Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. A joist resolution to furnish certain books to the law library of Cincinnati passed the Senate on the 15th inst. Bills were formally reported to create'a commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic, for the relief of the Ntz Perce Indians in Idaho, and to provide tor coinage at the branch mint in Denver. A resolution was offered directing the Judiciary Committee to report whether Paul Strobach is now discharging the duties of United States Marshal of Alabama, after his nomination was rejected The bankruptcy bill was taken up, and it was agreed that any person owing in excess of S3OO may petition for discharge. By a vote of 140 yeas to 138 nays the House of Representatives decided to take up the Morrison tariff bill. The vote by which the consideration of the bill was secured was made up of 105 Democrats and five Republicans. The opposing vote consisted of ninety-nine Republicans and thirty-eight Democrats, and one Independent, Finerty, of Chicago. The Democratic opposition vote consisted of one vote e tch from Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, four from California, three from New Jersey, five from Ohio, ten from Pennsylvania, and nine from New York. Mr. Morrison opened the debate on the measure. He declared that to fail to re luce taxation and thus relieve the people would be a flagrant disregard of public duty. A horizontal reduction might not be the best, but none other was practicable at present. To the list of articles now imported free of duty it was proposed to add salt, coal, wood, and lumber. Salt was already free for fishermen and meat exporters, coal was untaxed for use on coast trading vessels, and the revenue from wood and lumber was in the past ten years not over $lO,000,000, while the domestic wooden products exceeded $500,000,000 per annum in vain?. In t l ie estimates, as carefully prepared, the bill would leave in oottons but two articles dutiable above 40 per cent, in woolens but one above 60 per cent., and in Iron and steel but few above 50 per cent. As at present arranged many of these articles were taxed above 100 per cent, through hidden enormities in classification and rates of duty. The above limits were intended to remeuy these enormities. The insufficient character of the late revision forbade its permanency. The only security from agitation and change would be to confine the taxing power to obtaining a revenue limited to the necessities of the Government. The cry of the protectionists that lower ratos would ruin manufactures was used when the industries were young, and would continue to be used to the end. He instanced the placing of quinine on the tree list, and declared that as had been the case in that industry so it would be in all other industries. Mr. Kelley made the opening speech for the opposition. He drew pictures of the fearful condition of the laboring classes of Europe, and said that the proposition now was that the United States should enter the race with the world for the cheapness which had led to such terrible results. He denied that any of the articles called raw materials by the Democrats were, in reality, raw materials. In the race for cheapness production left the prosperous countries and found Its way to the most oppressed. After a spirited passage between Messrs. Kelley and Hewitt regarding the duty on wire rods, Mr.. Kelley repeated his assertion that production had outrun consumption, and this evil could not bo mitigated by a reduction in the tariff. The only means by welch the markets could be increased would bo to stop the importation of cheap labor, send., back all who hail signed contracts in loreign lands to work at low wages, see that laborers were paid so much that the public schools might be well sustained and the children educated, and protect American motherhood against becoming drudges In foundries. He advocated complete isolation of the country, which could be sustained in freedom and purity only so long as it did not begin the unholy race for the “cheap and nasty underteachings of dismal science." Mr. Mills, of Texas, followed Mr. Kelley-in a speech supporting the bill.

