The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-10

Among the Beneficiaries of the Bill
and at the Expense of the Tax
payers.
WASHINGTON, June 9.-The Senate
had a period of tariff speeches to-day,
and as a result little progress was
made on the bill. Rawlins of Utah
and Mills Of Texas discussed the Demo-
cratic attitude on the tariff from their
respective standpoints.
Rawlins was a member of the Plat
form Committee of the Chicago con-
vention, and proposed the tariff plank
which was adopted. He held that the
vote he and several other Democratic
Senators had cast for duties on cotton
and other agricultural products was
justified by that platform and by the
traditions of the party.
Mills severely arraigned the bill as q
class measure designed to build up the
vast fund for distribution among the
beneficiaries of the bill, and at the ex-
pense Of the forgotten men, the tax
payers. He Indirectly criticised those
Democratic Senators who voted for the
amendment to the bill putting a tax
on cotton and other articles, contending
that their course was a radical depar-
ture from the tenets of Democracy.
Later in the day Cannon of Utah pro-
posed an amendment placing an eX
port bounty on agricultural products.
He spoke for two hours on the need of
giving the farmer a share of the bene
fits of the tariff.
Butler of North Carolina also spoke
in favor of giving the farmer equal
benefits with other classes under the
bill
Only half page of the bill, covering
four brief and comparatively unimpor
tant paragraphs (229 to 1888 We're dis
posed of during the day.
The venerable Morrill, Of Vermont,
Chairman of the Finance Committee,
was in the Senate to-day, after an ILL
ness of some weeks.
A concurrent resolution offered by AL
len of Nebraska was agreed to, nation
alizing the Trans Mississippi EXPOSE
ton to be held at Omaha, and request
ing the President to invite foreign ma
tions to participate.
A joint resolution on the same gen.
eral subject was agreed to suspending
the immigration and Chinese exclusion
laws so as to permit foreign labor to
take charge of foreign exhibits at the
Trans-Mississippi Exposition.
Consideration of the tariff bill was re-
sumed at 12:15 p. m. No mention was
made as to the time of taking I'D the
sugar schedule, and the debate proceed
ed on the agricultural schedule.
On the rice paragraph Mr.. Allison, in
charge of the bill, withdrew the COM
rates, thus leaving the House rates
stand.
Mills of Texas moved to strike out
the entire rice paragraph and substi-
tuting a new one placing a uniform
duty of 40 per cent. ad valorem on all
grades of rice. Rejected-10 to 40. Five
Democrats, Bacon, Clay, McEnery, Nc
Iaurin and Tillman, and four Populists,
Allen, Butler. Heitfeld and Stewart,
voted with the Republicans in the
negative.
The rice paragraph was then agreed
to as it came from the House.
Rye and rye flour We're agreed to as
reported.
Paragraph 231, on tapioca, had been
struck out by the Senate. On the
question of agreeing to this change
Mr.. Rawlins of Utah took the floor to
answer Mr.. Vests statement yesterday
that a new evangel" of Democratic
doctrine was being proclaimed by GER
tain Democratic Senators. Mr.. Raw
Inns said he had been a member Of the
COMMITTEE ON Resolutions and Plat
form at the Chicago Convention, pre-
senting that tariff clause which had
ebeen under discussion 1t was on his
m ha% 70
Mr. Lindsay of Kentucky interrupted
ITO ask Mr.. Rawlins, since he presented
the tariff clause. why the good old
Democratic word only after tariff
for revenue only came to be omitted
WAS it an intentional omission?'' Mr.
Lindsay asked.
II can throw some light on that sub
ject," said Mr. Tillman, who was also
form at Chicago. ''It was omitted pur-
posely, after discussion"
MIR. Rawlins reviewed the course of
the Democratic party in early tariff
'legislation. The essential principle of
this was that all burdens and benefits
should be borne equally There was no
evangel, no vile reptile or ratt1esnake
as Mr.. Vest had characterized it, but
Senator invoking the Almighty against
such doctrine. It came to Democrats
as pure and undefiled from the Dem
ocratic fathers, and he would support
it
Mr.. Mills spoke upon the general
features of the bill. For two months,
he said, the Congressional committees
had sought to adjust and readjust the
tariff law in the interest Of monstrous
trust fund which this bill is intended to
raise. He came, he said, to speak for
the forgotten man. the taxpayer,
from whose labor and sweat was to be
wrung by legislative rapine this vast
fund for distribution among favored
beneficiaries. Here was a bill of con-
dscation, he declared, proposing to take
the property of those who were not
fayorites; the forgotten man. who is
laboring in the streets and fields. And
when an explanation was asked for
the exorbitant rates of this bill no an
swer was given. save What are you
going to do about it?''
Mr. Mills wanted those on the other
side of the chamber to remember that
Biblical injunction: For all these
things God viii bring you unto judg-
ment.'' The process of framing this
bill proceeded against the fundamental
principle of the Anglo-Saxon doctrine
that man shall have a hearing. But
there was a tribunal whose door al
ways stood open, and before that tri-
bunal the projectors of this bill would
be summoned. In 1890 a similar Act
had fallen like the bubonie plague on