Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-12-15
MCKINLEY BILL STILL.
Babcock and Other Republicans Deny
Regulating 1t.

United Press last week with chairman
Babcock, OF the Republican Congress
sional Committee, in which he was
represented as repudiating the Nc
Kinley bill. Mr. Apsley, the vice
chairman of the committee, was quot
ed some time ago in the New York
World to similar effect.
This gave rise to an interesting
scene on the floor of the House. 1t
was started by Representative Bou-
telle, who got Mr.. Babcock, Mr.. Apsley
and number of other Republicans
together, and then asked the chair
man and ice-chairnian of the Re-
publican Congressional Committee
whether or not it was true that
the Republicans were defeated after
all in the recent elections. The two
officials wanted to know what Mr.
Boutelle meant. He said that it was
generally supposed that the Republi-
cans won great victory i'll the recent
election, solely on the ground of the
tariff, and because of the remarkable
contrast between the unprecedented
prosperity of the country in 1892. un-
der the Mckinley act, and the terrible
depression that followed when it was
known that the Democrats would
overthrow that act. But, Mr.. Bou.
telle went on, he saw by Babcock in.
terview, to-day and the statement
printed some time ago in the New
York World over the signature of Mr..
Apsley, that after all the country had
practically repudiated the Mckinley
bill. He wanted to know if it was pos
sible that such was the view that Mr..
Babcock and Mr.. Apsley took of the
result. General Draper, of Massachu-
sets; Mr.. Wilson, Of Washington, and
several other Republicans who were
in the group joined in the inquiry with
good deal of vigor.
Mr.. Apsley promptly repudiated the
publication in the New York World
over his signature. He said he never
wrote a word of it and never signed
his name to anything of the kind
Chairman Babcock said that the in.
terview sent out by the United Press
misrepresented him in every particu
lar. He received a number of tele-
grams to-day inquiring as to the au
thority of the interview One of these
came from the Home Market Club
of Boston, and to this Mr.. Babcock re
piled in these words: 1.-The dispatch
misrepresents me in every particular.
Some of the Democratic newspapers
which have printed this alleged in
terview and have commented on it
which have been trying to make ou
that the recent elections were repu
diation of McKinleyism, will do wei
to take notice of this denial by Chair
man Babcock and Vice Chairman APP
sley.
Speaker Reed was quoted SOM
time ago to the same effect i'll an in
terview in a Detroit paper, which IN
terview he promptly repudiated a!
fictitious Mr.. Sherman was after
ward quoted in the newspapers to ;
similar effect But Mr.. Sherman tool
the pains to have denial sent out b,
the press associations, in which denia
he declared that the Mckinley act wa
the best expression of the Republican
party's view of protection that wa
ever put upon the statute book
Speaking today on the subject Mr.
Boutelle said.
This effort to try and make on
that we were really defeated in the
recent elections, and the Mckinley
bill repudiated is the most silly one
that have ever known of. Because
Republicans do not say that they viii
re-enact the Mckinley act without
changing it in any particular, Demo,
cratic papers try to make out that the
Mckinley bill has been repudiated.
AS Governor Dingley said in conversa-
ton yesterday, tariff bill when en-
acted must suit the conditions of the
time when it goes into effect No bill
ever did that better than did the Nc
kinley act When we come to enact
another tariff bill, the conditions may
have changed to some extent, and of
OF course, there may accordingly be
changes in the Mckinley act. But il
the conditions were Just the same as
in 1890, there would in my opinion,
be very little change in that law which
brought about greater prosperity in
this country, and a larger volume OF
foreign trade than ever existed before
or since in the history of the nation.
And Iwant to say now and to have
it go on record as my prediction, that
the next Republican National Conven-
ton will adopt a platform that will
be more strongly in favor of protec-
ton than any platform that has ever
been adopted, and that it will favor
a tariff that will make up the differ
ence between the wages in Europe
and the cost of production there, and
the highest possible wages that can
exist in this country and the cost oil
production here
Senator Morrill, of Vermont. speak
ing the other day IN the Senate on the
issues of the hour said: The tariff
pendulum swings to and fro between
Protection and Free Trade firing out
even the President in his sentimental
dreams of flee iron and coal" Yes,
the hour hand has passed the twelve
O'Clock meridian of political free trade
tom foolery and returns once more to