The bill to authorize the States of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee to make laws to secure from waste lands granted for school purposes, was favorably reported to the Senate, Anril 16. The measure to divide into homesteads a portion of the Sioux Reservation in Dakota was passed. ' Several amendments were made to the bankruptcy bill. In executive session Charles E. Coon was confirmed as Assistant Secretary of tlio Treasury. The tariff bill was debated throughout the entire session of the House. Mr. Russell deprecated the reopening of the Agitation, but said the Republicans accepted the challenge. Mr. Blount thought legislation should be such that a revenue standard would ultimately be reached, and said the reduction by the bill under discussion would be about $30,000,000. Mr. Chace predicted that a cut of 20 per oent. on wool would stop most of the mills in the country. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, spoke of the imperative demand for a reduction of the tariff, and said the passage of the bill would place the Democratic party on the side of reformation. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, offered a resolution in the Senate, April 17, that it is competent for Congress to fix freight rates on interstate commerce, secure free competition, and prohibit discrimination of any kind. Bills were passed to adjust the account for arms between South Carolina and the Federal Government, and to authorize the location of a branch soldiers' home in some one of the newer Western States, at a cost of $250,000. Consider - tlon of the bankrupt bill having been resumed, Mr. George proposed an amendment giving laborers and servants priority over debts due to the State or the United States. In executive ses- , sion objection was made to the Immediate consideration of the recommendation by the President that the collector at Key West be removed for sympathy with the Cuban insurgents. The House of Representatives pass d a bill authorizing the construction of a railway bridge across the St. Croix River in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The tariff bill was laid over for a day, and the pension appropriation hill taken up, when Mr. Rosecrans offered an amendment to strike out the provision for the pay of pension agents, leaving their duties to the pay department of the army. The postoilicc appropriation bill was comP*e ted and passed by the Senate on the 18th inst. Provision was made for more expeditious ocean mail and steamboat service. It is estimated that $1,700,000 more than the revenue of the department will be required. Adverse reports were made on the newspaper copyright bill and on the resolution for the er union of a bronze equestrian statue to Simon Bolivar. Mr. Plumb announced that at no extra cost the time between the oceans had been diminished one day. After tributes to the memory of Representative Herndon, the Senate adjourned to the 21st. The House of Repr* sentat ivos passed bills to permit the bridging of the Missouri Illver at S.bley. and to limit to two years the time within ! which internal revenue offenders mav be prosecuted. A favorable report was made on the bill To relieve from the charge of desertion such soldiers as would have received an honorabl • discharge had they been present at the mustering out of their commands. A bill for the establishment of a National Bureau of Labor Statistics, and appropriating $25,000 therefor, passed the House April 19. The Speaker presented a message from tho President recommending an appropriation of $25,000 to defray the expenses of the special embassy from Siam. The Senate was not in session.

EASTERN.

The New York Excise Board has refused to reissue liquor licenses to Harry Hill. Hill had held a license for thirty years. Dr. Dennis Bradley has been made Bishop of the new lloman Catholic Diocese of Manchester, N. H. The peach and quince trees in Northwestern Pennsylvania have been destroyed by the severe weather. Services in memory of Wendell Phillips were held in the Tromont Temple, Boston, last week. Several of the friends and co-laborers of the deceased orator and reformer were present, among others Elizur Wright, L. M. Alcott, Sam util Longfellow, the Hcv. James Freeman Clarke, Mrs. Julia Ward Howo, J. G. Whittier, the Revs. Edward Everelt Hale, Philip Brooks, T. B. Aldrich, W. D. Howells, K. P. Whipple, and B. H. Dana. Georye William Curtis delivered au able eulosrv.

WESTERN.

Lee Pettis, one of the men acquitted of the assault on Emma Bond, was married reoently. The father of Pettis’ wife killed himself a year ago because of bis daughter’s affection for Pettis. Three persons were billed at Grand Haven, Mich., by the falling walls of a brick store which had been gutted by fire. The last gold bank in existence on the Pacific coast has removed from San Francisco to Petaluma and reorganized on a currency bests. The body of Walter Ream, a soldier buried twenty-one years ago at Knoxville, lowa, has been found almost completely petrified. It was Instantly recognized by his comrades. Late advices from the Coeur d’Alene gold fields report discoveries of gold in the district known as Dream Gulch, so oalled because of its discovery on account of the alleged dream of a Frenchman. Four men slutoed out five pounds two ounces of coarse gold there in two days. The result of the disoovery had the effect of advancing the price of claims all along the ereek. The first fatal shooting occurred at Murrayville tho 13th of April, when a fiddler named Ricnards, known in the region as “Tommy the Masher,” was killed by a gambler named McDonald. A shad weighing twenty-six pounds was found in a dry-dock at Cbioago the other day. It must be one of a lot placed in Lake Michigan two years ago by the Fish Commission. An artesian well bored for the city of Lincoln, Neb., has a flow of 100,000 gallons per hour, and a complete system of water works will be commenced this summer. A Japanese waiter shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Gudgell, the landlady of a hotel at Ogden, Utah. The murderer was lynched soon thereafter. According to information gathered over the wires by the Chicago Times, winter wheat in IlllnoW, Ohio, lowa, and Indiana is in excellent condition, injury by frost having been confined exclusively to scattered points in the two former States. Tho plant in Missouri has evidently been badly damaged by cold weather. Wisconsin reports a falling off in the acreage of spring wheat, as the farmers are giving greater attention to tho dairy. Dakota and Minnesota have a larger acreage than last year, and there is a prospect of the largest yield for years, no damage from insects being reported at any point. A Truckee (Cal.) dispatch says: Three hundred feet of snow-sheds fell half a mile west of Summit and covered a wTorkingtrain and a number of Chinese. Six deaA, Chinamen have been taken out. Five others are seriously wounded. Dr. Law, of Cornell University, who has been investigating the cattle disease at Neosho Falls, Kan., says it is positively not contagious. Brig. Gen. Lawrence, of the Missouri militia (Eastern Division), has resigned, and Gen. Sherman has been appointed by Gov. Crittenden to succeed him.

