Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-29
HALE ON RECIPROCITY.
His Gita! SpstGh Made In The Senate
Thursday.
A Clear, Clean Cut and Comprehensive
Review of the Subject.

Review of the Subject.
WASHINGTON, Jsn. 2S.--In the Senate,
At l2 10. Prutep, one Of the Presidents
| secretaries appeared At the bar ofthe SEN
ate srd delivered a message from the
President transmitting sdditinonxl cor
,esp,ndence ia the Chill matter. The
Vice President Immediately laid 1t before
the Senate. IL WAS read by Jahr-
son, chief clerk, the senstors on both sides
of the chamber paving the closest
attention 10 1t, and Indicating in various
ways their thorough ssiisfsclion al it's cor
tents particularly at the sentence in which
the President expresses the opirinn that
there ia good prospect that the d flculties
with Oh j will now be adjusted GU terms
favorable 10 his government BY thu usual
methods, without tpecisl powers from Con
gress.
Sherman moved a reference Of the mes
cage AMI accompanying documents to the
committee on foreign relations. lie ssid
| he supposed every member CT the Senate
heartily j)ired in the cnngrstulstion at the
hopeful and hOnorsbe setil ,ment Of the
unpleasant Incident
Chandler called FOR the residing of Mr..
Eysn's communication to the secretary Of
state AID il was read and litened tn with
very close s,tention. The resdirg vas
completed at II 80. Shermsn's mott IN WAS
agreed to
The resolaiion offered by hail, on the
18Th irst,. directing the secretary Of state
TO furnish the Senate with copies of all
sgreemen,s made with other countries r.
lsung to the Interchange of trade and cor
mers under the tariff act of October |,
1870, with sll formation received a. to
thu practical feet of sICh agreemants, was
taken up, and Hale addressed the Senate
on TIE sut Jact
TIE people Of the Unied States, he said,
had given generous welcome to the rect
procity scheme from the moment it sp-
peared ia Congress, and no msssure OF the
present sdnir isi,aton received more
heal hy public support An influence,
ephemersIly po.ertsl, in the Republican
| party hsd been array ed sFsirst it but all
that disappeared when expressions in its
| favor csme pou'irg in durir the summer
| and early fall Of 1890 from boards of trade
srd commerce, from tho department and
| state conveI tions, indeed from all places
where people gathered together to discu1
| and connend III reciprocity plan,
Attempts were made in certain quarters
! to show that the reciprocity plan was cp-
Doss to and interfered with the great doc O.
nine Of prot, ctinn to America labor TO
which the Republican rsrty wsn ful'v cpm-
mit,ad, but ell that disappeared when it
| -as seen by the people 'hst what was COM
| pretended In the scheme was increased
usde with chuntrios that produced articles
| that we rnu,d not produce which articles
vo coul1 purchase with the products OF our
farms, mines ard msnufs 1tories and -hich
our southern sister nations needed and
which they could rol produce
Reciprocity Of that KIND In fact was an
aid to protectioi aHd broadened The Held
Of ihe American isborer. by opening neS
ms'kets for his products, to be paid for IN
articles which could never compel" WIN
hia labor. The people all unteIS'o d this
ard made their voice heard AMI Their wish
"a known here and in the chamber at the
other end of the capitol ard eI-
ceptin th3 Democrs'ir party open nI-
to'i'ion was drowned a1d 10 further
hostile note was heard, He did not les
tate in stating here and nov that As the
results NJ his tb'frvaiion, that section OF
the Mckinley sGi which contained tue r'-
cprocitv feature WAS part OF the measure
which f1sted the whole act knd was pari OF
the bill which kept il from being s~amped
by the storm, which, with or without reason,
broke upon it from the day OF It's pas'sgs.
The grea. merits ~ the other parts OF The
| Mckinley bill would have sunk under sea
of obiiquy, and never have been seen or
spprs sted IL the reciprocity clanse had
not kept the whole structure from gong
dom. In the first attempts st negotiation
the President and secretary OF state found
| themselves hampered and Sindefed by the
position Of the opposition press throughou.
the country.
1t wss alleged by these newspapers that
this power you'd never be carried into
| effect; no President would venture t. re
impose dutie. on coffee, sugar and other
articles after once being admitted free,
| The Dcmocr attic newspapers said no foreign
nation would nego,iste a treaty or give the
eur ct attention, because the measure was
psrti'an, and part Of a. if.nsive taft sc',
which OIL the first change Of parties w0u d
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