The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-25
|gGH DUTIES GET HARD HITS.
r,r OF CALIFORNIA LIKENS
HANNA TO CATALINA.

.be country Is Passing From "A
nbIic to n MOnied OIigarchY.
800 RiII. He Claims, Is Framed Ito
r trusts and Pnuperize and
i've the Agricultural Labor OF
Tuited states" - Livingston
.,.o protests Against the Bill.
washington, March 24.-Large audiences
Wa Galleries, and an unusually large
II inc on the floor of the House of
a''s..ssntatives heard the third days
al debate upon the tariff bill. The
s'1,,,al speeches of the day were those
,,sssrs. johnson of North Dakota,
crosyenor of Ohio and Evans of Ken
4 ~ republicans. members of the COM
ice on ways and means, in favor of
49,. I'm and of Mr.. McMillin of Ten
''5sssa the Oldest democratic member,
l-sinst it. Other speakers were Messrs.
- dem. of Mississippi, SINS, dem,
= tennessee; Williams, DEM, of Mlsss
u Oh. T.eary. dem, of Arkansas; Sayers.
s, EN- nj Texas, and Maddox, dem, of
Csorgia against the bill, and Adams,
ran of Pennsylvania, and Walker, rep,
~ Massachusetts, in favor of 1t.
rbs General debate will be closed to-
.,rrov- when Messrs Russell of Connec-
,ieut Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Steele of
1rd:ana. and Payne of New York, repub-
lean mn mbers OF the committee on ways
Ia means. will speak. The latter
p,skes the formal closing for the minori-
-, and Mr.. Payne for the majority. Be
. ios these. Mr.. Hepburn, rep, of Iowa,
md Mr.. Richardson, DEM, of Tennessee,
viii speak
Mr. Brownlow, rep, of Tennessee, intro
7,ced i'm the House a bill establishing
denartment of commerce, labor and man.
faotures, its head to be cabinet officer
and the necessary clerical force is pro-
Mr. Livingston, dem, of Georgia, was
\ ,bo frst speaker at to-night's session, and
;nduIgsd in a brief half hours protest
AGAINST the tariff bill.
"a tariff that would bear equally upon
oil sections of the country and treat all
.nterests alike" he said- 'all parties
conld support. But this bill benefited man
pfacturers at the expense of the masses"
MIR Brundige, dem, of Arkansas, spoke
ooainst the bill and Messrs. Bromwell of
Ohio Bedford of New York, and Parker of
New Jersey all republicans, in favor of it,
Mr. Castle, pop and dem, of Califor-
MIA, attacked the bill most vigorously. The
nroper title of the monstrosity, as ne des-
ipDatp6 II, SnOQlu D6y III Ills OBlHlOils "
foster trusts and to pauperize and peonize
rho AGRICULTURAL laborers of the United
states" The primary object of the BILL
he said. was neither to raise revenue nor
10 encourage the industries of the United
States but was designed by its authors
for the express purpose of enabling the
powerful trusts to stand up the people
of the country and to legally rob them.
I'VE are to-day" Mr.. Castle said, ''in
al cta
publican into the most odious form of gov
eminent known in history-a monied dig
archy Rome, in her Decline had her Cat
aline'; America has her Hanna. ZAP
pause and hisses).
Mr. Brown, rep, of Ohio, said it was not
necessary to hold a long session of con-
gress to execute the commission placed in
its hands by the passage of the tariff bill.
In the opposition to it, he said, we see the
final struggles of another lost cause. The
new member, as well as the old, could see,
and did, in this struggle, the old contest be-
tween two different systems of labor.
Saying that he should vote for the bill
Mr.. Kerr, rep, of Ohio criticised the
reciprocity feature as being, in his opin-
ion wholly defective. The concessions
proposed in the scheme, he said, were so
Insignificant compared with what we must
ask in exchange, that any nation negoti-
atng with us for them would be without
either dignity or sense. He urged the sub
stitution for the provisions of the bill, the
reciprocity section of the Mckinley bill,
born in the brain of James G. Blaine.
The last speech of the evening was de-
lNered by Mr. Oldstead, rep, of Pennsyl-
vania, in support of the bill. who address,
ed six representatives on the floor and a
score Of visitors in the galleries. AT Il
o'clock the committee rose and the House
adjourned.