SOUTHERN.

All cases on the Federal docket at Charleston, S. C., for violation of the national election laws have been discontinued upon motion of the District Attorney, tho latter claiming that in the present state of public sentiment convictions were impossible. A Southern paper reports great scarcity of food in Marion, S. C., owing to tho shortage of last year’s crops, and fears that unless liberal assistance is immediately given deaths from hunger will result. Dispatches from Atlanta, Ga., give meager accounts of the destruction wrought by another cyclone which passed over a section of that State last week. It was first heard from in Harris County, and moved from southwest to northeast. Forty-six houses were completely blown away, eight personß killed, an! many injured. Striking into Merriwether County, wholesale dostruc. tion of property took place, the damage being fully 5200,000. The, Powell place, one of the most noted in the State, was utterly swept away, and Mr. Powell, Sr., lus grandson, Ben Powell, and four negroes were killed outright, while five other persons are so mangled that some of them wi.l die. Several negro children had been blown away and have not since been heard from. Farther on, it struck the house of Pete Tplson, destroying everything, killing mules and breaking the thigh of a negro man. A negro girl was killed. On Dr. Beasley s farm, near Sandtown, terrible wreck was made. Six colored people are known to have been killed on one plantation and four on another. Many persons were fatally Injured in the country adjacent to Logansville, several houses destroyed, and barns burnl up.

WASHINGTON.

The Washington Monument Association has resolved to ask Congress to provide for the celebration of the completion of the shaft within a year. Charles E. Coon, of New York, has been nominated Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to succeed John C. New. A. E. Bateman a banker, of Washington, has filed with the Secretary of War a letter Charging Brig. Gen. Swaim with fraud and with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. If all of the 102 Congressmen who are loaded with speeches on tho Morrison tariff bill are given a chance to talk, it is estimated by a Washington correspondent that they will take up six weeks of the time of Congress. It is understood tbat tho Republicans and the Democratic protectionists will' endeavor to cut them off by a motion to strike out the enacting clause of the bill at the earliest opportunity. This may not succeed, as Mr. Morrison has promised to accede to many of the amendments to be offered by the representatives of special interests, and to agreo to the abolition of the internal-revenue tax, except that on whisky and malt liquors. The fate of the bill in tho House is ihvolved in much uncertainty. By a vote of 10 to 1 the House Committee on Postoffices and Post-Roads adopted a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the committee that it is expedient to adopt the contract system of postal telegraphy. The Missouri Congressmen are asking an appropriation of 51,000,000 for the improvement of the Missouri River.

POLITICAL.

