The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-05-16
THE TARIFF BILL.
SENATOR MILLS OiSCLAlMS tLL Re-
SPoNslBlL!TY FOR IT.

SPCNSlSlJ!I Y rOR !
he is Tariff RefoImer ano FAvors No
| Such Abo, ttou as the Ta,lf Bill agreed
Upon by the Democratic Sans;ors.-Ee
Tslk. Oot.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-At ten mlr'
utes past one o'clock yesterday IN the
Senate the tariff was taken up and
long interesting discussion took place
on the pending amendment, to insert 10
the enacting clause of the bill, the
words, cor Withdrawn for consump
tion," so that it will read that "the Gu
ties provided in the act will be Levied
collected and paid upon all articles im-
ported from foreign countries or with
drawn for consumption after the Both
OF June, 1894" The amendment was
attacked on the Republican side OF the
chamber as making gift of between
S3,OOO,OOO and 100000 to the owners
of imported goods now in warehouses,
and was defended on the Democratic
side as being just and equitable and ID
accordance with existing law.
Hale and Aldrich commented upon
the fact that members Of the finance
committee on either side disagreed
with each other as to the amendment
and taunted the Democrats with lnh
deity to their platform, which had de-
clared protection in the United States
to be unconstitutional and to be
fraud.
The taunt had an immediate effect
upon Mills. who took the floor as soon
as Aldrich had finished his remarks,
and iu passionate and excited man
ner, referred to his speech several
weeks ago, in which he declared him.
self to be (as between the Mckinley act
and the Wilson billy. between the
devil and the deep sea-, and sa!o: "A
change has come over the spirit OF the
sItuat1cn-not over my spirit. L nave
not got as much sea room as Oh that
occasion. I find that the bill pending
before US is not the Wilson bill but a
bill which ought, perhaps, to bear the
honored name of the Senator from Ma
ryland (Gorman), or of the Senator
from Ohio (Brlce). No man can tor
ture me into the admission that the
bill pending before this body Is 10 any
respect an answer to pledges made by
the Democratic national convention to
the Democratic people of the United
States. l have said-and l expect to
say as long as keep my understand
ing-that taxation levied on value IS
the only honest system OF taxation;
and that the specific system Of taxation
Is imposed fo7 the purpose OF conceal
ing facts and defrauolng the govern
ment for the benait of favored classes.
I stand there today ard shall stand
there as long as live.
81 rise 70 say that DO not intend to
vote for single one of these amend
ments changing the duties from ad Td-
loren 10 specific. l am INUNDATED
enough to have 70 be drawn nearer and
nearer TO the Mckinley act in the rates
of duty IN the amount Of robbery in
hicted upon the poor working people OF
the couutry, who Ga'e Deco sSar'-o ID
death under this system OF taXa'lon,
without being compelled to bow do~n
ID humiliation, anu to take up even tn''
badges of protection. The very ti1sr
change is made from an ad valorem to
specific system; and that runs aloua
through the whole olll We have had
to surrender at discretion, at every
point, until It is now a question be-
tween the Mckinley protection act and
the pending bill, Nth very little mar
gin of difference between the Two
repeat what | said before, that l will
vote against these amendments; but
that when they are incorporated 10 the
bill, l will vote for the bill if it has five
cents of IT rtduction in it, as choice be-
tween the two.
"Tne Democratic party said to the
people in 1892, that protection is a
fraud, and that the party was in favor
of hopest taxation for revenue alone,
and there is where l stand. l want to
make an honest effort to redeem that
pledge and do not intend to go back
ward. l would rather vote 10 reduce
the duties imposed by the Wilson bill.
Every one OF them is high enough. L
would have put more articles on the
free list. I would have reduced the ccst
Of production Oh our manufactures so
that we could take the markets OF the
| world and give employment 70 the peo-
ole in honest work IN factories instead
of having them walking the streets and
coming to Washington to tell the gov
eminent of their diSt-esS-a distress
which the protective tariff has put
upon them.
"You may pile up duties in this bill
to any extent you please, and, if it is
any better than the Mckinley act, l
will vote tor it. But do not try to make
| it Just as bad as it can be made before
vote for it. / felt 1t necessary to Tile
this caveat and let Democrats, who are
making this bill, understand that am
not responsible for this measure, and
that do not intend to assume the re.
spoDsibili5y. I want the gentlemen
who have demanded this measure to
stand up in the open daylight and
take the responsibility for the amend
ments which they have forced upon this
bill"
There was some applause in the gal.
leries at the close of the speech. Of
LQS TWO OSuuCClo ot1C SCnGIOiS CoPCSiHi4J
singled out by Mr. Mills, German was
the only one in the chamber, but he
simply smiled and was not moved to
make any remark in reply.
The pending amendment was then
agreed TO without any further discus
sion, and without a division. Then
Lodge (Rep.) of Massachusetts offered
the amendment, OF which ne had pTeyi-
ouslr given notice, as follows:
Except that when not in coatraven-
ton of any existing treaty, any article
made dutlable in the folio wing sections
shall, if the product or manufacture OF
Great Britain, or of any of the colonies
of Great Britain, pay duty double
that herein imposed; and if any article
upon the free lls5in the preceding SEC
tion, shall, if the product or manutac-
ture of Great Britain, pay duty OF 80
per cent ad yalorem; and such addition
al and discriminating duties shall re-
main ID force until Great Britain shalt