Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-24
GROUND rs GAINED
PROTECTION HAS oNE-rHiRD or
THE SOUTHERN VOTE.
4 Disturbing Fact Among Democratic
Lsaders-Thirty-two southern House
Mem hers Voted for the DinEley Bal
Tariff Measure Making Progress.


Special Washington correspondence;
The Senate Is making surprising
speed on the tariff bill. The pressure
which Is being brought upon 1t by the
country has resulted In early and late
sessions, and the bill is moving ut a
rate Of speed absolutely unparalleled
In the history Of that ordinarily slow
going body. To see Senate controlled
by no cloture rules and no system such
as that by which the House expedites
business move at the speed which this
one has moved upon n subject which
ordinarily takes such vast amount or
time In that body is unprecedented.
1t Is sometimes possible upon sub
jects which have no party bearing and
do not involve vast consequences to OBJ
tain speed in consideration by the Sem
ate. But that body not controlled by
the Republican party, or by any other
single party indeed, having no rules by
which debate can be controlled, should
be able to take up and make the prog
ress upon purely party measure, such
as protective tariff BILL that has been
made by the Senate since 1t began work
heard of thing. That this should have
happened within few months OF the
close of one Of the most bitterly fought
campaigns that the country has ever
seen is the more remarkable; and that
people should go on complaining be-
cause still greater speed Is not made
under these remarkable circumstances
can scarcely be accounted for, except
upon the theory suggested by gentle
man recently quoted in this CORE
spondence, that the state Of nervous
prOstration to which the Cleveland ad-
ministration brought the country has
rendered the people to some degree ir-
responsible and unwilling to measure
things expected by those that have
happened in the past.
The House Schedules Restored.
Nearly all the important changes
made by the Senate committee have
been rejected by the caucus and the
House rates restored. The rice sched-
ule, the sugar schedule, the lumber
schedule and others of those framed by
the House have been restored to the
bill in the Senate, and it is predicted
that the wool schedules framed by the
House committee will also be restored,
and will make the bill entirely satisfac-
tory to those interested. The restora-
ton of the House figures on the sugar
schedules deprives the Democrats Of
their hope that they would be able to
charge that the sugar trust had con-
troiled the framing of the bill.
Many Protection otes from the South.
Nothing has more disturbed the
Democratic leaders in and out Of Con-
gress than the fact that large num-
Der of Democratic members from the
South have, within the past few days
and weeks, cast their votes in favor of
protective tariff, and that no less than
one-third of the members Of Congress
from south of Mason and Dixon's line
have either voted directly for high
rate Of protection in the pending tariff
bill, or refused to cast their votes
against it. Thirty-two Southern men in
the House voted for the Dingley bill,
and five others from that section-POp-
ulists-refused to vote against it, while
in the Senate, as is well known, num-
bers of Southern Democrats and Popu-
lists have voted for either higher rates
OF protection than were originally
placed in the bill, or than those report
ed from the Finance Committee.
That this growth of protective senti-
ment in the South is genuine one and
largely the result of the development of
manufacturing industries in that Sec
tion, is apparent, but the necessity for
excusing and minimizing it has led
Mr.. Bryan's organ, the Omaha World
Herald, and others papers, to assert
that the protective vote from the South
is cast by men not natives of that Sec
ton, and not representing its real SEN
timent. In recent issue. the Omaha
World Herald, commenting upon this
subject, says:
During the last decade great deal
of Northern capital has been invested
in Southern manufacturing enterprises,
and it is natural that the investing cap
italists, after years Of paternalism In
the shape of protection, should still
cling to it. The voices from the South
crying for protection are voices THAT
have been imported into that section
from protection nurtured New England
and are not the voices Of Southerners
=" The protectionists in the South
are those who have left the sterile hills
of New England and wandered down
South to broaden their field of opera.
TONS"
This statement is interesting and es-
pecially so because it is untrue. Its
untruthfulness adds to its interest be.
cause 1t shows to what desperate
straits the Democratic leaders are fore.
ed in attempting by falsehood, as well
as otherwise, to rescue the free trade
theory from destruction by members OF
their own party and by men who have
been lifelong members Of 1t.
This assertion that the Southern
votes which have been cast for the pro.
tective tariff bill or for especially pro-
tective features proposed or adopted
were cast by men not natives of that
section-carpet-bagge absolutely
untrue. Five Democrats voted for the
tariff bill in the House, Kleberg and
Slayden Of Texas, and Broussard, Da
vey and Meyer of Louisiana. Six Dem
ocrats have voted for high protective
TEXTURES of the bill in the Senate, Ba
con and Clay of Georgia. Tillman and
McLaurin of South Carolina, McEnery