The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-11
FIGHTING ON TARIFF BILL
SENATOR HILL MAKES | REPLY TO
 sENaTOR PRITCHARD.


 Was Held in the House.
 Washington, Jan. 10-After the trans- action of some routine morning busi- ness MT. Pritchard, rep, of North Car olina, addressed the senate in advocacy of an amendment intended to be offered by him to the emergency tariff bill. The amendment is to impose or in crease duties on clays or earths. lime, marble and stone and their manufact- ures, chronic ore, iron ore, timber and lumber, leaf tobacco, live animals and agricultural products.
 MT. Hill, dem., of New York, replied to Mir. Pritchards speech, although he did not, he said, intend to open up tariff discussion. It Was somewhat diff ficult for this congress to gratify the people of North Carolina. That state had sent recently to the senate two dis tinguished gentlemen elected substan- tially at the same time by the same body, and by the same combination. One of them (Mr. Butler) ill his speech the other day had arraigned the demo- cratic party for being false to it's pledges of tariff reform, and had gwen that as his reason for leaving the dem- ocratic party and joining the populists. Now came the other end of the com bination and said that the people of North Carolina were extreme high pco- tectionists and wanted the re-enact- 1,1a11t of Inc Ein1Av art He (Mr. HilD did not know how both these sena- tors could be gratified. Q4aughter)
 On motion of Mir. Hale, rep, of Maine, it was ordered that when the senate adjourn to-day it adjourn. until Monday next
 Mr. White, dem., of California, ad- dressed the senate in advocacy of his own and Senator Hills resolutions to amend the rules so as to establish the cloture system.
 Mir. Morgan, dem, of Alabama, at the conclusion of MT. Whites remarks of fered and had referred to the commit tee on foreign relations a joint resolu- ton conveying the earnest congratula- tions of the people of the United States to the president and people of the Transvaal republic upon their success in establishing free representative gov ernment, republican in form, and in. their opposition to any foreign power that denies to them the full enjoyment of theii, 1dghtful liberties.
 The house bond bill, with it's free sill yer substitute, was taken up and MT, Jones, lem., of Arkansas, having charge of the substitute addressed the senate in it's support. He expressed the belief of the majority of the finance commit tee that the substitute would bring re- lief to the country. The sale of bonds as proposed in the house bill could, he said, accomplish no good result, and would, in his opinion, be productive Of much evil. The laws now on the stat ute books would, with the revival Of business, provide ample revenue. The change needed was not dn the revenue laws, but in the financial condition of the people at large. If a means could be devised of relieving the present em- barrassments there would be no difficul- ty about the condition of the govern ment Of of the revenues.
 On the point of bimetallism MT Jones said:
 When it is clear that England will not consent to an international agree ment, and that France and Germany will not move except in company with England then the question comes home to us, What will the people of the Unit ed States do?
 A tremendous responsibility in this emergency, in my opinion, rests upon us as a nation. We are the only people holding the good of the masses gen. Ivy frl |, s,1,f olJ tions We are the only nation who be- lieve that the object of organizing gov ernments is ito advance the interests and welfare of the masses. That the complete re-estabhshment of bimetal- lism would greatly benefit and advance the masses, would tend to check and to strangle the startling aggregations of wealth into a few hands who are now taking place, there can be no doubt If other nations will not join US in this great movement in the inter- est of huma anity, it is our duty to un- dertake it alone. Where the right is clear, obstacles should not be allowed to deter us from doing our duty. We have encountered and overcome great CT difficulties in the past, and I be- lieve that the high destiny that was marked out TOT us py FFONluSnCe re ouires us to act now with decision and to assume fully the great responsibility of leadership among the nations of the earth.
 In conclusion, MT. Jones said: 'It has been a little more than twelve months since the president, having al- ready issued a hundred millions of bonds, declared in his message that he would continue to issue bonds when eve;. and as often as it became necessary to maintain sufficient gold reserve I had at the time no sort of doubt that the president would continue to issue bonds, and this has proved correct. These bonds bore per cent. interest. Some time after the message, knowing than there was not other hope of get ting free coinage of silver during this administration. while was opposed to the issue of bonds, and so stated at the time, l offered a bill which pro- posed not to enlarge the power which the president already asserted and was exercising of issuing bonds, but to authorize the issue of bonds at lower rate Of interest, from to per cent. and at the same time to provide for teh unlimited coinage of silver; for substitution of silver certificates pay able expressly in silver alone, for greenbaeks which the government has