The herald., 1897-03-25
TRUSTS WILL FATTEN
Continued from First Page.
vial soil Of the south and everywhere
Will be benefited by this bill

| 1--WE propose to build UP the industry
OF sugar growing and thus devote to that
great industry many tens of thousands
of acres of the rich land Of the United
States and take that land out of ccmpe-
tition with the farm
| Then, turning aside from a discussion
of the merits of the tariff, Grosvenor
reviewed and criticised in scathlng terms
the history and attitude OF the Demo-
cratic party on national issues, while he
commended in warm terms the record of
the Republicans on these matters.
In the course Of his remarks Grosvenor
referred to a statement Of McMiilin that
Mckinley had been overwhelmed with
defeat after the passage of the bill which
| bore his name. 1t was true, he said, that
Mckinley had been defeated for re-lec-
| tion, but in a gerrymandered district,
! normally Democratic by $500 majority,
and al 1.-The power of the Democracy at
work against him. with such speakers
as David B. Hill, then Democrat" on
| the stump, he was barely beaten by 400.
| The next year he was elected governor
by plurality of $1,000. and last fall he
had carried the state by $4,000, the largest
majority ever given in Ohio in a presi-
Dental year.
Bell of Colorado (PopulisD interrupted
Grosvenor to call his attention to the
fact that during the last campaign Re-
publican orators in his section had said
disaster should Immediately follow
Cleveland's election in 1892 and that the
great revival would begin Immediately
the country was assured of McKinley's
election.
II do not know who those political
brethren were" said Grosvenor.
well, they were numerous" put in
Bell.
They were right" continued Gros-
venor. Disaster began the day after
Cleveland was elected. Since that day
there has been added to the volume of
the real and personal property OF cur
citizens a sum equal to hundred thou
sand times the amount of the national
debt"
"Oh," cried the Democrats as they
jeered this response, while Bell pointed
out that for two months after the cleo
tion the commercial agencies zach geek
reported the general disappointment that
there had been no revival of trade, but
instead reported the greatest list of fail
ures in the history of the country
70 Grosvenor replied that 1t was a matter
of wonder that there had not tSsn ten
failures to every one which occurred
Failures were the result of long series
of misfortunes.
Ogden (La., Rep) asked Grosvenor to
correct his figures as to the business re-
vival, saying they exceeded all bounds
Grosvenor laughingly admitted tina:
perhaps in his enthusiasm he had over
shot the mark, but he insisted that the
revival had increased the value OF prop
erty at least 100 times the amount of the
national debt.
Subsequently Grosvenor created
much amusement by challenging the
Democrats to offer either the Wilson bill
as IT passed the house or the present
law as a substitute for the pending bill.
"The Wilson bill could not secure five
votes On that side of the house" said
he, "and not ten of you would dare to
vote for the present law and go back
and look your constituents in the face.
The bill confessedly wrecked the coun-
try, but, thank God, it also wrecked the
Democratic party" daughter and ap-
plause)
In a glowing peroration he said the
Democratic party would sit on the
"Stygian shore ard read it's record by
the red light of hell. while every prin-
cipie upon which the republic was
founded would continue to shine ir the
bright diadem CT the Republican party"
Evans, Republican, of Kentucky.
member of the waysland means commit
tee, argued that the bill was distinctly
an American measure, which discrimi-
mated against neither class nor section.
Maddox, Democrat, of Georgia, chal-
lengeG Evars' statement that the bill
was not sectional He said there was
an infant industry in Geirgia and Ala
bama in the production of bauxite, or
aluminium clay, which had asked pro-
lection ard it had been refused.
THE gentleman from Georgia should
not be certain there will rot be duty
on bauxite," interrupted Mr.. Dalzell,
Republican, of Pennsylvania. II favor
it. and we may place duty on It,"
II am glad to hear it." said Maddox.
Then, so far as bauxite is concerned,
you are protectiorist?" said Mr..
Walker, Republican. of Massachusetts,.
mot necessarily" replied Mr. Mad
dox, but am opposed to the free raw
material idea"
Mr. Maddox also advocated duty on
manganese and on cotton. HIS asked d why
cotton ties were taxed.
Dolliver, I'M reply, stated that the
price CT cotton ties had fallen under the
Mckinley law from 81 to so certs. and
increased under the present law to 81 40.
If the home market was adequately pro-
tected the committee had been Inform
ed that cotton ties could be manufac-
tured and sold at 65 cents.
Afer some brief remarks by Mr..
Adams, Republican, of Pennsylvania,
in commeDdatson Of the reciprocity fea-
lures of the bill Mr.. Walker closed the
debate for the session. He made vigor-
Gus defense of the benefits of protec-
tlon, He charged, that the Democratic
speeches were made to befog their con-
stituents.
"Oh," said he. "if I could only drill
some truth into your heads. If could
only open them, put in few facts and
close them again." Uaughter)
At 5 o'clock the house took recess
until 8 o'clock
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