Show BATON EATON IN EARNEST deprecating his Democrat io friends tan tariff iff seduction reduction legislation by western asad A press to the Ir lerald 11 washington may I 1 in committee odthe of the whole ortho ni spoke in advocacy to the tile protective system and in reply to the tho arguments of its opponents characterized horizontal reduction as a horizontal humbug the democratic party as a great bi big nothing an incomprehensible tattooed what is it and free trade trado as murder most foul clay mado made an all argument in favor of a reduction in tho tile tariff and endorses endors e the morrison bill as tho tio beginning of tajo end of the most iniquitous system of taxation finerty then thell made a strong speech against alio bill lie was not opposed to a fair revision oftie tariff but hii did not consider tho the pending bill a revision ho lie opposed thabiti tho bill because it was indiscriminate inopportune unwise and a feeble movement towards diee trade against ettlie it the vote of every free man should bo be cast applause eaton said to the gentlemen from new yerk york and lind illinois blewitt and morrison that the pending bill which they had forced on the house was nt ut tei beily ay and directly opposed to the tile con coil it was said that it was a step in the right direction lie asserted it to be tho the struggling glins for political interest it was a grab rab step lie ile read sections section 8 of the constitution of the confederate states aud said some of liis his friends seemed to be acting under that constitution and seemed to for pet get that this was washington and not montgomery some gentlemen seemed to think there was no ques lion tion of local pelf self government preservation of the true rights of the state and good government everywhere were those nothing I 1 had this congress nothing to do except peddle with an economic question which it had not power to act upon he lie opposed the pending bill because it was not the part of wisdom it was wu not tile pirt part of true statesmanship to undertake the passage of a measure me asuro which aich it knew it could not pass as a political icil measure tho tile morrison bill wa was wai i one in liis his opinion unworthy of tho the distinguished committee on ways and means which had brought it before the tile house if a record was to be made I 1 let tile democratic party make the record a clean one and a decent one and not cut off the tail tall of a miserable republican bantling and call it a democratic measure there was not a car driver in tho the district 6 0 f columbia who was so stupid that lie could not have framed just such a bill as this dorsheimer bring in a bill we are reaid ready to support a more radical bill J juaton ton J know to whom I 1 roade made the proposition I 1 made it in tho tile proper quarter I 1 was refused and I 1 do not choose to bring a bill in ill here for the mere purpose of saying I 1 am its father morrison did you present a bill to me ine eaton 1 I did not no present any an bill I 1 did not choose to go into the labor of two or three weeks to mako make up a bill I 1 knew know would not be accepted but if my proposition had bid been accepted tho the bill would have been drawn 1 will have nothing to do avith this bill it is a bantling democratic bill it is a misbegotten bantling lin 1 will have none of it eaton then wenton went on to compare the figures used by the tile advocates ortho of the bill and to point out the tile discrepancies which exl existed therein the gentlemen were hunting the same coon but did not hunt him tip the same tree he ile wanted to eay say to those members who were talking about robbery and plunder and corruption and thievery that there was not a bingle article that went to the south that was not fifty per cent chea cheaper er than it was fifteen kl years ago no 0 matter how hol wrong prong protection was the fact remained it had cheapened everything under gods heaven that man korpan or child used ho ile regretted that the gentleman rr from oni kentucky turner in liia his speech had spoken in a contemptuous manner of yankees lie was a yankee a new england yan keo kee he ile loved hid his native state and liia his country and lie would not hear anybody uso the term ay iy without administering a just rebuke the men wen of new E england angl and had bad tinned turned tile tide title in ili the revolutionary warlie war lie forget that it was the husbandmen of new england alio biad w on the battle of bennington HP ile did not forget that when the commander in chief of the army of saratoga tara toga was in liia his tent stupid cowardly or drunk a connecticut general had bad no command led the battle and won a victory what was his name inquired II ammond his name nanie I 1 regret to eay say it re implied lie I 1 eaton was arnold but hu t ho lie dis did his hs duty that day I 1 speak of him a aj a yankee and he lie ia is the only yankee yanke 1 1 trailer traitor I 1 know of I 1 suppose oilier other states could tind find a good wan many y 1 applause k and laughter on the liel republican mi side proceeding with his speech lie quoted asa ss a favorite term terin of free traders the phrase to build a chinese wall around the tile count country that v was as good poetry but wt poor fact the world required our products and we required the products of the world there was avas no chinese wall here and and never could be one and but ve very ry few chinese Cli inese he ile was a democrat because lio ho believed with the demol batic party in power the government would bo better he saw no good to hia ilia party by passing tills this bill in conclusion eaton made madea a strong aj appeal peal for the preservation of the rights ts of the states and closed with these words Lettis let us stand together by this great principle the rights ri blits of states as upholders of federal power ower a proper discrimination made ty by tho the federal d eral authorities with respect to tho the state power and their ownard we ve anist stand a thousand years I 1 liepe that we will stand as one people and government until god shall call the tile darkness dark for ss pall II hammond ammond presented an argument in ill support up port biland billand declared eliat the democrats mere were honest and earnest in it I 1 their purpose to reduce the revenue and reduce tio the hoube then took recess till 8 0 clock 1 even evening sension for debate |