The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-26
ON The CUBAN BILL
DISCUSSION WAS LED BY CARMACK
IN THE SENATE.
MEASURE NOT A PROPER ONE
GIVEN A JUST TREATY, HE SAID,
HE WOULD VOTE FOR 1T.

tennessee senator Said the Presi-
dent Had Consigned the Treaty to
Congress as an Opportunity to
"WOrship God and Get Our Money
Bnck"-BOth Honor and Trade De-
manded Its AdOptiOn-Nev YER
sion OF Allah IL Allah Suggested.
Washington, Nov. 25.-The Senate to-
day completed the appointment of COM
mittees for the Fifty-eighth Congress,
adopted the motion providing for the
reconsideration of the vote by which
the Newlands joint resolution for the
| annexation of Cuba was referred to
| committee, and made the Cuban
reciprocity bill the unfinished business.
The first speech on the merits of
the Cuban bill was made by Mr.. Car
mack of Tennessee. who opposed the
| general tariff revision would give the
| relief needed.
Mr.. Carmack began by saying that
in his message the President had
urged the ratification of the Cuban
treaty with reasons that appeal to di-
verse motives in the human heart. He
told u.s." the Senator went on, that
we must ratify it to save our honor
and help our trade. 1t was an oppor-
tunity to worship God, and get your
money back; to be diligent in business
while serving the Lord. He presented
the Cuban treaty in the double aspect
of bargain counter and a missionary
/ hO~ &c ha ad
istration that was driven by a selfish
motive to a righteous deed, and could
perform a Christian duty without ex-
ercising any of the Christian virtues. :"
Mr.. Carmack said he was willing to
hear any appeal to conscience, and if
given a treaty that was libeai to Cuba
| and just to the United States he
would vote for it. But no man could
pledge his faith for a treaty which
itself violated the pledged faith of the
country, and on the plea of opening
the markets for Cuba slammed the door
against 100000 customers in South
America.
If this measure would reduce the
price of sugar it would be an argu-
ment in its favor, but the larger part
of the sugar imports would still be
subject to duty.e and the tariff would
The authors of the sugar tax prom
Used to reduce it by $4,000. 000 We
were to pay this sum for this treaty
1t required us to give up not only the
right to reduce taxes, but reciprocity
with other countries. You violate
your solemn promise to reduce taxes, &"
he said, and you do it in the name
of honor; you sell your right to make
commercial treaties, and you do it in
the name of reciprocity"
BIaine's Reciprocity.
Mr.. Carmack referred at length to
the reciprocity policy of Mr.. Blaine
and Mckinley, and quoted from a
speech by Mr.. Dolliver of Iowa, in
which the latter had said that every
line of the wisdom of Mr.. Blaine had
been eliminated from the statutes. He
| agreed that this was true. and if so,
who was responsible? If the Demo-
cratic party had taken it off, the Re-
publican party had refused to put it
back.
Continuing, Mr.. Carmack declared
that Mr.. Do1liver was right when he
said his party's failure to carry out
reciprocity was a blow to protection
ism. But it would demonstrate to
the people," said the speaker, that a
party dominated by protected interests
would make no concessions" He said
Gov. Cummins had assailed the tariff
as a shelter of monopoly until the
trusts had forced him to desist, that
| Representative Babcock of Wisconsin
had been made to feel the displeasure
of his party for utterances contrary to
trust mandates, that such had been
the history of every Republican who
had reVolted against monopoly, and
such would be the history of Mr.. Dol
liver.
Two of the "R's" Disappear.
Mr.. Carmack then turned his atten-
ton to the President. Six months ago,
he said, a cry was raised for 'Roose-
welt, Reciprocity and Revision" What
had become of the last two members
of this blessed trinity? THE trinita-
rian propaganda" he went on, has
been overwhelmed by the Mohamme-
dan war cry of Allah II Allah'-RoOse-
welt is great, and the Senator from
| Massachusetts is his prophet" The
first word in this trinity is enough to
express the creed of the Republican
| party. Whatever that word of null
hilarious meaning meant last night
that was the policy of the Republican
party this morning. But it did not
mean reciprocity and it did not mean
revision.
Mr. Carmack closed with a plea for
general tariff revision, saying in
part:
1.-The reactionary movement toward
protection in England derived it's
strength from the hostile tariff Of the
United States. Mr.. Chamberlain has
played the United States against the
continent of Europe with success and
is now free to execute a hostile tariff
in favor of the British colonies and
against the United States. This will
be a staggering blow to our agricul-
tural Industries, but the beginning of
more liberal policy shown by the
victory of the Democratic party in the
next election in the United States
would put an end to Mr.. Chamberlain's