Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-10
NEWS BY ItLEGRlPh. From All Quarters. NR. MILLS IS OUTSP0KEN He Denounces the Amended
 Tariff Bill B1s1Gx's TEAM IS NOT SATISFIED Danger of an Open Revolt
 of the Players THE IRISH AGAINST THE MINISTRY Rosebery Says 1t Will Not
 Help Home Rule
THE IRISH AGAINST THE MINISTRY

l Help Home Rule HE HAS LESS SEA ROOM. ed Tariff Bill-He Wants to Make an Honest Effort to Redeem the Pledg- es of the Chicago Platform-Taxa- tion Levied on Values Is the only Honest System-He Will Not Vote for a Single one of the Amendments Changing the Duties From Ad Va. lorem to Specific.
 WASHINGTON. May 9-The tariff bill was taken up this afternoon and long discussion took place on the pending amendment-to insert in the enscting clause the words Cor withdrawn for con- sumption, ,,Lro that it shall read that the duties shall be paid upon all articles i'm ported from foreign countries or with drawn for consumption after Juno 30, 1894.
 The amendment was attacked by the re- publicans as making gift of $3, ,OOO, 900 to s4, ,000, ,000 to owners of imported goods now in warehouses;. and was defended by the democrats as being just.
 Mr. Hs1s commented on the fact that members of the finance committee on either side disagreed with each other as to the amendment. He urged the senators in charge cf the bill to get together and re- port language which would be authorita- tive.
 Mir. Aldrich taunted the democrats with infidelity to the democratic platform, which had declared protection to be unoonstitu- tionsl and fraud. Thereupon MT. Mills of Texas, In 6 passionate and excited manner, referred to his speech several weeks ego, in which he declared himself to be (ss be- tween the Mckinley act and the Wilson bilD between the devil and the deep sea and said:
 "A change has come over the spirit of the situation. have not got as much sea room as on that occasion. I find that the bill before us is not the Wilson bill, but a bill which ought, perhaps, to bear the honored name of the senator from Mary land (Mr. Gormsp) or of the senator from Ohio (Mr. Brice). No man can torture me into the admission that the bill pending is in any respect an answer to pledges made by the democratic convention to the peo pie of the United States. Taxation levied on values is the only honest sysrem, and the specific system Is imposed for the pur pose of concealing facts and defrauding the government for the benefit of favored classes.
 II do not intend to vote for single one of the amendments changing the duties from ad vslorem to specific. am hu- initiated enough to have to be drawn nearer and nearer to the Mckinley act in the rates and in the amount of robbery in- aicted upon the poor working people of the country who have been starved to death under this system of taxation, with out being compelled to bow down in hu- initiation and to take up even the badges of protection. We have had to surrender at discretion ct every point, until 1t is now Q question between the Mckinley protec- ton act and the pending bill with @ very little margin of differen between the two I will vote against these amendments, but when they are incorporated in the bill vote for the bill if 1t has five cents of re- duction in it, as a choice between the two. "The democratic party said to the peo- pie in 1899 that protection is fraud and that the party was in favor of taxation for revenue alone. I want to make an honest effort to redeem that pledge. would rather vote to reduce the duties i'm posed by the Wilson bill. would have put more articles on the free list. would have reduced the cost of production, SO that our manufactures could take the mar kets of the world and give employment to the people, 1neteaO or uASluS tneh Coue here to tell the government of their dis tress-a distress which the protective tar If has put upon them. You may pile up duties to any extent you please and if 1t is any better than the Mckinley act will vote for It. But do not try to makeit just as bad as 1t can bs made before vote for it. went the gentlemen to stand out and take the responsibility for the amendments wbich they have forced upon this bill" There was some applause In the galleries at the close of the speech.
 MT. German was in the chamber, but he simply smiled and made no reply. MT. Brice was absent.
 The amendment was thsn agreed to with out further discussion and without divis- I ion.
 Then MT. Lodge, of Massachusetts. of fered the amendment of which he had pre- viously given notice of os follows: Except that, when not in any contra vention of any existing treaty, any article made dutiable in the following sections shall, If 1t Is the product or manufacture of Great Britain or any of the colonies of Great Britain, pay duty double that here in imposed, and any article upon ! the free list in the preceding section shall, if the product or manufacture of | Great Britain or of any countries pay a duty of 35 per centum ad valorem, and | such additional and discriminating duties shall remain In force until Great Britain shall assent to and take part in an intsrna- tional agreement, together with the United
 States for the coinage and use of silver and shall cease whenever Great Britain shall
 assent to and take part in such information al agreement for the coinage of silver"
 The amendment was discussed by Sena- tors Lodge, McPherson of New Jersey, Plstt
 of Connecticut and others. Finally a mo.
 ton by MT. Harris to lay the amendment on the table was agreed to-yeas 32, nays 20 The tariff bill then went over. IN rHE HOUSE.
 By unanimous consent MT. Springer
 dem, of Illinois, reported from the oom'
 mittee on banking and currency the bill te
 suspend the operations of the 10 per cent
 tex on the clearing house certificates issued
 during the financial stress of last summer ! with an amendment for the repeal of tn, 10 per cent. state bank tax. and requested
 that bill and amendment be recommitted
 Unanimous consent was asked by MT Cox, dem, of Tennessee, to print tn,
 amendment with the report, but this wa
 refused by MT. Lockwood, dem, of Nev
 York.
 Mr. Springer gave notice that ol Wednesday of next week he would repor the bill again for immediate consideration
 At 1:06 o'clock the house went into com mittee of the whole on the naval sppropri
 ation bill, the general debate to be limited
 to seven hours.
 Mr. Walker, rep, of Massachusetts wa the first speaker. He made tariff speech
 deuouncing the Wilson bill and charginl
 that every period of business depression
 known In American history had been du
 to democratic 1egislation except that iron ! 1878 to 1888, and that was due to the re
 duction of the tariH resulting from the op
 erations of the resumption act of 1876. Mr. Grosvenor, rep, of Ohio, also mad . tariff speech, ridiculing the present posi f ton of the democratic party on the Wilso
 bill. Every trust in the country, he said
 had pro6tsd by the proposed changes i the tariff bill. The value of the cspits
 stocks of these trusts had been increase
 by millions, while the valus of rsilroa shares, of farm products and of wages ha
 decreased since the Wilson bill passed th
 house. The effect of all this, said M
 0rosvsnor, had . very direct bearing upo
 the question of where the money will con,
 from to meet tho expenditures authorize F, by tho naval appropriation bill. In COT ' clusion he said: ''I appeal to the committ< , on naval affairs to readjust it's bill In a'
 ! eordancA with the supoestions have a