The Arthur men controlled the Alabama Republican State Convention at Mont-

gomery. AH the district delegates but the two from the Fifth and the delegates-at-large win vote for Arthur in the Chicago Convention, at least in the early ballots. The South Carolina Republican Convention elected Arthur delegates to the National Convention. A resolution of sympathy with Gen. Grant on account of his recent aocldent was adopted. Tho district delegates will be for Arthur, on the early ballots at least. Pennsylvania, through its Republican State Convention, pronounoed emphatically for Blaine and Lincoln. A resolution indorsing them, and instructing tho delegates at-large to vote for them at the Chicago Convention, was adopted by a vote of 200 to 87. The Republicans of Idaho have elected D. P. B. Pride and W. N. Shilling as delegates to the Chicago Convention. They are uninstructed. The twenty delegates to Chicago selected by tho Alabama Republicans are for Arthur for first choice, and Logan second. George William Curtis, the editor of Harper's Weekly, will be one of the delegates to the National Republican Convention from tho First New York District. At the State convention of Delaware Republicans at Dover, all Blaine delegates to Chicago, save one for Arthur, were chosen. Party differences regarding control of State affairs resulted in animated scenes. The New Jersey Republican Convention passed resolutions indorsing Arthur’s administration and strongly favoring protection. Of the four delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention, one is a pronounoed Blaine man. The preferences of the others are unknown. Senator Sewell heads the delgation. William Walter Phelps is a delegate. Ex-Congressman Robeson was a candidate for delegate and was badly beaten. He was also beaten in his efforts to be made an alternate. The Republican State Convention of Illinois, which met at Peofiti; nominated Richard J. Oglesby for Governor, by acclamation. Gen. J. C. Smith was placed in tho field for Lieutenant Governor. H. D. Dement was nominated for Secretary of State, Charles P. Swigert for Auditor, Jacob Gross for State Treasurer, and George Hunt for Attorney General. For delegates-at-largo the convention selected Senator Cullom, Gov. Hamilton, Burton C. Cook, and Clark E. Carr. Andrew Shuman and Isaac Lesem were selected for Presidential Electors-at-large. The resolutions adopted demanded a simplification of the criminal laws, protection for labor and the right of franchise; indorse the Federal and State administrations, and instructed tho delegates-at-large to vote for John A. Logan in the Chicago convention. The delegates-at-large from Indiana to the National Republican Convention, selected by the State convention at Indianapolis, are Senator Harrison, Richard W. Thompson, John H. Baker, and Morris MoDonald. They were not instructed, and have expressed no preferences. The Republicans of Tennessee met in conyention at Nashville and nominated Judge Frank T. Held, who served in tho Confederate army, for Governor. The delegates to the National Convention at Chicago are nearly solid for Arthur. Chicago telegram: Twelve States have chosen delegates to the Republican National Convention. Arthur has 146 supporters, Blaine 82, and Logan 47. Acareful estimate of the preferences of delegates from the remaining States gives Arthur 144 votA t Blaine 214, and Edmunds 42. There are reports of extensive gold discoveries on Cottonwood Creek, near Canon City, Colo. Mining men at Denver and elsewhere are much excited over the Intelligence. The first discovery, it is said, was made on the ranch of Mr. John O’Brien by a man named Teller. The gold is in chloride form, held by magnetic iron, and its presence is so disguised that none but experienced experts would have detected it. Miners are already flocking to tho scone of the discoveries. All the indications favor the belief that a rich lead has been struck. The Congressional district delegates to the National Republican Convention from New York City were chosen last week. Fifteen of the sixteen are for Arthur. Answers to over 2,000 inquiries sent from Minneapolis to leading business and professional men throughout Minnesota asking for Presidential preferences, not only individually but of the community at large, give an overwhelming Republican majority for Blaine and Democratic for Tilden. The Civil-Service Reform Association of New York announces that Federal officeholders who attend the Chicago conven. tion will do so at their peril. Collector Robertson replies that he will attend, regardless of the reformers’ threats. A similar association in Brooklyn is in receipt of charges made against Secretary Chandler, of the navy, that he has used the employes under him at that place to advance party ends.

MISCELLANEOUS. The hangman swung off Theodore Hoffman at White Plains, N. Y., for the murder of a Jewish peddler; Willis Hodges, at Eastman, Ga., for killing a colored girl; and Gabe Turner, at Greenville, Ga., for taking the life of John Schuttler. Henry George, the writer on land reform, has arrived at New York from London. The* reported Indian uprising at Battleford, Northwest Territory, was without foundation, the aborigines simply gathering there to talk about their grievances, with the Intention of sending delegates to Ottawa and Regina. The steamer Oregon arrived at New York last week, having made the best time on record from Queenstown —6 days 10 hours and 8 minutes. American residents of the Mexican capital are reporlod to be indignant at the failure of the United States postal authorities to forward the mails over the MexicanCentral route.

