The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-14

these gentlemen, while they feel their
personal discredit by submitting to
| this bill, announce to us that it is only
the herald of future attacks upon the
! business industries of this country.
Great God, Has not this country |
suffered enough during the last twelve |
months, that these men should come |
and assure it their ravages are to be |
continued? l tell you when the people |
Iget chance to express their opinion |
of you, you will listen to them more
intently and with sadder hearts than |
you have today even. Not content |
with what you have done, you have
threatened the people of this country |
with yourselves again. daughter on
the Republican side.
I'VE shall not write it's epitaph. That
has been done by nearer and dearer
parsonage. That has been done by the
man whose name must be affixed TO
| this bill before it can be discredlt to
the statute book. His name must be
affixed. He tells you this bill is an in
lstance of perfidy, injustice and dis
lhonor. We have nothing to do in the
next campaign except to read the tes-
ltimony of your chief Magistrate, under
Whose protecting wing the Committee
lon Ways and Means of the House have
lived so that we did not know at any
moment whether they We're a commit
tee of the House OF Representatives or
"a committee of the Xcutive. ZAP
plause on the Republican side.
out of your own household has
come your condemnation; nay. out Of
your own mouths has your cOndemna-
ton come, for we shall read that bold
land uncompromising declaration of the
chairman of the Committee on Ways
!, and Means, that we were to sit here
: until the end of our term to put down
the Sugar trust. What do we have in
stead? We have a proposition to fire
!, lone of those tariff hills for
which the gentleman from Illinois CNIr.
: Springer) was deposed from the Ways
and Means committee. daughter on
, the Republican side. His successor,
after filling the atmosphere with his
outspread wings, finds his nest in some
> iOther birds premises Republican
laughter)
why not resign if you were to adopt
T the action of the other person? I con-
t graduate the gentleman from Illinois
= (Mr. Springer on his personal triumph
: / wish l could congratulate the country
\ upon something, and I will insist upon
: the speedy departure of incompetency."
applause on the Republican side).
E McMiIIans Prophecy.
a Mr.. Mcmillan OemocraD of Tonnes
i see followed Mr.. Reed He began by
q Icalling in connection with Mr.. Reed S
v iprophesy of political disaster to the
Y Democrats of the House, the overthrow
It of the Republican House, after the
passage of the Mckinley bill in 1890.
After criticising Reed for not discuss
u ing the question at issue, he proceeded
to point out some good features of the
q Senate bill-free wool, free lumber free
l. hemp, ETC., and the reductions in the
general schedules. The duties in the
y chemical schedule, in the Senate bill
: about to be adopted, he said, were re-
e duced from 30 per cent. to "a; earth and
# earthenware from so to So per cent
metals and metal manufacture from IS
IS to 80 per cent; wood and wood manu-
II features from 81 TO %: tobacco, III tC
/ 105; cotton, 80 to 49, flax, hemp, and
d Jute, 40 to Al; wool and woolens 9S t.
d 48; silk and silk manufactures, SO to 46
d pulp and paper, % to 20; sundries from
Ut i26 to "a; total reduction from SO to 81
DO per cent. Mr.. Mcmillan eulogiZed 9th
to err features, including extensions of thu
free list, especially the principle in
d Volved in the income tax provision
Il which taxed not what people con
ar sumed, but what they had.
is Burrows Bombast.
~ ~ Mr.. Burrows Republican, of Mich
81 gam said the chairman of the Way
- and Means committee had been desert
:, ed by his party associates. In a semi
y humorous manner, he quoted from
w. Wilson'S speech when the bill passeC
/ the house, his sentence that not al
who paraded as tariff reformers were il
Sc line when the musketry began to rat
at tie.
ne That was when he was flashing yo
IS lcowardly lagards into line" said MI
Id Burrows, turning to the Democrat
sc side. Now the chairman of the com
e. m1ttee leads the retreat and asks vO
10 to adopt the bill which gives pub
r. lie devotion to the most monstrou
lie, trust in this country
ISL Friday last, Mr.. Burrows declared
nd was a remarkable day in the history G
the bill. The House was firm tina
at morning, but that afternoon when NJ
ne Vest, in the Senate, threatened to tur
on the calcium light and expose tn
ny secrets of the conference, come wha
would, the Democrats of the House h9
he fallen on to their knees. The Demo
cratic executive, heretofore firm wa
quiet and yielding when he heard thu
threat. So the caucus met and all We
abandoned. 1t was no compromise
nd was unconditional surrender. In vie
of what the president said of the bill
ST. in view of the rumors that would clin
. forever, the president would belle h
MS character if he did not return it wit
en- his scorn and contempt and the interr
gatory: rs thy servant a dog. tn;
re- you should do this thing?" Republica
NV applause).
- Pence Creates n Roar.
Mr.. Burrows then yielded fe
-, minutes to Mr.. Pence of Colorado, Il
Tue leader of the Populists, who said Il
om t Populists had thought and thong
Ct still the contest over the tariff betwe
-. the two old parties was a good deal
CO.. a mock conflict and a sham battle I
pa pa was convinced this was true when
2a no saw that mock fury of Mr.. Burrov
t tbe Like Burrows, however, he confess
ia ne did not know what the preside
t0N would do. Nor did anyone else on tt
ire floor, unless" he added as he looked
,nb and saw Mr.. Tracy, Of New York,
oh the chair, unless it is you. y
81 Speaker
f his This sally at Mr.. Tracy's expen
,ith brought down a storm of applause.
,itv Mr.. Pence quickly apologized to t
on. chair and said, amid renewed Taught
,eir he thought the member in the chair W
bev the new nouth-piece of the administl
nen ton (AIr. Strauss, of New York;.
1ch. ANY measure was a measure for t
ZEN, relief of the Masses Mr.. Pence p
ms ceeded, eff it repealed the McKinl
as law.
hey AT the conclusion, ne pald glowi
a tribute to Mr.. Wilson.
his Cocl<rain TO the Fore.
the Mr.. Cochran Oemocrab New York, "
ap- given the closest attention by the
and pectant galleries and was a times
her. Enthusiastically applauded from either S
the of the chamber as his sledge hamn
blows were dealt at the Mckinley IL
mi, or the Senate bill. Mr.. Cochran v
iIlld deeply in earnest and his protest agai
loW' ton recalling his famous speech of p
rch- ton recalled him famous speech of p
own test at the Chicago convention.
Terv Mr.. Speaker, it seems to me that
heir question before this house has b.