Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-06-14
OUR TALKING STATESMEN.
THEY DROP INTO POLITICS FROM
JuTE BAGS JoYouSLY,


Tactics --Randan speaks Against Free
Tin. Hale EnIightens the Senate "n tho
Fish Treaty--Money for AN Air ship
Congress- In Brief.
WASHINGTON CRY. June l+-Politics
popped up again during the debate on tue
tariff bill In the house yesterday, ana the
merits of President Cleveland and Governor
Hill were the subject OF a colloquy between
several of the members.
Spinola commended Governor Hill for his
veto of the bill To prevent corruption at cleo
tions, and said there was no place in the
United States where elections were so fairy
conducted AS In New York. "No man In the
Republican party" asserted Spinola, "can
defeat David b. Hill for governor, ana you
have no man you can put on your ticket VINO
can carry the state against Grover Cleve
land"
Nuttng asked IL the gentleman did not
know that there we're 100000 workmen In
the state Of New York.
Spinula-Yes, and they vote the Demo
cratic ticket, and | venture to make the pre-
diction that New York city will roll up 3D.
600 ma iority for the Democratic candidate,
Nuttiug DO you mean to say that thosH
600, 900 workmen are in favor of the Mills
bill
Spinola did not give direct answer to the
question, though Nutting persisted in de-
manding one and Russell of Massachusetts
shouted "Ycs' in tho confusion, and his re-
ply was greeted with applause and laughter
When the house had reached the para
graph referring to tin plate Dalzell OF Penn
syl vania moved to strike il from the free
list.
McMillin opposed the motion We were
asked TO keep up the duty on tin plate mere
ly to force somebody to make it,
Yost of Virginia wanted it protected. The
labormg people of this country lost sl6'Ooo :,
900 annually in wages, 10y not being allowed
to produce tin plate Virginia could pro
duce everything necessary to make the best
tin plate. Put the duty at 2.2 cents per
pound and give the south chance, said
Yost. and in five years time she will com
pete with the world The future of the
south, he said was bound up in infant indus
tries, and she had long enough paid tribute
to the north. No man, lie said, could make
| a canvass in Virginia this year ON the basis
of the Mills bill.
Randall of Pennsylvania snid the broad
question presented was whether We could
produce tin plate here probably. Necould,
and he had seen it done. The men who DIS
cussed the matter without reference to labor
belittlrd it. If properly protected, under
| tue nulbiui iiN vi supply u'' N'''''
price of tin plate would decrease here we
should let the wage-earner in the United
States produce what he could produce. We
had long enough drained the country of S!d,-
600, 900 annually paid out for tin plate, three
| ffths of which went to Great Britain. For
| one, said Randall, with applause from the
| Republicans, he was opposed to favor
| ing a foreign country at the expense OF our
own.
Hale's speech in the senate on Morgans
| resolution as to the fisheries treaty was the
| feature of the proceedings in that chamber.
He thought Morgan had pleaded the cause OF
"our friends the enemy, ana tnat the words
| of Lewis Cass that our right to fish was from
| the Almighty and not from England or Can
ada were more creditable for an American
citizen. The treaty was failure, and must
inevitably DO so, because neither the admins
| tration nor the negotiators had been able 70
| take in the whole situation or consider the
steady march of Canada for the last twenty
years under British tntelage and inspiration
| in making attacks upon us under the guiSe OF
| carrying out treaty s'ipuiatiohs, anu III .ue