The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-12

was erected speaker, ana ne depoSed
Morrison from the Craftsmanship of
Ways and Means and put Fernando
Wood at the head of that committee,
and thus the idea represented by
Morrison slept.
BY some sort of fatality the tariff
reformers brought ,ut Joe Blackburn
for Speaker in 1879. He ran a. sud
race. too. and was s,trong enough TO
show how easily Randall would have
Tennessee or John g. Carlisle of Ken
lucky been the reform candidate.
But the theft Of the presidency, as the
mount issue. and on that Randall was
in full accord with the party, and It
was that that saved Linn. The Forty
seventh Congress was Republican. but
the Democratic majority in the Forty
eighth Congress was overwhelming
Joe Blackburn was agan a candi-
date for Speaker. but Morrison gave
get the support Of the tariff reformers
and Blackburn retired and John @.
stead. He defeated RAINFALL easily.
tariff reform was - wide awake.
CARLISLE was in the chair; Morrison
was Chairman of Ways and Means,
and supporting him were Mills. Hurd,
McMillin, Turner. Russell of Massa-
chusetts. and others, composing a
splendid array of talent and eloquence.
In due season Morrison brought In a
tariff bill. and it was debated for
weeks.
But Samuel J. Randall was opposed
to 1t, and his influence was very con-
siderable. He claimed to be opposed
and Mckinley as much as he was to
the radical reform idea OF Carlisle and
Morrison. In his d :claration he COM
batted a tariff levied with a chiet
commended
such a tariff was UNCONSTITUTIONAL but
he preferred that duties levied FOR
revenue should be on articles that we
produce and thus pfford incidental
He did not believe In a tariff. but pre-
ferred to levy duties on iron and coal;
American products, when ne WouId
give the advantage OF incidental pro-
lection.
Morrison believed in a tariff for reVe-
nue. only. though he was willing 70 give
to manufacturers the advantage OF rree'
crude and raw material-coal, ores,
false economy and corrupt morals Tor
the citizen engaged in one industry 10
be afforded protection that the ciq-
zen engaged in another industry wou3o
be Obliged TO pay. for unless SOMEBODY
paid it, 1t would be no advantage 10
the industry for the protection OF
which 1t was levied Morrison belieV-
ed that protection is paternalism, and
the mother of all the school economic
vagaries that plague our pollties .ooe
and Randall Joined the Republicans
and took with him some two score
Democrats and they put the knlIe 70
the throat of the Morrison bill OF the
Forty-eighth Congress.
There was an appeal to the country:
and both parties lied in their tarln
planks. That was in 1884, but II was
nasty personal campaign ana me
tariff was lost in the shuttle. me
was again elected Speaker The 9s
President had not studied the tarllt;
and his recommendations in that penalI
in his first two annual messages were
lnconic and unsatisfactory. the HOT
spurs of the Democracy urged Speaker
Carlisle to depose Randall as CHAIR
man of Appropriations "A position or
great power and Importance: but this
the Speaker refused to do. He remem-
bered what disastrous effect on the
Democrats party was the removal of
Senator Douglas from the chairman
ship of the Committee on Territories.
and more recently the substitution OF
Simon Cameron for Charles sumner as
the head of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations nearly wrecked the
Republican party. and possibly would
have entirely wrecked II II charles
Francis Adams or Lyman Trumbull had
Deen nominated nv the convention llltI
nominated Horace Greeley. And so
Carlisle refused to dcpese Randall; but
he tried 70 deprive Randall of enough
of his pcw"r TO render him impotent
for harm without alternating him n 5 q
Democrat, ana thought he had succeed
ed Morrison n fighter always, want
ed Kendall dep Sod without ceremony,
Just rs Randall h1d substituted Fer
nandp Wood fer Morrison eight years
before; bu: Carliale had the rules re-
rised, and took several of the general
appr prla Il MS FIR IN Ra7dall's commit
toc--pOst flee army. navy and per-
hans one CT two or three others.
AnG n, " NJ Prison brought in another
aad TIE lat nf TN" Morrison bills, and
Randall had strength enough to kill 1t.
WIS in a ,re. -a} the trrit was now
''paro mount" 9G novcr before, Tn"
l,attlo WIS fcrrn. and tue Democrats
c,,,r;atI The House Of representatives.,
pyt Morrison fell. One J9rr"t'. a
l.h~r #gi at"r wpnt into Morrison S
,'i.,r!ct and orEsuizcd the wHrkingmen
of vast ST. Louis agGinst Ni-I, and he
" ,r Jc-ertel NV Joiiu Dls"r- T1At
DAYS v. r. elected Ben Harrison two
>"eva lattr
Ty 1887 Grev~r Cfcval1nd n7d learned
serrethtar rh"ut N" -Grtff and the 70
s,llf was tn =, Now message pf tu't'
,-oar the = frearo ri the President
turned thr sra. 'rd the Hnuse Of
Representatives passed the Mills bill