The times., 1897-06-10
The Author of a Famous Bill De-
fines the Democratic Position.
ANOTHER FAMILY SNARL
Senator Lindsay, Senator Rawlins,
and Senator Mills Differ on Tra-
ditional Tariff Polfcy-Senators
Cannon and Butler Speak for Ex-
port Bounty on Farm Products.

sugar schedule, although it was understood
that it would be in order The proceed
lngs were, nevertheless. notwithout specia
interest; and, judging from what has nj
ready been said, IL is rot unlikely thai
all the Democrats who have voted witt
the Republicans on local tariff issues viii
be heard in justification CT their course
before the debate closes.
The features OF the session were a
speech by Senator Mills, arraiguing the
Republican measure and advocating Demo
cratic theories of former Presidential years
and a speech by Senator Cannon in all
vocaey OF his measure for an export bounty
on agricultural products MI. Cannon {
proposition, which was in the shape oi
an amendment To the tariff bill, was
also advocated by Senator Butler Of North
Carolina.
The routine of the morning was short
Among the matters OF special interest was
resolution Offered by Senator Allen and
passed. that the Omaha Exposition be con-
sidered a national affair; also resolution
was passed permitting foreign labor on the
foreign exhibits at the exposition.
In response to a resolution of inquiry
the Navy Department transmitted to tho
Senate information relating to the amounts
paid for armor plate to the Carnegie Com
pany and others, under government con-
tracts.
When the tariff WAS taken up MT Allison
announced that the committee had adopted
the rice schedule asit came from the House
This was largelyin favor of South Carolina,
Georgia and Louisiana. Mr.. Mills Offered
substitute for the whole lice paragraph
by which, instead of the specific duties,
there should be an ad valorem duty OF 10
per cent. This was voted down 40 TO
19-Nessrs. Tilman and McLaurin, of
South Carolina, Bacon, aad Clay, OF Georgia,
and McEnery Of Louisiana, vstlng with he
Republicans The House provisions were
then agreed To.
The rest of the paragraphs on cereals
were agreed to with protest by the Demo
Gratis
Senator Rawlins at this point made
brief speech, in which he defended the action
of South Carolina and Georgia Democrats
from the charge of voting contrary to Dem
ocratic doctrine He read the National
Democratic platform of 1896 and held
that il gave ample authority for such votes
That platform stood for a tariff for revenue,
and not for tariff for revenue only.
Mr. Tllman, ia answer to a question from
Senator Lindsay, said that the word only
was omitted purposely and after discussion
from the national platform.
Mfr Mills then launched out into dis
cuss;on of tariff principles as held on both
sides Of the chamber, and made a speech
which commanded attention.
he had appeared in the debate, he began,
to say word for the taxpayer. In other
words, hewculd ask where was the revenue,
the money, to come from.
he would take the fiist item of actiS.
What right had the Government to tax
tie buyer of the acids for the benefit CT
the manufacturers? Mr.. Mills, eXpoundine
this idea, argued that the present theory
of taxation was in opposition To tie tradi-
ditions of the fathers. lie read list of
the higher duties and cha aracteriZed them rs
worse than piracy on the high seas
Who paid for all this tariff robbery? The
forgotten man and woman of the republic.
Republicans should not forget that the
day of reckoning " ould come There wasa
door of justice that was always open,
land to that tribunal we viii take you,
gentlemen. He showed from he statistics
that the for gotten man on the highways, in
the mines inthe mills paid So, 800 ,00o, eco
In the form of tariff taxes.
1t was such ii monstrosity, such an idol
as tnis that was proposed to be taken into
the Democratic camp 1t would De Wei
To remember, however, that the statue OF
Dago1 could be withdrawn. He referred to
the promises Of the tariff as the promises
of a Messiah on behalf of the Republi an
party
Alr. Mills held from the history of the
Democratic party on tariff that they al
ways had the ultimate object of free trade:
and he would make this statement re-
gardless Of how 1T might CRATE on the ears
of some Democrats. We have been told
that Democracy came down as an inspira-
tion from heaven in 1896. Was there no
Democracy before that?
Mr.. Mills showed that in 1892 South
Carolina cast Is votes for the old-;ine
Democratic platform in national con
veution; Georgia cast % out of "a, and
UtGh cast and none against it,
In 1896 at Chicago the word only re-
fcIring to tariff for revenue, was stricken
out in order 10 run the party into the
woods He sneered at the idea of this
modern Democracy which claimed that
tariff for revenue should be placed on
every article of export and yet there never
was a tariff that did not carry free list.
Referring TO the tariff issue in 1888, when
his own till was before the House, Mr.
Mills reminded Democrats, now disposed
10 wink at protection, because there was no
declaration in the Chicago platform of last
year on the subject, that the national con-
vention which met at st. Louis that year.
Endorsed his measure without a dissenting
vote.
There were men in the convention who
did not want to vote that way, but tile y
dared not run counter to Democratic prin-
ciples and doctrines. In the Chicago con-
venton of 1892, protection was denounced
as a fraud, the Mckinley tariff was CON
delnaed, and the Democrats won National
victory OH that issue. The Democratic de- |
mand was for tariff for revenue only, and |
TO salsiaDtiate the assertion, he read from |
democratic state platforms all over the !
United States. All said tariff for revenue |.
only.
Mr.. Mills shamed Democrats who would |
be willing to be led blindly into the Re-
publican protection camp
Mr.. Mills took up the tax on wo0leD |
goods, and showed how in the end it
was all paid by the forgotten man, whose
only compensatory duty was the chin music |
OF the politician and the manufacturer
he then proceeded to show that when it
had been demonstrated TO the Protection
lists that the trade of the country was
building up under liberal tariffs, they
formed trusts and other combinations. In |
1860 there We're about five millionaires in
the United States, while in 1890 there
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