The National tribune., 1894-04-19

| $4,000 for the mint at Philadelphia, made
necessary by the unprecedented coinage of gold
4 al that mint.
At l o'clock the urgent, deficiency bill was
| displaced by the tariff bill, and Mr.. PETER re.
sumed his speech, which was stopped by the
| limitation of time yesterday evening.
He took up again the sugar question, and an
! nounced his preference for bounty on sugar.
| In concluding he outlined the platform on
| which he stood in regard to this BILL He was
utterly opposed to the modern system of pro-
lection as exemplfied in the Mckinley bill,
and he would have favored the Wilson bill as
it came from the House, either with the grad
nal reduction of the bounty on sugar or with
absolutely free sugar.
Il am ready for free trade" said he, "if the
rest of US are, but as long as my neighbors
claim protection for the products manufactured
shall claim protection for the products of the
farm. j am opposed to the bill now before us
because it discriminates against the people /
represent; because it removes the duty from
the farmers wool while retaining it on the
manufacturers cloth; because, while / favor
the income-tax as good beginning in the right
direction, it does not go far enough. The bill,
taken as whole, do not regard as any improve
ment on the bill now in force, and as regards
wool and sugar it is much worse. If this bill
is the best sample Of a tariff bill that the DEM
ocrats can give us will wait till the Populsts
come into power. How my vote will be cast on
the final passage of the bill will depend on what
changes are made in the meantime"
Mr.. Mitchell then spoke against the tariff
bill.
Mr.. Mitchell began with a declaration that
the passage of the bill would be q legislative
recognition of most dangerous economic and
constitutional beresy. The condemned doc
trine of the right of secession was fraught with
but little more danger to the Republic In the
natfOrm Of 1874 the he IL nor fv hod
mitted itself to the doctrine of free trade, and
the people had made the fearful mistake of
electlng Buchanan on that issue. As a result
the Treasury was made almost bankrupt the
National credit was shaken. and the very life
of the Republic was placed in danger. In 1860
the people realized their mistake and hauled
the Democracy from power and Endorsed pro-
lection. History frequently repeats itself in
many respects. and he imagined it required no
uncommon gift of prescience or prophecy to
either see or predict repetition of as complete
an overthrow of the Democratic party in this
country in 1896 as befell it in 1860 Mr.. Mitchell
declared that not until 1892 had the Democracy
dared to attack the constitutionality of the
protection principle, and then he gave a sketch
of the formation of the National Government
to show that the Union had been brought about
because of the paralysis of trade and industry
resulting from the varying tariff schedules in
the different States under the Confederation.
After a brief Executive session the Senate
adjourned.
In the House, the struggle over the adoption
of the new rule to secure voting quorum was
resumed when the House met to-day. The Re-
publicans made a preliminary stand against the
approval of the journal. AS soon as it had been
read MIR. Boutelle Jumped to his feet and OBJ
jected, and when Mr.. Dockery moved its APP
prevail the Republicans sat silent in their seats
Upon the announcement of the result of the
rising vote-105 to nothng-Mr. Boutelle made
the point of no quorum and the roll was called.
The Republicans refraiued from voting, and
the result-155 to 1-shewed that the Demo-
Gratis were % short of quorum.
Mr.. Dockery then moved a call of the House,
instructng his side to vote down the motion in
the hope of developing aCDemocratic quorum.
But again the Democrats failed to get their
quorum. The motion foria'call was defeated
40 to IL The Democrats were still 25 short.
The prospects OF quorum to- day was hope
less, and as it had been decided to call Demo-
cratic caucus to consider tie rules. Mr.. Dockery
moved an adjournment, and at l o'clock the
House adjourned.
The announcement of the caucus read from
the clerks desk was greeted with loud Repub-
lican cheers and jeers.