The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-03

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Senate pro-
.ceedings were rather dull today, most
of the afternoon being consumed by
Senator Squire, of Washington, who
made a carefully prepared speech in
general opposition to the tariff bill.
Before he began, Mr.. Lodge, of
Massachusetts, undertook to enact the
role of tormentor. He threw out some
exasperating challenges to the Demo-
cratic side, but the Democrats refused
to be drawn into a controversy, and
finding his efforts unsuccessful, he
turned the floor over to Mr. Squire.
Before the tariff bill was taken up,
Mr.. Hoar tried to pass his anti-lottery
bill, but it met considerable opposition
from Senator's Vest and German on
the ground that it was interfering
with raffles and drawings at church
fairs and made participants guilty of
felonies. Ultimately the bill went over
without action.
Squire Talks Tariff.
Mr.. Squire began with a reference
to a statement of Mr.. Mills in which
the latter declared that I'VE must pass
Texas senator and declared that if
some measure Of tariff reform had been
formulated and passed Immediately
after the advent of the present admin
istration, it might have been said that
the Democratic party was complying
with the will of the voters, expressed
i'm the election of 1892 But such a
measure had not been prepared, and
the feast to which the people had been
invited had actually grown cold. The
people had also learned that there was
poison in the feast offered. He declared
that the facts, which the election re-
turns had pointed out, ought to con-
vince any reasonable man that the at
tempt of the Democratic party to
change the system of revenue in respect
to protection to American industries
was not what the people wanted.
rs 1t the duty of this Congress-" he
asked, ito carry out the contract want
ed? Is it the duty of this Congress-
he asked, ito carry out the contracts
with the people which has been an
nulled? VIII the Democratic senators
take advantage of the terms of the
party platform to favor the wishes of
extremists and doctrinaires?"
Doesn't Like the Income Tax.
The present system was now to be
supplemented by two extremely odious
features, one an inquisitorial income
tax, and the other tax on every break
fast table. Those burdens are prepared
simply that taxes may be taken off the
foreign goods sent here to compete with
the products of American forests, fields,
mines and factories. The system of ma
tional economics ought not to be the
football of political parties. Changes
affecting the whole people ought not to
be violent and sudden. Business should
be taken out of politics
Extreme measures like this should be
suppressed, and he hoped that event
ually bill would be agreed on more
feasible in its provisions. He asserted
that from the letter of acceptance of
Mr.. Cleveland no radical changes
such as here presented, would be pro
posed.
Should this become a law he said.
the day on which the president shall
afflx his signature to it will be the day
OF doom for American wages. No man
who takes the trouble to acquaint
himself with the facts, can be blind to
the truth that the country has pros
pered under the policy of protection,
and that labor, has, as general
thing, been we'll paid and contented."
Industries of Washington.
a considerable portion of Senator
Squire's speech was devoted to a crit
$1,000
sion of the schedules was devoted
mainly to those Of his own state, and
he said:
Free lumber means the sacrifice of
our lumber industries to those of Brit
ish Columbia; free coal, even with the
Senate amendment, means poverty
for our miners; free iron. means, the
postponement of the development of
the magnificent deposits within our
borders; free wool, means the destruc-
ton and abandonment of the sheep
industry. The reduction on hops from
Is cents per pound to 2 per cent ad
valorem, leaves our hop growers at
the mercy of the foreign producers"
In the same line, he spoke of primes
as a growing industry of the Pacific
coast. He then took up these various
items and discussed them at length,
and concluded by saying that he be-
lieved that many of the amendments
that had been made by the Senate
committee were merely Intended as
traps to catch votes enough to secure
its passage by the Senate with the
idea of killing them in conference.
After executive session, the Senate
adjourned.