The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-24

YORK senator mas throughout attempted
TO thwart his party.
Never before, since the declaration of
independence, MIR German went on. had
a President of the United States been
guilty of such violation of the spirit Of
the constitution, as had President Cleve-
land, in writing his letter 10 Chairman
Wilson.
Conference committees should be free
from outside influences "The liberty of
the Senate should not be invaded" he
said in thunderous tones, Though a thou
sand hirelings write us down and traduce
usr'
THE HOUSE CALLED A PARROT.
The President, he continued, had said
il would be dishonorable to tax coal and
iron. The House, parrot like, repeated
the cry. Men who sat up high stand
ards" said he, should come to us with
clean hands" He argued that the House,
II IL had been consistent, would have
placed all raw materials on the free list
He enumerated other raw materials
which the House had made dutiable He
denied that 1t was either democratic doc
trtne or in accordance with the demo
cratic platform to place coal and iron on
the free list. He enumerated the amount
of the tax on coal placed by different dem
ocratic congresses.
"The. same bills you speak Of" inter-
rupted Mr.. Hill. ''placed wool and lum-
Der on the dutiable list"
They did" replied Mr. German. He
proceeded to declare that the democratic
platform did not demand free raw mate
rial He went back to the platform of
1884, on which he said President Cleve-
land was elected, "by the grace of
God and a great deal of hard work
1t did not provide for free raw materials
The bill prepared by his distinguished
radical friend (Mills) placed rs cents
duty on coal.
MILLS READY FOR A ROW.
"I was in the same situation then" in
terrupted MIR. Mills, that / am now l
was in the hands Of half dozen men who
forced duty on coal 1t was not my
choice"
II am not attacking you" said MIR.
German deprecatingly.
You said | prepared the bill with
taxed coal in it, replied Mr.. Mills hotly.
Mr.. German then gave the history OF
the convention OF 1885 whore, he said
the radicals were in the saddle A reso-
luton was adopted indorsing the Mills
bill taxing coal. President Cleveland ac-
cepted it aud STOOD on it,
He referred TO the platform declaration
Of 1892, prepared by President Cleveland's
friends, commencing the House "for 90
ing in the direction of free raw mate
rials." The radical resolutions sprung in
the convention were pushed by those who
desired to defeat his nomination. But 1t
did not defeat his nomination. No one
| expected President Cleveland to stand on
that radical plank.
President Cleveland's letter was looked
| forward to with anxiety. Ia it = President
| Cleveland declared specifically against
the destruction of any industry, and in
| favor of 'freer, not free" !" rawimateri-
ais. That letter, Mr. German said,
changed the tide and elected Mr.. Cleve-
| land President.
THE DUTY ON COAL.
Reserting again to the duty on coal, Mr..
German argued that 40 cents a ton was
purely a revenue duty. Free coal he said.
gave to single foreign corporation all
the coal there is from Boston north Free
coal would not benefit a single man or
woman in the country. Who demands it,
he asked. The professional, the theoreti-
cal tariff refOrmers, and it would cheaper
the cost of manufacturing, yet mathe-
matically free coal would not give the
New England manufacturer more than
three-fourJhs of one per cent. of the cost
of manufacturing There was but one
great concern on the face of the earth
that wanted free coal In Nova Scotia
there was deposit of coal as broad and
as rich as any on the face of the earth.
The government of Canada had controlled
it. Five years ago the Dominion govern
ment was induced to change its policy.
The small leases We're wiped out.
The Canadian Pacific, that great artery
of Great Britain, together with
themselves together and secured a 30
year lease of these coal fields on condi-
tion that they should pay into the Cana
dian treasury IL cents ton royalty. If
coal were free, the coal of Nova Scotia
would displace that of the United States
in New England, and the treasury of
Canada would be enriched by money that
ought to go into the treasury of the
United States.
"God knows we have enough trusts" y"
said Mr.. German II will never consent
TO allow this mammoth foreign corpora
tion TO invade our territory and take the
subsistence away from our people"
THE SUGAR PROBLEM
"Thert was only one other difficult
question involved in this situation-the
everlasting subject of sugar. Louisiana.
through its two senator's, then the late
distinguished men who occupied seats in
this body, Randall Lee Gibson and Ed
ward d. White wanted to know before
we entered upon the campaign, with no
threat, with no inquiry except that which
an honorable man has right to make,
what the policy Of the party was to be
under the apparently free trade resOm-
tions adopted at Chicago After great
deal of talk, after the most careful con
sideration, the candidate of our
party told them, as he had
told the public through his letter
that the Democratic party was not to
destroy industries that ii should place n
fair duty on dutiable articles, a revenue
duty; that the bill which had met ap-
proval was the Mills bill, and on the line
Of the Mills bill the Democratic party
would act. They said to us frankly. we
want TO tell our people the truth We do
not want TO press you TO give a single
fraction Of cent to Louisiana, but we
only want to know the truth At that
solemn conclaye we all said Yes il is a
dutiable article it Is TO be- and must be
the cornerstone by which we win over
throw McKinleYism.'
Mr.. President, / would have given
anything In reason for the interest Of my
own people, whom | represent, If could
have had free sugar all along the line.
q" But above all. in all my public
career, no man no living being has ever
charged me with periidy. No soul can
say that ] ever made a promise about
public or private matters that did not
carry out IL had the power 20 do IL.
4" These two senator's
(Smith and Brlcel and myself, carrying
out the pledge Of our party, whose can
didafg tuaa fuHoreed nv tta D.. .sa etr,.d