St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-11
LET The PEOPLE RISE.
The Senate Passes the Tariff
Bill Fashioned by Monop-
oly's Hands.
1t Caters to the Classes and
Will Bankrupt the
Masses.
Forty Votes in Favor Of In
creasing the Burdens Of
Taxation.
The Iniquitous Measure, as
Amended, Given to a Con-
ference Committee.

ference Committee.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-The senate
met at II o'clock, and, after few mo-
ments spent with routine business, the
tariff bill was taken up-the question
being on its passage-with six hours
allowed to close the discussion, after
which the vote is to be taken. Mr.. HOar
was the first to address the senate. Re-
ferring to the reciprocity proposition,
he said that he had voted for 1t yester-
day with some hesitation, and should
not have done so if he had thought that
the scheme contained in the amendment
was all that was likely to come out of
entering on that policy. There were
some gradations and difficulties in the
way. which had been ably stated by
Mr. Evarts. He thought, also, that
on the one side the recip-
rocal exchanges were incomplete,
and that they contained one or two
articles-especially tin and hides-that
had to be dealt with solely in the view
of internal interests and without rela-
ton to the effect on other countries of
their being taxed or untaxed. He
thought also that in the forefront of any
policy on that question the United
States should determine to put an end,
as far as legislation could do 1t, to the
practices of foreign nations imposing
export duties on products used here.
He would have such products coming in
from such nations
Excluded Altogether
from American ports if they could be
supplied from elsewhere. He, however,
regarded the amendment rather as
declaration of purpose than as a defini-
tion of legislative policy, and it was in
that view that he had given it his sup
port. Mr.. HiScOck commenced his speech
with bitter arraignmentof Democratic
senators. who, he said. had surpassed their
predecessors and themselves in charla-
tanism, demagogism, misrepreSenta-
ton and inSincere expressions OF de-
votion to the industrial interests of the
country. Coming directly to the tariff
bill, Mr.. HiScock asserted that it had
not been constructed with view to in
jure commerce, but rather to create and
foster commerce. Its effect would be SO
beneficial that it would remain long
time undebated, and even the Demo-
Gratis would change and claim their de-
votiOn to the principal of protection.
He compared the administration of
Mr.. Harrison with that of Mr.. Cleve-
land, and said that the benefits which
had resulted from the Republican adj
ministration of public affairs were
fOrcibly illustrated by comparison of
the financial operations of the treasury
department. The largest increase
in the internal revenue receipts in
any year during Mr.. Cleveland's
administration had been S6,56S, 900,
while without any change in the law
the increase of collections for the first
full year Of Harrison's administration
had been S11,7O0.OOO. This gain might
fairly, he said, be credited to Republi-
can honesty and efficiency IN that one
branch of the treasury department.
with regard to silver, Mr.. HiscOck said,is
apparent in the increased prosperity of
the country. The late administration
had been content with denouncing the
silver coinage act and demanding its re-
peal without Offering anything in its
place. But the present administration
had earnestly urged the passage of
measures providing for largely
Increased Use of Silver
In circulation, and the leading features
of that administrative policy had since
been enacted into law. Mr.. Gibson
called attention to some points in the
sugar schedule under which he said the
whole sugar crop of Louisiana would
be forced upon the market at sacrifice
of not less than a million or million
and half of dollars, which would be
added to the profits of the sugar trust.
He wished to have the senate referees
made acquainted with the 1acts. Mr.
Turpie addressed the senate in oppo-
sition to the bill. Opening with an
ollusion to the phrase ''pauper labor"
SO often used in the tariff debate, he
said that if that meant the labor of in
mates of prisons OF of elemosynary in
stitutions, he was certain that none of
the products of such labor, either in
Europe or in the United States, entered
into the volume of foreign commerce, and
that if itmeant the labor of those WhoWere
represented in the international con-
greSs of labor, it should not be qualified
as 'pauper." 1t was true that the
laborers of Europe were often very ill
paid in some lines, but in the United
States also they were often very wretch
edly paid. If American wages were
superior to wages in other countries it
was subject for rejoicing, but it was
no reason why the American Iaborer
should be subjected
To Unnecessary Exactions
or to unjust taxation. Wages in the
United States might be much higher
than in Europe, and yet be much lower
than justice or equity required. They
did not depend on tariff legislation,
protective or prohibitory. They did not
depend on any legislation. The influence
of the movement of John Burns and his
dockmen of the Thames was not con-
fined to London, or to the United
States. 1t had been felt by
free labor everywhere. Applying his
remarks to the tariff bill. Mr.. Turpie
said that the bill was a bill of attainder
against wages. 1t was bill calculated
to diminish the means of the laborer's
subsistence, and therefore to diminish
his means of resistance to the opposi-
always threatened by reduction of
wages. The senator from New York.
Mr.. Hiscock, had declared that the bill
would become Jaw. That was very
clear. But as it was the worst of tariff
laws, so it would be the last that would
under the guise of protection to the
American labOrer tax him for the bene-
fit of exclusive privileges and strip
labor OF its earnings, and finally of its
rights. He believed most firmly that
the law would not be permanent,
either in its administration or its prin-
ciples. He believed that they would all
disappear, and that very suddenly, and
that all the WorshiperS of the Moloch of
monopoly would be banished to the
"Undelectable mountains" would be
driven into the caves and dens of the
earth in fOrlorn minority, Mr.. Vest was