Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
T0-DAY'S TELEGGRRAPHIC NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings of Congress.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June IS
SENATE.

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SENATE.
The President pro TEN. announced
the appointment as members Of the me
mortal association of the District of Co
lumbia the following named citizens of
the District ]. C. Bancroft Davis, AR.
Spofford, John Hay, j. w. Davis,
Gardiner C. Hubbard and Charles c..
Glover.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Hale, as to the eliectual difference
between the republican policy of pro
lection" and the democratic policy Of
tariff for revenue only" was taken up
and Mr.. Hale addressed the Senate
upon it. In the battle Che saiD now on
and which will be fought out from now
until November, there should be no
mistake made by any man as to the po-
sition taken by the democratic party on
the great question which affects the in
dustries of the people OF the United
States. The democratic convention in
Chicago took its ground boldly and
squarely ; and, as between protection
on the one side and free trade on the
other, it committed itself to a platform
as near to free trade as it is possible for
any party to assume under our present
condition. Tariff for revenue only"
which is to be the rallying cry of dem
ocracy in this campaign, is only sepa-
rated from free trade by the amount Of
revenue needed to maintain the gov
eminent. Mr. Hale went on to give
a history of the adoption Of the tariff
plank at Chicago-reforring to the
fruitless efforts for non-committal
plank on the part of such leaders ofthe
party as Senator German and that
great political commander, the junior
Senator from New York and had
read by the clerk, the tarilfplank as
first reported, the plank as finally
adopted, and the proceedings of the
convention in relation to it, The con-
trollers of the committee on platform,
he said-the manipulators-had pre-
posed to join candidate and a plat
form together, but the platform was
not radical enough to suit the delegates.
The convention wanted two things
Grover Cleveland as its candidate for
President, and the democratic doctrine,
that protection is robbery-and it gets
both. The convention had adopted a
platform nearer to free trade than any
thing which had been uttered to the
country since the absolutely free trade
constitution adopted by the southern
confederacy. The free trade South had
been again in the saddle; and nearly
every State that had helped to form the
free trade constitution of the confede
racy had voted in favor Of the PROPOSE
ton adopted by the convention.
Mr.. Vest replied to Mr.. Hale
He agreed with that Senator in
the statement that the issue be-
tween the two great parties of
the country was distinctly and cmphat-
ically made up.
The democratic party accepted-Nr
Vest said-the challenge given to-day
by the Senator from Maine. II
proposed, on that issue, to stand or
fall as political organization.
Before Mr.. Vest closed his speech he
criticised the recent appointment Of Mr..
Campbell as the chairman Of the repub
lican national committee speaking of
him his the lawyer and adviser of Ar
mours great beef monopoly. Such an
appointment, he thought, was in keep
ing with the party's policy.
The resolution went over without ac-
ton and the agricultural appropriation
bill was taken up.
HOUSE.
There were not more than so men,