The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-27
THE BATTLE BEGINS.
FIRING THE FIRST SHOTS FOR GAG
LAW AND.FORCEBILL.

Having Threatened Observation-Disclosures
licans Reproached for Cowardice-The
| Discussion Interrupted by the Tariff.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Aug 20.-Quay's
.'or,ler of business" resolution was
taken up in the Senate. Iloar offered
substitute making 1t in order to close
debate after any matter has been sun
der consideration fora reasonable time"
and also an amendment to add the cleo
ton bill to Quay's list of measures, the
vote to be taken on it September 4th.
| Uoar said his motion seemed to require
compact statement of the purpose,
mechanism and necessity of the cleo
ton bill. There had never been meas
| ure so much mlSrepreSented or so much
misunderstood. Continuing, he said:
II think nothing has been heard of it
here except the threat from one highly
| honored Senator of bloodshed if its
provisions should he adopted and be
attempted to he put in force. | think
it proper, therefore, 70 call the atten-
tion OF the Senate for Il few moments
to the proposition, which is nothing
more nor less than a proposition to re-
move force and fraud from the cleo
tion of members Of our great rep
resentative chamber aud to substitute
for the election processes with which
we are all unhappily, too familiar, the
peaceful arhitrament of the courts of
the United States
Pugh: Il desire to inquire of the Sen
ator if he alluded to what said at the
time he reported the bill from Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections in re-
lation to the effect Of an attempt to en-
force the law
Hoar::"I did"
Pugh: 81 desire to say that made no
threat. What said was a mere pre-
diction-a mere expression OF an opln-
! ion that has been repeated in the House
and in the press to the effect that IN
attempt to execute that law would
lead to bloodshed. 1 made no threat.
1t is an utter perverSion-I am bound
to say wilful perversion--of the Ian
glage 1 used at the time that this bill
was reported to say that I made any
threat that that should be or would be
the conseo uence of the execution OF the
law. 1t was Il mere predlctlon--a mere
expression of opinion 1t was the eX-
preston of a fear and not Of a desire
or intent that that would be the con-
sequence OF an effort to execute that
law"
uoar: 1.-The difference between pre-
diction and threat coming from the
| leaders of the gentlemen who have
! managed the elections in some parts Of
the country has, unhappily, been found,
in experience, pretty thin and narrow
one. But, if the Senator does not like
that phrase I will withdraw 1t and
read from the Record what he did say"
uoar then made in extended speech in
support of the election bill. and on its
conclusion Spooner moved to refer the
| QUAY resolution to the Committee on
Rules.
Frye made an impressive address to
the Republican Senators against that
motion and in favor of the amendment
to the rules providing for the adoption
of the previous question. He.sald that
if 43 Republican Senators would sit
from ten till six every day and all
night if necessary the rules could be
changed in three days, the tariff bill
passed in ten days afterwards. and the
election bill in ten days after that.
But cowardice, he said. had never won
battle and never retained friend.
Hiscock took the same view.
Edmunds replied to Frye and declar-
ed his opposition to the muzzling pro-
cess. While EdmundS was speaking
the clock struck twelve and the tariff
bill was laid before the Senate us un-
finished business.
Aldrich declined to lay aside the tar
iff bill temporarily so the Senate pro-
ceeded with consideration of the tariff.
The pending question was On Me
pnerson'S amendment to strike out of
paragraph l59, page 80. (referring to
pen knives, eraSers and raZorS) claSslIl-
cations and compound duties, and to
substitute a uniform rate of 10 percent.
advalorem. The paragraph and amend
ment to it gave rise 10 a long discus
sion. carried OH by Mcpherson, Vest.
Gray. Carlisle and Daniel. on the Demo-
cratic side. and Aldrich, Platt and
uawley on the Republican side. Dan
lel'S remarks were not confined to the
subject Of cutlery. but took in the
whole question of the protective tariff
and it's evil results on agricultural in
terests. He told the Republican Sena-
tors that their own Secretary of State
had written in letters of light, con
demning the pending bill; and that
their own Secretary OF Agriculture had
told them that the cause Of agricultural
depression was the loss Of the foreign
markets. These markets had been lost
by the Republicans doing what their
forefathers had complained of 4 hun
dred years ago against the British
crown. That was cutting off trade
with all parts of the world" 1t was
they who had built up the paupe- la
Dor of India by stimulating the produc-
ton of Indian wheat; and it was tina.
same policy which was building up the
Argentine Confederation and making
it the rival Of the United States in ag-
ricultural products.
Aldrich asked Daniel to say how that
was being done.
Daniel replied that the Republican
policy had done it in three Ways-hrst,
by demonetiZation; second, by the ho-
gus protective tariff on wool; and third,
by making monopolistic tariff duties
so high that competition had been cut
off. The American farmers could not
now get the high prices for his
products in foreign markets to Which
he has Eeen accustomed. After reply
ing to some questions of AlliSon's as to
Argentine wool, Daniel said that the
Senator had, in times past. made some
observations in the same line that he
was making now, and he would there
fore refer the Senator of today to the
Senator of yesterday. Finally a vote
was taken, and McPherson's amend
ment WAS rejected-yeas 25, nays 32.
Paddock was the only Republican Yot
ing AYE" Manderson and Plumb vo-
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