Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-17
WASHINGTON. 4
Tariff Talk in the Senate
Continued.
COCKRELL AND OTHERS SPEAK.
The Adjournment Question Not Yet
Settled-Department and
Other Notes.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, October 16.-The Senate
to day resumed consideration of the Tariff
bill and was addressed by Cockrell.
In the course OF a long speech, read
very rapidly, Cockrell contrasted the
position of the two political parties as be-
tween the question Of ultra protection
and that OF moderate rates OF duty. He
argued against the Republican policy as
incorporated in the Senate bill, and
quoted from the speeches of such men as
Senators Allison and Wilson, of Iowa, in
the past years in opposition to high pro-
tective duties, while on the part of the
Democracy he denied that it was free
trade party, and read an extract from
Blaine's "Twenty Years in Congress-" to
show that no proposition for the estab-
lishment of free trade had ever been
seriously made in the United States.
In connection with his speech Cockrell
filed communication from the Commls-
sioner of Internal Revenue to the effect
that the removal of the tax on alcohol
used in the arts and sciences would lead
to extensive frauds in the collection OF
revenue on alcoholic beverages, as it
would not be difficult to demethylate
wood alcohol and make it fit for con-
sumption.
Allison questioned the correctness OF
the Commissioners statement and said
that the system of using methylated
spirits in the arts was allowed in England
and Germany and that current testimony
in these countries was that spirits could
not be demethy lated except by distil-
lation.
Vest asserted that wood alcohol could
be converted into pure whisky and said
that within the last three days he had
seen the process carried on with ma
chine that cost only 500. The Senator
had therefore been all right IN recently
objecting to the proposition.
Allison said that if the Senator from
Missouri had such machine he could,
in his bureau drawer, manufacture
whisky.
Vest asked Allison to use another form
of expression, and not to speak OF the
machine as his (Vest's). He had seen it
in the office of the Internal Revenue
Commissioner.
Spooner, OF Wisconsin, next addressed
the Senate. He excused himself for
reading a prepared speech, but said his
speech consisted largely of extracts from
testimony given by Boards OF Trade and
other bodies before an English Parlia-
mentary Commission, showing that the
result of free trade in it's home was
not satisfactory, and that there was
a clamor for it's overthrow, and
a demand for it's abandonment. He in
tended to prove, he said, that under the
influence Of free trade in Great Britain
there had been for twelve years past,
with slight intermissions, a serious de-
preston in industries and trade aud a
depression in agriculture which defed a
parallel. As against this he pointed to
the marvellous growth ard prosperity OF
the United States under the protective
system The object lesson thus afforded,
he said, "was unanswerable in favor of
the protective system and against trying
an experiment that would hamper the
well-being of labor, and the growth and
of the country"
After executive session the Senate ad-
journed.