Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-13
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON, April 12.

E1ICleGn COngf6SS-.F1rSC S6SS1On. WASHINGTON, April 12. l SENATE.-The Presidents message was | again taken up and Mir. Coke addressed the Senate. No people on earth had ever been so defrauded and humbuggsd by delusion and false pretences as the American people had been by manufacturing monopolies who, | in unbroken chorus for one hundred years, had been demanding high tariff taxation for the benefit of the American workingman and had been putting the profits in their people and the struggles which they were I now and had been for years making for liv- ing wages, as eyinced by the labor strikes, proved most clearly that they were not the recipients of the benefits of the tariff tax. The manufacturers, not the laborers, were the benefciaries of that tax. The vast wealth concentrated in the nine manufacturing States and the immense dispropOrtion be- tween their wealth and that of the agrieul- tural States of the Union indicated with un- erring certainty who received and where were located the vast sub sidies which had been wrung from the people, not for any public purpose but to build up and make greater the private for tunes of a few manufacturers. A reduction of the tariff to 8 strictly revenue standard would cheapen the cost of manufactured products and to that extent diminish the cost of living. It would open the markets of the world to the American manufacturer and the American laborer would in common with the whole people have the full benefit thereof. But it was on the farmers of the country who lived harder, wore plainer clothing, practiced more rigid economy and had fewer of the luxuries of life than any other class that the protective tariff fell with the most crushing weight AS to the Presidents recommends tion that wool be placed on the free list MT. Coke stated that wool ought to go on the free list, just as all the bases of manufacture and all machinery used in manufacturing should. But when wool was placed on the free list it ought to be done in the interest of the consumer. not of the. manufacturer. The ssue between the Republican and the Democratic parties (made before the country by the Presidents message) was: Should the system of taxation be that which took from the people only enough of their earnings to support the government economically ad- ministered or should it continue to be 8 sys- tenn that wrung from the people $1, ,0O0, ,000,- 900 annually more than went into the na- tional treasury? That was the issue and no amount of misrepresentation could conceal it nor could the attention of the people be diverted from it by the sectional ftbloody shirt" canvass already commenced by the Republican party and to be vigorously prose cuted for the express purpose of blinding the people with passion so that they might not see how and by whom they were being plun- dered. His faith in the intelligence of the people and in their attachment to honest constitutional government banished from his mind all fear of the result of the impending contest.
 At the close of MT. Coke's speech the Sen ate resumed consideration of the bill to pre- vide for the admission of the State of South Dakota and for the organization of the terri tory of North Dakota and was addressed by MT. Turpie in opposition to the bill of the zG ( zE the minority.
 MT. Cullom followed and spoke in favor of the majority bill. He said he believed the whole opposition to the admission of Dakota was based on the fact that the Democrats did not want any further political complica- tiens thrust upon the country until after the next presidential election.
 Mir. Spooner obtained the floor to speak in favor of the bill, but the Senate proceeded to executive business and at 5:30 adjourned till Monday.
 HoUsE.-When the House met this morn- ing, in continuance of the legislative day of Wednesday, April 4, Mir. Randall wanted permission to make a statement, but was shut off by shouts for the regular order from the Republicans. MT. Cox moved an adjournment, and the roll was called amid intense interest. Mir. Sowden, of Pennsyl- vania, was the only Democrat who voted against adjournment amid the cheers of the Republicans. Speaker Carlisle voted in the affirmative. When the Speaker announced that the motion was defeated by vote of yeas 130, nays 131, the Republicans rose to their feet and fell to cheering and shouting vociferously. For some minutes the-e was wild confusion in the hall, the Speakers gavel and the sergeant-at arms mace being alike powerless to prevent the Republicans from giving expression to their joy. Above the turmoil could be heard MT. Reed de- manding the regular order, and MT. McMil- lin, of Tennessee, moving for call of the House.
 The motion having been put the Speaker said upon viva voce that the noes seemed to have it, which elieited another outbreak from the Republicans. A division was de- manded, but, as the motion was merely made in order that another motion to adjourn might be in order, it was voted down almost unanimously amid such jeering laughter and applause that the Speaker felt called upon to remind gentlemen that this was the House of Representatives of the United States and not public meeting.
 MT. Cox again moved to adjourn and the vote resulted: Yeas 14S, nays 137. The Democrats now had a chance for jubilation. Cheer followed cheer in quick succession while MT. Springer and MT. Townshend leaped to their feet, and, waving copies of the Congressional Record, cheered and shout ed and taunted their adversaries. Every DOuy was III perTeCG SOOQ nature, ana the Republicans accepted their defeat smilingly, shouting back repartees to the humorous filings of the vietors. It was three or four minutes before the confusion ceased, some triumphant Democrat in the meantime se- curing piece of crape, attaching it to g stick and planting it on the Republican side of the main isle.
 So the long continued deadlock was at last over and the legislative day of Wednesday, April 4, came to close on the calendar day of Thursday, April F. The adjournment is until tomorrow Friday) at noon.
 MT. Randall's purpose in seeking the floor was to present the following resolutions:
 Resolved. That Thursday. December 6, Saturday December s, and Tuesday, December Il, 1SSS in- mediately after the reading of the journal be and are hereby aside for the consideration of Senate bill 139 entitled An act to credit and pay 10 the several States and territories and the District of Columbia all the moneys collected under the direct tax levied by act Of Congress approved August 3, lS6I," now in committee of the whole on the state of the Union. and st D. m., Tuesday, Decem- Der Ii, the same shall be reported to the House with such amendments may have been agreed upon in the committee, and the previous question shall then be considered ordered on all such grossed and read a third time, and on the passage of the bill; and the votes thereon shall then be taken by the House.
 It is stated that the resolution will be re- ported to the House tomorrow by the com mittee on rules.