The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-10
INITIATING THE SENATE.
exciting Seems In the House Dur.
iag u Deba ate or the Mills Bill.


isg "a Debate or the Mills Bill.
The house got into such delicious person
al wrangle on Saturday, during which
STAR" 'falsehood" and similar parliament
airy terms were freely used, that one of the
members created a roar by asking, SIS this
the United States senate?' OF course the
chief bone of contention was the tariff bill.
The debate, if such it can be called, was
very racy and spicy An abstract follows:
MIR. Bland of Missouri, referring to Mr..
Burrows speech, in which that gentleman
spoke of the Mills bill as bantlng without
acknowledged parentage, criticised the gen.
tlemen on the other side for not having
virility ard manhood enough to present a
bantling of any character. As an illustra-
ton Of the love Of the republicans for pro-
lection, he said that if "food and raiment
should be showered down on the sky, the
gentlemen on the other side would fall down
on their knees and pray to their heavenly
father for protection against the pauper
labor of heaven"
Mr.. WOODBURY. of Nevada, said the policy
outlined by the Mills bill would, if carried
out, surrender American markets and
American labor to the free traders of Great
Britain, the bill itself being the offspring
of the Golden club, IAN association of British
manufacturers, whose avowed purpose is to
facilitate the sale of British goods in Ameri-
can markets by destroying our protective
tariff system" He read what he claimed to
be a correct list of the clubs membership,
which contained the names of several lead
ing democrats, including Secretary Bayard
and Speaker Carlisle. When aske d if James
A. Garfield, Senator Sherman, Murat Hal
st ad and other prominent republicans had
not been members OF the club Mr.. Wood
burn said: "There is not a republican today
in public life on the roll Of membership of
the Golden club"
Mr.. Wocdburn,i in closing, made an allusion
to A. s. Hewitt, mayor of New York, where
upon Mr.. Bryce of New York crossed tho
main aisle and excitedly denounced that
gentleman's statements. Mr.. WOODBURY.
said he could prove everything he had said,
and Mr.. Bryce exclaimed, II say it is false!"
Mr.. Brumm of Pennsylvania, who was
seated within foot or two of Mr.. Bryce, sud-
denly plunged into the controversy. and,
shaking his finger in front of Mr.. Bryc. IS
face, said: "Hewitt acknowledged it on
the floor of the house, and apologized for it.
offered the resolution to investigate it. So,
when you say that this man referring to
Mr., WOODBURY. says an untruth, you say
what is f4lse." In moment the house was
in state OF great confusion, and the MEM
bers crowded around the two gentlemen, who
facing one another, continued an angry
colloquy, which was not, however, jItelli-
gible. A few moments later order had baen
restored, and Bryce and Bynum were rcatcd
side by side talking amicably.
After further sparring relative to Cobdon
club and the authorship of the Mills bill, Mr..
Mccormick of PENNSYLVANIA took the floor,
and devoted himself largely to criticism Of
the lumber sections of the bill. Mr.. Russell
of Massachusetts, charged that the owners OF
American lumber lands brought Canadian
cheap labor over the line to cut the timber
which the republicans wanted to protect.
There was, he said, scarcely an
axe swung in the New England
forests by YANKEES. All the lum-
bermen were Canadians Mr. Mccormick
asked what inducement there was for the
Canadians to cross the line if it was not
higher wages, and Mr.. Perkins supplemented
the question by asking If the gentleman
favored legislation to keep the Canadians
out of this country. Mr.. Russell replied that
he was speaking of the advantage the Ameri-
can lumberman had under the present tariff
in the matter of hiring cheap labor.