The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-14

bill, not ez<n confent xish the attacks il
makes upo,s ouT fndassxis<. shess gentle
men. While they feed tfsesr personal dis
cresat By submitfinE "a tire bslA. aanonnee
10 us thai il i only tbe herald OF fusurs
Attacks upon the business inuustriss Oh
this Sauntry.
s stgrsAs Gsdf Has not this country suf-
fsred enough during she last Twelve
mouths. that these men shonId come and
assure il tnxs theSr rssages are 10 be con-
ttnzeds I ees1 yoa when the people get
an opportunity 20 express tAeir ep5nton OF
you yoa viii bsssn "a them more intsnsiy
and with sseaex heats than you have to-
dag even Nos cDnheut with what you
have done. you haze threateued the people
qf this co1ssFT with yourselves again
L Isasshser on the Republican side-
I'VE shah not write the N4tsoa bills
epitaph. 1naf was dune by : nearer and
'desrer perspcags. Thar has been done BY
tbs nan whnzs name mast be ashxec 70
tsxis bsII before il can BE dfscredst 70 the
statnte books His name must be alfred.
he tells YOU that tbs tlH is an instance OF
perhdF, Injustice and dish0nor. We have
nothing 20 do in the next campaign ex-
cept 70 read the testimony Of your chief
magistrate. under whose prDtsctlIg wing
ths com rnStEse on wars and means OF the
house have nved. so that we did not know
at any moment whether they were COM
executtTe- Republican applause.
s'Out OF yon< own household has come
your condemnation; nay. ont of your own
mouths has your condemnation come, Tor
We shall read that bold and uncompromis-
log declaration OF the chairman OF the
committee on ways and means that we were
10 sit here until the end OF our term to put
down the sugar trust. What do We have
tnstead7 We have PROPOSE
ton TO Ere one Of those pop
gun tarif bills for which the
gentleman from Illinois lSpringerl was de-
posed from rhe ways and means commit
zee. daughter. His successor, after
filing the atmosphere with his outspread
wings, finds his nest IN some other BIRDS
premises. iRepebiican laughter. con-
grainlate the gest leman from Illinois on
bis personal triumph. / wish / could con-
graduate the country upon something.
and viii insist upon the speedy departures
of incompetensy." TApplause on tie Re-
pnbhcan side.
McMillin followed Reed. He began by
calling to mind. in connection with Reeds
prophesy OF political disaster to the DEM
ocrats of the house, the overthrow of the
Republican house after the passage of the
Mckinley bill in $780, After criticising
Reed for not discussing the question at
issue he proceeded 10 point out some
coed features of the senate bill, free ium-
Der, free hemp, ETC., and the reductions in
the general schedules. The duties in the
chemical schedule about to be adopted, be
said, were reduced from 80 per cent. TO "a
per cent: earth and earthenware, from 80
to 50 per cent; metals and metal manu-
features, from 50 to 50 per cent, wood and
wooden manufactures, 81 to %; tobacco,
III to los: cotton. SIS 10 -; dax, hemp
and jute. As 10 Il; wool and woolens 9s
to IS; silk aud silk manufactures, from SO
TO 46; pulp and paper. % to 20; sundries,
IS to "a Total reduction, from IS 20 80
per cent. McMiiliu eulogized other feat
ures including the extensions of the free
list, especially the priHciple involved in
the income tax provision, which taxed
not what people consumed, but what they
had.
Burrows said the chairman of the ways
and means committee had been deserted
by his party associates. In q semi-humor-
Gus manner he quoted from Wilson's
speech when tho bill passed the house
his sentence that mot all who paraded
rs tariff reformers were in line when the
musketry began to rattle" "That was
when he was flashing you cowardly lag
CARDS into line" said Burrows, turning to
the Democratic side. "Now the chairman
leads the retreat and asks you to adopt
bin which gives public sanction to the
most monstrous trAtt in this country"
Friday last. Burrows. declared. was a re-
markable day In the history of the bill.
The house was firm that day,
but that afternoon when Vest in
the senate threatened 70 'turn on
the calcium light" and expose
the secrets Of the conference, come what
would. the Democrats Of the house had
fallen on to their knees. The Democratic
executive. heretofore firm, was quiet and
yielding when he heard that threat. So
the caucus met and oil was aban doned. 1t
was no compromise. Ii was unconditional
surrender. In view Of what the president
said of the bill, in view of the remorse that
would cling to him forever, he would belle
his character If he did not return it with
scorn and contempt, and the interrogatory
us thy servant dog that he should do
this thing" Republican appiause.l
Wilson then yielded a few minutes to
Pence, Pop, who said the Populists had
thought and still thought between the two
old parties there was . good deal of mock
conflict and sham battle over the tariff
bill. He was convinced that this was true
when he saw the mock fury of Burrows.
Like Burrows, however, he confessed that
he did not know what the president would
do, "nor did any one else on this floor.
unless" he added, as he looked up and
saw Tracey of New YORK in the chair.
''uniess il is you. Mr.. Speaker" This sally
az Mr.. Tracey's expense brought down
Of
gixed to the chair and said, amid renewed
laughter, that he thought the member in
the chair was the new mouthpieee of the
administration lStrauss.l ANY measure
was a measure for the relief of the masses %
Pence proceeded. IF il repealed the Me-
Kinley law" At the conclusion he paid a
glowing tribute to Mr.. Wilson.
Cochran was given the closest attention
by the galleries, and was at times enthusi-
astically applauded from either side of the
chamber as his sledgehammer blows were
dealt al the Mckinley law or the senate
bill Cochran was deeply in earnest, and
his protest against the consum nation Of
this tariff legislation recalled his famous
speech OF protest st the Chicago conven-
ton.
Tarsney followed in bitter attack on
the senate bill. He said the highest
utheTity ia the Democratic party had
sfigmaiixed II with disgrace and dishonor.
"In this conclusion l concur heartily"
said he. ''and | feel il would be personal
dishonor 10 me 10 vote on the bill, and
shalt not do so. Republican appl ause.
Tom Johnson said he was grieved To
part company With his democratic coll
leagues on the auer. bur be did not believe
the concessions made were necessary to
secure the vote of the senate. The senate