriendly |
to railroads.
Mr.. Weaver said that Senator Allison
had been punished in Chicago because
he lived in granger State, which passed
laws unfriendly TO railroads. It was
the unkindest cut OF all, for the gentle
man who had been candidate for both |
President and Nice-President "0nly |
e-President," interpolated Mr.. |
Phelpsl to say before the American |
people that he and those with whom he
associated-thc railroads OF the coun-
try-had punished Mr.. Allison because
he happened to live in Iowa. He did
not know what his colleague, Mr.. Hen
derson, would think OF this kind OF
treatment OF his distinguished candi-
date. He would like to hear whether
Mr. Henderson endorsed what the gen.
tleman from New Jersey had given as
the reason for the rejection of the dis
tinguished Senator.
Mr.. Henderson said he thought he
knew the reason for the defeat, not only
of Senator Allison but Of that equally
distinguished and noble gentleman and
soldier, Judge Gresham, and while he
was not here to entertain his colleagues
with the incidents OF the Republican
Convention, he was here TO say that he
did not believe land TO him it was abso-
lutte knowledge) that the attitude OF
Iowa in respect to railroad legislation
had not lost Senator Allison n single vote
in the convention.
IOWA GALL RIGHT"
Iowa, as in the past, would this fall,
in spite of rantings and misrepresenta-
tions, plant herself in the front rank Of
Republican States for Harrison and
Morton. [Applause.l
Mr.. Henderson said he would also
give the House little literature. He
then sent to the clerks desk and had
read numerous extracts from speeches
delivered by Mr., Weaver from 1866 to
1872, in which he bitterly assailed with
forcible language the Democratic party
us party full OF stencil and poison,
which should be blotted from the face OF
the vocabulary OF civilized land and
handed over to the barbarism which 1t
so ftly represented.
Mr.. Weaver said that the speeches
which had been read had been uttered
by him in times past, when the situation
was entirely different from what it was
now. Laughter on the Republican
side. He had nothing to take back in
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