The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-25


met his disapproval was the retention
of the present duties on pig iron anC
steel rails; while the manufacturers o
them in the United States were export
ing their products. He devoted mucl
time TO the consideration of agricul
tural schedule, which he denounced d:
an attempt to humbug the farmers.
This bill" said Mr.. McMillin, car
r1ed not only higher rates of duty thar
the present law, and higher rates thar
the Mckinley bill, but higher than any
law ever passed by an American con-
gress or which had been groaned under
| by an American people. The rates or
wooden goods were not only higher than
ever seen, but the rates on raw wool
! have been increased by imposing
! higher duties on the woods coming from
! certain countries than were heretofore
! imposed. The rate of duty borne by
wooden goods, taken as whole and
averaged, would amount to between 90
destroy all possibility of reaching for
eign markets with our wooden goods;
to tax the carpets and clothing more
than double what they are taxed now;
TO hamper manufacturers by excessive
duties on raw material, and proclaim
to the American people that against
the ex9ctions of the avaricious there
is TO be no relief.
RECIPROCITY CLAUSE.
The reciprocity clause of che bill, Mr..
McMillin said, was a remarkable fea-
ture of this extraordinary bill. 1T is
remarkable he said. for the fact, that
it gives into the hands of the president
absolutely the power to impose taxes
and remit taxes at pleasure He made
much fun of the free list, and said that
the majority admitted that over the
Mckinley bin this measure increased
taxes on the following schedules:
Chemicals, oils and paints, earth,
earthenware and glassware, wood and
manufactures of wood. sugar from 400
per cent to Ill per cent, tobacco and
manufactures of tobacco 164 per cent,
agricultural products, spirits, wines
and other beverages, flax, hemp and
jute and manufactures thereof, wool
and manufactures of wool. silk and
silk goods, pulp, papers and books.
sundries.
In conclusion Mr. McMillin said: Il
beg the gentlemen of the other side to
remember that their victory obtained
last fall was obtained by such an eX-
penditure of money, such an exertion
of bulldozing and force and such
prostitution of elections as was never
before witnessed in this land. They
must not take such verdict as the
established and irrevocable Will of the
American people. I beg them to re-
that a purchased verdict can
not stand. 1t is true that Benedict Ar
mold sold himself to infamy, but he
did not thereby sell down the revolu-
Savior to the cross, but he did not
thereby sell down the plan of saliva
ton. The Democratic party has Suf-
fered defeat before, and by stern adj
herence to never-failing principle it
has regained power and re-adminis-
tered government Let us now and
here resolve anew that the principles
Of Jefferson. of Jackson and of Polk
shall be the pri~ ciples of the Demo-
cratic party now as they have been in
the past, and as sure as day succeeds /
night it viii return to power and re- /
store the government to the constitu- /
i0nal moerings from which it has /
been wrested by. such mal-legislation |
Is that which is being forced upon us
oday."
Mr.. McMillin was literally applauded
turing his speech. and his time was
half an hour.
GROSVENOR'S REPLY.
Mr. Grosvenor CRep.. o. then took
he floor to reply Speaking of the
condition of the country in November,
DRY of the United States was there so
much of terror, foreboding and doubt
n the minds of men as on that date.
This great calamity had come upon
he country substantially by reason of
he single act. of a Democratic congress
the repeal of the Mckinley law. The
ssue of 1886. upon which the battle had
zen fought and the victory won, was
he issue of protective tariff. Every
foil a ioi- cd in, ba
and went from one state to
mother was conscious now of the fact
hat more than a million voters who
ad been humbugged by the specious
~ of the communists of tax upon
-ealth and enterprise and the hope for
he better times through a debased
urrency. nevertheless voted for Will
an Mckinley because of his position
n the tariff question. 1t was the Nc
>inley law, misrepresented and mis- :
that aided our overthrow
1893. but it was the Mckinley law {
18th the blessings we received from it |
Uring it's short life, that became the
llismanic word that swept Mckinley
Ito nomination and carried the coun- l
y in 1896. The fruitgrower of Cali {
)rnia, robbed and ruined by the Will I
IN bill, cried loudly to Republicans; 5
n assistance, and from Alabama and l
eorgia and conspicuousiy from Louis I
ma, came earnest demands for the I
assage of this bill. If the members of
lie Republican side of this house l
lould see fit TO publish all the letters T
ley have received from the hemp and {
growing states of the south in [
-vor of this legislation, surprise and a
would be upon the faces @
the men who, with their backs to I
lie rising sun, were seeing, hearing
I'd knowing nothing but the made v
late bourbon doctrine of a bygone v
".
He tainted the Democrats and their t
lies on the floor of the house with I
aking a pretext that they had not fl
I'd time to prepare a substitute for b
e pending bill. "A
Why" he asked, do you not offer G
e Wilson bill? If you did not blunder a
its passage; if its passage was not F
ime; if its passage was not a curse;
its Introduction into business affairs n
the country did not damage and con- d
mn the business of the country, why
you not offer il as a substitute here? "
by do you not take its specific doc a
ines. its aG valorem duties, its pro- d.
ction TO special classes of industries,
abandonment of others, its uncer- fl
mites, its bad English and worse d
iitics, and cling 70 it?'' te
The DiNGLEH BILL. ri
Speaking. to the provisions of the III
ngley bill, he said in
We have provided in this bill for the
Denditure in the United States of, oV
-imately, more than $500, 900 900 per IL
mum to the laborers of the country be-
owe that which has been derived D
We look forward to the lie
ne not far distant when 1000. 900 til
'ol-growers in the United States, l. tn