, 1890-07-29
PURE, SIMPLE PLUMBER
Vest Speaks in Opposition to
the Tariff Bill.
Nothing Heard Now About the
Home Market.
No Longer Protection, But
Pure, Naked Plumber.

guy 49, ~ o1baNS
bill to pension all the surviving officers
and men of Powell's battalion of Missouri
mounted volunteers, raised during the
war with Mexico, passed.
Aldrich offered a resolution fixing the
daily hour OF meeting at IL a. IN.
ingalls, suggested an understanding that
the business of the morning honr shall be
considered closed at | o o'clock.
Allison did not wish it implied that the
senate would devote two hours a day to
morning business.
Ingalls, said he did wish just such an
implication. As soon as the tariff,
appropriation and election bills we're
passed, congress would undoubtedly
adjourn promptly. Therefore, whatever
was to be done between now and the time
of adjournment in the consideration of
measures on the calendar would have to
he done in the morning hour. There
we're several hundred bills on the calendar
entitled to consideration.
Cockrell ssked what was the use of the
senate passing bills when the distinguished
gentleman in charge of the house did not
give any attention to them. There were
nov on the calendar OF the house hun
dreds and hundreds OF bills passed by the
senate and no attention was paid to them.
Among them was the bill refunding the
direct tax; also two bills recently passed
and regarded on the other side OF the
chamber as very important measures 1.-THE
shipping billsl and they we're being left
to sleep the sleep that knows no
wakiog."
Hawley did not agree with Cockrell.
He wanted his own ammunition in order
SO he could 20 home with a clean record.
The resolution as to meeting at IL was
agreed to with the understanding that the
senate shall adjourn at 6
Aldrich moved to proceed to the con
sideration of the tariff bill.
That motion was antagonized by a
motion by Gray to proceed to the con.
sideration of the house bill for the trans
Ter of the revenue marine TO the navy
department The latter motion was
agreed to-Yeas &c, nays IS.
Cockrell con slnued his argument in
opposition to the bill. He had not con-
cluded his speech when, at 2 o'clock, the
tariff bill as unfinished business.
Gray moved to continue consideration
Of the revenue marine bill.
Frye said the friends of the revenue
bill had occupied but an hour and half
upon it. Its enemies "a small majority
had had all the rest Of the time. 1t was
as evident 10 the senate as il the purpose
had been ANNOUNCED. that the time had
been occupied tor the purpose OF pre-
venting a vote on the measure. That
only indicated (what he believed n 1.-THE ne
cessity OF the previous question in the SEN
ate-of some way to stop dcbate-of some
way to prevent a senator from getting up
every morning for three or four mornings
in succession and reading from the report
OF a clerk IN the treasury department.
Why should not a vote be taken on the
bill If there is a majority of the senate in
favor OF 1t? Why should it not be per
mitted to say so? The senator from Ohio
(Sherman) had made four speeches upon
the bill, and in the course of them had
read the sIme identical articles which the
senator irom Missouri had occupied ;he
last three mornings in reading.
Finally Gray's motion was rejected, IA
to "a.
The tariff bill was taken up and Vest
addressed the senate in opposition to it.
The advocates of high tariff taxation, he
said, were confronted by great peril. The
depression 10 agricultural interests aud
the emphatic demands of the farmers for
something besides lying statistics and
frothy declarations had caused the presi-
lent and Sc retary Blaine to urge upon
congress legislation for subsidies to steam
ships and reciprocity treaties with South
American states in order to obtain a for
eign market Tor American productions.
Very little was heard now of the home
market. So at last the PROFESSIONALS had
been driven from their pretentious hum
bug about the home market and were
forced to adopt the principle OF free com
mercial intercourse. which they had SO
long opposed and derided. Vest ven on
to criticize the provisions of the pending
bill that was supposed to be for the benefit
of the farmers, and said that what the
farmers wanted was an opening and ca
largement OF the foreign markets for their
surplus wheat, corn, cattle and pork, and
decrease OF the tariff duty On clothing.
hardware, tins aud other necessary arti-
Giles of daily aud incessant use by the
farmer and his family.
The pending bill. he declared, was to
repay manufacturers for their coutribu-
tons TO the campaign fund of the Re
publican party during the last presiden
tai canvass and the farmers of the South
we're Democrats. Duties on manufact
ures were increased, while the duty on
rice was diminished. The consumer of
the United States were being systematic
ally plundered under the p~retense of
protection to home industries. No fur
ther concealment was possible. The
manufacturers who were persistently ask
ing Tor higher duties to exclude foreign
competition were availing themselves of
the monopoly given by the exclusive tar
IN to charge the people of this country
from 20 to 10 per cent higher for their
goods than they could sell the same arti
cies tor in the unprotected markets of the
world. 1t was no longer protection, but
. pure, simple. naked plumber. The Amer
leans boast of their institutions of liberty
and equality, but who, he asked. could
cal himself u free man save in mockery
when. BY course Of law, the proceeds of
MS HE and labor were unjustly taken to
enrich another.
Tnrpie addressed the senate briefly on
McPherson's resolution to commit the
oil With instructions to report a bill to re-
9uce the revenue and to equalize the
duties on imports on which the average
al valorem rate of duty on all dutiable
articles shall not exceed the average
az vaiorem war tariff rate of 1864. He
declared himself not satisfied with the in
structlons. If there was a choice to be
made between the pending bill and the
morri.l tariff of 1864, he would choose
the Morrill, tariff, but the proposed in
s'ructions were simply an expression of
opinion Of that great leader of the people.
VINO polled a majority of the people for
nus reelection. The scheme would mean
the imposition Of lower duties on things