Show J FOKTYElGrflTH CONGRESS i SENATE Wa4iiDgton 6 Bayard and otheis pje nud memorials favoring favor-Ing a siispeDSon of mage of rilver dollars CoLkrell introduced a bill to facilitate facil-itate the registration of hills of lading and other commercial instruments instru-ments a > d to punish fra da therein Kfcferred to the comm ttee on com mtrce Hill gave notice that tomorrow morning he would ak unanimous consent to adjresa the Senate on a bill relating to the forfeiture of the land grant of the New Orleans Baton Rouge Vicksburg Railroad Company The morning business being disposed dis-posed of Frye moved to lay aside the calendar and take up the shipping ship-ping bill Vance then addressed the Senate in support of the Vest amendment providing for free ships and free material ma-terial He said the party in power had left thecountry absolutely help less with its high tariff We had no navy no merchant marine no fortifications forti-fications no guns nor anything else that would etand for twenty four Hours against a modern warship and modern guns By the impo sition of a duty of 100 per = cent we might be able to keep out foreign ships braring merchandise but 150 per cent duty would not be sufficient suf-ficient to keep out ehips bearing Krupp guns We had neither ships nor commerce nor sailors and we could not long continue to tax the I American people In the intere3t of I little shrimptailed monopoly and f neither orator nor newspapers could succeed in their slanders and contemptible con-temptible cryfBritish goldi r Were our na ion not capable of self government if they want free ships why should Senators say nay Did not foreigners come hera and engage in every American industrc Vance read frcm the London Eco nomist a list of soma twenty great joint stock companies tea own mil UOT s cf aces cf American lands He alo read from statltics < o show the r dnc ion of our wLe t ex orS wilrn a few Yf > ars < wng to tie dev 1pment by England of wheat cull ure in India induced by our high protective tariff McPaerson Inquired whether reduction was PC partially due to great wheat lfcornrrsJ by which wheat was kept ba k in expectation of higher prices Vance said when he found the great cause operating in the most patnt and psp ible form he was not going to hunt up small causes to account for the results I Hoar asked whether the sudden development of w reafi culture in i India was not due to the recent I completion of a large railroad system I in India and whether Vance I thought England woud stop railroad I rail-road building and wheat growing in India if we reduced our tariff Vance I replied if our duties were brought down to a reasonable point he believed be-lieved our exports would keep every farmer in the country busy No nation he continued that had repealed re-pealed Ua old navigation fawa had gone back to them there was one way in which we might perhaps revenge re-venge ourselves on our great rival EsgUnd We could refuse to let ships bringing foeign goods land on our shores Of course foregn coun tries might retaliate and refuse Io lat l ships bearing American goods land on their hoes l > ui it taight sol seem quite so reasonable nor proper Voorhees favored the bill and opposed the Vet auendmenr HOUSE Washington 6The morning hour waa dispensed with and thi House went into committee of the whole Cox of New York in the I chair on the tariff bill Brown of Pennsylvania spoke In support cf the protective system of taxation Townsend quoted from various platforms of Uemoora ic national conventions to show that the party had always been in favor of tariff reform and had always declared for a revenue tariff Borne gentlemen repudiated the term protection and took refuge behind discrimination discrimina-tion If discrimination were boiled down it would be found to be the quintessence of protection and It was not a proper time to begin the work of taritt reduction when a Presidential election was coming on and the peoJJe could record their votes on the question Randall then took the floor In opposition op-position to the bill He opened by remarking on the extreme quickness quick-ness with which capital invested in large industries and establishments took alarm while in common with all other interests it was liable to be called on for taxationto aid in the support of government Congress owed u to itself that nothing like a vindictive Oi 7 should be adopted With the nice adjustment of business busi-ness affairs there was nothing more I conducive to snccasa than stability it wus a sore foundation for confidence confi-dence and as a natural result capital capi-tal and labor moved forward in their respective spheres in the contest In accordance with mutual profits To judge from the intemperate language lan-guage and exaggerated rhetoric which had so frequently marked the debate it would seem as if those engaged en-gaged in indusrial pursuits were robbers and outlaws as a matter cf fact they were nothing of the sort They jvere a part and no mean part of The business of the country and had been invited under the law to engage en-gage in these employments and therefore if for no other reason they were entitled to the protection of the law They were part of our resources as a nation and to develop de-velop those resources was the test of true statesmanship He rejoiced = In the growi and ro every section of the prosrerty 0 denunnshons of advocttfS cuntry Ir tb t bill were believe1 the 8 of tbe t had Ilen built up Our ho committed an unpardcnable manufactultS ball could fee a gc01 sin he land fhonJd thin reaon s but Why Eng such shonlJ b not Vll the feeling Citizens of the United tf aoy I ttat5 Britain bad GreQt rever ceased vS0 to the 10s of herAmrV n V pl ° ie She had struck cloni i as she f deadly blow in 1812 ann 11 bought i a late war she had done her LtJ1g h On sunder the two sections S nce best t0 time she had changed her that and instead of using force POlicy I sorted to persecution and had rt She eked advice out the lions skin that of the fox The United with Sat should remember the tEi fear the warning Greeks even when ing gifts He thea Went btJDl on argue against the policy of t tling the business Interests unset by stant con