Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-27
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SALIENT POINTS FROM THE ORA
TORY IN BOTH HOUSES.

w WARRINGTON ClTf, April ia HUG
stir was created in the senate yesterday
when the president pro tempore, Senator In
gals, took the floor, and addressing the chair,
said:
shortly after the senator from Indiana
(Mr. Voorhees, began his speech yesterday
was called from the senate TO examine and
sign large number of enrolled bills for trans
mission to the president | had supposed
from the notice which he gave that his speech
was TO he devoted to the subject of tariff and
finance, and was therefore somewhat sur
prised this morning to be advised by an item
in the newspapers shat had been the object
Of the senator's animadversions. casual
examination of his speech appears to me to
disclose certain omissions on his part with
regard to tho relations of the Democratic
party to the subject of pensions; to the war
| for the preservation of the Union; to the
| reconstruction of the southern states: to the
| solid south; to the recent election in Lou
| isiana, and to the issues and results of the
coming campaign, which appear to me to
| justify some observations Of mine in reply,
l therefore desire to give notice that on Tues
day next Mt 2 o'clock Gf the senate will in
dulge mel ! will move to proceed to the CON
sideration of the resolution TO refer the presi-
dents message, for the purpose or enabling
| me to submit some remarks thereon
| The next matter of interest that came up
was the railway land forfeiture bill and on
| this Palmer of Michigan made few remarks
in which he argued against all amendments
affecting lands granted to the state of Michi-
gan for railroad purposes and afterward
| decided to the Lake Superior Ship Canal com
pany. lie declared every process under the
original grant to have been known to the
canal company as irregular, and that the
company only hoped that time would cure
| Int
would give to it rights which it could not
claim under the law. Its efforts to obtain by
indirecton what it could not obtain by di-
| rection he characterized as insdious.
Dolph then made speech on the general
| land policy of the government and to refute
the assertions of Senator Kenna on the floor
| of the senate and Speaker Carlisle in the
| newspapers to the effect that the Republican
party were responsible for that policy The
| administration of the public domain by the
Republican party, he said, had been wise and
judicious, in the interest of the settlers and
of the public and; free from most of the
abuses found under almost every previous
administration; while from the beginning of
the government until the Democratic party
was hurled from power i'll 1861 the policy of
that party had been to obtain revenue from
the public lands; it had offered them to spec
ulators, first at public sale as soon as sur
veyed, and if not sold then, at private entry
in any quantities, and it had steadfastly re-
sisted every effort to change the law and
practice of the government and to allow set
tiers the opportunity to purchase their lands
before being offered to spectators. The
Democratic party had also steadfastly re-
sisted the passage of the homestead law,
whereas the very first act that gave prefer
ence to settlers was passed under Wing ad-
minstraton in 1871.
The voice of the orator pcturing the evils
of free trade and the blessings of protection,
or vice versa, was about the only thing heard
in the chamber of the house of representa-
tives, the house being in committee of the
whole all day on the Mills bill. Buchanan of
New Jersey was first heard in opposition to
the bill. He criticised the composition of the
committee and the secrecy with which it had
formulated the penang measure, and ar
raigned the committee for its refusal to grant
hearings and to consider petitions. Referring
to the presidents message, he said the presi-
dent did not advocate the repeal of the in
ternal system of taxation, nor manifest a
deep concern that this country should feed
its laborers rather than IA foreign country;
but he advised that import duties should be
reduced and in some instances abolished alto
gether. He asserted that the bill, instead of
removing the inequalities of the tariff, IN
dnction of the dirty on eartbenware and read
a ,,,,nhar of natitions from ,vorkingr,a,, in
HE dietrict arainst the nrincinleS embodied in
the bill 1t struck Il blow at almost every
industry in his district, and in its details was
vicious, inequitable, and illogical
Hemphill of South Carolina contended
that congress had the constitutional right to
tax the people for public purposes only,
and every time it went beyond that linita-
IT, torifF fo,. ,,rotactior ,,os ;IIotriooI
and nrinst Hinder # the entire naonIa were
a ,, I'iaatod to ,,nnnnolias Tha III, diFa,
80 bat,yaan home ,,nnonoI,y and foroi
,,o,,onnl,, ADMITTING that tbera couId a1ist
eucb a thing az foreign mononoIv, was that
tbe naonle had to nav n heavy additional
,o,.nontage for tha moor nriyilaoe of bo,,i,,,
thoir mosta,,s on this side of the 1yatar Tbe
n,.otaction accorded NV n hipb tariF ,yos
nrotaction AGAINST the riobt Of tho American |
reonIe to INV when and where tbev nIe,sed
TLat protection was demanded nv the napu-
foct,,rars NOT AGAINST any WRONG but againSt |
tbo ,inbt If tbeir own conntrvpan- daTnoua |
ed in order that one citizens nrivilepes should
h. i,,oraased Inv ba vino, those of annthar cnr-
toiIad
Perkins inoured ybetbar If tbe eyen+Ie. |
man baIievad that the American Sitizan |
should he nermitted to buy where he pleased |
ba did not also believe that he should he al'
lowed to hire labor where he pleased
HemnhilI renIied in the affirmative ax
pressed his belief in freedom in all things,
and declared that the high protectionists had
never attempted to protect the labor of
the country from the importation of the So
called pauper labor of Europe Human in
genuity, he said, could not conceive a sys-
ten more unjust, more unreasonable, more
unfair, and more unrighteous than the pro-
tective system.
Osborne of Pennsylvania opposed the bill.
which he characterized as blow at the dig
nity of labor an attack on the systen of tax |