St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-01
THE HOUSE.
The Members Get Into q Discus
sion of the Tariff Question.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-Mr. Kelley,
of Pennsylvania, rising to a question OF
personal privilege, sent to the clerks
desk and had read a dispatch from
Washington to Boston paper, in which
he is given as authority for the state
ment that it would be the policy of Re-
publcanS of the house to obstruct the
passage of any tariff measure before the
meeting of the national convention at
st. Louis. He owed it. he said, to his
Republican colleagues, as well as to
himself, to say that he had not indi-
Gated such policy for them or for him
self.
The house then went into COM
mittee of the whole (Mr. Burrows, of
Michigan, in the chair for the consider
alton of the bill authorizing the secre-
tary to purchase bonds with the surplus
revenue. The bill was passed after
long debate, which was chiefly devoted
to the tariff and politics. In the course
of debate, Mr.. Breckenridge, of Ken
lucky, said that the gentlemen from
Maine and Ohio, who had spoken this
morning in censure of the administra-
ton, had been responsible, to the extent
not only of their own votes, but of the
commanding influence which their large
experience had given them, for produc-
ing the necessity they had to meet in
October. Applause on the Democratic
sidel. The difference between the 81
or per cent at which the government
could borrow its money, and the ~ or
per cent it was paying on those bonds,
was the precise sum that the American
people were annually paying for
THE GLORIOUS PRIVILEGE
of having had John Sherman as secre-
tary of the treasury. Applause on the
Democratic side. The president had
delivered q message which had by its
very uniqueness been taken out of the
mere dull sequence of official documents
and caused a discussion from one end
of America to the other, which neither
the wit of the gentlemen from Mainne or
the eloQuence of the gentleman from
Ohio would cause to cease until pro-
tective iniquity had been reformed.
Applause Oh the Democratic side
The gentleman from Maine spoke of its
being long way from Texas and
Arkansas to knowledge of manutact-
lures. What did that mean? 1t meant
that the taxpayers of the country had
no business to reform the tax gathering
laws of the country; that the people
who lived on the farms in Arkansas and
Texas were not to be regarded in the
consideration of the laws under which
their earnings were to be taken for
somebody else'S benefit. Applause OH
Democratic side. Now, the lesson of
the president and the laborS of the
Democratic members of the ways and
means committee were united for the
purpose of giving manufacturers their
fair protection, but doing it with just
and equal law to the taxpayer who was
to use the manufactured article. While
the majority of the committee might not
be very wise, while gentlemen might
laugh at them for not taking their Re-
publican colleagues into consideration
which had been given by them Gas the
gentleman Said in secret places to their
work, he assured the gentleman, with
out protesting to reveal any knowledge
OF to be a prophet, that
IF HE WOULD JUST WAIT
he would have as much of tariff bill as
he was able to consider and far more
the Democratic sidel. A tariff bill that
would gather to its support every Dem
ocrat of the floor of this house renewed
applausel; a tariff bill that would
gather to its support every representa-
tive who was not given over to strong
delusion; a tariff bill that would gather
to its support all fair-minded manufac-
turerS who only wanted what was Just:
bill which would be the product of
great labor and of very strong desire
to do what was fair, and which, when
1t came into the house. modified it
might be by the wise suggestions of the
Republican members of the committee,
modified by the wise suggestions of
Democrats who did not agree with all
of its proyisions-framed not by dicllers
and barter, but with a strong desire to
make the public good the first object of
its legislation, when that bill came into
the house it would be passed and it
would relieve the president, whether
he was Mr.. Cleveland or some one else,
of the necessity of finding disposition
for the surplus by leaving the surplus
in the pocket of the man who made the
money. Applause on the Democratic
side].
MI. Randall said that he did not wish
to traverse the remarks of his
friend from Kentucky, breckenridge
when he spoke of the past, except to
say that he had no regrets. He was
the more reconciled In that connection
when he heard from the gentleman
from Kentucky, prompted by more
liberal spirit than had ever heretofore
existed, that there was a hope, and he
declared that there would be fruition
to that hope, 1t justice was had, of
united party ON the Democratic side.
Loud and long applause by the Dem
ocratsl.
A bill was passed dividing the state
of Minnesota into two collection dis