, 1897-03-25

Trade Bill.
Washington, March 24.-Mr. Grosven-
or, in his speech in the house today, be-
gan by referring to the necessity OF
speedy action in the matter OF tariff leg
islaJion, going over the ground elating,
as he expressed it, to the bankruptcy OF
the treasury, the enormous expenditures
in excess OF receipts of the government.
He drew a parallel between the condi-
ton Of the country on the first OF No
vember, 1892, which he declared 10 be one
of unparalleled prosperity, and on the
LIST of November, 1896, when enterprise
was at a ~''standstill, doubt, fear, uncer.
tainty everywhere"
He declared that this great calamity
had come upon the country substantially
by reason of the single act of the demo-
cratic congress-the repeal OF the Ne
kinley law. 1t was the Mckinley law
misreprsented and misunderstood that
aided our overthrow in 1892; but il was
the Mckinley law with the blessings we
received from it during its short life that
became the tailismanic word that swept
Mckinley into nomination and carried
the country in 1896. Thus it was that
the discarded Mckinley law Of 1894 be,
came the battle cry Of a triumphant peo-
pie in 1896, and the stone which the DEM
ocratic leaders had refused has become
the head of the political economical cor
ner."
I'VE are here" he declared, TO execute
the peoples demands. The demand OF
the intelligent for a protective tariff sys-
TEN m not from partisan utterances
but from the men OF all parties. and from
every section of the country.
''The fruit grower Of California, rob-
bed and ruined by the Wilson law, cries
loudly to republicans for assistance, and
from Alabama and Georgia, and con
spicuously from Louisiana, comes the
earnest demand for the passage of this
bill.
What, then. is the great necessity of
the hour? Two deadly evils are upon us;
unemployed labor and a bankrupt treas
ury. There can be no business conf
dence in this country when the treasury
OF the United States is without funds to
meet its current obligations"
Mr.. Grosvenor paid some attention to
the statement that although Mckinley
was elected prosperity has not yet
come"
"Gentlemen,' he said, you must bear
in mind that a violation of law always
merits and always receives punishment.
The country that would turn its back
upon the prosperity Of 1892 and descend
into the blunder Of 1894 must expect
punishment.
There was no better doctrine in all the
range of human thought than the bless
ings that follow a repentance that comes
only when works meet for repentance
have been DONE"
There stands upon the statute books of
today the accursed law that was put there
by the blinded bourbon democracy.
While it stands there the curse will re-
main. The curse is lightened by the
prospect that works meet for repentance
will be accomplished n SO from Maine
to California there comes the cheering
sound Of improved conditions, but while
this Is being done, while the shouts Of
anticipated emancipation are coming to
us from all sources, while money is plen-
ty and becoming active, while enormous
contracts for production which will in
sure the employment of enormous guam
titles Of idle labor are coming to us, the
democrats on the floor with their allies,
all alike, are standing holding on to the
coat tails Of the world and leaning back.
impeding the prosperity Of that prosperi-
ty. shouting whoa to the moving III OF
American people. You have not only
brought this curse upon the country, but
you are trying to hold 1t there"
Continuing, Mr.. Grosvenor said in
part: 1T has been the purpose of the
ways and means committee to present a
measure here that would bring, first,
abundance Of money into the treasury,
and, second. the employment of the lnbor
Of the country. We want to see what we
have not seen since then. contented la
borers, well-fed families, children going
to school with good clothes. good houses,
good books and good prosperity in the
future. We believe we have accomplish
led 1t.
We have provided in this bill for the
expenditure in the United States, ulti-
mately. Of more than 5000, 900. 900 per an
mum to the laborers of the country above
that which has been derived heretofore
Under the operation of this bill We look
for SIPS. 900. 900 now sent abroad to buy
sugar will, every dollar Of 1t, be expend-
ed In the United States. We look for the
time, and shortly, when under the opera
tons Of this wool schedule every spin.
die In the United States will turn, and
the enormous payments for labor, the
end Of which passed in 1892, shall again
be a part Of the heritage OF the laborine
man.
I'VE believe that the farmer on thu