FOREIGN.

Gen. Gordon recently sent a dispatch from Khartoum stating that he had provisions for five months, but was hemmed in by 2,500 Arabs. He suggests an appeal for 51,000,000 to the millionaires of America and Europe, with which to defeat El Mehdi. Egyptian refugees, to the number of 450, recently sailed from Shendy for Berber. The steamer ran aground, and the rebels ’massacred every one on board. The victims included many women and children. It is rumored in London that tho En*

glish Government will convoke a European conference to regulate the financial affairs of Egypt. United Ireland, the Pamellite organ, protests against English journals identifying the Parnellites with the dynamitards, and says there are 500 Land-Leaguers in America to every Invincible. It aocusos the English press men of always quoting O’Donovan Rossa’s paper, while never paying any heed to what Is said by such organs of Irish-Amerlcan opinion as John Devoy’s paper, the Irish Nation, and John Boyle O’Reilly’s paper, the Boston Pilot.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is stated that a conference was held In New York last week between Gen. Butler, Walter H. Shoupe, Henry Nichols* John W. Keogh, and John F. Henry, at which arrangements were made for the nomination of Gen. Butler for President and Congressman Reagan, of Texas, for Vice President by the Anti-Monopoly party, and an understanding was arrived at with the Greenback party by which they were to ratify the nominations at their convention. Walter H. Shoupe is to have chargeof the campaign. A canvass made among Democratic politicians in lowa by a Davenport newspaper indicates beyond a doubt that the old ticket is a favorite with the Hawkeye Democrats. Republican leaders in Pennsylvania feel uneasy owing to the placing of five directors of national banks on the electoral ticket, the argument being made that, as the banks were created by tins Government, the directors might be said to hold offices of trust under the United States, and therefore be ineligible. It is reported from Leadville that the recent alleged gold discoveries near Pike's Peak, Colo., are part of a gigantic swindling scheme originated by a drug clerk who formed a joint-stock company, scattered chloride of g Id in some places in the gravel of the mountain side, and then had reports of immense discoveries circulated so as to boom the shares of his Joint-stock company. The fraud was exposed too soon to deceive moneyed men, but thousands of prospectors had given up work elsewhere to try their luck in the region of the alleged discoveries. The twelfth week of the weavers’ strike at*Fall River. Mass., has passed, with no indications of a settlement. It transpires that the refugees slaughtered near Shendy by tho Arabs numbered over 2,000. Part of the victims were killed on board a stranded steamer, but the greater number were marching along the river bank. The Egyptian soldiers had discarded their arms and uniforms, in the hope of escape. The fire losses of the week have been as fallows: Losses. Leon, lowa., business houses SIO,OOO Chicago, private residence 20,000 Sullivan, 111., hotel snd dwelling 10,000 New Albany,'lnd., pork-packing house.. 15,000 Belleville, 111., pump works in.ooo Alton, 111., clothing store..: 30,000 East Saginaw, Mich., church 10,000 Hinckley, Minn, .warehouse and contents. 10,000 Ada, Miun.. grain elevator 20,000 Baldwin, Wis., business houses 10,000 Whltesboro, Tex., brick block 20.000 St. Paul, Minn., clothing store 10,000 Alpine, Mich., saw mill 15,0C0 Marshall, Mo., nine frame buildings 15,000 Salem, N. J., glass works and oil cloth factory 120,000 Winchester, Ohio, planing mill 15,000 Carlisle, Ind., ice houses 40,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., box factory 75,000 Newark, N. J., celluloid brush factory... 