Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-30
Mr.. TURPtE'S ATTACK
Onslaught on the Tariff Bill by the
Indiana Senator.
he DEH0UNcEs II As sPoLlArIoI
Declares the Measure viii Not
Produce the Expected Revenue.
AN ANIMATED DEBATE

| In the Senate today Mr.. Perkins Call
presented Geographic memorial from San
Francisco in favor of the annexation OF
| Hawaii.
| The tariff bill was taken up.
Mr.. Allison proceeded with the detached
paragraphs heretofore passed over. On
bleaching powder the duty was changed
from IA to is cent per pound.
| Mr. Vest moved to place the article on
the free list. and an extended debate en-
| sued on the use of bleach in paper pulp FAC
| tories.
| Mr.. Gallirger IN. H.) stated that the
production of bleach was being built up in
this country. and that the industry would
be destroyed If this duty was withheld 1t
was essentially an infant industry.
| AN unborn infant" remarked Mr.. Gray.
Mr.. Gallinger said that while there were
paper factories in his section, yet he must
| in this instance disregard their protests
| againts the duty, just as he would have dis
| regarded the protests from New England
against the duty on hides had he been
| present when the vote was taken.
| Il am national protectionist." stated
| Mr.. Gallinger, and in favor of protecting
| west"
Mr.. Allen (Neb.) asserted that the doc
| trine of protection had never been more
| boldly stated than by Mr.. Galllnger. 1t
was plain admission that duties were rot
| imposed for the purposes of revenue, but
because they would transfer money from
| the pockets of one class of people into
| those OF another class. That was about IS
| near conhscation as the caprice of Con-
| sres would permit
| AT this stage Mr.. Turpie 0nd) took the
| moor Tor speech III support of the amend
| ment proposed by the minority CT the
| hnance committee for tax of 2 per cent
on inheritances over 5000. the tax to be in
l no
! emptfons to charitable, religious and like
| inheritances
Mr.. Turpie spoke CT the statements fire.
quently made as to the straits Of the
| united states treasury, its insolvency and
| bankruptcy. Such statements We're IN
| warranted and tended only to shake pub
| lie confidence. To-Day there was a large
| surplus in the treasury, the last official
statement showing :s5,oOO,OOO available
cash balance.
In sarcastic tones Mr.. Turpie declared
that the tariff bill was the joint product
| of two parties-one the party tha. had
| come into power last November; the ether
the party in Office. One was a mercenaIy
organization; the other political, and both
mad entered into a compact for tariff bill.
The senator said here were two ways of
| meeting deficiency: BY decreasing ex-
penses or by increasing taxes Mr.. Turpie
declared his belief that the pending Dill
would not bring the requisite revenue of
| S4t,OGO,0O The DILL was founded on pro-
hibitory lines, to keep out articles yielding
revenue, and. in his Judgment, it could not
| produce, with all other sources of reve-
nue., $4jO,OC0,W0.
Ehe theory pursued was the fallacious one
that raising rates raised revenue.
Mr. Turpie bitterly arraigned the bill, say
| ing that no measure had ever been pre-
sented making 80 large and unprovoked a
| spoliation of the worlds commerce." There
, was compound larceny" in nearly every
schedule One-third of the bill was decla-
| ration of war against France Germany and
the continent Of No b,a
| fully looked toward the trade of South
| America, but this bill made it almost a
penal ofense to carry on trade with the
people Of the southern republics.
We talk of the freedom of the seas, when
| by this bill the very seas are tainted with
| the virus of protection. No vessel can eX-
| pect to nav gate against such avarice.
We had developed in this country a new
breed of animals. They are the tariff
| swine exclaimed Mr.. Turp.e; 1.-The high
protective tariff swine. They are voracious
| gard only for the infant industry of bris-
| ties"
The senator went on to characterize the
rates of the bill as akin to bribery and
rapine, dictated by a "banditti of syndi-
Gates"
Mr.. Turpie spoke about two hours and
received close attention, owing to the pic
turesqueness of his utterances. He closed
with reference to the silver question as
! sorting that there was no more right 10
| abandon the free coinage of silver than to
abandon the free coinage of gold.
The debate then came back to the amend
ment on bleaching powder.
hawaiian Reciprocity Restored.
| Mr.. Allison, in charge of the tariff bill
| moved to restore the House provision reia-
| tive to the Hawaiian treaty as follows:
Provided that nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to abrogate or in
| any manner impair or affect the provisions
| Of the Treaty of commercial reciprocity
] concluded between the United States and
| the king of the Hawaiian Islands January
| 30. 1873, or the provisions of any act OF
| Congress heretofore passed for the eXecu-
| ton of the same"
The treaty provision was restored after
brief discussion and without a vote.