Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-07-26
THE FIFTY-rrRsr CONGRESS.

The Tariff Bill Taken up In the Sen.
ate-An Address By Mr.. Vance Of
worth Carollna-A Review OF she
Tariff question by Mr. McPherson-
The Pending Bill Attacked.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 25.-Mr. Morrill,
moved to proceed to the consideration of the
tariff bill and Mr.. Gray sntagoniEed that
motion with one to resume consideration OF
the house bill to transfer the revenue marine
service to the navy department. The latter
motion was agreed-yeas 80, nays 2s-and
the revenue bill was taken up.
On motion of Mr.. Frye amendments were
adopted extending the application of the bill
to the life saving service.
The hour of o'clock having arrived the
tariff bill came up as the unfinished business.
After preliminary debate unanimous con-
sent was given Mr.. Vance and he proceeded
to address the senate. To the common
sense view, he said. II would seem that the
removal of unnecessary taxes was q matter
OF wisdom and that to continue to collect
them was not to be thought Of for moment
But those who would think so would
"reckon without their host" That had been
proved by the history of the tariff commits
sion of 1882, which had utterly ignored the
wants of the people and of the government
and that only the wants and wishes
of the manufacturers. An average
reduction of twenty-five per cent.
but the tariff of 1883 had resulted in an in
crease OF 1215 Per cent. That tariff com.
mission had found an average tariff rate of
AZ per cent. ad valorem and had left an
average rate of AZ per cent. which was now
lowing to constantly increasing rates) the re.
suit of specific duties in the close neighbor-
hood of 81 per cent. He asserted that every
bona fde effort to reduce taxes had been de-
feated. The result of the pending bill might
be to reduce revenue to certain extent but
not to reduce taxes. A reduction of taxes
was one thing and reduction of
revenue another was quite q differ
emit thing. Whit the people desired was
a common sense reduction of the revenue
and q corresponding relief from the payment
of taxes. But the taking off of two cents q
pound on sugar with one hand and the pay
ing of TWO cents pound to a sugar pro-
duoer on the other hand was indeed q re.
duction of revenue with both hands, but the
taxes remained and the people paid them all
the same. Agriculture supplied seventy-fve
per cent. of the foreign exports Of the
country, and that export might be doubled
and quadrupled If the tariff were only ar
ranged 30 that other nations could send in
products. But protection would not permit
that. Instead of reducing the wall that
shut out foreign products 1t was raised
higher and higher, and was bristling with
more and more penalties. The only posi-
BILE effect of proposing bill like the No
Kinley bill was to aggravate the evil. Mr..
Vance went on to arraign the re-
claimed protection had brought upon the
country. He quoted from Mr.. Blaine's let.
ter to Mr.. FRYE, and said that the unmis-
taxable wisdom of what that distinguished
man had said illustrated the wisdom of what
he had left dnsaid. If 1t were important to
extend American trade to Central and South
America, 1t could not be unimportsnt to ex-
tend 1t to the European continent, which in
wealth and population was ten times greater.
IT free trade with the people Of the Latin
races were desirable and profitable, no rea-
sonipg could show that little free trade
with the people of Teutonic blood was not
also desirable and profitable.
Mr.. Plumb said that before proceeding to
the consideration of the bill by paragraphs
he would like to know what the finance COM
mittee believed would be the effect of the bill
on the revenue. If there ever was time
when congress and the country were enti-
tied to know that fact it was now. He
should not, If he could help 1t, enter on q
discussion of the items of the bill until
there was disclosure of that kind on the
part of the committee or of someone else
authorized to speek for it.
Mr.. Mcpherson said that the able, incisive,
eloquent and almost unanswersble speeches
of the senators from Indiana and North
Carolina (Mr. Voorhees, and Mr.. vance, seemed
to preclude the necessity of any further de-
tense of the democratic position, at least
until something was heard from the other
side of the chamber, and now the senator
from Kansas (Mr. Plumb) In the simplicity
of his nature inquired from his own COM
mittee for some information on the bill.
Did not that honorable senator know that
for the past three or four days the news
papers had been full of reports that 1t had
been resolved not only by the finance COM
mittee but by the republican caucus also,
not to attempt any defense of the pending
bili Had not that senator noticed that
when senator on the democratic side of the
chamber addressed the senate, the seats on
the republican eide Immediately became
not wish to hear anything about 1t. If the
bill could not be defended, it could not be
passed. He therefore. In order to expedite
business would move that the pending bill
be recommitted to the committee on finance
with instructions to report, at the earliest
practicable moment, a bill to reduce the
revenue and equalize duties on imports on
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