Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-19
SAYS IT is HYBRID
Mr.. Sibley Attacked the Wilson Bill Las,
Night
Makes an Entertaining Speech witt
Many Amusing Points-Other
Speeches Last Night.


lawyers on the ways and means committee
TO run the mule-end of my stock farm"
said Mr.. Sibley Of Pennsylvania in the
tariff debate in the House last night
Mr.. Sibley is a democrat, but he is OPP
posed to the Wilson bill. This is his Sec
ond appearance in the role of kicking over
the party traces, as he SHE'D at the silver
question. and trotted in the free silver
class. Mr.. Sibley is best known in the
House as a millionaire owner of fine stock
and blooded horses.
He Is as free and untrammeled in his
political opinions as the wild horse of the
plains is in motion, and as the former toss
es its head and with streaming name ca
reers over the prairie, defying capture and
subjugation, so does Mr. Sibley, with proud
ly erected crest, canter away from the en-
thrallment of party lines. No kite-shaped
track of party lines for him, but the bound
less plain of personal liberty.
The announcement that Mr.. Sibley would
promenade upon the Wilson bill with hob
rallied shoes drew a large and expectant
audience in the galleries last night and
When, In criticism of the ways and means
committee, he made the aforementioned
statement, the crowd chuckled in a satisfied
manner. as If ii realized that il had not
come In vain.
Tariff and Finances.
Mr.. Sibley said that when he stood in
the House on the 18th of August last and
voted with the minority against the repeal
Of the silver bill the gentleman whose
name the present bill bore predicted the
dawn of a new era of prosperity. But
nothing followed the passage of the repeal
bill but pauperism, poverty and ruin He
made bad mistake in his diagnosis. He
again predicts that the sun of prosperity
would rise on the country when the pend
ing tariff bill was passed. II the gentle
man from West Virginia would lift the lid
and look down to the bottom of hell il
would look bright to him. 0aughterl He
announced his willingness to give his voice
and vote for a revenue bill, but the present
bill was hybrid-a cross between the
highest protection and the rankest free
trade-and. like all hybrids, possessed ali
the vices OF both parents without the vir-
tues OF either. The present bill would
cause a deficit of s15,OO0.Ooo a wear. II
want to know what you are going to do to
make UP that deficit" said Mr.. Sibley He
criticised very severely the action of Secre-
tary Carlisle in issuing bonds to make
good the existing deficit. and he declared
that the American people were bondsmen
until those bonds were all paid. And he
did not consider that loan a temporary one
but year after year, he said, there would be
a steadily increasing national debt. He
saw no reason to expect the contrary until
the tariff was arranged to provide the nee
essary revenue.
What He Had Heard.
He read extensively from Jefferson, and
managed to make the words of the father
OF democracy fit his own views more or
less snugly. He said that the feast day Of
st. Andrew jackson was celebrated this
month, and he had listened attentively for
ali oratorical eulogies on the great Andrew
Jackson and the immortal jefferson, but
all he had heard was the voice of the
cuckoo" Great laughter and applause
He closed his remarks with an intensely
amusing story of his boyhood days upon a
farm, not particularly apropos of the tariff
debate. but Ii fulfilled its mission of anus
ing the House. and served TO well repay
those members and the public who came
to the House last night. The galleries which
had been overlooking during his amusing
string of anecdotes. became quickly depict
ed after Mr.. Sibley took his seat. while the
good attendance of members, who had
drifted in, went out again.
Other Speeches.
Mr.. DeForest Comm was the next
speaker. He is one of the members Of the
majority about whose position on the Will
son bill there is some uncertainty. But
though he had very strenuous objections
to some of the sections of the Wilson BILL
notably the tobacco schedule, he had
SWALLOWED" his medicine, and spoke in
praise of the measure.
He denounced the republican party and
the republican policy of protection, and
lauded the democracy and everything DEM
ocratic.
Mr.. McKeighan (Neb) held that there
was no such thing over-production-
that consumers could be had for all the
farm products raised. He urged an expan-
sion Of the markets, and advocated the
opening OF foreign markets TO the farmers
OF America. European markets took FIVE
times much of the products OF the un-
protected farmers of America as they did
of the product of the protected industries
Free trade would certainly reduce the price
of manufactured goods, but that was just
what was wanted.
Mr.. McKeighan came out in an out
spoken way for free trade. He advocated
an income tax and direct tax whenever
IT was possible.
Mr. Russell Comm had been booked to
speak, but owing to the lateness of the
hour he contented himself with calling at
tention to the tendency to out and out free
trade as against a low tariff for revenue
only measure. He had never witnessed
such brazen advocacy OF the democratic
doctrine of free trade.
The republican nolicv of protection was
based on facts and not on theories. assert
ed Mr. Russell. His speech was mainly
given to a contention for protection on
hosiery.
He merely attempted to give a brief out
line If his views. and then, at IL O'Clock
the House adjourned.