Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-01-25
W.. Morrill, on the General subject Of
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ON Tuesday. the day of the closing de
bate ou the Senate substitute tariff bill,
Senator Morrill, spoke at some length on
the general subject Of the tariff. He had
sought the floor, he said. mainly for the
purpose of preserving the symmetry Of the
Republican record IN relation to its action
on the tariff lie criticised the course OF
Democratic Senators in opposition TO the
bill, who had assailed it, lac said, 10y Choir
us of vituperative epithets as harsh ~ the
ear as the discordaut tones Of a calithumpi
an concert He was persuaded, however,
that the American people, prosperous as
they would be under the continuance OF
tair and reasonable protective policy with
a reasonable reduction of revenue) would
he able 10 appreciate the fact that 1t was
"a condition and not theory that now
most troubled his Democratic friends He
enumerated the various tariff reductions
made 10y the Republican party as sufficient
evidence that the Republicans, so long as
they held legislative power, were neither
idle nor inattentive 10 any proper reduc
tons of the war tariff and OF the public
revenue He contrasted with that the work
of the Democratic party while having "a
majority in the House OF Representatives,
and which was confined, he said, to the
lean aud gaunt picture of one tariff bill
lrepenliug the duty on quinine which had
produced Sl2j, Gl3 revenue and Of one in
ternal revenue measure. reducing the tax
on tobacco eight cents "A pound and that
reduction, led 10y one who was in danger
of being communicated from his party M
consequence of his unhelief in the Mills tar
I l.. Of FVuF do
in Great Britain. and said that VIGOROUSLY
it had proved disastrous to all landed es
tates there but that the sacrifice had to be
made. or British supremacy in foreign trade
would have been lost If it were asked
| "What is the matter with the Mills bill y
| the answer was that it was an abandon
ment Of protection and that every change
| proposed in it was either absolute free trade
/ or "A step nearer to free trade 1t was IA
| bald withdrawal of protection to agricul
ture in almost every direction. 1t was
reckless and false to all the interests of the
farmer 1t was all right for Canada, but
all wrong for the United States. The large
manufacturing towns of Great Britain were
exuberant over the prospect of having "A
| larger and better market opened to their
products On the other hand it was con
ceded that the Senate substitute would
make a reduction of revenue of about so,
600, 900 including nearly $24, 900, 900 pro
posed 10 be removed from tobacco and CT
gars. Out of 44O paragraphs in the substi
tute there were reductions proposed in ID
or in one fourth of them. The tariff re
ductiou ON sugar would reduce the cost t.
the consumer not less than cent per
pound, and the proposed bounty on sugar
would multiply the crops Of the farmer by
the introduction Of a permanent and profit
able crop. The Senate amendment pro
posed over forty additions TO the free list
and it also proposed TO ascertain and rem
edy practical defects in existing law Il
the substitute became a law it would cover
the country, and every part of it will
blessings