200,000 Ludlow, Ky., business property 30,000 Carlisle, Kv., business block 70,000 Evansville, Wis., pump works 25,000 Wadsworth, Nev., stores 85,000 Princeton, 111., flouring mill 30,000 Litchfield, HL, flouring mill 15,000 Montreal, iron foundry 40,000 Peoria, 111., Peoria plow works 100,000 Philadelphia, business block 30,000 Yakma City, W. T., stores 55,000 Montgomeiy, Ala., cotton-gin factory.. . 15,000 Hot Springs, Ark., two hotels and other property 35,000 Monroe, La., stores 40,000 The bankruptcy bill passed the Senate by a large majority on April 21. The Senate also passed a bill authorizing the cancellation of any indebtedness against the Southern Illinois Normal University by reason of the burning of United States arms. A bill was introduced to prohibit Collectors of Internal Revenue from Issuing liquor licenses in Slates where the local laws forbid the traffic. Mr. Jonas introduced a bill to appropriate $1,000,000 in aid of the World’s Cotton Exposition at New Orleans. In the House, bills were introduced for the creation of a silk-culture bureau, to promote education in the States and Territories, to reduce to 10 cents per gallon the revenue tax on fruit brandy, to grant a pension to the widow of Lieut. De Long, and to tax the manufacture and regulate the exportation of oleomargarine. Under suspension of the rules, bills were passed to create a bureau of navigation in the Treasury Department, and o provide that in pension applications the enlistment and muster shull be evidence teat the soldier was then in good health. By a vote of 9'.) to 146, the House refused to suspend the rules and pass the bill repealing the act restricting tho terms of Presidential appointees to four years.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves 8 $ 6.50 @ 7.50 Hogs 7.50 @ 7.76 Floub—Western 8.25 @ 3.75 Wheat —No. 2 Chicago 95 @ .97)6 No. 2 Red 1.03 @ 1.05 CORN—No. 2 60 .62 Oats —White 43 & .47 Pork—Mess 16.23 @17.00 Lard ÜB)6@ .0854 CHICAGO. Beeves -Choice to Prime Steers. 6.25 @ 6.75 Fair to Good 5.50 @6.00 Common to Medium... 6.25 @6.75 Hogs 6.75 @ 6.25 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.50 @5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.25 W’HEAT—No. 2 Spring 85 @ .85 No. 2 Winter 95 @ .90)6 CORN—No. 2 50 @ .51 Oats—No. 2 /... .32 @ .33 Rite—No. 2 61 @ .63 Barley—No. 2. .73 @ .75 Butteb —Choice Creamery 28 @ .30 Fine Dairy 25 @ .27 Potatoes—Peachblows... 36 & .40 Eggs—Fresh 13 @ .14 Pork—Mess 16.50 @17.00 Lard 08J4@ .08)6 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 89 @ .90 Cohn—No. 2 48 @ .so Oats—No. 2 33 @ .38 Barley—No. 2.... 70 @ .72 Pork—Mess J..'. 17.00 @17.60 Lard.. s.oo @ 8.50 ST. LOUIS. WUeat—No. 2 Red 1.09 @l.lO Corn—Mixed., .46 @ .47 Oats—No. 2 82 @ .34 Rye 55 @ .50 PORK—Mess 17.00 @17.60 Lard 08 @ .08)4 CINCINNATI. WHEAT—No. 2 Red 1.09 @ 1.10 Corn 63 @ .54 Oats—Mixed 36 @ .37 Pork—Mess 17.00 @17.60 Lard .' 08 & .0854 TOLEDO, Wheat—No.'2Red .....I. .96 @ .97 Corn—No. 2 66 @ .58 Oats—No. 2 .36 @ .39 DETROIT. Flour > 6.50 @ 6.25 WHEAT—No. 1 White 98 @ .99)6 Corn—Mixed w @ .63 Oats—No. 2 White 40 @ .41 Pork—Mess 19.75 @20.25 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red l.oi @1.02 Corn—Mixed 49 @ .61 Oats—Mixed 33 @ .35 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.50 @ 5.50 Fair. 4.00 @4.75 Common.. /. 8.75 @ 4.2 ti Hogs 6.00 @ c. 60 Sheep 3.50 @ 5.00

THE MORRISON BILL.

