The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-04-19
WASHINGTON. d. c. Anril


MIR. CAFFERY Na). rieing to
lkVN question of personal privi-
lIWII lege, read an extract from u
uuu New York afternoon news.
paper quoting approvingly the denun-
citation of certain Democratic senators,
including himself, on account of their
supposed position to the tariff bill.
He declared that he WAS not an OBJ
structionist, and was not opposed to
the speedy passage OF the Wilson bill
as amended by the senate finance com
mittee He would support it actively
and would vote for it, either for it or
for a sbill substantially embracing its
provisions as amended by the finance
committee.
The hour OF p. IN. arrived. and, uu-
der the arrangement, ,'tts tariff bill was
taken mp. Mr.. Turpie Qud) spoke in
favor of the bill. Mr.. Turpie said that
both the house bill and the senate bill
had each their separate merits. They
both enlarged the free list and revised
taxation.
Mr.. Cameron, Pennsylvania, ad.
dressed the senate ia opposition to the
bill. He said that for hundred years
the matter of protective tariff had
been thrsshed out but still remained as
serious as it nearly broke up the U nion
sixty years ago. In one sense it was
now more serious than then, because
the interests which it involved had
steadily become larger until now they
were immeasurable.
The world contained now no markets
in which the United States could COM
pete, on gold basis. without the com.
plete and permanent sacrifice of its
labors Europe could always squeeze
her laborers to lower stage of misery
than could bs risked with American
laborers. American laporers knew ali
that better than any one else did, and
it was not for them that this bill, or
any free trade measure would receive
support. The situation of the world
today was more critical than ever be-
fore in recent times The people would
see it and act, as soon as they could be
reached.
He did not fear the result. For his
own part he wanted to do more than
restore the tariff The tariff alone
was not enough to make complete
or strong national policy On the
tariff alone he could not appeal with
conf ience to the whole people. I he
tariff and silver were two sides of the
same issue.
They were bound together by neces-
sity. The one without the other must
break down So long as the people Of
the United States narrowed their anu
bition to becoming large England or
more German Germany, they could
become nothing worth their trouble,
and could win no markets worth hav.
ing. not even their own. Mr. Cameron
concluded the reading Of his speech at
$3.50 p. IN.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE.
The reading of the journal of yester-
days proceedings was listened to with
close attention by Mr. Reed and other
leaders OF the house
Mr., Grow, (Rep., Penna } con.
demnsd the policy OF the present ad-
ministration toward Hawaii, denounc-
ing it as un-Americsn and antagonis-
tic to the growth of liberty among
nations.
Mr.. Wise Dem, Va read from the
Record to show the position taken by
ex- Speaker Reed when the ameddmeut
offered by J. Randolph Tucker, of Vir-
ginis, to the rules providing for the
counting Of quorum. was under dis
cussion In the Forty eighth congress.
He showed that Mr.. Reed opposed the
amendment and added with much
spirit that this adulation of Thomas
B. Reed by the Republican party was a
miserable pretence.
Mr. Grosvenor rep, o. occupied
twenty minutes of the time in detailing
some of the changss that have been
made in the Wilson bill since it left
the house aud asserted that tine Demo-
Gratis would vote for tho bill rs it
would come back from the senate the
work Of the trusts of the land The
Wilson bill as such, was dead beyond
| hopV of resurrection