tinkering with the tariff Should no law last longer than tb meeting of the next Con1ES Should the meeting of C caUioe fear and its adjournment gre cause enj yment ShoUld be settled for a time at nothing least Should doubt and mistrust always destroy the waking and hours of the people For sleeping une he was opposed to such a suicidal icy It would be madness f Jr TA anC party to pursue it It was submitted any to every members judgement ply the heroic remedy to this bill ap let it linger out a sickly existence or lIt would make business confusion and general bankruptcy It was net based on any sound principles There had been apologia made for It but no defense ilB was guessed it might reduce th t surplus revenue but nobody pre tended to speak with certainty There was no attempt at an adjustment adjust-ment of the tariff It sliced reck lesslj and it might do injury to the Interests and industries as well a I to the revenue it l as like Le famous fa-mous bed of the eli rb K amen a-men was too mal 1 he was ° Vbej out to re unex raolp ler g L t tco I long he was cut down to fit h was a thing of measurement ani nota wise scheme of reduction A hcri zntal reduction offered n Ttmedy on the contrary it made wore what was bad before It was a palpable confession of inability to handle the intricate problem at issue or else rash eagerness to do what w at once use led for unwise and unfortunate It ap peared to le agration my ff the sake of agitatin always a mstake It was the clear dictate of commas sense I to have waited until the etect of the last tariff bill could have been learned and thus have saved fom an passion and turbulency th Pes tidettial election a questi en which the public welfare was 50 deeply concerned and which if cog sible should never be made purely partisan issue I This 20 per cent reduction 23 jt fl ISO i dangerous for what it did as tot f what it promised In this respect I there was no room for conjecture i It was proclaimed to be a firm first step toward frea trade Let the gentleman consider what free trade BO called meant It i meant the change of cur whole I chem of collection cf revenue i The pt ople bad become accustomed to the import duty and it had teen proved the safest and bcet method cf taxation Jt cuStd no richer rr C mpar tively little al thi would be arxhshtrdj and the inernd war of taxes wuuld be ntinasd I WHS that the wish of the people I The olJ confederation rth d l on di icct taxation and it w l8 a failure The fathers of the G vemment sought refuge in different system and the result was a more perfect union in order to provide for the common defence aud general we fare The bill bore a capttvamjz I caption and was doubtless intended i to be captivating It did not abolish the war taxes t or if it did it would I repeal internal revenue taxes If those taxes were abolished the e would be no surplus revenue and tha alministration of publfc aff irs I would be run properly and well The surplus revenue for this current I I year will be about S60000 GOO The I House was invited here to cbcoJ3 between a firm first step toward I rree trade or to waite reform tf tariff until such time as the Democratic Demo-cratic party should frame n bill on the principles expresed in the Ohio platform He had no difficulty I diffi-culty in choosing between oljY the two lines of public r I ana he chose for his own people his own country Ho did ths in the otua full assurance that free trade 1fot bring nothing but disaster and ruin > ed m we while the principles expressed Ohio declaration would bring prOd I parity happiness and a higher order It not tl of cvilizaticn Would I wiser to defer the cor Iiilers tifl of until the so Important n question through the ex country had passed thet 1 t presidential citemeat of the some information struggle and until formation could be seci1reI to the workings or the ta71 I bin of 1SP3V Iuen a real retcn I measure loud be adonted WbICh I would remain undisturbed for year I steady and cm and would Le safe ste I versally accepted Then busing interests would have time to adop i change whatever themselvea to w i though this subject might occur 0t qUEstlonof ought not to mvolva any question it will be well W consider party allegiance bow far this agwahg retard or advance the marcu might Democrat toviotorvofltho great to victory Southern States aLDr party The nnJ inadequate to success SI1 were 1a which of the Northern States jra likely to accept a new dispensation and utter would speak plainly He at his fears even in the presence four Take the enemies political Connecticut New great States PennsyJ York New Jene and Pj tbat showed yania The census 1 = I than llfO 000 personage e enI I more in these rf in mnufacture 1 t Sret commonwealths D d tlJl I greg four nieman believe that a reduction gentleman was a potent fa tor their ot the UPf ort of tho e i winniDff in eople and eSje tely when Repub peoPIe F s Scan orators I aebed by the power ucf 7P woud thundv r in their tbe pres s iftbe statement that the Demo I tars hid been the main Iia tie party Crdtic SSeothairediciicL He bgged t cause ttfcm n to ponde on liee the diR f fir and not lightly thing them This was erfcan 1111s pserhons sprang trim his drpp convictio hS of their totb Jf how r tb inero abe kgc of vnts g delIl ever pnstrate tHit his app eh nsioe oundl8 = P there would be nc were e more willng t0 a knowledge one Sk error and rejoce tbt hit asso his bad been right but tu him it HateBbad f sefmed inevi a le that the action of the commute of ways and means l would fall lUjTa short of public corn i cor-n ti n He deplored that such Kl ndVlsed step should be taken an triumphs of the Democratic i J party as the were dear to him and he had Bought them ardently and eagerly for nearly a quarter of a centu y f > disaster came he at east wculd have the consolation of knowing it wag led to defeat by otbpr advice than biB Theorists might fight I for imocssible doctrines but he t knew by experience how futile in government was mere theory and how valuable was common sense He believed in that which had stood the strain of long practice nor could we be expected to yield it for J BOinthing impossible and impracticable imprac-ticable Applause |