Consideration of the Tariff Measure Secured in the House. Arguments Pro and Con by Messrs. Morrison and Kelley. On the motion of Mr. Morrison, of mmols, and by a vote of 140 yeas to 138 nays, the House of Representatives, on the 15th of April, agreed to go Into committee of the whole for the consideration of the tariff bill. Mr. Morrison immediately opened the debate in support of the measure. Mr. Morrison’s Speech. He described the financial condition of the country, stated the estimated surplus of'revenue over expenditures, and dwelt upon the necessity of reducing taxation. To fall to reduce taxation and relieve the people would be a flagrant disregard of public duty. The pending bill might not be all that was required, bnt It was ,ah advance toward the promise of more complete tariff reform. Such reform and adjustment of the tariff were not believed to be attainable at the present session. It would create no surprise that in the opinion of the minority of the Ways and Means Committee the measure was not sufficiently harmonious to secure their approval. They found in It no merit, because It proposed to reduce ail duties at ke. A horizontal reduction might not be the best, but none other was now practicable. The protectionists opposed it, not because it was horizontal reduction, but because it was reduction at aIL The year 1860 was' a time of plenty. The laborer tor wages was at least as well and the grower of grain better paid than they are in this year, 1684, and in that year, 1800, of bounteous plenty our importations of foreign goods were less to the person, or in proportion to the population, than in the years iBBO-’B2. To the list Of articles now imported free of duty, amounting to nearly one-third of all our importations, it is proposed to add salt, ooal, wood, and lumber. Salt is already freed from tax for the fishermen, also for the exporter of meats, to lessen the cost of food to the people of other countries, not for our own. Coal is untaxed for use on vessels having by law the exclusive right to the coasting traine or engaged in the foreign carrying trade—a privilege denied to persons engaged in other pursuits. The revenue from wood and lumber imported and hereafter to be admitted free of duty has in ten years last past not much exceeded $10,000,600. The census returns show that domestic wooden products exceed $600,000,00j per annum. If the average duty of 20 per cent, on imported wood adds but 10 per cent, to the price of that produced here,its increased cost to the people has been $500,000,(too in. ten years. In these ten years, under pretense of taxing this article to secure $10,000,000 revenue, we have compelled the people to pay $500,000,000 in bounty to encourage the destruction of forests and felling of trees, and in the same time we have given more than 18,000.000 acres of land under the timber culture act as a bounty to encourage the planting of other trees and other forests. In the estimates made by a clerk of experience in the Bureau of Statistics, which the actual payments on importations show to be butestimates, though based on official data, the bill would leave, it appears, in cottons but two articles, cotton yarns, not the finest, dutia Die above 40 per cent.; in woolens, but one, coarse carpet wool, which we do not produce,, above 60 per cent., and in iron and steel but a few above 50 per cent. These rates have been fixed as the limit, above which on these articles no duty shall be collected. The present rate on the finest cotton is 40 per cent.., and yet it is an unquestioned fact, as shown by the invoices and payments made, that duties exceeding 100 per cent, (exceeding first cost) are exacted and paid on cotton goods, the duty upon which is, in the estimates referred to, stated to be less than 23 per cent. The same is true of iron and steel in a different degree. In the woolen schedule these abuses are most glaring. In all they result from enormities hidden and concealed both in the classification of articles and the rates of duty. The limit of 40, 50, and 60 per cent, on the cotton, metal, and woolen schedules is intended to expose and remedy these hidden enormities. Those really desirous of affording some relief from existing abuses will not fail to find their opportunity in remov ing taxes yielding $8,000,000 on sugar, as much on cotton and woolen goods, and $14,000,000 on other articles used in every home. The insufficient, not to say deceptive, character of the late revision, the manner of making it, and the circumstances attending its adoption alike forbid it should be permanent The only security from agitation and change is to confine the taxing power to its rightful purpose of obtaining a revenue limited to the necessities of Government. When no more revenue is needed by the Government of a people it has attained the limit of its power to tax the people. Estimates based on census statistics show that as many as 18,000,060 of our people do some work or are occupied in some business* and that the average annual earnings of at least 16,000,000 Of these do not much exceed S3OO, and are wholly consumed iu the means of daily substance. These, too, are millions who, in shop and field, strike the blows of all production. AU the accumulations of and boasted additions to our national and individual wealth go to one-tenth of those who earn it; and of these a few appropriate the great mass of the savings of tne people, and are enriched by the profits of the labor of other men. Like estimates will show that the few who profit most from the labor df all contribute little under this system of unequal taxation—not more than 2 7:r cent, of their savings—while the great mass of workers, including the dependent poor, pay the bulk of the taxes, all of which is subtracted from their too scanty means of comfortable living. Ours is a very free country of very free men, both very freely taxed. In the same sense that we are free men in a iiee country, freely taxed, we may be correctly named free traders when we insist that the trade and the commerce of the country and th; necessities of comfortable living shall be freed from all taxes not essential to a Government for public ijses. The amount required from the customs is dependent upon what may be received from internal revenues. The ab jlition of internal revenue means free and cheap liquors, but with heavier taxed and higher-priced sugar and other articles essential in every household. I am not called upon to defend a system which has many abuses. Of the two systems, however, it is cheaper in the administration, immensely cheaper in its results. The repeal of the internal revenue means more than the additional cost of living and privation to the poor. It means a permanent public debt, which the few owe and the many pay, and wuich corrupts the administration. While we cannot doubt the existence of great wrongs in the execution of the internal revenue laws, especially in the Houth Atlantic S.ates, many of these may be cured. Neither is it because of these abuses of administration that the abolition of liquor and tobacco taxes is demanded in those States, for the North is substantially free from these flagrant abuses. Mr. Morrison said that during more than half of the last ten years wages had been as low or lower than before the adoption of the taxing policy as a pretended means of making wages higher. And, he continued, there is but one horizontal reduction for which our opponents are Trilling to legislate, the reduction of wages, and this their favorites, with or without regard to legislation, are now executing day by day with cruel regularity. In the ojiinion of the minority members of the committee, representing as they do the friends of the prevailing policy, the cure for whatever national ills exist, so far as they result from taxation, is to be found in higherpriced clothing and other articles useful in the fields, mines, and homes; for that is what is meant by higher-taxed wool, fence-rods, cottonbands, and tin-plates. Some of our friends here would cure the ills of overtaxation with the declaration of a purpose the execution of which they would carefully avoid. And hero is the declaration. It Is called the Ohio platform: “We favor a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government economically administered and so adjusted in application as to prevent unequal burden, encourage productive industries at home, and afford just compensation to labor, but not to create or foster monopoly." A tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government is demanded by this plan of relief. Is the tariff so limited? It not, then why refuse to limit it? Who among the representatives of the goodly people of that State who made this declaration believes it is so limited? Who among them believes the pending bill will reduce the revenue below the necessities of the Government? These are questions to which the plain people of the country want an answer. They will demand to know why the tariff taxes were not removed in the past, if they are beyond the revenue limit. Do gentlemen expect to escape responsibility because the rates are not rightly adjusted? The adjustment will be the same when the reduction io made, but whatever monopoly belongs to it will be fostered by 20 per cent, less than it now is. ) f this platform lias an honest meaning it is that the tariff shall be lowered to a revenue basis. And gentlemen bnt deceive themselves who expect the people will be deoeived by a refusal to legislate in accordance with this declared purpose. If the protection policy is to be the continuing policy of the Government it wUI be,

