The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-05-05
CULLoM SPEAKS FOR PROTECTION
The Illinois Senator Against the Demo-
cratic Bill

cratic Bill.
WASHINGTON, April so. No general
business was transacted in the senate
yesterday, Mr.. Harris moving as soon
as the session began that the tariff
bill be taken up. There was some re-
sistance to this plan, particularly by
Mr.. Dubois but the motion passed
20 to 16. Mr.. Dolph waived his right
to the floor and Mr. Lindsay addressed
the senate He said the Wilson bill
is not what such measure
should be, but it is infinitely better
than the existing law. Tariff reform
which should be effected at once,
would hasten the return of better
times upon an enduring and constitu-
tional basis. 1t is idle to say that an
income tax can not be collected. Ex-
perience will soon make known the
loop-holes of escape and they will be
closed just rs have been closed the
loop-holes through which in the early
days of our internal revenue system
those who were willing to commit
perjury or fraud or both.tried to es-
cape the payment of internal taxes.
1t is waste of time, he said, to COM
bat those charges that the pending
bill is sectional or was so intended to
be.
Mr. sherman disputed the assertion
of Mr. Lindsay that the strikes at
Homestead were due TO the Mckinley
bill. Mr. Lindsay retortcd that manu-
facturers' natural desire was to re-
duce wages without respect to rates of
duties.
Senator Cullom also addressed the
senate. He said in his speech:
"The initial policy and the ground
work of the enlightened universe is
protection. The civilized world has
grown out and away from barbaric
free trade and has developed very
universal recognition of the protect
We idea, Government means pro-
lection. Any government must main
tain itself and must protect its peo-
Pile"
Senator Cullom denounced the in
come tax as sandbagging proposition
and then proceeded to criticise in de-
tail the various schedules of the bill.
He argued that the tariff bill should
be taken out of politics altogether and
made matter of mathematical deter
mination and demonstration, and con-
cluded: m
ut is business question, but of
course necessarily a political one, as
in it is involved the great question of
raising revenue for the support of the
government propose to commit to q
commission of experts the task of work
ing out the basis upon which an equi-
table tariff act car be constructed, leav-
ing to congress the work of enacting
such taft law with all the facts be-
fore it as may be required in order to
secure the proper amount of revenue
and adjust wages to la Dor without dis
turbing the equity of the general schem
of protection. This tariff commission,
if properly constructed, would be able
to avoid the interminable incongrui-
ties which give so much annoyance to
the administrative branch of the gov
erument"
Mr.. Cullom spoke for two hours and
twenty minutes and was followed by
Mr.. Dolph, who gave the fifth Install
ment of his speech.
Shortly after o'clock Mr.. Harris
asked how much longer Senator Dolph
proposed to talk; he had already
spoken four days
Mr. Dolph said he had been in
terrupted so much that his speech had
been unintentionally prolonged If
no one had fixed speech for to-day
he hoped that he would be allowed to
have the floor so that he could finish
by o'clock
At ':25 p. m. the senate adjourned
Echo of the Breckenridge Trial