The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-11

WIS small AtteNulnCe IN lDo galleries
when the senate convened to-day and
there was scarcely quorum OF soma
tors visible. Mr.. Quay introduced a
resolution, objection to tho considera-
ton OF which was made by Senator
Cockrcll, that the senate should hold a
session on Saturday, April 2l, from
o'clock, to hear committee Of tho
organization Of the workingmen Of tho
United States in opposition to tho
tariff bill.
Tho Wolcott resolution for the coin
age OF Mexican dollars ut United States
mints was laid before tho senate, and
Mr.. Gallincer read 4 communication
| favoring the resolution.
The resolution. after being amended,
was agreed to, and is rs follows:
"ReSolped, Tnat the President OF the
United States, with viow to en- ncourago
and extend our commercial relations
with China and other Asiatic countries,
be requested, il not Incompatible with
the the public interests. to enter into
negotiations with the republic OF Mex
leo. looking to the coinage by the United
States at the min.s OF standard Mexican
dollars under some agreement with the
said republic OF Mexico as to the seig-
| niorage method and amount OF said
coinage; and that he be further re-
quested to report the result OF his nego-
| tiations to the senate" After some rou-
tine business Mr.. Lodge addressed tho
senate on the tariff bill.
Mr.. LODGES SPEECH.
Senator Lodge addressed tho senate
in opposition to the pending tariff bill
and in course OF his remarks said:
ut is always we'll to look at things as
thoy are, even ii the thing be free trade,
to which some persons in beautiful
language have concealed Themselves. 1t
is best we would treat it intelligentlv,
to know that by itself and OF itself the
tariff ia a business question and that
protection and free trade only take on
different and far deeDe: meaning when
they are considered as parts OF u ques.
tion between far reaching principles,
which believe involves tho future OF
our race and the existence and progress
OF the highest civilization, 1t is in tho
latter and far graver aspect as l have
already said that prefer first to treat
| them.
II, he argued, tho American manu-
facturer docs not make money it is
quite certain that he will not employ
labor and therefore the workingmen
will not make money either. Our man
ufacturers believe that under free trade
they must either go ou. OF business or
reduce labor costs. They naturally do
nos care to do the former, for that is
ruin, and they arc very unwilling to try
the latter, because reducing labor costs
means lowering wages, which means in
turn vast industrial disturbances, and
that is ruin too, or something very near
it. How widely different is our stua-
tion to-day from that OF England fifty
years ago, 30 tar as the manufacturers
are concerned. Most striking OF all
these differences, moreover, is the fact
that while the English parliament
listened to English manufacturers, 4
majority OF the American Congress not
only turns denf ear to American man
ufacturers but treats them as if they
wcre enemies to their country.
| 4 STRIKING COMPARISON.
To refute the claim OF Golden aud
othera, he gave the percentage OF in.
crease by decades OF England and the
United States, which shove that in the
decade 1S70-lSS0 the trade OF the
United States under prot ection had in.
creased nearly four times as much as
that OF England, while from lSsO-lS90
it was moro than seven times greater.
The wealth OF countryis in pro.
dpction and the strength OF country
is in producers. Its worse than idle
TO talk about tho consumers as il they
were a vast proportion OF the popuia.
iion who ought alone to be considered
Tho moro consumers constitute not
only an insignificant but wholly unim.
portant fraction Of tho community.
Our first object should be to hold our
own market, because 1t is the largest
and best; and tina. bOing done aud our
own market securely guarded. our next
object should ho to increase our out
side markets by any possible device.
no maintain high rates OF wages and
to give, ii possible, the fullest scope for
their increase. believe to be essential,
because | believe good wages absolutely
vital to tho stability OF our institutions
and Of our society. Protection in its
widest aspect is something fur moro
than a mere question OF schedules or
national bookkeeping. 1t is an effort
to defend by legislation our standards OF
living Just as the exclusion OF the
Chinese and Of contract labor was.
The reduction OF wages thus far made
are trihing to what willcome il this bill
becomes law and men seek to adjust
themselves TO the new conditions. Such
a lowering OF wages Is not to be contom-
plated without the deepest alarm. Tho
country ia agitated aud frightened as at
no previous time.
There is darknessbeiore and dangers
voice behind"
! A SENSATION.
Senator Hoar sprung 4 sensation by
stating that he wished to mako q
speech which he would have read from
the desk. He, thereupon, sent up an
Associated Press bulletin stating that
the New York legislature had passed q
resolution OF thanks to Senator Hill for
his speech in opposition TO the tariff
bill in the senate yesterday. This was
greeted with some applause in the gal
lery., which the vico president quickly
checked. 6a
Mr. Gray, OF Delaware, explained tho
action OF tho New York legislature by
saying that the legislature Of New York
was overwhelmingly Republican.
Yes, replied Mr. 5Aldrich, smilinely,
i but not bysuch majority as shown by