The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-02
Galleries Packed by Crowd That
Cheered at Will, and the Floor of the
Chamber Given Up to Women.
THREE CLOSING SPEECHES
Remarks of Mr.. Reed, Speaker
Crisp and Chairman Wilson.
The Latter Carried on the Shoulders of
Three Enthusiasts at the Close of
His Address-Incidents of the Day.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. with all of it's
destructive and unamerican, free-trade and
inquisitorial income tax features, the Will
son tariff bill passed the House at 6 o'clock
this evening on its final passage. 1t received
a majority of 81 votes; seventeen Demo-
Gratis voted against the bill and no Repub-
licans for it. Efforts were made at the last
moment to modify the measure so as TO
give some little real protection to the farm
ers who grow barley and the sugar in
dustry OF this country, which is certainly
one of the most promising and greatest we
have, and then to recCmnlit the bill to the
ways and means committee, but the free
traders were still in the saddle, and every
attempt to mitigate the crin'es which this
measure commits agasns. american farm
ers, laborng men ard manufacturers was
overwhelmingly defeated The free-traders
fairly howled with delight when they
achieved their final victory and thrust be-
hind them all doubt as to whether the bill
would finally pass the House.
AS has been repeatedly predicted by your
correspondent, the denunciations of the bill
and income taxes by Democrats was only
hypocritical by-play. The Democrats who
have been threatening to vote against the
bill its final passage fell down at the
last moment, and, like the cucloos that
they are. supported the administration and
the great unamerican mass of the Demo-
cratic party in the House. The bill will
likely be in the hands of the Senate COM
mittee on finance until the middle or latter
part of March, although Chairman Voor-
hees announces that he does not intend to
have ii under his charge longer than four
or five weeks. 1t will not be finally acted
on before midsummer. There is a great deal
Of Democratic buster in the Senate about
tearing the bill all to pieces making a
new measure on the Wilson lines" and
even about beating the BILL" if the in
come taxes are retained in it and protec-
ton To the sugar coal and iron interests
is not provided. The very best information
attainable leads your correspondent to be-
lieve that. while there will be a number of
minor changes made in the bill by the
finance committee, and several alterations
made by the Senate itself. income taxes
and the general free-trade and unameri-
can features which characterize the Wilson
bill will become law az they stand tonight.
There is probably one chance in ten that
the bill may be finally defeated. There will
be some modification if it is finally passed
into law, but there is little hope for labor
and the industries. The farmer. who, in
many sections of the country. notably the
Northwest, contributed to the success of the
party which has passed this bill. viii have
to suffer under it's law along with the rest
OF humanity.
There are two or three features in ex-
Speaker Reeds great arraignment of the
customs provisions of the bill which should
receive careful consideration by political
featuring. He thoroughly exploded the
Democratic theory that the advancement
of the industries in this country is due
more TO invention than home interest and
protection. and he made it clear TO even
the most stupid mind that free trade is an
essential necessity TO England, which can
only manufacture, and produces nothing
from the ground. He also made patent the
fact that anticipation of the tariff re-
FORM" upon which the country is about 10
enter, is the cause of the present COM
mercial and industrial distress. The speech
by Mr.. Reed was unquestiOnably the great
est of his life. 1t was deep and more
logical and fuller of convincing facts than
his friends expected, while the impression
il created in the House was painful to his
Democratic hearers. No man who has ever
spoken upon the tariff was given better
hearing.
The feature OF the Democratic arguments
to-day was SO English that all good Amer
leans had TO hang their heads in shame.
it was a constant indorseme:c OF and plea
for the British system OF free trade and
direct taxation for the support OF the GOV
ernment No one who heard ex-Speaker
Crisp and Chairman Wilson will ever doubt
that the Democratic party would take the
United States To the British system at
single bound II il were possible, or that
the sole mission OF that party is to abol-
ish every trace OF the Republican principle
OF protection TO home interests with the
greatest possible rapidity.