The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-03-10
ARTHUR p. GORMAN
Eighteen Years in the United States Senate.
DISTINGUISHED CAREER OF THE
MARYLAND STATESMAN.
LEADER OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.
Brief Review Of Some Of His Valuable Services His
Country and State.

Printing Office and their cost. including the
printing of the Official Gazette of the Patent Office.
5. The number of public documents printed, with
suggestions for its reduction.
6. The distribution of public documents. with sug-
gestions for its Improvement and for the sale OF public
documents.
AS result of the investigation thus
inaugurated, Mr.. German had the sat
isfaction, eleven years later, in the
summer of 1894. during the Fifty
third Congress, in the capacity of
chairman of the Committee on Print
ing, of having enacted into law the
measure known as the Public Print
ing Act, which thoroughly reorgan-
lied the whole system of public print
ing.
By an official estimate made by the
Public Printer it is shown that this
measure effects a saving to the Gov
eminent of at least quarter of a mil
lion dollars year, while at the same
time giving better wages to many of
the laborers.
AS A TARIFF REFORMER.
The attitude of but few public men
upon a leading question has ever
been as thoroughly misrepresented,
and. in a large measure. misunder-
stood among their constituency, as
that of Mr.. German on the tariff ques-
ton. This is largely due to DELHI
crate misrepresentation for an ute
rior purpose. From the tariff of 1888,
which was passed by the first Con-
gress in which he served and in the
discussion of which Mr.. German took
conspicuous part, down to the Ding
ley law of 1897. the Senator has
strongly. and often effectively, COM
bated the Republican doctrine of a
tariff laid with protection as the pri-
mary object. In all his tariff fights,
Mr.. German has taken that distinctly
Democratic measure. the Walker Tar
if of 1916, devised by the Secretary of
the Treasury. on practical business
principles, with revenue as the OBJ ect,
but with the incident of protection
carefully guarded and fairly distrib-
uted, as his guide in fixing the rates
of duty. His position was well stated
in the discussion of the tariff bill of
1888, in defense of Maryland indus
tries. as follows:
Sir. we must raise $2OO.OOOOOO for
the support of the Government by tax
alton on goods imported. The only
question now to be determined is one
of fair distribution of that tax. All
interests will be protected if it is
fairly distributed. and I will say to
our Democratic friends here that
there never has been a tariff bill
drawn by Democratic statesmen that
did not discriminate. within the rev.
enue standard. so as to protect every
American interest. and the American
people never will submit to any other
form of taNation.''
Thus. in asking that the rate of
duty on bituminous coal, in the mining
of which one-ninth of the industrial
population of Maryland was engaged
be fixed at rs cents a ton, Mr.. Gonna n
first pointed out that in the Walker
tariff it had been 81 per ton; and in
asking that the duty on bichromate
of potash. another Maryland product
should be fixed at 49, cents a pound
one-half a cent less than the rate fixed
by the tariff commission-he first
showed that the Walker rate was :
cents pound.
But Mr.. Germans general attitude
in the tariff debate at that time may
be inferred from the following re,
marks of Senator Aldrich. the Repub,
lican leader, in opposing him on the
potash duty: Il must confess my very
great surprise that the Senator from
Maryland. who has. | believe. invari
ably voted for the greatest reductions
upon all articles. manufactured or un
manufactured, should now resist the
reduction of the duty upon an article
of such universal consumption as hi
chromate of potash
Thus it will be seen that Mr.. Cor
man occupied. at that time. an inter
mediate ground between the high pro
tectionists. who would fix the duties
as near the prohibitive point as the
revenue necessities of the Government
will admit, thus making protection
the object and not the incident of tar
if legislation; and the free traders Of
his own party. who. in raising the nee
essarv revenues from tariff taxation