Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-09
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, June 8.
SENATE.

A resolution was agreed to nation
alizing the trans Mississippi exposition
to be held at Omaha and requesting the
President to invite foreign nations to
participate.
A resolution on the same general
subject was agreed to suspending the
immigration and Chinese exclusion
laws so az to permit foreign labor to
take charge of foreign exhibits at the
trans Mississippi exposition.
Consideration of the tariff bill was
then resumed.
On the rice paragraph Dir. Allison
withdrew the committee amendments
reducing the House rates, leaving the
House rates to stand.
MIR. Mills moved to strike out the en-
tire rice paragraph and substitute a
new one placing uniform duty of 40
per cent. ad valorem on all grades OF
rice; rejected, yeas 10, nays 40.
Five democrats, Bacon, Clay, Nc.
Emery, McLaurin and Tillman, and
four populists, Allen, Butler, Heitfield
and Stewart, voted with the republi-
cans in the negative.
The paragraph on tapioca had been
struck out. On the question of agree
ing to this change Mr. Rswlins took the
floor to answer Mr.. Vests statement
yesterday that new evangel' OF
democratic doctrine was being pro-
claimed by certain democratic Sena
tors. Mr.. Rawlns said he bad been a
member of the committee on resolu-
tions and platform at the Chicago con
vention, presenting that tariff clause
which had been under discussion and
on his motion it was agreed to.
Mr.. Lindsay, platform in hand, in
terrupted to ask Mr.. Rawlins, since he
presented the tariff clause, why the
good old democratic word "only" after
tariff for revenue" came to be omitted
Was it an intentional omission, MIR.
Lindsay asked.
II think not" responded Mr.. Raw
Inns.
II can throw some light on that sub.
ject," said Mr.. Tillman, who was also a
member OF the committee Cd platform
at the Chicago convention. ut was
omitted purposely after discussion"
MIR. Rawlins said this was no new
evangel, no vile reptile or ra tlesnsks,
as Mr.. Vest had characterized it, and
| there was no need Of any democratic
Senator invoking the Almighty against
such doctrine.
Mr.. Mills spoke on the general
features of the bill. For two months,
he said, the congres sional committees
had sought to adjust, readjust and read
just again the tariff law, in the interest
of INDUSTRIOUS trust fund which this
bill is intended to raise. He came, he
said, to speak for the forgotten man, y
the tax payer, from whose labor and
sweat was to be wrung, by legislative
rapine, this vast fund for distribution
among favored benefcjaries. Here was
q bill of confscation, he declared, pro-
posing to take the property of those
who were not favorites, the forgotten
man" who is laboring in the streets and
fields. And yet, when an explanation
was asked for the exorbitant rates of
this bill, no answer was given, save,
"What are you going to do about it,"
Mr.. Mills warned those on the other
side of the chamber to remember that
biblical Injunction "For all these
things God will bring you into judg-
ment" The process of framing this bill
proceeded against the fundamental
principle of the Anglo.Saxon doctrine
that every man shall have hearing
But there was tribunal whose doors
always stood open, and before that tri-
bunal the projectors of this bill would
be summoned. In 1890 a similar act
had fallen like the bubonic plague on
the country, and the tribunal OF the
people had put the republican party in
quarantine. Turning to the demo-
cratic Senators who had voted
Yesterday for g duty on cotton, Mr..
Mills showed how the delegations of
Georgia, South Carolina and Utah had
supported unequivocal declarations in
national conventions against protec
tive tariff.
Mr.. Mills gave tables showing the
vast fortunes of q few individuals who
were, he said, to receive the benefits of
this bill. Mr.. Mills declared that
man could not be democrat who did
not support the doctrine that q tariff
must be limited to revenue only.
ITO whom does the Senator allude?"
demanded Mr.. Rawlins, one Of the
democrats who had voted with repub-
llcans.
Livery man may wear the garment
ifit fits him." responed MIR. Mills. "If
it does not he may throw it aside.
Mr.. Mills then turned his attention
to the daughters of millionaires "fatted
like heifers" and sent abroad in quest
of titles. When the vast fortunes had
been built up by unjust taxation, then,
he said, these daughters were put on
the market, hawked and peddled,
sold for princesses and duchesses,
and countesses and marchioness-
es and all other ''cesses." And
here was congress legislating the
money to pay for these trips
abroad. If the American people &C
cepted this condition then they were
not worthy of self government.
Mr.. Mills closed with an onimous
prediction that the abandonment of
democratic simplicity would bring
forth, out of the dark. some historian
to write the chapter on the decline
and fall of the great American people"
The Senate amendment was then
agreed to. striking out the House pro-
vision on tapioca.
Mr.. Berry asked to have read state
ment recently made by ex-Postmaster
General Wanamaker about the deplor-
able condition of affairs.
~ Co.. ohiantad Gazing amid