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ply of the necessities OF life had never
been enjoyed by our people.

ply of the necessities OF life had never
been enjoyed by our people.
BEFORE AND AFTER.
Burrows then proceeded to contrast
the conditions then and now. He de-
clared the tariff bill of 1890 had con-
tradicted every prediction OF the Demo-
Gratis. by creating hundreds of new in
dustries, enlargipg employment and
giving increased wages to labor; cheap
ening the cost OF prot ected articles, aug
menting foreign imports and increasing
our exports, and reasserted that the
present general paralysis Of business
was solely from the ascendency of the
party pledged to the repeal of that act.
He declared: "You have but to aoan-
don the policy upon which you have
entered, recommit this bill and permit
the existing tariff regulations to re-
main undisturbed, and all our industries
will quickly revive"
Burrows then took up the tariff plank
of the last Democratic platform and
compared it with the South Carolina
ordinance of notification. He then
turned and argued at length on the
question OF the constitutionality of the
protective tariff, citing Webster. Adams,
Jefferson and others in support thereof.
He declared il tbs present policy was
carried out it would lesd to individual
disaster and national bankruptcy.
A PERNICIoUs FREE LIST.
The speaker then took up the free list
and proceeded to argue that the farmer
had been especially selected for assault
and destruction. Free iron ore and free
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hocks and the ceasing OF mines, or the
lowering of our condition to the level of
foreign competitors, and when the docks
were slaughtered and the mines closed,
the foreigner would take advantage OF
our helpless condition and impose upon
us whatever burden his cupidity might
suggest.
Turning to the dutiable schedules, he
declared there was not one but in which
some industry would be be injured and
many destroyed, while not single one
would stimulate any domestic industry
or give employment to labor.
Burrows then argued against the cub
stitution OF ad valorem for specific duties.
The speaker then concluded with an
eloquent picture of the present de-
pressed condition of the country and
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the policy outlined in the bill.
At the conclusion of Burrows speech
there was great outburst of Republi-
can applause, so long continued as to
call for rebuke from the chair.
BLACK AND HOPKINS SPEAK.
Before order was restored, General
Black OF Illinois took the floor. He re-
ferred to Burrows's picture OF dire dis.
aster in the country, and said the suffer
ing depicted by him existed after 81
years of laws written by his own party
In referring to other state affairs antece
dent to the inauguration OF the protec
tive policy, he declared no public and
little private indebtedness existed then
Hopkins (Repl of Illinois concluded
7 the afternoon debate. He proceeded tc
| make long review OF the history o.
tariff legislation in the country. Al
$3.50 Hopkins secured permission to
make some supplemental remarks to
morrow, and then the house took q
recess until O'Clock this evening.
EVENING SESSION.
The first speaker at the evening seH-
sion was Haines (Dem.) representing
the Troy, N Y, district, who made &
vigorous protest against the Wilson bill
Woomer (Rep.) of Pennsylvania
Pendleton (Dem.) of Texas, and Curtis
(Rep.) OF New York, were the othel
speakers.