The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-03
voorhees, TARIFF SPEECH.
The Senator Opens the Debate on the
Revenue Bill.

A Large and Attentive Audience on
Hand to Hear Him-The Mckinley
Tariff Denounced as an Act of Rob-
! bery-Its Reciprocity Feature De-
nounced as an Unconstitutional
! Freak.
/ Washington, April The DEBATE on
/ the tariff bill was opened in the Senate
/ to-day with a speech by the chairman of
! the committee on finance. MIR VOORHEES,.
/ The speech was read from printed slips,
but was delivered with as much earnest
| ness and energy as if it were an extempore
| effort It occupied Just two hours, and
| had a large and attentive audience on the
| floor and in the galleries. The Mckinley
tariff was denounced in it as an act Of
| robbery and was contrasted with the
| Walker tariff of 1916, of blessed and
| glorious memory"
| The sugar provisions of the Mckinley
bill were characterized as jun BILE and
| fraud; and as TO the reciprocity feature
of it. it was declared to be an "unconsti-
tutional freak
AS to the income tax, the opposition to
! il came, Mr.. Voorhees, declared. from
the narrow and carroding selfshness of
| riches While discussing this point he
declined TO let Mr. Hill interpose some
remarks, stating that he did not feel we'll
and did not wish to be interrupted.
THE BILL GOES OVER.
At the close of the speech the bill,
which has displaced the Russian thistle
bill and is now the unfinished business"
went over till tomorrow, when the repub-
lican side of the question will be pre-
scented by MIR Allison, of Iowa.
| A demand has been made by MIR Hoar
| that the bill shall have its second reading
in full, and on MIR Harris, dem. of Ten
nessee, expressing his willingness to.have
it read line by line, and word by word "
Mr.. Hoar said that was Just what ne pro-
posed
There was an unusually large attend
ance of senator's on both sides of the
chamber and the galleries were pretty
nearly filed at the opening of the session,
A Joint resolution of the Florida legis-
lature favoring duties on pineapples, was
| presented by Mr. Quay rep, of Pennsyl-
vania. who gave as a reason for his doing
So the fact that during the winter he is
| resident of the pineapple district of
| Florida.
PRESERVATION OF THE SEALS.
| Mr. Morgan, from the committee on
| foreign relations, reported a bill on the
| subject of the preservation of our seals,
which was, at his request, read at length.
! It's provisions have been made public.
! The bill having been read, Mr. Morgan
| said that it has been reported by the
| unanimous vote of the members Of the
committee on foreign relations, who were
| present at to-day's meeting, and he gave
notice that he would ask the Senate to
| consider it after Senator Voorhees, should
| have concluded his speech on the tariff
| bill.
MIR. Sherman IA republican member of
| the committee on foreign relations) sug-
| gested that it should be considered at
once, as he did not think there would be
any controversy about it.
Mr.. Morgan expressed his willingness
and desire TO have immediate action on
the bill. He asked unanimous consent
for that purpose.
Unanimous consent having been given,
the bill was hurried through its regular
| legislative stages until it reached the
stage where the Vice President put the
question: Shall the bill. be passed."
At that point question was asked by
! MIR. Hoar as to whether there was a pro-
vision in the bill authorizing a naval Of
ficer of the United States to receive an
American vessel captured by an English
cruiser.
| ENGLAND TO ACT.
Information was given on that point by
! Mr. Morgan, who added that it was ex-
! pected that the proposed legislation would
be supplemented by corresponding legs-
lation on the part of the British parlia-
ment. If that confidence should be dis
| appointed in any respect, the government
! of the United States would find itself am
| ply provided with laws for the purpose
of executing the award of the Paris board
of arbitration. He had no expectation,
however, that Great Britain would re-
cede in any respect from the execution of
that award, and especially in view of the
high example which the congress OF the
| United States was now about
to set of its willingness, in good faith, to
execute every part and parcel of that
award.
CHANDLER OBJECTS.
An objection TO hurrying the bill
through was interposed by MIR. Chandler
| rep, of New Hampshire, who spoke of
such action as being utterly unprece-
dented in relation to a bill containing
penal clauses of themost stringent char
acter.
Mr. Morgan said that he had not in
tended to ask immediate action on the
bill at the moment he reported it. He
had yielded to the tidal wave of senate
rial anxiety to pass the bill Immediately -
He went on to explain and advocate the
provisions of the bill
Finally the bill was ordered to be
printed, and notice was given by Mr..
Morgan that he would ask to have ii
again taken up after Mr. voorhees, had
concluded his speech on the tariff bill
AT p. m. the Russian thistle bill came
up as unfinished business, but was dis
placed, as above stated, by the tariff bill
and the debate upon that begun. At :2s
! O'clock The Senate adjourned