Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-09
THE FlFrx.Ylnsr CONGRESS.

AA~ HAH4xsNAAOI CON0nkSSSs Rebate Resumed In the House on the
 Iafi0 Blll-mr. D0ckery of Missouri
 Has the Floor First and is Followed
 Oy MT. Burrows of MichlgaR-The
 HilI Ably Dissected by the Latter
 Gentleman.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., May S.-After read ing the journal the house went into commit tee of the whole on the tariff bill.
 Ar. Cookery of Missouri eaid that the bur- den of taxation had always been willingly assumed by the people when restricted to legitimate public purposes, but history made no record of that willingness when taxation was intended to subserve private in' terssts. That the present system of taxa tion did not restrict the revenue to the needs of the government was shown by the surplus in the treasury, which had compelled the treasury department to purchase bonds, pay ing therefor premium of $47, ,00o,0o But the surplus was only an incidental burden. The substantial burden was the oppressive taxation of the people. He favored the en. iargtng of the market for agricultural pros ducts and the unshaokling of life's daily needs from unnecessary and paralyzing taxa tion.
 MT. Burrows of Michigan in the course of h1s speech said that 1t was a theory which prevented the passage of a tariff bill last congress- The house was democratic, the senate sen n republican. Each body passed tariff bill the effect of which would be to reduce the revenue to the lowest means of the gov ernmsnt. Both measures failed. In the campaign of 1888 the two theories were pre- sented to the American people, and after full debate on platform and in the press, verdict was rendered in favor of the repub- Ecan theory of taxation-a verdict so pro- nounced as to wrest the presidency and the popular branch of congress from the demo- cratic party and confer them on the repub- lican party. [Applause.I
 If the committee had failed to place on the free list single article of foreign production which could not be produced in this country 1t was an error which the committee would be prompt to remedy. If there was an arti- ole on the free list the like of which could be produced at homo it was an oversight and would be transferred to the dutiable list. The bill was intended az measure of protec- tion from the enacting clause to the closing paragraph. Applause If there was a single provision in it which in it's workings would inure to the benefit of any foreign in- dustry to the detriment of our own, such a provision was there by inadvertence and not sin. Applause. If there was section in the bill which would bring disaster to any American industry or paralyze the arm of any laboring man in the United States, a section was there by accident and not by de- He favored placing sugar on the free list and granting bounty, arguing that it would save tine tax payers $64 100000, while the bounty would only amount to $7000, 900. Free trade, he said meant unrestricted compe- tition; unrestricted competition meant cheap goods; competition in cheap goods meant l cheap labor; competition in cheap labor meant cheap flesh and blood; competition in cheap flesh and blood was slavery. Cheap clothing and cheap food were of no value | if human labor was cheaper still. [Ap- plause.
 Free trade meant cheapness to the rich and idle, but longer hours and harder work to the laborer. In this race for cheapness the republican party did not propose to enter. Whatever might be the cause of the present agricultural depression no one would be bold enough to assert that it was due to policy which had created home market capacioui l tobacco) ninety-fve per cent. of the products l of the farm.
 MT. McMillan of Tennessee, said that ir the state of Miehigsn there were more thar AZ, ,000 mortgaged farms and 43,O0O unmort gagged. Was that condition or theory that confronted the gentleman at home Applause. The average rate of interest paid by his poor overtaxed constituents wa. 72 per cent. What remedy di9 this bill had the chairman of tho committe' on ways and means done to relieve one particle of this excessive indebted ness2 Although one-half of the people O. the United States who lived dur ing the war were dead, although the nationa debt-then over two billions-has been re duced below one billion, the tariff taxatio,
 been abated one iot. Gentlemen on the oth'
 or side spoke of the victory achieved by th
 republicans in 1888. There was victor! when one hundred thousand popular majori l ty was for the democratic candidate.
 MT. Milliken of Msine-Does the gentle
 man not believe that more than one hundre,
 thousand republican votes were suppresse,
 in the southi Applause on republican
 side.
 MT. MoMillan-No, sir; that is absolutel,
 false, absolutely false. [Applauss on tn
 democratic side. am tired of this bust
 ness of lot of people standing back, thank ing God that they are not lik
 others when their own record
 as rotten as cancerous sore ITApplause on democratic side What your recorda You stole one presidency an l DOuRub huOtueEy huu uOW you tdlh 0Oou
 suppressing votes. There was a conflict
 joined in 1888, and this settled something
 Let us see how it was waged. It Is fact
 known by all mon, that the fat was frie
 out of manufacturers all over the country fo
 campaign purposes. Go to the postoffice de
 partment and ask your postmaster geners
 how much money he contributed.
 Mfr. Milliken-The candidate on our sid
 did not put up $10,000.
 MT. MoMillan-1t is known fact that
 the last campaign money was used withor
 stint; votes were bought in 'sblocks of five;
 some of the people who put up the poodle
 buy the~ "blocks" were rewarded with f,
 offices, and now it is proposed to pay Il others in an indirect way. MT. Bayne of Pennsylvania thought Il last election had decided that the people wei : in favor of the tariff. He admitted that thel
 had been depression in the agricultural di
 triots. but thought that the next censr , | would show a vast increase in the value the farms of the country.
 MT. Flower of New York said the bi disregarded all consideration of the equalii , of citizens and industries under the law an proposed to increase present duties and lev ,, new ones in the interest of partiality an { unjust discrimination. In general criticis of the bill he cited as an illustration the pr
 vieion of the measure with reference to frui , The manner in which this bill dea 2 with the item of fruit was fair illustri
 tion of its unfairness, injustice a1 . insincerity in it's dealing with Il ! larger commodities in the vario . schedules. He then reviewed briefly and - . critical manner the provisions to increa h the duty on tin plate, for bounty on sug a and to increase the duty on Sumstra lesf "a conclusion Mir. Flower said: It is the mo f objectionable measure in my estimation, tn {. has ever been offered as solution of | !, tariff question, @ bill relieving few burder
 creating new ones and adding to those nc
 existing, and what have said upon il, thou
 not coAprehensive, is enough to bring us if full appreciation of the legend that W
 found pinned to e corpse of 8 victim r Judge Lynch in @ v stern territory: . "He was pretty mean man in some J. spects, but he was a blamed sight worse l. others" That Is my estimate of this mos le ure, and at the proper time I shall of d amendments aimed at some of it's evils. D. At the conclusion of MT. Flowers speed E. which was greeted with applause, the co @ mittee rose, and at 5:30 the house took a ys cess until o'clock.
 as At the evening session the debate on E tariff bill was resumed. MT. Simonds of Ct le necticut discussed the tobacco schedule a