The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-06-04
Mr.. Turpie on Reciprocity.

In the United States Senate on Thursday,
the resolution offered by Mr.. Turpie, of
Indiana, calling for the correspondence with
Hayti, Columbia and Venezuela in regard to
reciprocity was taken up, and Mr.. Iurple ad-
dressed the Senate upon 1t. he SAID that
there had recently been Il race for poplar
favor between Two statesmen as to which OF
the twain was entitled to the honor OF having
devised the scheme of reciprocity. 1t had
been found, however, that neither OF those
very prominent statesmen could lay the
slightest claim to the invention or discovery
of that policy. Reciprocity treaties dated
back to l703, when what was known as the
Methuen treaty was entered into between
Great Britain and Portugal, applying to only
two products, the woods of England and the
wines of Portugal.
Other recent reciprocity treaties had been
that between France and England and that
between the United States and Canada. But
under the late so-called reciprocity treaties
with South America the Secretary OF State
had substituted his own power for that OF
Congress- whatsoever taxes he RENTS,
they are RENTED, and whosoever taxes he
retains, they are retained" Reciprocity
treaties have been made with great rapldity
and zeal. But they had not been submitted
to the Senate He knew it was said that
they were authorized by the third section OF
the Mckinley act, and it was asked whether
Congress could not authorize the President
to make treaties. His reply was that Con-
gress could not authorize the President to
make treaty in any other way than as pro-
yided in the constitutions All treaties had
to be submitted to the Senate. He did not
know what these negotiations ought to be
called. One thing certain was that they We're
not treaties. They resembled the british
orders in council of 18ll-12 or the DEGREES
of the Emperor Napoleon issued at Paris and
Milan. They certainly had no room, space
or Office in the American system of govern
ment. They were not warranted by any
power granted to the President in the con-
stitution.
Leaving this branch of the subject, Mr..
Tprpie turned to the actual effect OF the re
ciprocity treaties, and he ridiouled the idea
of opening market in South America to the
agricultural products of the United States.
1t was, he said, like shipping cork to BARGE
iona for the purpose of building castles in
Spain. He drew an imaginary sketch of the
State of Colombia declining to take part in
"Mr Blaine's grand exhibition of shifting
tableaux'' and saying, ''excuse us for declining
to aid in the performance. We don't wish to
furnish either color, space or room for that
exhibition, and we especially decline the part
of acting either as supernumerarles or ushers
at such an Indifferent entertainment. he
compared the diplomacy of shreds and
patches, the financial policy Of scraps" with
the broad and liberal policy of freer trade
with all nations offered by the Democratic
party of the United States, and declared that
the purpose of reciprocity was not CONNER.
cial, but wholly political. Among the throng
of spectre phantoms that had been permitted
to visits the glimpses of the moon was that
will o. the wisp, false, fttering, vaporing
wrath of reciprocity.
At the close of Mr.. Turpies speech, which
held the close attention of Senators, the res
olution was adopted.