The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09

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overtaxed constituents was 2-10 Der cent.
What remedy did this bill propose for these
overtaxed peoples In Ohio the number Of
mortgages was 291. 900, and the mortgage
indebtedness was $3.50, 100000. What had
the chairman Of the committee on ways
and means done to relieve one particle of
this excessive Indebtedness Mr. McMill1n
read table prepared to show the labor
cost and the proposed duty on staple articles
OF manufacture to meet the statement that
an Increase was necessary TO protect labor.
THE WOOL HAT INDUSTRY.
Wool hats had been made last year to the
amount of $S,OO0,0 900. The labor cost was
% per cent. at present. The duty was 68
per cent. The committee proposed to make
it Ill per cent, protection with incidental
revenue. Why, it was protection with
accidental revenue, for it would be an acci-
dent if any goods came in at all. He pro-
posed to stretch this bill-this putrid
patient-upon the dissecting table. In some
respects it was like a man, for it was fear
fully and wonderfully made. Again it was
earth at the creation, without form and all
darkness.
There was general change from ad valor
rem to specific duties that concealed the
true rate of duty.
But it did more. The prices of commodi-
ties were falling all over the world, and this
change prevented the consumer from get
ting the benefit of the reduction.
THE ELECTION IN 1888.
The gentlemen on the other side spoke of
the victory achieved by the republicans in
1888.
This was victory-when 100. 900 popular
majority was for the democratic candidate.
Mr.. Milliken of Maine-Does the gentle
man not believe that more than 100, 900 re-
publican votes were suppressed in the
south? Applause on the republican side.
Mr.. McMillin-No, sir. That is absolutely
false; absolutely false. Applause on the
democratic side.1 / am tired of this busi-
ness of lot of people standing back thank
ing God that they are not wicked like
others, when their own record is as rotten
as a cancers core. [Applause on the demo-
cratic.] What is your record9 You stole
one presidency and bought another, and
now you talk about suppressing votes.
There was conflict Joined IN 1888, and this
settled something.
Mr.. Lansing-How it was waged is q fact
known by all men that fat was fried out of
manufacturers all over the country for
campaign purposes. Go to the postofiice
department and ask your Postmaster Gen
eral how much money he contributed.
cLEvELAND's CONTRIBUTION.
Mr.. Milliken-The candidate on our side
did not put up $4,000.
Mr.. McMillin-It Is a known fact that
during the last campaign money was used
without stint. Votes were bought in
"blocks of fiven Some of the people who
put up the Doodle TO buy the blocks were
rewarded with fat offices, and now it is
proposed to pay others in an indirect way.
Ridiculing the method resorted to by the
majority to relieve the farmers, Mr.. McMil-
lin referred to the fact that straw was taxed.
Mr.. Wilson of West Virginia--After Civ
ing us free whisky and free sugar do they
tax straw?
Mr.. McMillin-They tax straw.
Mr.. Wilson-Then the bill is worse than l
thought it was. [Laughter.]
Mr.. McMillin then proceeded to an analy-
sis of the bill. asserting that aside from the
sugar schedule there was not a schedule in
which the duties had not been increased.
In conclusion. he said that In one of his
epistlss the Apostle Paul had said: "Oh,
who shall deliver me from the body
of this deathg' Commentators told us
that this saying was founded on a custom
existing in an oriental country. When a
certain crime was committed they did not
put men in the penitentiary as we soma
times did. They did not hang him, as we
seldom do They did not turn him loose, as
we generally do, but they took the body of
and sent him forth with the burden
of death on his shoulders. Where
ever he went by day OF
night he bore the evidence Of his guilt and
his own great punishment, until, overcome,
he sunk down In death exclaiming: "Oh,
who shall deliver me from the body of this
death~
The republicans had embarked on a
system of bounty which must be as offensive
H.. e..sIa - oil To- H.
carcass of the victim to the criminal, and
when the ides of November arrived there
would go up from the republican party the
wall of defeat "Oh, who shall deliver me
from the body of this deatha" [Applausel.
COMPLEXION OF THE NEXT HOUSE.
Mr.. Bayne of Pennsylvania followed.
While he was reciting the benefits which he
predicted to follow the adoption of the
pending bill, Mr.. Tracey of New York in
quired whether the gentleman would predict
that the next House would be republican.
Mr.. Bayne replied that he expected it to be.
He would be sure Of it if his republican
friends would have the courage and man
hood to stand up for a federal election law.
[Applause on the republican side.1
Mr.. Flower of New York spoke briefly.
After general criticism Of the bill, be said
the manner in which the bill dealt with the
item Of fruits was a fair illustration of its
unfairness, injustice, and insincerity in its
dealings with large commodities in the va
rious schedules.
THE DUTY ON ORANGES.
The probable effect of the fruit provisi on
would be to stop importations, and
deprive the people OF cheap oranges,
to throw out of occupation
many thousands of poor who derive
their subsistence during a portion CT the
year from the traffic in this fruit, dis
astrously to affect a large amount of capital
invested in the foreign fruit trade, and to
destroy the business Of box making in
Maine and other states where boxes for
these imports are now made. The rebate
allowed by the bill ON boxes manufactured
in the United States was mere bagatelle.
It would not even serve as sop to the box
makers, and why was all this to be donea
Merely that the orange growers
of California and Florida might
have exclusive control of the home market,
the demands of which for large portion of
the year they would be unable to supply.
The people were TO be deprived of cheap
oranges in order that in ten years from now
Florida may have the privilege of beginning
to supply them, i'll the meantime charging
those who are able to buy at such prices as
the rapacity Of the growers or the condi-
tions of the market may compel them to
nav. Mr.. Flower summed his opinion
of the bill by reciting legend
that was found pinned to the corpse of a
victim of Judge Lynch" in western terri
tory; "He was pretty mean man in some
respects but he was blamed sight worse
in othars "