The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-08-14
spects the vote wss strictly on party

THE BILL BROUGHT Inc
Upon the announcement of the vote
Chairman Wilson Immediately sub
mitted in writing the motion provided
for in the order adopted. Mr.. Reed
made the point of order that the bill
was not before the house. The bill had
been brought. however, during the roll
Gull, and the speaker pointed to it. Mr..
Wilson took the floor. He spoke calmly,
but eloquently, the Democrats crowding
around him and Listening intently to
his every word. Again and again the
applause broke forth.
CHAIRMAN WILSON'S SPEECH.
The following is Mr.. Wilson'S speech: :
"Mr. Speaker" he said. ~ have
made the motion which l hsvs sent to
the speakers desk, not on my own
responsibility, or from my own volition,
but as the official organ OF the caucus oil
my associates on this side OF the house
aud By their direction. l shall gay very
little myself on this occasion in advocacy
OF the motion, and l am sincere and
frank in what | shall say to you. l do
not pretend l am cratiied at the out
come OF this prolonged controversy.
do not pretend that up to the very last
| had not cherished the hope and the
faith that We would reach another and a
better and more satisfactory conclusion
OF this conflict between the two houses
OF the American congress. | had hoped
and believed, until there seemed to be
no ground scarcely for hope and belief
that in such contest, this house,
backed by the American people and en-
thusiastically sustained by the Demo-
cratic party. would be able to achieve
some honorable compromise between
the two houses which we could have &C.
copied, not from a sense OF duty, but
with sense OF satisfaction and feel
ing that we had responded to the man
dates of the American people.
but, Mr.. Speaker, we have simply
realized in this great fight the fact 30
we'll stated by the great leader OF the
tsiiff reform fight on the great question,
that when the people had gained vic
tory at the polis, they must have fur
Their stend.up and knock-down fight
with their own representatives. And
VIC have realized, il nothing else, the
salutary lesson of the intrenchment OF
the political system in this country un-
der 80 years OF claes legislation, until
the mere matter of tariff schedules is a
question presenting itself is: Is this to
or q governments by trusts and monopo-
lists? Applause on the Democratic
aide].
''lf we have taken out Of the fight no
other lesson than that, it han been to us
a great, an inspiring and valuable les
SON. II we have not been able to get all
the mandates the people told US to get.
all the high enthusiasm the people ex-
pected to get. we have brought this dan
gsrous fact face to face with American
freemen, and we have made some breach
in the protective system through which
the hosts of American freemen will con-
tinue to march. [Applause on the
Democratic eide.
II shall not attempt, az l said in the
outset, to explain the merits or dwell
upon the dement's of the 600 odd amend
menta to this bill which this house is
about. Of necessity, to concur in. Per.
haps l could not do juatlce as yet to the
merits of the case. My attention has
necessarily been 80 steadily directed to
the dement's, that it would require
some experience to learn what the mer-
its are. Laughter and spplsuse.l
| "But whatever the measure Of short
comings of this bill in its present form,
whatever be its dement's in many sched-
! ules, this know: That it Is better than
| the Mckinley law. Democratic APP
plause.l This do know: That in part
of 1T it does afford SEINE relief to the tax.
payers OF the country, and does clip the
wings of the giant monopolies who are
now depressing them and blocking leg
| islation. Applause on the Democratic
side and derisive cries on the Republican
| side.
Take even those portions of the bill
over which this contest between the two
houses has been wsged; take iron ore
and coal, upon which we have to GER
tain extent unsuccessfully confronted
the great railroad syndicstes of the
country, yet we have reduced them both
nearly so per cent below the Mckinley
bill. democratic applauEe.l
THE sugar schedule over which the
greatest of all the contests between the
two houses has been waged, vicious as il
may be, burdensome to the people as IL
may be, favorable to the trunt as it may
be. it is less vicious, less favorable to
the trust, less burdepsome to the people
than the Mckinley law under which
this trust has grown 80 great az to over
shadow with it's power the American
people. II for no other reasons thar
those who believe that when they cam
not 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 get and stey
as far ss they can. they may find como
justification for an Undertaking choice
between the two bills."
II should like to ask the gentleman,
interrupted Hudson (Populist, Kangas)
"whether he has investigated fully 90 al
to be able to state definitely that thil
bill, as amended by the senate, will fur
nish sufficient revenue to meet the en-
tire expenses OF the government"
''That is q question:" replied Mr.
Wilson, (which no man, perhaps, cor
tairly not I. can answer in definite Ian
guage, but have no difficulty in sayinf
that when the schedules of the bill, with
the senate amendments, get into norma
operation, it will produce sufficient, ant
more than sufficient, revenue for tn,
support OF the government.
81 should add to the answer, perhaps
that in the beginning the bill will per.
haps not produce as much revenue al
will result from it later on under its or
binary workings, because, am in
formed, whether it be true or not
don't know, that the sugar trust, in an
ticipation OF the passage OF this bill, ha,
imported about 500, 000,00 worth. or i
has been said even more than tina