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NOT A FRIEND OF QUEEN LII.
Mr.. Kyle Pop, Md, introduced re-
solution, which went over till tomorrow, de
claring it as the sense of the Senate that the
United States should not use force for the
purpose of restoring to the throne the de-
posed Queen Of the Sandwich Islands or OF
destroying the existing Government: that
the Provisional Government having been
duly recognized, the highest nitional inter-
ests require that it shall pursue its own line
of policy. and that foreign Intervention in
the political affairs of those Islands would be
regarded as an act unfriendly to the Govern
ment OF the United States
The tariff bill was taken up at half past
ten A. IL, the pending question being para
graph III, relating to railway bars of iron
or steel Mr.. Jones Dem, Ark, withdrew
the Finance Committee amendment, and
moved to make the duty seven twentietbs
cent per pound.
Explaining the proposed amendm ent Mr.
Jones said
The rate under the present law was $40
cent per pound or Sl3 "A per ton; so that
the rate now proposed was little over one
half of the existing rate.
In the course of discussion on the amend
ment. Mr.. Platt rep, Conn., said that the
duty proposed ia it was just as much pro.
hibitive duty on steel rails as the duty under
the Mckinley act was: and he was glad OF it.
He rejoiced at it: and he commended the
wisdom of Senators on the other side In SO flx-
ing it. The history of steel rail prices, was, he
contended, a complete refutation of the prir-
ciple of tariff reformers- that high duties IN
creased prices to the consumers, because,
with a tariff on steel rails that had always
been prohibitive the price had steadily de-
clined until now, instead of paying $50 a
ton for steel rails, they could be
bought at $50 ton-and he did
not know where the reduction
was going to stop Il was competition, he
fao& had and
had not been for the imposition of duty
not only protective, but prohibitory the i'm
mense house competition would not nave
been a factor in the problem. The same rule
applied to every article IN the list
SENATOR GoRMAN's SPEECH.
It was Just eleven o'clock when Mr. Platt
took his seat and Mr. German (Dem. Md
rose to address the Senate.
It has been made known through the news
papers that it was his intention to speak TO-
day in defence of the Democratic position,
and the attendance of Senators on both sides
of spectators in the galleries was quite
large As in measured slowness OF delivery
and in solemn vibrating tones, he
commenced his speech, q profound hush
spread over the Chamber; and Senators and
spectators settled down to give TO the Mary
land Senator the closest and most respectful
attention. Contrary to his usual custom he
had prepared his remarks and read his
speech from printed slips with perfect dis
tinctness of intonation, and with great earn
estness of manner.
He opened in prophetic strain, saying
'sMr President:-"We are nearing the
end After twenty years Of political pro
gress of positive growth, of constant de-
Velopmenf. and of universal enlightenment,
che Democratic party and the American
people are within sight of the promised land.
Emancipation is at hand. emancipation from
partisan oppression, from the greed OF
eazf
tlavagance, from financial fantasy, from
spoils, from restrictions upon individual
liberty from iing oisrn, from all those evils,
in brief, which the Democratic party in
herited as a hateful legacy, from three de-
cades of republican maladministration.n
He then touched upon the difficulties
which had confronted the Democratic party
on its return TO power after thirty years OF
opposition and the vehemence OF the de-
,rlands made upon them.
sWe were not only urged he said, .sbut
ordered peremptorily TO reform the tariff at
once Why waltz Vote first; talk after
wards"
He asserted that time, and plenty of it. had
nSways been considered absolutely essential
fn reforming tariffs. The Mills bill did not
pass the House till midsummer. The Nc
Kinley bill did not receive the signature OF
President Harrison till the last day OF Sep
TENDER.
THE HOUSE BILL.
Speaking of the House bill, he said:-.sIn
obedience to the obvious wish of the coun-
try. the House of Representatives passed q
tariff bill early in the session. Compare
lively little time was given to consideration
of the various schedules and many changes
in the bill. as reported. were made ia
Committee of the Whole without due regard
for their ultimate effect or for exist
ing industrial conditions. The result was
necessarily IN imperfect measure, which not
failed to meet the requirements OF the trea-
sury but actually increased the deficit Great
e& By Republican prohibitive duties. There
o3as no expectation that This bill would be-
come law without change.
"But no sooner did the Finance COMMITTEE
begin its work than the cry for action was
renewed with extraordinary vigor
This imperfect bill was upheld, not as a
suitable basis for tariff revision, but as a
Democratic principal in itself we were IN
formed that any change whatsoever would
be set down as betrayal OF the party's prom
ises' We were told substantially that
cratIc party for honest difference OF
opinion regarding even such purely business
matters as tariff schedules that the unfore-
seen change IN industrial conditions did not
merit the slightest consideration that every
Senator who showed the least concern for
tfe interests of his own State was a traitor
B to the Union and mis- party, that the Senate
itseif had ceased to be a coordinate branch
If fhe Government, and that its sole duty
was to ratify blindly the DEGREES of the
House."
THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.
Then he added with significant emphasis -
sour friends on the other side seem very
anxious to learn upon what theory this bill
~ - --.rt,.,. r r7fi1 foil them If was