Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-09
A HOUSE FIELD DAY.
THE MEMBERS IN An UNSEEMLH
WRANGLE.

The Tariff Debate Develops Into an Un-
parliamentary Exhibition Of Bad
Temper-General News.
WAsHNeroN, May 5.-The House went
into committee Of the whole on the tariff
bill. Bland OF Missouri bitterly opposed
the protective system. deuied that it was
the cause OF the progress OF the country,
and inveighed against pools and trusts,
which he denounced as evils directly trace
able to the high tariff. Woodburn, OF
Nevada, controverted the claim of the
Democrats that their party was the friend
OF the laboring man, and cited the fact
that the Democrats had ~inaugurated their
entry into power by cutting down the sala-
ries of Government employees; that their
Secretary OF the Treasury had reduced the
pay of laborers at the San Francisco Gus
tom house, and that their Secretary OF the
Navy had seen ft to pare down the wages
OF hired carriers at the Mare Island navy
yard. He proceeded to make o speech, Bit
terly denunciatory Of the policy which he
said was outlined by the Mills bill, Of SUR
rendering American markets and American
labor to
r Il TRADERS OF GREAT BRIrAIH.
Turning his attention to the Golden Club,
WOODBURY. said it was an association OF
British manufacturers for the avowed pur-
pose Of destroying the protective tariff
system OF America and to facilitate the sale
OF British goods in American markets. It
had established agencies in New York and
Chicago for the distribution OF British free
trade documents in the political circles OF
this country. On the roll Of membership
appeared the names OF Dukes and Earls,
Marquises and Lords, Peers Counts and
Princes. He held in his hand the list OF the
members OF the Golden Club on January !,
1888, and ON the back Of the book OF rec
ord was the motto OF the club: Free
Trade, Good Will Among Nations" and
ssGod Save the Queen" He proceeded to
read the list OF members and caused much
amusement by sandwiching the names OF
untitled American members between those
OF Earls and Dukes.
THE ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS
Of membership was, he said, that the az
plicant for admission should beeither man
ufacturers or noblemen. In the list of
members he found the names OF Senators
Beck and Vance, VIM. Epdicott, Jr., of
Boston, Massachusetts,, q cabinet officer of
this Republic was admitted in 1877. This
ought to create NO surprise, for il common
rumor reported him Alright. he permitted
no visitor to escape without INJECTING on
him an essay on the antiquity OF his Anglo
Saxon ancestry and the aristocratic color
of his p~uritanical bleod. Thomas Baysrd
was on the roll Of American noblemen.
Recently when Chamberlain, in q speech in
England mentioned the nemeof Bayard the
cheers Of the multitude drowned the voice
of the orator. From his (Bayard's) acts
and u~tterances q stranger unacquainted
with our form Of government would be
justified in concluding that he was
ACTING IN THE DUAL CAPACITY
OF an American Secretary OF State and q
British envoy extraordinary. ". r. Nor
rison wa q member OF the club and it vas
a wonder that he was continually tinkering
at the tariff revision in the interest oil Great
Britain that resulted always in s~tagnation
OF business, that ingendered strikes, begot
violence and deprived him Of q seat in Con-
gress2 Last but not least, ON the Golden
Club roll membership was that able and
impartial parliamentiarn, who possessed
almost the god-like power Of shaping the
legislation Of this country. The present
Speaker Of this house. John Griffin Carlisle,
who was comparatively q yoang mem
Der, having been elected in 1888. These
were q few Of the names Of members who
who had combined to conquer and subdue
American energy and enterprise. They
shone ont on the British Golden Club list
like apples OF gold in