The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-21
HATCH'S BILL NEAR A VOTE
The Debate Ends To-day and Its Fate
TO Be Decided Tomorrow.

I PCS@1AhE AA G0pOsAbAOh 10 EnG Dill.
He Opposes Legislation by Congress
in the Interest of the Farmers or
Any Other Class-He Attributes the
Prevailing Low Prices for Products
TO overproduction.
Washington, D. c., June 2O.-Mr.
Bailey of Texas was again appointed by
letter from Speaker Crisp to discharge the
duties of the chair in the House to-day.
The committees were called for re-
ports and the House then went into com
mittee of the whole with Mr. Livingston
of Georgia in the chair to further con
slider the antioption bill. By unanimous
consent it was agreed that all debate on
the bill should close with to-morrow's
session, and vote on the bill and the
| pending amendments be taken after the
morning hour Friday
The first speaker was Mr.. Goldzier,
| Dem, of Illinois, who opposed the bill
/ He said he was not the representative of
| the Chicago Board of Trade, never had
| deal III it. and never expected to have.
! In his district the Chicago and New York
1 Boards of Trade were as little in favor as
| they We're in the district of the gentlemen
| from Missouri (Mr. Hatch) and as he
! (Mr. Goldner) should, incidentally in
what he had to say, seem to champion
/ the practices of the board of trade it
| would be unpopular in his district But
| believing his duty required him to con-
slider the interests of the whole people,
| he would do as he had done
Some one asked if congress should do
something for the farmers, Il answer,
no" said MIR. Goldi2er and so answer
ing the question stand upon the broad
bottom Of the constitution, which has
never authorized YOU or any of your pre-
| decessors to select any class of citizens.
and do something for them, good, bad or
Indifferent. Such legislation as that
proposed in this bill, said Mr.. Goldizer,
was not new. From time immemorial
| there had been mountebank statesmen
who believed or made the people believe,
they could do something for them by leg
islation, which would stop the working
of this law or accelerate the working of
that law"
The speaker then proceeded to review
historical instances of this class of legis-
lation and followed that with an argu-
ment against the constitutionality of the
| bill.
| ovERPRoDUCTIoN THE TROUBLE.
Overproduction owing to the introduc-
! tion of destructive competition by ma
chinery, Mr.. Gold2ier said, was largely
responsible for the reduction of prices to
the farmer. "Is he any more entitled to
be protected by the government against
competition than the lfwyer2p be asked
Mr. Walker, rep. of Massachusetts,,
! followed MIR. Goldzier, also in opposition
TO the bill. in every respect save one, he
! said, the bill was to be censured. It's pur-
pose to restrain or prevent wrong doing
is not to be criticised, but in every other
respect it was open to criticism.
The next speaker was Mr. Talbert,
dem, of South Carolina, who advocated
the bill as measure Of relief for the
! farmer That class had been discrimi-
mated against in congress for many years,
but they were opening their eyes to the ad-
! vantage of being represented on the floor,
and the speaker warned his hearers that
if they did not now harken to the de-
! mands of the farmers, there would soon
| be enough of their representatives here to
| compel a hearing. MIR. Talbert inter-
| spersed his remarks with several stories
| to illustrate his points.
The speaker said he was member of
| the Farmers Alliance, and he stood in his
| place as a representative of that organi-
zation with no blush of shame on his
! cheek at the avowal; and he expressed
the opinion that prosperity would not re-
| turn to this country until the demands of
the alliance platform were reacted into
! law.
TALBERT SLIPS UP.
Discussing the provisions of the bill,
I Mr. Talbert asked Mr.. Grosvenor his
opinion as to the legality of speculative
| sales of grain, assuming, that he was an
antagonist of the bill.
Mr.. Grosvernor replied that they were
! illegal under the common law Now, if
! the gentleman from South Carolina
would permit, he would say that he in
tended to vote for the bill.
when did you get conyerted?n asked
| Mr. Talbert in surprise.
We'll, ] want to say, Mr. Chairman"
he continued, that While the lamp
holds out 10 burn the vilest sinner may
! return'-even so vile as in contrast from
| Ohio.' Laughter
The unoccupied portion of Mr. Tai
bert's hour was taken by Mr. Richard
son, dem, of Michigan, who spoke in
| favor of the bill
Mr.. Harter of Ohio followed in a
speech against the passage of the bill. He
attacked it from the standpoint of its
| practical effect upon the revenues of the
! government. Mr.. Harter argued that
the option market was the highest mar
! ket, the Chicago price of wheat being six
or seven cents higher than the worlds
parity. 1t was to preserve these markets
| to the farmer and prevent the stigma of
the passage of the bill from attaching to
| Mr.. Hatch that he opposed the bill
| Should those markets be destroyed
said MIR. Harter, Gen Hatch would not
| be a welcome guest at any county fair in
the United States. | want the farmers,
when he goes among them, to cry Hail,
Hatch, and not Damn Hatch / am the
best friend he has on the floor of the
House"
sIBLET's SPEECH.
Mr.. Harter referred to Mr.. Sfbleys
speech yesterday, and denominated him
as "the chaplain of the new democracy
addressing the campmeeting." And he
told MIR. Price, In answer to a uuest tion.
that Mr.. Sibley was a better authority
on the Bible than he was on secular mat
ters.
Describing the effect of the destruction
OF the markets for futures" as compel
ing producers TO sell for whatever they
could get at the time, he said: "Why, Of
course, down would go the prices of cot
tor-like MIR. Wnat's-his-name-to the
bottom of the sea" The element in the
bill which was intended to elevate the
moral sentiment Of the business men Of
the country MIR. Harter said, reminded
him of the effort made in Maine TO keep
men sober by law. yet, total alb
stainer like myself, who cannot stay a
day in that state without getting dizzy,
can escape over the state line into New
| Hampshire
Addressing himself to the southern
representatives. Mr. Harter asked them