The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-28
BATTLING THE TARIFF BILL
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nothing as to the future policy toward
the Philippines They voted the money
to discharge an obligation of the govern
ment, incurred without their consent.
Turning to the bill, Mr.. Bailey declared
that there was involved in it a question
of law and a question of morals.
Taking up the legal question involved,
Mr. Bailey made an exhaustive argument
against the consuturionality of the bill.
He was listened to attentively and ire
quently ELECTED applause. AS he proceed-
ed, he aroused the lawyers on the other
side, and was for time almost contln-
uously engaged in crossing words with
one or the other of his adVersaries.
During the excitement of the Spanish
war Mr. Bailey said he stood unmoved.
He warned his countrymen then as he
warned them to-day that the constitution
could not be applied to the government
of the colonies. when emotional states
men," said he in conclusion, were ask
ing who would haul down the flag, L dar-
ed TO say that would take it down from
any place where the constitution could
not follow it. Democratic applause) DO
you desire to present the anomaly OF
government restrained by the constitution
| in one quarter of the globe and possessed
| Of despotic mower in the rest of the world?
| How long is the constitution to shield us
and our children If Its protection is with
| held from the humblest inhabitant Let
me borrow the words of Lincoln. Ihls
| republic cannot endure one half free and
| one-half slave We must be all citizens
or in time we will all be subjects. 1 did
not want to asslmiiate these alien and
inferior races and 1 pray God to deliver
us from the task But if you will take
| them they must share our destiny with
| us"
| The Democrats greeted Mr.. Baieys con-
clusion with uproarous applause ana nan
a hundred of them crowded up the aisle
! TO congratulate him.
Mr.. Dolliver of Iowa closed the DEBATE
| for the majority. Long and loud was the
demonstration which greeted him.
This bill" he said, lis merely tenn
porary measure to provide revenue Tor
| Porto Rico. Yet it has been magnlhed IN
| this debate until it has been made to in
clude the whole problem of the govern
| ment of all territory acquired by us by
| the treaty of Paris. The President recon-
mended that Congress should abolish all
| duties on Porto Rican goods that the IN
habitants of the stricken island might re-
| build their fallen fortunes and regenerate
| their shattered industries. Despite the
abuse heaped by the press upon this bill,
am prepared to show that it will do eX-
actly what the President recommended
should be done" (Applause)
| Mr.. Deliver spoke derisivey of the anx-
| ietv and zeal of the Democracy to uphold
| the President Coming after two years
of calumny directed against the Presi-
dent it was but cheap party ingenuity.
| 1t had been declared that this bill was in
| behalf of the sugar trust, when the fact
| is declared Mr.. Dolliver, that
the sugar trust want free trade. The
same was the case of the tobacco trust.
so far as 1 am concerned" he said. Il
am not frightened by all these tales of
woe by these predictions of disaster. one
| following the other. coming up straig hta-
way out of the Caribbean sea or the Pa
| cifc ocean, For / can see that after re-
cent national experience it is possible for
| a man TO underrate the effect of an ap-
| neal to the popular fear of free trade on
| a scale, however small, even when pre-
scented by the managers of Democratic
politics in the United States. daughter
| on the Republican sde) But If that were
| the only issue at stake, it is not settled
in my mind that anybody ought to be
frightened, certainly not out of his wits,
| even by a proposal so vast tropical areas
| and territories the United States were
found helpless to deal with them, except
on terms Of such political intimacy ana
| commercial equality as the constitution
| prescribes for the people of the United
| states. And so, gentlemen, we present
| here a revenue measure containing with
| II political possibilities that the Demo-
cratic party has had its eye on for year,
and which some of our boys on this side
have got wild about because they got
their eye on them only ten days ago.
| DAUGHTER on the Republican side)
Taking up the constitutionality issue,
| Mr. Dolliver said:
IF the constitution OF the United States
establishes free trade between Manila and
| San Francisco. as IT undoubtedly does be-
tween Maryland and Virginia, then the
fact that We have got into a new compe.
tiuon is only the least trouble that Is be-
fore us We are IN that case disarmed
1 at once in the uomentus demand which
! this nation has made for equal rights IN
| the commerce Of Asia / violate no Sc
cret of this government when | say TO-
| dav there is pending In the state depart
meut the most elaborate commercial ne
| gotiatiou ever attempted In the history of
| our diplomacy based upon pledge made
! bv our commissioners at Paris that what
| ever we did in the Pacific ocean we would
| maintain an open door for the commerce
| of the world. And / want to ask Repub-
| Leans. and / want to ask those Demo
| Gratis from Georgia, from South Caro-
| lima from the great cotton belt Of the
| South. who are looking forward 10 the
| extreme as the threat of the admission
into the markets OF the United States
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