The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-11
FULL VENTILATION OF CUBAN TAR
IFF QUESTION EXISTED ON
BY INsURGENT LEADER
GAG RULE NOT TOLERATED
Full Time to ''Thresh 1t All Out"
Is the Demand of the Beet
Sugar Insurgents in
the House.
GRosvENoRs SPEECH BITTER
FROM THE GLOBE BUREAU,
Washington, ID. C.

leader or the beet sugar Republicans"
Congressman Tawney today took the role
| Of obstructionist. He refused to come to
any agreement with Payne and the house
! leaders as to a time for closing debate,
and in reply to Payne's appeals demand
| ed the regular ORDER
Tawney says the house leaders are
really the ones who are furnishing Dem
ccratic campaign material
That speech of Grosvenor today was
the best Democratic speech I have heard
for some time" Mr.. Tawney declared.
1.-The old man did pretty well. considering
! the novelty of his subject of course he is
more at home arguing for a tariff. .
In the speech to which Tawney referred,
| Grosvenor took the floor to answer Wn-
liam Alden Smith He resented Smiths
charge that the leaders had ''let their
lamps go out and were leaders no more
He said he was a protectionist before
Smith was out of swaddling clothes, to
which Smith rejoined that he was sorry
to see a relapse at Grosvenors time eff
life.
This late bitterness in debate is likely
to prove serious. Tawney says he does not
expect vote before next week Wednes-
day. I'VE are going to have full time to
thresh this all out. They had plenty of
warning and now they are getting what
is coming to them, " he declares. By
'they'' Tawney means the house leaders.
The debate on the Cuban reciprocity
bill in the house today was devoid of en-
ivening features.
GrOsvenOr Warns Insurgents.
The most notable speech of the day
was made by Mr.. Grosvenor, of Ohio He
answered the critics who have charged
him with Inconsistency by saying that
reciprocity was sound Republican doctrine
and that tariff schedules were not sacred.
He predicted that the time would come,
although it had not yet arrived, when
there would be an memorable demand for
revision Of the present rates. Mr.. Prince
Qll.) made strong speech against the
measure. The other speakers We're Messrs.
Lawrence (Mass.1 and Mere Gnd) for
the bill, and Messrs. Weeks (Mich.) and
Kleberg (Texas) against it.
Mr.. Grosvenor, in opening his remarks,
addressed himself to his Republican col
leagues who were opposing the bill and
warned them that nothing which he would
say could be used in the coming cam
align TO advance Democratic success by
striking at the merits of Republican
measuI eS.
The president and his cabinet he said,
favored legislation on the line of the
pending measure, Nevertheless, he said,
he did not propose to assail those who
had organized themselves into hostile
force against the administration if they
felt that their conscienees or local self
interest impelled them to that course
But he insisted that the pending bill con-
stituted no deviation or detection from
the pathway of protection, and he said
he proposed to repel the assaults made
upon himself growing out of this I'M
fortunate controversy.
He then proceeded to review the history
| of reciprocity and the sugar. schedule
since the days of the Mckinley tariff bill
He fold i1taracfir icto % 1oo
controversy between Blaine and McEin-
ley over the free admission Of sugar in
the Mckinley bill, Blaine desiring to use
the tariff on sugar as means of pro-
noting reciprocity.
''Tariff System Not a Fetch,
Mckinley, he said, was also a disciple
of reciprocity at that time. but did not
| agree with Blaine upon the method Of
protecting sugar, and Mr.. Grosvenor said
he had himself been present at what
| might almost be described as an ''acri-
monious discussion" in the state depart
ment between Mckinley and Blaine
Mr.. Grosvenor declared that Mr.. Ding
ley opposed the sugar schedule of the
Dingley bill on the ground that it was
unreasonably high and that he had onIy
been induced to acquiesce in it in the ex-
pectatlon that the tariff on sugar would
/ be used to promote reciprocity.
He said, with great emphasis. that he
mad never yet permitted himself TO wor-
snip the tariff system as a fetch not to
be touched or examined. He warned the
young Republicans about him that ii thew
believed the present tariff sche dulles were
to be forever defended they would better.
retire to private life. The Republican
party, he announced, must not chain If
self to tariff schedules He declared thar
the Republican party dared not, in 1901
pledge itself to the re-enactment of the
Mckinley bill. 1t was not a question of
schedules, but of the protective prlnci-
pies. He predicted that his Republican
colleagues, who were opposing the pres
ent Dill and who proposed to.~overturn
the rulings of the chair TO accomplish its
| Gefeat, would plunge the wholts eountrv
into a premature agitation for revision
of the tariff
Present Duty Is Too High
With some feeling Mr.. Grosvenor then
answered the charges of inconsistency
brought against himself. He called at
tentlon to the remarks on reciprocity by
PRESIDENT Roosevelt at Charleston yester-,
| day, which he described as ''the best
speech the president ever made and re-
marked that he wondered at the temerity
or the president in making such state
ments while Republicans in the house
were denouncing such sentiments as par
ty disloyalty.
The present tariff on raw sugar, he de-
clared, was high beyond all reason If
the ~ per cent reduction were made the
tariff on sugar would then be per. cent
higher than the trainers of the Dingiey
bill intended. If the beet sugar people
had an industry that could not stand
against the world with $140 a hundred
tariff upon it then it would better be
abandoned
Mr.. Weeks (8tieh.) followed Mr.. eros
venor with a speech in opposition II tha
bill. He argued that there was no obIiga-
tlon upon us to aid Cuba 1t was ridicu-
ious, he commended, to say that because
we freed Cuba at the cost of hundreds
Of lives and millions of dollars therefore
we We're under a load Of debt to the isl
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