The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-17
FRYING OUT PARTY FAT
SENATOR COCKRELL SHOWS UP
THE SENATE'S GAME.

Manufacturers OF Every Glass
Worked" for Campaign Contribu-
tions by Species ofTarlY Blackman
-Allison's Promise to the Coal Men
a Specimen of What May be Ex-
pected
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1G.-The Senate at
l2:lO o'clock to-day resumed consideration
OF the tariff bill there being twenty sena-
tors presently and was addressed by Mr..
Cockrell
In the course of a long speech, read very
rapidly, he coatrasted tho positions of the
two political parties as between the ques-
uon Of ultra protection and that of mod
crate rates of duty He described the Sem
ate bill, III its proposal to increase soma
rates and to reduce others, as a double
edged sword, keen on both sides.
FRYING OUT THE FAT
There was 'fat" to be ''friedn out of man.
ufacturers Those on whose goods rates
were raised were to be forced TO contribute
10 the republican campaign fund in order
TO keep them up, and those on whose goods
rates were reduced We're also forced to con-
tribute SO a. to have the rates increased.
PROFIT IN DELAY.
He charged that the bill, instead of being
pressed TO its passage, was kept open with
the object OF thus frying the fat out of
the manufacturers" And rumor had it,
he said, that the trying-pan was kept NOT
far from the room of the Senate finauce
committee, SO that when manufacturers
went there to make their statements they
had an opportunity of visiting the frying
pan.
ALLIsoN's SLACK COAL PROMISE.
He instanced an explanation and promise
made by Mr.. Allison last week as to slack
coal being put on the free list by mistake
as proof of what he said, and remarked
that when anybody else found in the Senate
bill something Objectionable like explana-
ton and promise would be made In con-
clusion, he charged the republican senator's
with having no intention to pass their bill,
and with only waiting now to have some
tired democrat introduce resolution to adj
journ. Then, he said, the republican sena-
tors would say that the reason why they
had not passed their bill was that demo-
crat had offered an adjournment resolution.
SPOONER SPEAKERS.
Mr.. Spooner next addressed the Senate,
He excused himself for reading from a pre-
pared speech, an unusual thing for him, but
said that his speech consisted largely of ex-
tracts from testimony given by boards of
trade and other bodies before the English
parliamentary commission, showing that
the results of free trade in its home were
not satisfactory and that there was camor
for its overthrow, n demand for its aban-
donment.
COMPARISON
He intended TO prove, he said, that under
the influence of free trade in Great Britain.
there had been for twelve years past with
slight 1ntermissions) serious depression in
industry and trade, and depression in agri-
culture, which dehed parallel As against
the picture drawn in the report of the royal
commission of the condition of England with
free trade, he pointed to the immen.e growth
and prosperity of the United States under
the protective system. 'rhe object lessonn
thus afforded, he said, was uranswerable
in favor of the protective system, and
against trying an experiment that would
hamper the well-being of labor and the
growth and development of the country.
The House amendment to the Senate joint
resolution, authorizing the Secretary of
War to protect the Washington aqueduct
tunnel, was concurred in
After brief executive session, the Senate,
at $40 o'clock, adjourned.