The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-26

Washington. March 25-The fourth
and last day of the general debate on
the tariff bill brought forth request
at the opening of the session by MI
Bailey, Dem. Tex, for an extension
, of two hours of the debate he stated
that he had been under treatment 1or
sore throat. and it would be Impossible
fer him to occupy the floor for an hour
today ,-..oa -
the request. 49,.
discussion in a 15-minute speech
against the bill.
DEAD AGAINST IT.
..Cb.mn,, clark. Dem. MOI, made
enc, Of his characteristic speecnes
AGAINST the bill. AS an American Gnu
zen and in sympathy with the people
whom he represented, he was dead
against the bill AS democratic poll
tician he would rejoice in ITS pasSdse'
for it would compel every merchdtl
every time he made a sale across MS
counter to make a democratic speech
70 the purchaser Unless the senate
radically amended the bill. Democrats
would have 100 majority IN the mouse
the next congress, and in l9Ou Woulu
elect their president-the people Ihus
again coming to their own MT. Cldrh
said that ordinarily he was peace
able man: but charges had beeh iiidue
on the other side in the course OF lheiI
debate that made him regret the law
AGAINST nanslaughter could not be
temporarily suspended (Laugnter1
.sWhen an able man like Mr.. HOPKINS
OF Illinois and brilliant man ike Nj.
nolliver of Iowa" he SAID, assert
thai the Wilson bill is a free trade
measure it is an outrage on common
5 sense truth and decency. / do not con-
cede to any protectionist the right TO
define what free trade means
COMMON SENSE AND FREf-
TRADE.
Mr.. Clark referred to the changes
made in the Wilson bill by the senate
and exclaimed that the debate on the
tariff would 20 on forever until the
neopla and congress came TO the plat
form and the policy of common sense
and free trade. He ridiculed the duties
laid on agricultural products, assert
ing that it was impossible TO give 10
4he farmer any protection on his prod
nets He made great fun of the DUTY
of 2 cents a gallon on milk. I'd ike
to see a gallon Of Canadian milk, sald
he. ..bv the time it got down into Jer-
nv Simpsons district in Kansas 1t
would set the hogs teeth on edge IL
leffered TO them for swill. tLaugnter.l
SThe free list afforded him fine held
for the exercise of his sarcasm. Mr.
Clark said the situation could he great
" relieved if the Republican leaders
would turn their attention to reducing
expenditures. instead of adding TO the
burdens of the people. cut the army
in rUro" ne advised. Nobody in the
country seems TO have any use for the
army except George NJ. Pullman and
the Pullman Palace Car company.
Abolish the diplomatic corps. 1t has
never been useful, and not always or
uamental / can pick out newspaper
correspondent in the gallery there and
send him to Europe, and / warrant he
will find out more in a week about the
situation of affairs there than the
twhole diplomatic corps between now
and next Christmas. Naughter) And
finally, repeal the civil service Law and
save every dollar the commission
costs" (Applause)
OPPOSE THE BILL.
Mr.. Mcguire, Dem. Cali. and Mr..
Gum, Pop I6a.). opposed the bill. the
former asserting that it was fallacious
TIC assume that a protective tariff
would produce a period of prosperity,
and the latter asserting that the COM
mittee in preparing the paragraph re-
lating 10 lead had failed TO properly
consider the interests of the American
producer.
Mr.. Tawney (Rep., Mimi, member
OF the committee on ways and means.
replied TO the criticisms Of Mr.. Gum,
defending the action of the committee.
The duty laid on lead in silver ore, he
said. was cent a pound, estimated
by the treasury experts at loo per cent,
and yet the gentleman from Idaho
complained that the American producer
was not properly cared for.
Mr. Gunn-The duty you mention is
ample and all that the people of Idaho
ask. What they want is that you
should collect il.
Mr. Tawney further elucidated the
details of the duty on lead and then
devoted himself to a review of the at
tftude of the two great parties toward
the tariff question, contrasting the
declarations of the national conven-
lions on the subject. In the course of
his remarks Mr.. Tawney called atten-
lion 10 the promises made by Demo-
cratic speakers in the campaign of
1909 ,1pon the basis of the free trade
platform OF the party that year that
fhe farmers should enjoy dollar wheat
).and that pork should sell for 81
g. hundred 4 constituent OF one OF
them. Mr. Tawney said, sued him to
recover the difference between the
promised prices and what he actually
received.
Mr.. Clark Dem, MoD-And wasn't
the man Sued the nSdc anu front u
the Goldbug Republican Aid society of
last year? Democratic appiause.)
Mr.. Tawney-It is true that Mr.. By
1,,Im stood for sound money and the
national credit in the campaign of 1896,
but it is also true that he made the
promises spoken OF. and l think the
gentleman from Missouri himself, if he
did not make them, came very near
to it.
SIMPSONS FIRST SPEECH.
Jerry Simpson (Pop., Kan.) made his
first speech since his temperance in
the house. at this juncture. He read
from Mr.. NcKinley's speech to the
Minneapolis convention, in which he
said it was the policy of the Repub-
So, na,-t., m nv Tdreie-nere rather