Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-10
The Filibusters Active and De-
termined Today.
Mr.. oFERRALL LEADS THE FORCES.
SENATE.

NON>As
The tariff bill was taken up-the question
being on its passage-and six hours being al
lowed to close the discussion, after which the
vote is to DO taken. Mr.. Hoar, referring to the
reciprocity proposition, said that he had
voted for 1t yesterday with some hesitation. and
should not have done so il he had thought
that the scheme contained in tho amendment
was all that was likely to come out of the
entering on that policy.
There were some great constitutional diff
culties in the way, which had been ably stated
by Mr.. Evarts. He thought also, that on the
one side the reciprocal exchanges were iEcom-
plete and that they contained one or two arti-
cles-especially tea and hIdcs-that had to be
dealt with solely in the view of internal in
forests, and without relation to the ef
feet on other countries Of their being
taxed or untaxed. He thought also
that in the forefront of any policy on
that question the United States should deter
mine to put an end, as far as legislation could
do it, to the practice OF foreign nations i'm
posing export duties on products used here.
He would have such products coming from
such nations excluded altogether from Amer
ican ports il they could bo supplied from
elsewhere. He, however, regarded the amend
ment rather rs q declaration Of purpose than
as a definition of legislative policy, and it was
in that view that he had given it his support.
Mr.. HIscoCK ARRAIaSs THE DEMOCRATS.
Mr.. Hiscock commenced his speech with a
bitter arraignment Of democratic Senators who.
he said, had surpassed their predecessors and
themselves in charlatanism, demogogsm,
Misrepresentation and insincere professions of
devotion to the industrial interests of the
country. Every effort to provide free homes
and secure free speech for the laboring classes
had been resisted by the democratic party
up to 1861, by every method which
craftsmanship could devise and rufiansm ex-
ecute, and the last great effort had eliminated
In civil war. And that party had, since then,
opposed all measures that looked to the eleva-
tion and to the assurance of equal rights Of
the laboring classes of the old slave states.
Those classes had been
TERRoRIzED BY ASSASSINATION,
and the most violent methods had been re-
sorted to to subjugato them in defiance of con-
England, France and Germany, by the aid of
their natural ailies-demoera.ic Senators--had
made an open fight to degrade American labor
and bankrupt American capital
There never had been a time within his men,
ory when foreign agents had such free access
to committee rooms and were SO active in fur
nishing aid to American representatives in
order to retard the progress Of wise legislation.
And yet the representatives of the democratlc
party. with an unparalleled audacity. proclaimed
that the motive which actuated them was the
elevation of American labor and the prosperity
OF American industries and OF the common
country.
COMING DIRECTLY TO THE TARIFF BILL,
Mr.. Hiscock asserted that it had not been con-
structed with view to injure commerce, but
rather to create and foster commerce. Its ef-
main long time undisturbed, and even the
democrats would change ont and r~rrlaim
their devotion TO the prin, X le Of prot, ction.
he went on to compare ~. administrator OF
Mr. Harrison with that of Mr.. Cleveland and
said that the benefits which had resulted from
republican administration of public
affairs was forcibly illustrated by
comparison OF the financial operations OF the
Treasury Department The largest increase
in the internal revenue receipts in any one
year during Mr.. Cleeeland's administration
had been So 568, 900, while, without any change
in the law, the increase of collections for the
first full year OF Harrison's administration had
been sll, 100000. This gain might fairly, he
said, be credited to
REPUBLICAN HONESTY AND EFFICIENCY
in that one branch of the Treasury Depart
ment. The average cost OF collections under
Cleveland had been 8. SO per cent, under fiar-
rison only 80 per cent. The surplus
Oh the lst OF March. 1889, had been
forty-eight millions. There were then
no United States bonds that could
be called for redemption, and the PURCHASES in
the latter part OF the Cleveland administration
had not only greatly reduced the supply of
bonds IN the market, but had enhanced the
prices to 1919 for As and 100 for 4Is's
Notwithstanding these unfavorable conditions
there had been purchased during the past
eighteen months OF Mr. Harrison's administra-
tion, Sl5l. 900 900 of those two classes OF bond
and there had also been redeemed at par about
t20. 900 OF AZ per cent bonds. making to-
tai reduction OF tue Understanding debt of
about Sl7l ,0OO, 900 as compared with "a reduc-
ton OF about So. O00, 900 in the corresponding
period OF the Cleveland administ stration
WISDOM OF THE REPUBLICAN SILVER POLICY.
The wisdom OF the republican policy with
regard to silvor was already, Mr. Hiseocx said
apparent in the increased prosperity of the
country. The late administration had been
content with denouncing the silver-coinage
act and demanding its repeal without
offering anything in its place. But
the present administration had earn
providing for largely increased use of silver
in circulation; and the leading features OF that
administrative policy had since been enacted
INTO law. When the present Congress met last
December the price Of wheat in Chicago had
been 19 cents per bHshei, on August 90
it had been one dollar and one cent per
bushcl making an advance Of 22 cents q bushei
since the opening Of the republican Congress
Tho total increase in the value Of the wheat
crop OF 1889 was wa ooo slSA,ooo,ooo of the
oat crop T103. .OO0, ,OO0. Nearly all other farm
products, he said, had advanced in value in
like manner, and il to them were added the in
creased value OF other products OF industry the
grand total would largely exceed a thousand
million dollars.
MIR. GIBSON on THE SUGAR SCHEDULE,
Mr.. Gibson called attention to some points
In tho sugar schedule, under which, he said.
the whole sugar crop Of Louisiana would be
forced upon the market at a sacrifice of not
less than q million million and half.
which would be added to the profits of the
sugar trust He wished to have the Senate
conferees made acquainted with the facts.
Mn. TuRPIK AGAINST THE BILL.
Mr.. Turpie address the Senate in opposition
to the bill Opening with an allusion to the
phrase ''pauper labor" SO often used in the
tariff debate, he said that il that meant the
labor Of inmates of prisons or Of eleemosynary
institutions, he was very certain that none or
the products Of such labor, either
in Europe or in the United States, entered into
the volume of foreign commerce, and that IL
IL meant the labor Of those who who we're
represented in tho international congress Of
labor 1t should not be qualified a. ..Pauper.''