The herald., 1897-06-10
TOO MUCH
TALKING
Delays Progress in the
Senate
MILLS TALKS DEMOCRACY
GIVING WARNING OF DISASTER
TO COME
Doesn't Like Girls Fatted Like Heifers
for the European Market by Pro-
lection Processes
MILLS TALKS DEMOCRACY
GIVING WARNING OF DISASTER
TO COME


Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, June 9.-The senate
had a period of tariff speeches today.
and as result little progress was made
on the bill.
Rawlins of Utah and Mills Of Texas
discussed the Democratic attitude on
the tariff from their respective stand
points. Rawlins was a member of the
platform 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 =
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 criticized those
Democratic senators who voted for the
amendments to the bill putting tax pr
cotton and other articles, contendlng
that their course was a radical depart
ure from the tenets of Democracy. Later
in the day Cannon of Utah proposed an
amendment placing an export bounty on
agricultural products. He spoke for
two hours on the need of giving the
| farmer a share of the benefits 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, COW
ering four brief and comparatively uu-
important paragraphs, 229 to 23S, were
! disposed of during the day.
The session will begin at II a. m. to-
morrow.
| A concurrent resolution offered by AL
len of Nebraska, was agreed to, nation
alizing the Transmississippi Exposition
to be held at Omaha, and requesting the
| President to invite foreign nations to
participate. A joint resolution on the
same general subject was agreed to,
euspending the immigration and Chi
nese Exclusion laws so as to permit for
eign labor to take charge. of foreign ex-'
hibits at the Transmississippi EXPOSE
ton.
THE TARIFF BILL
WASHINGTON, June 9-The consid-
Grafton of the tariff bill was resumed In
the Senate at 1915, the debate proceed
ing on the agricultural schedule. The
rice paragraph was agreed to as it came
from the House. Paragraph 231 on tap
ioca has been struck out by the Senate.
On the question of agreeing to this
change Rawlins of Utah took the floor to
answer Vests statement yesterday
THAT a new evangel Of Democratic doc
trine is being proclaimed by certain
Democratic Senator'S" Rawlins said he
had been a member Of the committee on
resolutions and platform at the Chicago
convention, presenting that tariff clause
which had been under discussion. It
was on his motion that 1t was agreed to.
Lindsay of Kentucky, platform in
hand interrupted to ask Rawlins since
he presented the tariff clause, why the
good Democratic word "only" after the
tariff for revenue came to be omitted.
WAS it an Intentional omission?" Lind
say asked
II think not" responded Rawlins.
II can throw some light on that SUBJ
ject," said Tillman, also member Of the
committee on platform at Chicago. 'It
was omitted purposely after discussion"
Rawlins reviewed the course of the
Democratic party in early tariff legis-
lation. The essential principle of this
was that all burdens and benefits
should be borne equally. There was no
evangel and no vile reptile or rattle
snake, as Vest had characterized it, and
there was no need of any Democratic
senator invoking the Almighty against
such doctrine. 1t came to Democratic
senators pure and undefiled from the
Democratic fathers, and he would sup
port it.
Mills spoke on the general features
of the bill. For two months, he said,
the congressional committees had
sought to adjust and readjust again 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 beneflciar-
les Here was a bill of confiscation, he
declared, proposing to take the property
of those who were not favorites, the
forgotten man." who is laboring in the
streets and fields. And yet when an
explanation was asked for the exorbit-
ant rates of this bill no answer was
given, save What are you going to do
about it?"
Mills warned those on the other side
Of the chamber to remember the biblical
injunction: For all these things God
will bring you unto Judgment"
The process of framing the bill pro-
ceeded against the fundamental prin-
ciple of the Anglo-Saxon doctrine. that
every man shall have a hearing. But
there was a tribunal whose doors always
stood open, and before that tribunal the
projectors of this bill would be suns
moned. In 1890 similar act had fallen
like the bubonic plague on the country.
and the tribunal of the people had put
the Republican party in quarantine.
Turning to the Democratic senators
Ewho had voted yesterday for duty %
cotton Mills showed how the delexa-
] tons from Georgia, South CaroIina 40