Show W ON TARIFF utah senators both on the floor asoy keplar he defends ilis protective lot ilir cannon on ilis export bounty washington june 9 the venerable mr morrill of vermont chairman of the finance committee was in the senate today after an illness of some weeks consideration of the tariff bill was re edmed at 1215 p m paragraph on tapioca had been struck out by the son ato on the question of agreeing to this change mr rawlins utah took the floor to answer mr vests statement yesterday that a new evangel of democratic doctrine was being proclaimed by certain democratic senators mr rawlins said ho had been a member of the committee on resolutions and platform at the chicago convention presenting the tariff clause which had been under discussion it was on his motion that it was agreed to mr linday acm ky platform in hand interrupted to ask mr rawlins since ho pro anted the tariff clause why the good old democratic word only after tariff for revenue came to bo omitted was it an intentional omission mr lindsay asked 1 I think not responded mr rawlins 1 I can throw some light on that subject said mr tillman who was also a member of the committee on platform at chicago it was omitted purposely after discussion mr rawlins reviewed the course of ho democratic party in early tariff legislation the essential principle of this was that all burdens and benefits should be borno equally there was no new evangel no vile reptile or rattlesnake as mr vest had characterized it and there was no need of any democratic senator invoking the almighty against such doctrine it came to democratic senators pure and undefiled from the democratic fathers and he would support it the paragraphs on wheat and wheat flour were agreed to mr cannon utah offered a new amendment proposing an export bounty on agricultural products the test of the amendment has been heretofore given mr cannon took the flo yielded R moment to allow mr Thurston Rep neb to present what he termed some evidence of returning prosperity in the shape of boms editorials from nebraska newspapers showing a general revival of business ie not the wilson tariff law still on the statute books asked mr gray it is but it is the expectation of the of the pending measure re plied mr thuraton which is causing this revival at this point mr berry ark asked to have beai a statement recently made by ex postmaster general wanamaker aboud the deplorable condition of af fairs mr cannon objected saying amid laughter that it would be cuel c uel inhuman and unjustifiable to have mr statement injected tit this boint of the proceedings after admy further choss firina mr caanan proceeded with his speech he denounced the pending measure as grossly and palpably inequitable because it compelled those of the arc docta of the soil in the lowest market of the world and the purchase of manufactured articles in the highest market to the original doctrine which contemplates the protection of manufacturers he still subscribed the trouble was that which at the beginning was ready to support the manufacturers rs struggling for existence had fallen far in the rear the only ground capoa which the doc trice of protection boulo stand was that it protected the labonar of this country rom the wolfish pauper labor ot the old world but how could anyone contend for protection to the labor of the shops and mille and deny it to the labor of the fields the farmer competed with the world if this bill was net just be would be plunged flain next year into the agony of a tariff agitation if it was juat it might ensure in answer to a question by mr alien mr cannon said the to be paid by the government in export bounty under his amendment will be he that the amer ican farmer was obliged to ell his wool and cotton at the low prices prevailing in frea trade of the world while he boult hig supplies at the high a market mr cannou was followed bv arbut lerno abo emoke against the heava burdena the bill placed on the farmer he favored mr proposition ap a measure that would correct tin of the bill which bore heavily on tae farmer and eave him none of the benefits of protection tec tion at the bill was laid aside and to iret at 11 a m tomorrow the senate hu an executive session and then adjourned |