The Portland daily press., 1897-06-10

given laws: 1t was toward that happy
;,l. G;onuiClon e that our fathers had been look
my forward. But instead of that had
. ooii3 Ine gradual building up of pluto
cracy OF wealth. Mr.. Mills gave tables
showing the vast fortunes of few indi-
slutiaIs HaI VINO We're, he said to receive the
benefits of this bill After reviewing
many state and national Democratic plat
forms, Mr.. Mills declared that man
could not be Democrat who did not sup
port the doctrine that O. tariff must be
| limited to revenue only. But a new doc
| urine OF democracy was now proclaimed
| inviting Democratic Senators into the
camp OF the enemy to sing Hosannas to
the monstrous bounties of this bill But
fortunately, the Senator said. there were
| no Elishas here to smite Democrats with
| such blindness.
"To whom does the Senator aIlude, !"
demanded Mr.. Rawlins of Utah. one of
the Democrats who had voted with the
Republicans.
| if it fits him, responded Mr. 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 fast fortunes had been
built up by unjust taxation - he said,
these daughters were put on the mar
ket, hawked and peddled, sold for prin-
oesses and duchesses and countesses and
marchiopesses and other cesses. - 'sAnd
here was Congress 1egislating the money
to pay for these trips abroad. If the
American people accepted this condition
then they were not worthy of self govern
ment.'
Mr.. Mills closed with ominous pre-
diction that the abandonment of Demo-
catic simplicity would bring forth, out
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chapter on the decline and fall of the
great American people.
The Senate amendment was agreed to,
striking out the House provision on
tapioca (231.)
Mr.. Vest moved to strike out the para
graphs 232 and 1888 placing a duty on
wheat at twenty-f cents per bushel
and on wheat flour at twenty five cents
ad valorem.
Rejected, yeas Is, nays 35.
The paragraphs on wheat and wheat
flour were then agreed to.
Mr.. Cannon of Utah offered new
amendment proposing an export bounty
on agricultural products. The text of the
amendment has been heretofore given
Mr.. Cannon took the floor but yielded
moment to allow Mr.. Thurston of
Nebraska, to present what he termed
| 0OulG SN lQCllCCS VI pIOSp6f1Uy,
in the shape of some editorials from Ne
braska newspapers showing a general re-
yival of bust ness.
''Is not the Wilson tariff law still on
the statute books?'' asked Mr.. Gray,
Democrat of Delaware.
1t is, but it is the expec tation of the
passage of the pending measure, replied
Mr.. Thurston, (which is causing The re
vival."
May ask what Nebraska declared for
at the last election?'' interposed Mr.. Can
non.
''For all the heresies of the Chicago
platform, replied Mr.. Thurston, ''but
it is the first and last time my state will
take that position"
"Has not the Senator mistaken the
cause of this returning prosperity?''
questioned Mr.. Cannon. ''and is it not
rather,due to the expectation of majority
of her people that he and his conferees
will be disappointed and that in the me-
jority will find actual prosperity in th
triumph tCnan9Jp Of what he terms heresies *
'The people of my statesdo not lock
SO far into the future" observed Mr..
Thurston.
At this point Mr.. Berry of Arkansas,
asked to have read a statement recently
made by ex-Postmaster General Wanna
affairs.
Mr.. Cannon objected, saying amid
laughter that it would be cruel, inhuman
and unjustiflable to have Mr.. Wana-
makers statement injected at this point
Of the proceedings.
Mr.. Lindsay of Kentucky called atten-
tion to the money voted by Congress and
ha exposition and that this returning
prosperity was coincident with Its ex-
penditureS.
After some further cross-firing Mr.
Cannon proceeded with his speech. He
denounced the pending measure as gross
ly and palpably inevitable because it
compelled the sale of the products of the
soil in the lowest market of the world
and the purchase of manufactured art j.
cles in this market. The original doc
trine which contemplated the protection
of manufacturers he still subscribed to.
The trouble was that agriculture which
at the beginning was ready to support
the manufactures struggling for exist
enced had fallen far in the rear.
In answer to question by Mr.. Allen,
Mr. Cannon said the amount to be paid
| by the government in export bounty
under his amendment would be $47 ,944,
5S0 He argued that the American farm
er was obliged to sell his wheat and cot
ton at the low prices prevailing in free
trade coun 5ries of the world, while he
bought supplies at the high rates of a
protected market. His proposition was
designed to overcome this inequality.
He maintained that the era of prosperity
so much sought would not come until it
started from the farmers. Mr.. Cannon
spoke until shortly before five O'Clock and
was followed by Mr.. Butler of North
Carolina, who spoke against the heavy
burdens the bill placed upon the farmer.
He favored Mr.. Cannon's proposition
as measure that would correct the in
equalities of the tariff bill which bore
heavily on the farmer and gave him one