Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
DALZELL AND M'MILLIN
Exchange Left-Handed Compliments,
When the Lie Is Passed.
PROSPECTS OF THE SILVER BILL.
BlInds View of 1t Not Nearly So Roseate
as 1t Has Been.
TIE PASSAGE OF THE TINPLATE BILL
ESPECIAL TELEGRAPHrc LETTER.,
BUREAU OF The DIsPAToH,
WAsHInarnN u q Iulr 6

Tinplste reduced in duty to / cent
pound after October 1, 1892, and to be pr
on the free list after October 1, 1894; lea
ore admitted free when it contain
more silver in value than lead, and clothin
of tourists admitted free only to the valu
Of 800, is the buncombe record of the Dem
ocrstic House on the tariff question for on
day.
If there were any sincerity or honesty il
this rapid and destructive work it might b
admirable in 9 way, but everybody knows
and the Democrats of the House know, tina
it was simply campaign buncombe. Man,
sDemocrat voted for the tinplate and LEAD
ore bills to-day who would have voted
otherwise were there any chance for eithe
measure becoming law. As it was, they
stood together simply to give the Mckinley
act blow in a general way, as it stands fol
the great protection principle of the Re
publican party.
Not Democrat of them all expects that
any of the tariff bills passed by the House
will ever be heard Of again, but these free
trade demagogues, upon the basis of to-
days work, can go back to their con-
stituents, to whom the meaning of it all Is
very vague at best, and show what a grand
work they have done for the laboring men
of the country.
The Homestead Affair on Deck.
The tinplate bill offered opportunity for
the demagogues to get In again their asser-
tion that the Homestead riots are the result
of the tariff Whiting, of Michigan, first
made some slurring remarks of this char
scter, and they were supplemented by the
loud-mouthed McMillin, of Tennessee, who
stirred up Dalzell, of Pittsburg, and for q
- ,ha
on the floor that has occurred for many a
day.
No sooner had Dalzell flung defiance at
McMillin to show in any way that tariff was
responsible for the trouble at Homestead,
than members left their seats and crowded
toward the two men who were now hurting
charge of denial at each other, and the
confusion at once became so great that not
even the stenographers could catch the
words of either
The seat of the two members are nearly
100 feet apart, and what with their shout
ing at the top OF their voices, the crowding
and applauding of other members, and the
laundering of the Speakers gavel, the pict-
ure reminded one OF the earlier days of the
session, or of some Of the most exciting
scenes Of the famous HEED Congress
Daiz IL and McMiIIin Pass the Lie.
OF course it could only last for q few mo-
ments. As members began to make their
way back to their seats Dslzell was heard to
shout above the confusion that he did no.
thJ7k the man lived who was mean enough
to gloat over the dead and dying men at
Homestead, and McMillin to shout back
thet any man who accused him of gloating
over these men could truth fully be accused
of falsehood, and that ended the exciting
colloquy.
If these Democratic demagogues do not
gloat over the dead and dying at Home
stead, some of them make very narrow
escape of gloating over the affair as whole.
which amounts to about the same thing. It
is impossible for some of them, in connect
ing the occurrence with the tariff, to con-
cesl certain satisfaction that great use, as
they think, can be made of the tragedy as
campaign argument against the tariff In
deed. some of them narrowly avoid convey
ing the impression that they heartily re-
joice over it for that reason. Doubtless
much more of the same kind of talk as that
of to-day will be heard before Congress ad- |
journs
Prospects of the Free Silver Bill.
The Stewart free silver bill will be re- |
ported to the House favorably and without |
amendment probably tomorrow, and thus |
nothing will remain in tho way of its |
speedy consideration but the issue of a |
special order by the Committee on Rules |
that on a certain day the rules shall be sus-
pended and a vote taken, the rule requiring
a two-thirds majority for bills passed under !
q suspension OF the rules being temporarily /
rescind:d.
This is the plan now In contemplation bv
the Committee on Rules 1t will do away
with the necessity of reporting cloture
rule, SO hateful to the Democratic sense
since the various detestable clotures prac-
ticed by Speaker Reed in the last Congress.
To take up the silver bill under suspen-
sion of the rules will almost be equivalent to
the operation of the cloture as under a sus-
pension of the rules only few dilatory
motions can be made, and the most persist
ent filibustering can delay vote but for a
short time.
Therefore, the Bland bill, which was fill
bustered out of existence a few months ago,
and which was supposed to have laid the
free coinage question to sleep in the House
for at least this session, will be reeurrected
in the form of the Stewart bill, and forced
TO direct vote. What its fate will be no
one car guess at this writing.
The Tactics of the Filibusterers.
When the excited ilibustering over the
Bland bill was in progress nearly every one
admitted that If a direct vote could be had
on the measure 1t would pass The fill
sntis showed their fear of this in
the tactics they adopted. 1t was we'll
known that there were a number of Demo- |
Gratis who would vote to prevent cousidera-
tion on all sorts of dilatory motions, be-
ieving that it would be injudicious to pass
;nch bill previous TO the nominating con-
yention, and possibly previous to the cleo
lion, who would not dare, on account of
heir constituents to vote directly against
rec silver. The free coinage people de-
dared that on direct vote they would have !,
majority of from IS to 20. The direct !
yote never came, and the question with !
hem is whether on direct vote at this
ime, they can muster that majority, or any !.
majority at all
The timid silver plank in the Chicago
,latform, and the nomination of a pro-
rounced anti-free coinage candidate for
President, have changed the situation 7
and Mr.. Bland admitted to me
o-dav that he knew of two or three Demo- =
rats who on direct vote would have sup y
orted his bill, but will now vote against
he Stewart bill J
Bland's Pessimistic Views Of Life.
As neither the silver plank of the Chicago p
lstform, nor the nomination of Cleveland q
fected unfavorably the tree silver vote, it
not easy to see why it should do so in the
Touse. After his former defeat, however,
n. Bland has taken life in a very subdued I
amer, as though he had little hope of
iytiling good occurring more in this world.
Mr.. Pierce, of Tennessee, Bland's right ;,