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ing, because it will draw the attention of the
country sharply to the action of the conference
| committee when it shall be reported

country sharply to the action OF the conference
committee when it shall be reported
HE REFERRED TO THE EXISTING STRIKE
on the New York Central railroad as a quiet
war between capital and labor and said that
while each side might endure the struggle for
short time without any great suffering. the
industrial interests of the United States were
left PROSTATE and helpless and millions on
millions Of money were being lost, fortunes
broken and business wrecked by events over
which the people Of the United States had no
more control than he would have over o repub-
lican convention.
Mr.. Cullom--That Is not much.
Mr.. Morgan-Thank God, not even q remote
influence. [Laughter.]
He went on to illustrate the position of capi-
tai and labor by the story Of Jacob and Esau-
Jacob representing the cunning and grasping
capitalist and Esau the cheated and plundered
workman.
After Jacob had grown rich he had been
compelled to seek the protection Of Esau for
his vast wealth in focks and herds. He had
got 1t and had left to the world lesson that
an honest laboring man could not be changed
into robber. So Mr.. Morgan thought that
the time was not far distant in this
country when all ili-gotten wealth would be
round appealing to those who had been robbed,
and it would get it But in that day the Con-
stitution OF the country would be again re-
garded as the provider and protector OF prop
those who had abused their power and de-
spoiled their fellow countrymen.
MIR. DANIEL HAS THE FLOOR.
Mr.. Daniel next addressed the Senate. He
spoke Of the proposed increase of duty on tin
plate as another step in the relentless and in
exorable war in which the republican party
was engaged against the agricultural and pro-
ducing classes of the country. 1t was so mon
strous grab, Of q monopoly as yet uncreated,
but pleading for charter from Congress to
piunder the people, that it should
not 60 unchalienged. The tin plate
tax was one element Of the conspiracy and
the soil. He did not wonder that there was
anxiety on the republican side of the chamber
that the bill should slide through as soon as
possible and with as little said about
It it,. as practicable. He had no doub.
that II the western farmer who
burned his corn for fuel because he conld not
hnd market for it, and who was told in an
ofnclal report OF the Department of Agricul-
ture that that was legitimate use of the corn,
paid $175 for the tin used in the roofing of
his house or barn and learned that S75
OF that sum went into the pocket of some capt.
tallst who had not yet appeared, that farmer
would be entirely content to pay the bonus
(1hls was said, OF course, in a tone of sar-
casm). He protested that nothing but the
spirit of monopoly and greed and grasping
avarice could inspire bill to levy taxes on the
people, which bill proclaimed in its forefront
that the taxes were not needed for revenue.
The bill indicated that monopoly had ridden
SO far in the country that it no longer felt it
necessary to carry a countersign or to show its
pass when it trod the peoples highway. 1t
looked ON agriculture as its legitimate spoil.
OPPOSED TO THE CLoTURE.
Referring to the proposition to limit debate,
Mr.. Daniel said that such a gag rule would be
fitting wind-up to the sad and tragic comedy
before the Senate. Those who spoke for the
farmers were to be gagged like Gulliver and
were to be told to speak their five minutes and
go home. shame-he exclaimed-upon you,
american snnS Senators, Senators, if you ian can hear
without indignation. He did not believe that
the ear of the American people was deaf to the
cause OF patriotism. He appealed to the Pha-
roahs to ''iet tho people go" and to give the
farmer fair chance for wealth. II the de-
MED it to him they would hear from him again
and he would see them later"
MR. MOODY FOR PROT EcrIoS.
Mr.. Moody addressed the Senate. large
number of his constituents Che said) were di-
rectly and deeply interested in several para
graphs of the pending bill. He was opposed
to tariff levied exclusively for rev.
enue e on any articles except
those OF luxury. he regarded tariff
imposed indiscriminately on imports for the
sole purpose of revenue as a tax and as a
vicious mode of levying tax. But he was in
favor Of the imposition Of duty on foreign pro-
ducts that entered. or might enter, into success
full competition with those of the United States,
for the specific purpose of protecting and pro-
noting such production by the American peo-
pie. leaving the revenue derived therefrom to
be merely incidental. And he would gauge
the duties to be imposed in proportion to the
rate of actual labor involved. even
going SO far as absolutely excluding
the foreign product where it could be
successfully supplied by home labor.