St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-11

emulate the example of the senator from
New ork, Mr.. Hiscock, and follow
him into the domain of epithet and vi
tuperatiOn. That senator had charged
the Democratic party with being the
party of ruffianism and crime. and had
charged Democratic senators with being
charlatans, demagogueS, dishonest pre-
tenders and habitual slanderers. The
Democratic party and every gentleman
i'll it could treat that senator's assertion
with contempt. The Democratic party,
amid all its misfortunes and mistakes,
had record which no other political
organization could produce. For CEN
tury, in peace and in war, in sunshine
and in shadow, its flag had fioated in
every township, county and state in the
Union, and
Would Continue TO Float
until the country itself ceased to exist
Turning his attention from Mr.. Hiscock
to the tariff bill, Mr.. Vest characterized
it as the elimination of what was called
the protective principle in this country,
and as glaring Illustration of the his
toric truth that class legislation never
receded. He congratulated the country
on the passage of the bill, because he
believed that the sooner the crisis was
ish, the better it would be for the coun-
try and all its material interests. Com
ing to the question of the decay of the
foreign commerce of the United States,
he rldlculed the reasons given on the
Republican side, and said that the great
and stupendous cause of its decay was
the old navigation laws-a relic of bar
barism. 1t was the Republican party
which refused in a spirit of barbaric
seclusiOn to permit the American peo-
pie to purchase their ships where they
could purchase them cheapest and put
them under the stars and stripes. Mr..
vest went on to denounce the action of
the finance committee and of Republican
senators on the sugar schedule, and de-
clared on the authority of statement
of Mr.. Allison's in 1888 that the reduc-
tion of the standard of free sugar from
No. 16 to No. 13, and the increase of the
duty above No. 16, from fOur-tenths to
slx-tenths of a cent pound, would put
20,O00,0 900 year in the pockets of the
sugar refinerS, Coming to the question
of reciprocity, Mr.. Vest declared that
Mr.. Blalne's market was in the wrong
place. The people of the West could
not give up the market of Great Britain.
The English were bound to have the
wheat and corn and meat products of
the West. The South American people
did not want these products and would
not take them. Mr.. Vest opposed the
reciprocity amendment because it COM
mitted to the president
Powers Which Were Abhorrent
to the principles of the government.
Mr.. Vance said that the treasury had
not, in the preparation of the bill, been
considered in the slightest degree. Its
purpose was $50 it is said) to reduce rev.
enue; but it was not to reduce taxation.
1t was Intended to increase taxation
While reducing revenue, and to divert
that increased taxation from the treas
ury of the people to the pockets of pri-
vate parties. One objection, Mr.. Vance
said, to the bill was that it was intensely
and scandalously sectional. 1t made
sugar free, and sugar was Southern
product. 1t made the machinery for
making beet sugar in the Northwest
free: and it maintained duties on the
cane sugar machinery of Louisiana.
Rice was Southern product, and the
duty on rice was reduced. Binding
twine for the Western fields was made
free, but the duty on cotton ties was
tripled. He believed that the Western
farmer would be ashamed to look in the
face of his blOther farmer of the South
after that unjust discrimination. The
bill had but one redeeming feature; and
that was its intense and naked selfish
ness, which would be the means of
arOuSing the cOnscienceS of ihe Amer
lean people and of leading to it's repeal.
Mr.. Jones, of Nevada, made an address
in commentator of the policy of the
protective system, and illustrative of its
effect in developing the mechanical
arts and the industrial forces of ma
ton. He compared the free traders to
the robbers and pirates of the middle
ages, and said that free trade would re-
suit in the destruction of industry.
Free trade. he said, would bring the
matchmaker. Men constituted society:
machines did not. Not only was free
trade delusive as theory; but it was,
in fact, falling into discredit where it
existed. In conclusion, Mr.. Jones said
that he regarded the pending bill as one
OF the most benefic ent measures that
could be enacted into .legislation-un-
less, indeed, the duties were made
higher. If he had his way, he would
make it
A Tariff of Exclusion,
on all the articles in the production of
which the same employment of mental
and physical force would have the same
results in the United States as else
where; and then he would let the ad-
justment take place among the people
of the United States. At this point of
MI. Jones' speech, the presiding officer
(Mr. Ingalls) announced that the six
hours assigned for general debate had
expired. The vote was then taken, and
the bill was passed-yeas 40, nays 90
as follows: