Huntsville gazette., 1894-08-18
HUNTSVILLE ALA. SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, 1894
that are now expressing them and
blocking legislation.

that are now expressing them and
blocking legislation.
Mr.. Hudson asked whether Mr.. vii,
son could state definitely that the bill
as amended by the senate, would af-
ford sufficient revenue to meet govern
ment expenses, and Mr.. Wilson said,
while he could not answer in definite
language, he had no difficulty in say
ing that when the schedules of the
bill with the senate amendments get
to normal operation it would produce
sufficient revenuefor the support of the
government.
Mr. Reed, in reply to Mr.. Wilson, said
Mr.. Wilson and his compatriots had
met more than their match in the SEN
known in history as the Gorman-
Brice bill, vice the Wilson bill, dead,
and not dead upon the field of honor
either. Laughter and applause. The
gentleman from West Virginia and his
compatriots were little babes in the
woods, and it would be found pretty soon
that they were left there by their uncle
in the White House. Great laughter
and applause on the republican side.
And he could hear the coming of the
pinions of the little birds bearing the
ballots that were to bury them out of
sight. Laughter. Referring to the
presidents letter, he said: "'Out of your
own household has come your condem-
nation Nay, out your own mouths
has your condemnation come" He con-
graduated the country on the speedy
departure of incompetency.
Mr.. Burrows rep, Mich.) said that
the chairman of the committee on ways
and means stood this afternoon de-
serted by his party. He stood up this
afternoon bravely and declir ID to lead
the retreat But his friends had de-
serted him, and he stood substantially
alone in his fight for tariff reform.
"Where," Mr.. Burrows asked. ''are
the men who rallied around him in the
beginning? Many democrats-''Hcre
we are"l Where are the enthusiastic
men Of his party? The enthusiastic free
traders, through whose physical exer-
tions the gentleman from West Virginia
was enabled to reach an eminence of
debate never equalled in this hall?
Laughter. Where are they now?
["We are all here" came from the
democratic ranks. They have all
deserted. They said then to their
leader: Though | shall die with thee,
yet shall not desert thee. ! am ready
to follow thee both to prison and
death. Where are they now?"
More democratic cries: Here we
are"
Concluding an animated speech, Mr..
Burrows predicted that the president
would return the bill with scorn and
would say when asked to sign it: rs
thy servant dog that he should do
this thing"
Mr.. McMillin dem, Tenn.) one of
the conferees, defended the senate bill,
and was asked by Mr.. Boutelle rep,
Me.), sneeringly, how it happened that
he was so long in finding out that the
senate bill was such a splendid meas
ure He replied that the gentleman
from Maine and his sympathizers had
prevented a better bill being got
Several other speeches in favor of
and against the proposed measure,
some of them sparkling with wit and
satire and some bristling with invect-
i've and denunciation, were made,
when, the two hours allowed lor
debate having expired, the vote was
taken on the report of the committee
on rules to concur in the senate amend
ments to the tariff bill, and it was
agreed to: Yeas, 181; nays, 1O5.
Motions to reconsider the vote and
to lay that motion on the table were
made by Mr.. Wilson and agreed to
thus making the action of the house
on concurring in the senate amend
ments final.
Then, after passing separate bills
placing coal, iron, barbed wire and
sugar on the free list, the house, at
1925, adjourned until Wednesday.