The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-31
THE HOME MARKET.
Senator Morrill's Discussion of
the Same.
THE PAUPER WHEAT OF INDIA.
Would Have Snatched the New York Market
From Wisconsin but for 20 Cent
Duty on Wheat-Fudge.


an amendment to the deficiency appropria-
ton bill. preferred to the committee on ap-
propriations) appropriating $4,000 fo1
making a boundary line between the
United States and Mexico and called atten
ton to its urgency.
The resolution offered by Sherman fixing
the daily hour for meeting at 10 am, was
taken up.
Cockrell said he would support the reso-
luton and wanted to give few reasons
why as some taunts had been made re-
Gently by the Senators of Rhode Island and
Maine (Aldrich and Frye about delay on
the part of the Democratic minority. He
wanted those Senators to see the relative
amount of work done in the two houses.
The Senate had up to the 28th of July
passed s4j bills, and 400 other
bills had been acted upon by com
mlttees and been Indefinitely post
poned, making the whole number of
Senate bills actually disposed of
l445. That was considerably more by one
third of all the bills introduced in the
Senate. No such record had ever been
made before. The House, out of over ten
thousand bills introduced there passed S65,
mere fraction of the whole. Out of all
the Senate bills passed, the House had
only passed 23l, while of the House bills,
the Senate had passed els. How, he asked,
had so much work been done in the Senate!
Had the minority been wasting time by
lnterposlng objections or by unnecessary
discussion? Had the minority consumed
the time of the majority as it had done
under the last administration in criticising
the executive or pleading the civil service
law to prevent the removal of Democratic
officials before the end of their terms of
oifices Nothing of the kind Had not bills
for the admission of Idaho and
Wyoming as states been allowed
by the minority to pass, although
every one knew neither of them had sufi-
Gent population to entitle him to Repre-
sentative In the House. Those bills passed
only through the Uncomfortable forbearance
and conservatism of the Democratic minor
lty, and yet the Democrats were criticised
the moment they wanted little explana-
ton and little light on the tariff bill. If
there was Democratic majority in the
Senate and had it made the attempt to pass
bills for the admission of New Mexico and
Arizona as states, the Senator of Maine
(Frye) would have pranced up and down
the center of the isle, and the Senator from
Vermont (Edmunds) would have raised
his voice. They would have roared like
Gagged lions and screamed like chained
hyenas laughter against the action
OF, the Democratic majority. Why, he
asked, had not the House dis
posed of more bills than il had
disposed of! There was no reason. 1t ig-
nored in Its organization and changed rules
the fundamental principles of parliamen-
tary discussion. He quoted from letter
written by Thomas B. Reed, in June 1886,
and published in the Chdutauqudn. 1T
would be remembered" he said,
s.that Reed was once member
of the House of Representatives. One
OF the sentences in that remarkable
production was in these words: Full, free.
frank discussion is the very life of intelli
gent action Another sentence was, Need
less suppression of discussion is tyranny.
whether done by king or a majority.'n
He challenged any Republican Senator to
show an instance where Democratic ma
iority had attempted any unnecessary
delay. The resolution was then agreed to-
The tariff bill was taken up and Morrill, adj
dressed the Senate
Morrill, said the ill-natured denunciations
of American manufacturers by oratorical
free-traders indicated they preferred the
OF the foreign manufacturer to
That OF their own cOuntrymen, and that
they would compel the latter to manufac-
ture as cheaply as any foreigner, pay no
higher wages, or abandon their business.
The real purpose was finally to break down
and degrade the present scale of wages of
American workmen. Coming to the ques-
ton OF the agricultural depression, Morrill,
said there was glut of transformation
on that subject and a conceal
ment OF the fact that prices of farm pro-
ducts are depressed throughout the world
The only possible remedy within the reach
of the American farmer was protection
against the foreign competition, and such
encouragement to other avocations
as would increase the consumers
of their productions. He asserted
than in 1888 had it not been for the duty of
~ cents bushel on the wheat of India, it
would have snatched the market of New
Y ork from the state of Wisconsin as well
as from all the other western states. The
farm mortgage Indebtedness had been
grossly exaggerated and he understood the
census reports would show that farm mort
cages in Kansas and Maine were less than
one. quarter of the amount which had been
represented. The charge that American
farmers were hugely in debt or more so
than the farmers of any other country was
a great calumny. The markets which could
not be found abroad had to be made at
home and they could only be made by pro-
lection.
Referring to the countries of Central
and South America, Morrill, said of aeri
cultural products as cattle, sheep and
horses, they had an abundant and cb cap
supply, not only for home consumption
but also for expectation. To carry any of
these products there was in vain. The
hope of finding market there, would be
like carrying Goals to Newcastle
On the question of sugar, Morrill, said that
the adding OF free sugar to the breakfast.
table presented stronger case than tea
and coffee presented in 1872 for like treat
ment. If by bounty the United States
could (as had been done by several Euro
pean countries) supply all its own sugar,
500, 600, 600 would be at home that was now
sent to Cuba, and elsewhere
never to return. In conclusion Morrill,
said any amendment offered in good faith
that would improve the bill would be
received, but all attempts to en-
graft thorns upon it would, he hoped, be re-
jected. AT the close of Morrill's speech
Of the bill by paragraphs was
con tinued.
The amendment offered yesterday by Nc
Pherson was rejected Mcpherson CON
tinued to offer amendments for a reduction
of rates on articles in the chemical sched-
ule, but they were all mercilessly rejected
by party vote. The only change made in
the schedule was reduction Con motion of
of the duty on chlorform from 40
TO % cents per pound.
Vest moved to reduce the duty on soda
form from 1.50 to 81 per pound Rejected.
The tariff bill was then laid aside and the
conference report on the District of Colum-
bia appropriation bill presented. No action
was taken and after executive session, the
Senate adjourned.
In the House.
WASHINGTON, July 3O.-McComas, of
called up the conference report
upon the District of Columbia appropria
ton bill, Cannon, of Illinois, resigning the