The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-22

read the testimony OF your chief magistrate,
under whose protecting wing the committees
on ways and means of the house of repre-
sentatives have lived so that we did not
know at any moment whether they were a
committee Of the house of representatives
or a committee of the executive Ont of
your household has come your Condemna-
tion. Nay, out Of your own mouth has your
condemnation come. For we shall read
that bold and 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 instead2 Why,
we have proposition to fire one Of those
popgun tariff bills for which the gentleman
from Illinois Mr.. Springer was deposed
from the committee on ways and means
Laughter His successor, after filling the
atmosphere with his outspread wings, finds
his nest in some other birds premises
laughter Why not resign If you were to
adopt the action of the other person?
! congratulate the gentleman from Illinois
Mr.. Springer upon his personal triumph,
wish l could congratulate the country
upon something and will upon the speedy
departure OF incompetency. Applause
Bourke Cochran, the fiery New York
representative, amid republican APP
plause, passionately challenged "the
mysterious power" whose beck the
house must obey in the enactment of
this measure to come out into the open
that the American people may see and
know it. Said Mr.. Cock-an: "The
measure we are now about to pass
through this house and make the per-
manent law of the country is more
obnoxious protection measure than the
Mckinley act"
The debate bristed with personal
references and illusions which gave it
an intensely interesting and a highly
dramatic character. In the discussion,
for example, on the "pop-gun bills +"
the proposition to place barbed wire on
the free list evoked one of the bitterest
attacks by Mr.. Reed on Mr.. Wilson
and the policy he was carrying out.
The ex-speaker said
The gentlemen from West Virginia
while he has been deposed practically from
his position, and while the principles of the
| gentleman from Illinois have been adopted
still remains the shadow Of a name" which
still reverberates somewhat in the country.
| Anu WduJ JulS house anu UD6 country
fully to understand the significance of the
utterance of the gentleman from West Vir-
ginia. His progressiveness on tariff mat
ters in the past does not concern us very
much; it is possible it may not in the future
But so far as he represents his party, his
views may be Of some Importance. And
this enables me to reiterate--and neither
he nor any gentleman on his side can con-
tradict the proposition-that the actions Of
to-day are not in any sense basis upon
the practical, plain, homely person that the
speaker to-day described himself to be, with
tremendous accuracy [laughterl, even that
plain and simple business person can not
be able in any way to do business in this
country as long as his feet rest upon the
shifting sands which are represented by the
present chairman of the committee OH ways
and means [applause], who in the pres
ence OF this house, publicly submits to the
reflection put upon him by the house in re-
| fusing to allow the committee over which
he presdes to have word to say with re-
| gard to tariff matters which are presented
| here Bowled out by the senate and by the
house, he still represents their willingness
| to 90 from one point to another without re-
| gard to his and their past position; and he
announces to the country-I recall again
| the significance Of it-that this raid which
has been made upon the industries of the
land is to be repeated to the fullest extent,
so far as he can get followers. He has said
| here again and again, and he is always
right that he had destroyed some indus.
tries by this bill and was willing to destroy
some others. Laughter and hearty APP
plause.