Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-28
More Debate on the TarifIi Bill
BY The Senate.
Generous Pensions Granted The Widows
Of Gallant Dead Generals.
Our Maine Lighthouses Give the House
q Little Fun.

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products.
Mitchell offered a concurrent resolution
which was referred to the committee OF
finance. stating that the tnited State
would hail with appreciation ary reciproca
arrangement of the United Staies and tn.
governments Of all or any of the Sou,i
american or Central American State,
whereby there shall be admitted to tn,
ports of such nations free from all national
provincial. municipal and other tariffs OF
taxes the products of the United States. in
eluding -four. cornmeal and other bread
stufs, preserved meats, fruits. hides, veg
etAbles, cottonseed oil. rice and other pro.
visions, all articles of food, lumber. furni
ture and all other articles of wood, agricul
tursl implements and machinery, structur-
al steel rails, locomotives, railway cars and
supplies, street cars. refined petroleum sni
such other products OF the nited States e,
may be agreed upon, but declaring that il
is not the sense of the nited States that ia
in any such treaty or reciprocal arrange.
ment the articles of foreign wool or hides
in any form should be admitted free into
the port Of this county.
| The Senate resumed consideration of tn 9
tarlh bill, and was addressed by Morgan
He said that the pending bill bore more
heavily on the laboring classes than on tie
capitalist class or any other class. Morgan
went on to speak of the colored people who
not being capitalists, manufacturers OF
skilled workmen, could not possibly derive
amp advantage from protection, and who
yet had to bear the burden which is I'M
posed upon the people.
| He yielded to Interruptions BY Hawley,
who said that in Alabama and other State
colored men are being employed as skilled
workmen in factories aud foundries, md by
Hoar, who mentioned the case of the col
ored man who was selected recently BY his
fellow students at Harvard University to
| deliver the valedictory.
His response to Hoar was that the case
which he mentioned was an exceptional one
somewhat akin to the case of Blind Tom,
and his response to Hawley was that what
he (Morgau) had been trying to find out
was whether any negro operatives were eu-
| pioyed in Northern factories.
He also yielded to Vest. who presented
an advertisement from the Springfield
| (Msssschusetts) Fire & Marine Insurance
Company, showing a prohibition to its
agents sgainst insuring houses occupied by
negroes, or negro churches or school
houses.
| In reply to remark by Hoar that thai
prohibition applied only to the Southern
States, Vest asserted that it applied to the
whole country.
Morgan went on to criticse the bill in de-
tail, and to show how hard il would bear on
the negroes Of the South.
Colquitt addressed the Senate He com
! nayat ppinfs fba Inus. hiII md
the bill as reported to the finance commit.
tee of the Senate, and said that that com
psrison showed what a og-rollog and
| dickering affair a modern tariff hill was
and it admonished the Senate that it was
the province of wise government to let tht
people and their occupations alone. Instead
of being a measure to pay the debts and tG
provide for the common defence and gen.
eral welfare of the nted States, a tarif'
bill had become, in these latter days, moth
| ing more in effect than blundering
scheme which, under the guise of reyenne
bill, transferred their hard earned
substance from the pockets of the
the Golfers of favored classes selected
| by the lawmakers a. the special object Of
their consideration and regard The pend
ing bill was the outcome of a war of all tn,
discordant elements and of different occu
pations in society. urged on by cupidity
cunning and reciprocal plunder. He wa
as much opposed to the House bill as h,
was to the Senate bill, and would say q,
plague on both your houses" Mr.. CoIquit
went on to discuss the provisions of bott
bill, in reference to agricultural products
in order to sho~ the futility of the proposec
duties On farm produce, so far as any bene
| ft to the farmers was concerned. He thet
went on to speak of the decay of the farm
ing industry in the New England states. an,
read from newspaper correspondence oil
the subject and letter of the poet White
deploring that decay in his native town III
Massachusetts. He also referred in tn,
same connection to Lancaster county il
Pennsylvsnia, which he would have sup
posed to be the very paradise of farmers
but where, according TO an article in
Philadelphia newspaper. property had dc
creased 30 per cent within u year
ioar replied to Colq1itt's remarks abou
The decay of agriculture in Massachusetts
IL was true, ne said. that in travelling
through the hill towns of Massachusetts
deserted farm houses built couple o
generations ago would be found; but tba
VAS not due at all to the decay of the sgri
cultural industry. These homes had bee
built on the hills probably for better pro
lection against the Indians and the inhab
itants had migrated down to the vllleys
But the agricultural interests of the com
; mon wealth had kept more than equal pac
with its m ,nufacturing interests In 2
years the products of Massachusetts, ha
increased from s32 600, 900 to si7 900
900. If there was any falling off i
particular agricultural product. III
cause of it was to be looked fo
not in the protective tariff, bat in tn
opening up BY railroads of the lands Of tn
West. If it had not been for the protet
tive tariff that Western competition woul
, have been absolutely destructive to Ne
England agriculture.
Vest obtained the floor, but not desirin
to speak to day, the tariff bill vent over ii
Monday.
', On motion of Wilson Of Iowa the Hous
amendments to the Original package" bi
: we're Donconcurred in, and confereno
; vas ordered.
The - nate then proceeded to the cor
sideratlou Of pension bills on the calendar
One of these bills vas Senate bill gran
a. ing q pension to Mrs. Mary Crook, vido
of Gen. Crook. The committee on per
sions had recommended an amendment r,
ducing the smount from 5000 a year
sl2oo. German appealed to the Sena'
not to agree to the amendment, but 10
the amount at $1,000. the same as h I'd bee
re ported for the vidows Of Gems. MoCle
Ism and Fremont. Remarks to the san
effect and in praise Of Gen. Crook vel
male BY Senator's Dawes, Mitchell az
:; Paddock. The amendment Vas rejected
and the bill passed sllo~ ing Mrs. Croo
$1,000 year. Cockrii protesting again
the practice Of giving such large pension
to the Widows of major generals IS viciou
Z Senate bills we're also passed giving II
ike pension to Mrs. Freemon, And to Mr.
Mcclellan. Adjourned.