Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-09-17
The Shameful Story Told Again.

AhC bhoHoiui clOTy lOiu ASuIu.
In country where life keeps such a pace
that everything but the taxes is forgotten
in ten days the Cannon incident in the
House the other day will soon die. For
this we fear the Democratic members are
as much to blame as the Republicans, no
Democrat having the nerve to test the will
OF the House by a motion to expel the
member who had dlsgraced the Debates
Oh, for an hour of Samuel J. Randall
1t will soon be forgotten, but let the
facts again be recited for those who care to
mourn over humiliation and shame.
First-A member of the House in open
debate-ladies in the galleriss-makes a
speech so indecent that the newspapers can
not print it. No correct report has ap-
peared in any American journal.
Second-A fellow member rises to move
to proper inquiry and punishment. The
Speaker, resolved to protect the offender,
refuses recognition.
Third-The fellow member again rises,
makes the motion, and the Speaker coolly
rules it out Of order as not having been
made at the proper time
1t goes, therefore, into the history of the
country, if not upon the records of Con-
gress, that an offence for which the offender
would have been kicked out of any drawing
room in the land can be committed with
impunity because of the connivance and
protection of the Speaker of the House.
Furthermore, and this is even a more
painful side of the unpleasant story, we
have not been able to find one word in any
one of the four New York and Brooklyn
Republican journals in condemnation Of the
outrage. One of these journals bears the
honored name of Murat Halstead. But
not one word. How many columns would
Mr.. Halstead have written had the offence
been committed by some poor fre-eating
Confederate from the South, and not by
the acting leader of the House.
1t will be forgotten in few days. There
will be prize fight or a horse race or some.
thing to distract peoples minds. But the
memory of it, the sad, bitter memory, will
remain to the few who wish to honor the
House and cannot think without pain of
the decadence of that Republican press
which has no word in csnsure of those who
have dishonored it.-N. Y. Herald.
The TIP TO THE IMPoRTERs.-If the
Tariff bill should fail or be severely modi-
fed many importers who have acted on
what is doubtless ''tip from their Con-
STcesiOuda liiouee, dHu lupOitCu idiSc
stock. will have mighty fall.
a dispatch fiom Washington to the New
York Herald says: "The value of the i'm
ports for June, 1890, exceeded those of
June, 1889. by s14,217, 900. The great
bulk of this increase wss in those articles
in which the rate of duty will be largely in
creased by the new bill. On wooden goods,
wool, silk goods, tin plates, glassware, fax
and hemp manufactures, cotton goods and
earthenware the increase was within frac-
ton of SO, 900, 900. The increase for July,
1890, over the month of July, 1889, is not
so marked, but it is still quite large. 1t is
in round numbers $5,775,9 ,975." In tin
plates the increase is from 81, 1,980,235 in
1889 to SO, TT, 942 IN 1890. The effect of
these largely increased importations in GER
tain lines of manufactures must be, of
course, to corresponGingly reduce the de-
mand for similar goods manufactured here
and, to tina. extent, work hardships to
American workingmen.
This is the peculiar way in which the
Republican party protects the workipgman.
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