The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-17
thrift Eli Passed.

/ the tariTl discussion came abruptly 10
An end on Monday by the House pass
ing the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill as
amerded in the Senate. The vote on
Saturday on Mr.. Hill's resolution to
get the bill back into the Senate to XIII
it showed the ]perilous condition it was
in ms it took the vote Of the Vice Presi-
dent TO a v it and the House conferees
became aware that it lad TO be the
Senate bill or nothing, the House de-
cided to pass it at once and get what
tariff reform there was in it rather
than none at all.
The Democratic caucus decided by a
vote of 1O2 to . to pass it. The House
passed it by a vote Of Isl to 1O5. -Four
other bills we're passed by the House
favoring free sugar, free coal, free iron
and free barbed wire.
William j. Wilson, the leader of the
House summed up the situation and
justified the passage of the Senate bill
in the following terse language.
BETTER THAN THE M'KINLEY ACT.
~ shall not say to the people of this
country, l shall not say to my collea-
CUES here, from whom wen at the ex.
pense of what may seem i'll taste on
this occasion l cannot withhold the ex-
preston of my ~unspeakable gratitude
for their personal friendship and their
loyal and enthusiastic support shall
not say to them that white is black Or
that false is true, or that protection is
a just and honest system of taxation.
Nothing which is not done right ever
lasts. No work that is not thorough
ever remains undisturbed. You can
settle no question like the great ques-
ton of taxation permanently and safely
except upon the eternal basis of right
and of liberty.
shall not attempt. as l said in the
outset, to explain the merits or to dwell
upon the dement's of the six hundred
odd amendments to this bill which this
House is about, of necessity, to concur
in. But whatever the measure of short
coming OF this bill in its present form
whatever be its dement's in most
schedules-tbis l do know, that it is
better than the Mckinley bill. This /
do know, that in a part of it it does af-
ford some relief to the taxpayers Of this
country, and does clip the wings Of the
gigantic ]mon0polies that are now OPP
pressing them and blocking legislation.
Take even those portions of the bill
over which this contest between the
two houses has been waged; take iron
| ore and coal, upon which we have con-
| fronted, and TO a certain extent unsuc-
cessfully confronted, the great railroad
syndicates of the country; yet we have
reduced them both nearly fifty per cent.
below the Mckinley bill. Take the SUI
gar schedule, over which the greatest
Of all contests between the two houses
have been waged. Vicious as it may
be, it is less vicious, less favorable to
the trust and less burdensOme to the
people than is the Mckinley law, un-
der which this trust has grown 50 great
as to o~yershadow with its power the
American people.
If for no other reason than this, those
who believe that when they cannot
take the full step which they desire,
when they cannot do that which the
people commissioned them to do, they
must take the best they can and step as
far as they can, may find some justifica-
ton for an unhesitating choice between
the two bills.
| have no difficulty whatever in say
ing that when the schedules of the bill
with the Senate amendments get into
normal operation, it will produce suf-
fcient and more than sufficient revenue
for the support of the government"
1t is not known whether President
Cleveland will sign the bill or not, as
lie d%isapproyed Of it in his letter to Mr..
Wilson, but the country feels assured
that if he does not he will let it become
a law in ten days without his signature.
NEW JERSEY SCHOOL AWARD.