The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-20
4 YOKE ON THE EFARMERS.
VOORHEES, SPEAKS ON AGRIcUL-
TURE'5 DEPRESSION.

for the Farmer traud-1n9 Blair
Bill Bobs Up.
WASHINGTON, March 19-Vice President
Morton having returned to the city after
two weeks absence occupied the chair at
the opening of to-day's session of the Sen
ate. An unusually large number OF petit
tons were presentsdNand referred, COM
prising some for, and some against the
Sunday rest law; some for free coinage of
silver and several from labor unions against
the employment on government works of
any but United States citizens.
The bill to increase the pension of SOL
der Of the Jyer CT 1912 Isaac y. Daily, IS
years old from S. to $50 a month was re-
ported from the committee on pensions and
passed
AGRIcULTURE's DEPRESSION.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Voor-
hees last Monday as to agricultural
depression was taken up and MIR. Voorhees,
addressed the Senate in relation to it. He
spoke Of the deep, strong current OF anxiety,
discomfort and alarm prevailing In the
farming communities, and said that he pro-
posed TO aid them by inquiry as to the cause
of the existing depression. 1t was now
nearly thirty years since the close or d ter
rihle war had given to unhallowed avarice
an opportunity to prey upon the self-sacri-
ficing patriots Of the country such as had
never before been presented to the basest
passions and the most sordld and odious
vice.
UNEQUAL BURDENS.
The measures then resorted to for tax
alton for one class Of citizens and for the
enrichment of another class had been legls-
lation by which the burden of the public
debt had been doubled, silver demonetzed
and the high protection tariff established.
He characterized the tariff as a curse and
not a blessing. He was dealing not with
theory, but with condition which even
blind man could look at and draw from IL
an unerring conclusion. He detailed the
low prices for farm produce at present pre-
vailng, ana said the time would come, at
no distant day, when the farmer would look
on the proposition to tax him and
his wife aud children for the protection
and benefit of other people besides himself
as he would look on a law of congress to
establish the army worm and weevil on his
wheat; to lnfes1 his cattle with murrain
and his hogs with cholera.
A FRAUD AND A SHAM.
Every pretense OF a home market for the
farmer was a fraud, and every preteuse OF
taxing wheat and oats and potatoes for his
benefit was cheat and sham. 1t was
notorious and self-evident truth that the
tariff, as it now stood increased the farm
on every i'm pement Of industry with which
he toled; and last year binding twine had
been enhanced 80 lS cents a pound
by the tariff and the twine trust. He
did not believe that the hands of the farmer
would bold republican ticket at the next
presidential election. Mr.. VOORHEES, quoted
from recent publications TO show the re-
markabIe decadence of agriculture in New
England; Of the decline in land values
there, and in the north and west, and gave
statistics of the extent to which agricul-
tural holdings in all those sections are mort
gagged.
THE NECESSARY REMEDIES.
Mr.. VOORHEES, concluded by saying that
the remedies to be applied were: First,
tariff reform; second, a full su pply of legal
tender money; third, free coinage of silver;
fourth, suppression, by law, of gambling i'll
futures; fifth, liberal policy of pensions.
Summing UP, he said: "In the face of
these things treferring to the subsidizing of
the press, purchasing of voters IN blocks
Of FIVE" official patronage, etc., and with
full knowledge of what is before US, we
will grid up our loins like men and go for
ward to the fight. The battle may be long
and weary, but the sun will go down on a
great and final victory Of eternal right over
legalized wrong; of freedom and equality
over caste. Hail, mighty day of the swift
coming future" AS 1dr. VOORHEES, took his
and on the floor.
BLAIR's BILL UP AGAIN.
The Blair educational bill was then, at
2.15 o'clock, taken up as the unfinished bust
moss, and Mr. Pierce of North Dakota ad
dressed the Senate. He hoped, he said, 10
have an opportunity of voting to postpone
the bill till the second Tuesday in Decem-
ber next. He should vote for such postpone
ment in the hope that the bill would be
al tr1d Of ifc oh
able features and yet secure in a large degree
what seemed to him its most righteous
objects He went on to say that
North Dakota did not ask for the bounty
proposed IN the bill. She would have to
pay, under the bill, S400, 600, and would re-
ceive practically nothing III return. That
was asking too much. 1t was asking the
people of his state to give of their scanty
earnings money to educate the illiterate of
states old enough, grand enough and
rich enough to care for themselves. He was
opposed to the cheapening of education, in
the sense of making it obtainable without
effort. Before the passage OF the educa
tional bill the Republican party should
carry out it's pledges the old soldiers and
pass the dependent pension bill. 1t would
be time enough to attend to the educational
bill after the farmers had been saved from
ruin and the old soldiers from beggary.
EvARTs SUPPORTS THE BILL.
MIR Evarts addressed the Senate in sup
port of the bill. He had seen the bill pass
twice, he SAID, with great concurrence, on
the republican side of the chamber, and
with large assent on the democratic side;
but then the situation Of congress and of
the executive had been such that there
was 70 reasonable expectation of the
bill becominga law. If the bill could have
been submitted to a vote OF the House
of representatives it would have passed
with great deal Of enthusiasm, but the
dctation Of the democratic caucus and Of
the committee rooms prevented its being
presented to the Hor e. There had been
also q question whether the then executive
would have approved the bill. Now all
that was changed. Whatever should be the
action Of The Senate df it passed the bilD il
was doomed to pass the House. aud was sure
10 receive the approval Of the President. as
be (Mr Eyarts) supposed from the Pros-
dents public action and public expression.
He argued that the pending bill followed IN
it's scheme every metnod and every principle
embraced IN the agricultural colleges bill Of
1862, which he spoke OK as one Of thDse
great and be3ifeent measures which the
senator from Vermont (Ir. 1crrilii had
given 70 the country; and be pqiniel 70
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