The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26

slaughter could not be temporarily sus-
pended. Laughter.
when an able man like Hopkins of
Illinois, and brilliant man like Dolliver
of Iowa." he said, assert that the Wilson
bill is a free-trade measure it is an outrage
on common-sense, truth and decency. |
do not concede to any protectionistt the
right TO define what free trade means"
Clark referred to the changes made in
the Wilson bill by the Senate and ex.
claimed that the debate on the tariff
would go on forever until the people and
Congress. came to the platform and the
policy of common-sense and tree trade.
He ridiouled the duties laid on agricuitu-
raj products, asserting that it was impos-
sible to give to the farmer any protection
on his products. He made great fun of
the duty of cents gallon on milk. "Pd
like 10 see gallon of Canadian milk, he
said, ''by the time it got down into Jerry
Simpsons district in Kansas. 1t would
set the hogs teeth on edge If offered to
them for swill." [Laughter.J
The free list afforded him large field
for the exercise of his sarcasm. Clark
said the situation could be greatly re-
lieved if the Republican leaders would
turn their attention to reducing e1pendi-
lures instead of adding to the burdens of
the people.
"Cut the army in two" he advised.
Nobody in the country seems to have
any use for the army except George NJ.
Pullman and the Pullman Palace Car
Company. Abolish the diplomatic corps
1t has never been used. 1t was always or
namental. / can pick out a newspa per
correspondent in the gallery there, send
him to Europe, and l will warrant he will
send out more in week about the condl-
tion OF affairs there than the whole diplo-
matte corps between now and next Christ
mas. Laughter. And, finally, repeal
the civil service law and save every dol
lar the commission costs. lApplause.
Mcguire Cd of California and Gum
(Pop.) of Idaho opposed the bill, the for
mer asserting that it was faIlacious to as.
sumo that a protective tariff would pro-
duce period of prosperity and the lattsr
asserting that the committee in preparing
the paragraph relating to lead had failed
to properly consider the interests of the
American producer
Tawney (R. of Minnesota, member of
the Committee on Ways and Means, re-
piled to the criticism of Gum defending
the action of the committee. The duty
laid on lead in silver ore, he said, was
cent pound, estimated by the treasury
experts at 100 per cent, and yet the gentle
man from Idaho complained that the
American producer was not properly cared
for.
Gunn-The duty you mention is ample
and all the people of Idaho ask. What
they want is that you should collect it.
Tawuey further elucidated the details of
the duty on lead and devoted himself to a
review of the attitude of the two great
parties toward the tariff question, con-
trasting the declarations of the Nation al
his remarks Tawney spoke of the state
ments made in the campaign of 1896 by
the Democratic speakers. A constituent
of one of them, Tawney said, sued him to
recover the difference between the prom.
ised prices of wheat and what he actually
received.
Clark (D.) of Missouri-And has not the
man sued the head and front of the gold
Republican Aid Society of last year?
Tawney-It is true that Bynum stood
for sound money and the National credit
in 1896; bu: it is also true that he made
the promises spoken Of And / think the
gentleman from Missouri, if he did not
make them, came very near to it.
10 his Clark made no response.
Jerry Simpson (P.) of Kansas made his
first speech since his temperance into the
House at this juncture. eread from Mr..
McKinley's speech to the MinneaDolIs
convention, in which he said it was the
policy OF the Republican party to tax for
eigners rather than the people of our own
sountry to raise money to meet the ex-
penditures of the Government.
1--WE have been bothered good deal ont
in Kansas" Simpson continued, "to know
Why Congress should be bothered about
this matter OF increasing the revenues
when it is so easy to reduce the expendi-
lures. But this speech of the present
President explains the whole thing. TIE
foreigner pays the taxes, and the idea of
the chief executive is 10 pass this bill and
make the foreigners pay the taxes that it
impose 1t seems to me, in view of this
fact, that the foreigner ought to be thank.
ful that We did not realize a two billion
Congress instead of a single billion dollar
Congress" Laughter and applause
Referring TO the speech of Walter (R.)
of Massachusetts,, Simps said that he
had carried his argument to its logical
conclusion and had declared that the pur-
pose of taxation was to distribute wealth
among the people. Putting theory with