The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-18

declined to- support bill for a so, 40, so
or 25 per cent reduction. It was only
the concession was reduced per cent
further that he was induced to support
1t. In other words, said Mr.. Hepburn,
hadn't not been for that last nickel of
reduction the gentleman from Ohio, to
quote his own language, would to-day
have been with the insurgents attempting
to divide the republican party and to de-
stroy it.
Great God!" exclaimed Mr.. Hepburn.
"On what slender thread hang ever
lasting things!" Great laughter and APP
plause.) Mr.. Hepburn denounced the fea-
ture of the bill to compel Cuba to accept
our immigration laws when the greatest
need of Cuba to-day was labor.
Mr.. Tawney's Closing.
4 The remaining time after Mr.. Hepburn
concluded--two hours and twenty minutes
was divided equally between Mr.. Taw-
ney (Minn.), who closed the debate
against the BILL and Mr.. Dalzell (Pa.),
who concluded for the measure
Mr.. Tawney defended the course of
those on the republican side who had not
surrendered their convictions that thrift
might follow fawning.' He pointed to
illustrious instances in the past where re-
publicans had opposed measures advocat ed
by majority Of their colleagues, notably
the case of ex-Speaker Reed in the con-
gress when he voted to issue gold-bear-
ing bonds. He declared that those of his
colleagues who believed as he did had
been denounced as traitors, their motives
he'd been impugned and they had even
been insulted because they had dared to
assert and defend what they believed to
be the interest of their party, their con-
stituents and their country.
Hits the Sugar Trust.
Mr.. Tawney argued that if the beet
sugar industry were properly protected, in
few years it would supply the entire
domestic consumption. 1t was for this
reason, he declared, that the sugar trust
was seeking through the agency of this
bill to cripple and destroy its great rival
Of the future.
In conclusion Mr.. Tawney said that this
was the first time republican leaders had
proposed to decart from the protective
theory. The republican party was bound
in honor to keep faith with these whom it
had induced to enter the beet sugar in
dustry. If the United States owed a
debt to Cuba it should be paid out of the
public treasury by the whole people and
not alone by the farmers who We're grow
ing sugar beets.
Closes for the Bill.
Mr.. Dalzell in closing the debate for the
friends OF the bill declared that it, was
not an attack upon protection, saying:
1t Is not revision OF the existing tariff
law, or its schedules. 1t will not harm a
single American industry or deprive an
American workman of single days wage
This bill contains single proposition for
reciprocal trade relations and is justified Oh
plain business principles. But it is more
than that. 1t is a step toward the redemp-
ton of the pledge we made not to Cuba, but
to ourselves when we volunteered to inter-
vene to right the wrongs which she was suf-
fering under the Spanish regime.
Mr.. Dalzell insisted that it was our
duty, now that Cuba was to be set upon
the high road of the world, to see that
she started under fair auspices.
In closing the debate Mr.. Dalzell de-
clared that the bill would not deprive g.
single workman of days wages; that it
was simply a proposition for reciprocal
trade relations with Cuba and step to-
ward the redemption of the pledge made
to Cuba.
&c. Morris Offers Amendment.
Soon after 3 o'clock the bill was read
and considered under the ive-minute
rule. ~'a- -,
When the Cuban bill was read Mr.. Nor
ris (Minn.) offered an amendment to re-
move the differential on refined sugar.
Mr.. Payne made the point of order that
1t was not germane and entered into an
argument on the subject.