The times., 1897-06-11

| mittee, said the gentleman would know al
ABOUT it when the committee reported.
Mr.. Pettigrew replied hotly that he knew
all the time that the resolution went to
tile graveyard.
Mr.. Gear rejoined that there was no
investigation Of the kind desired by Mr.
Pettigrew thoughtnecessaryb by the commit
tee; fhatthe idea appeared to be toget upa
Senatorial Junket. He would have meet
ing of the committee on Saturday.
Mr.. pettigrew, still angry, replied thai
he desired the country to know that Nh,
Gear admitted the committed did not think
1t a proper subject for investigation, and
yet he was going to have meeting of the
committee. He would move that the COM
inittee be discharged from the further
consideration of the matter.
Mr. Tiilman made vigorous assault
on both parties for indifference to the
farmers, while advocating the export
bounty on farm products. This speech
was in elaboration of the fine and polished
Grafton OF Senator Cannon on the same
subject, both of the Senators threatening
that, ii the farmers were ignored, there
would be final settlement at the bal.ut
!, box
He regarded the tariff as "a question
of policy rather than of principle He
could, therefore, say that it was the
proper idea that things con suned by
Americans should be produced by Aineii-
cans If that was Republican doctine
it was all right; If it was not DemocIatic
doctrine it ought to be.
1t could not be denied that the more
labor was diversified the more chance
there was for the laboIing man. There
were plenty of farmers, but there was
need of a means of protecting them as
ali other laborers We're protected. The
poor farmer, with outstretched hand, was
asking for this export bounty as an off
set To robbery of him by several kinds
OF tariff, and yet Senator'S sat in stony
silence" protesting to believe that the
farmer was iGIotic enough not To know
who it was who failed 10 give II relief
There would come time, however, when
the 100000 farmer votes would have
reckoning with such Legislators.
Referring to what he would have yet to
say Mr.. Tiilrnan described it as rocks to
be thrown at ''some Of you men. He com
pared the sections OF the country as to
agricultural pursuits, and spoke OF the
Southern farmers as the Ishnaeiites SO far
as favoriBg leglsla ton was concerned. IL
was taxed to death after the war, pa ying
billions for secession, and yet there Vas
the leech's cry OF more, more. They Were
always at the mercy of the New England
manufacturing interests.
Mr. Tillnian defended the .new evangef'
construction of the Chicago platform
Mr. Vest, who has been criticising its
tariff plank, said that he did not know
until recently that the platform deci -.ed
for tariff for revenue instead OF for
revenue only" Had he noticed the
emission at Chicago he would have moved
to put the word "only" back into the
platform as the true Democratic creed.
Mr.. Tillman, resuming, paid his respects
to the Republicans if they failed to Co
operate in the export bounty Amendment
He told the Democrats that, with q little
Republican assistance, they could secure
its passage They Gould do so II they were
hot lost TO al sense OF shame and decency
The farmers would be benefited but little
by the tax on other agricultural products
They had long been asking for bread, anil
were given stone, and even now DeurO-
cratic Senators were evading the issue be-
hind the idea that 1t was Democratic TO
uphold "a tariff for revenue only"
Great Godi" said Mr. Tilman. "what
kind OF Democracy is that?" Mr.. Till
man replied to the criticism of the new
Democracy" by saying that it was the
old, conservative Democracy that had
oil andoned the idea OF equality, which was
a cardinal principle of that faith, and had
tried to oppose the measure by reference
to the old idea OF a tariff for revenue only,
which was like the apples of sodom.
They were looking at the situation with
the telescope reversed. A the little end
they saw tariff for revenue only. while
the true principles of equality aud equity
were at the other end. He did not hesitate
to say that the South should have all IL
could get. The Republicans were incon-
sistcn: long enough They submitted to
Weyier in Cuba, and yet professed to be
followers Of Lincoln, whose shoe latches
they were unworthy to tie. Nor We're
Democrats any better. They were NO
longer followers of jefferson, who, above
all, set the principle of equal rights to
all and special privileges to more
After speeches by MI Allen aud Mr..
Perkins, the amendment was rejected
Noes, 90; ayes, 8; the affirmative voters
being Tillman, Allen, Butler, Stewart,
Harris of Kansas, Heitfeld, Cannon, Mantle,
Pettigrew and Roach; two Democrats,
three Silver Republicans and four Popu-
lists
A brief executive session was held at
8 p. m, after which the Senate ad-
journed until today at noon.