and ought to be, intrusted to its friends —the Republican party. Every argument in support of a protective policy is based on the assumption that any considerable tariff modification, especially a modification to a revenue basis, will destroy the manufacturing industries, compel the abandonment of the shops and mills, and force those now engaged in them into other employments. This is the old, old story. It was told of the manufacturing industries in their infancy. It wUI be told when protection brings them to decay. It is insisted that wages are so much higher here than in the oo on tries seeking our markets that the revenue duties will not equalize the difference in the cost of production. Conceding the truth of what is not true —that the foreign rival must pay for the privilege of selling in our markets a sum equal to the difference in wages to enable the home producer to sell with a reasonable profit—let ns see if the revenue rates will compensate for that difference. The census value of the manufactures for 188 a was $5,369,579,191. The wages paid in making them were $947,953,795. The differencein the cost of the goods is said tobe the difference in the cost of wages. But suppose the diffAence between the cost here and the cost abroad amounts to all the wages paid here, then these manufactures would cost abroad $4,421,625,896. Suppose the average rate of duty which the bUI before the House leaves at 33 per cent, was reduced to 22 per cent., and at that, rate this $4,421,625,3%1n value of goods was imported. It would cost the Importer at that rate of 22 per cent. $872,767,687, which not only makes up for the diflerenoe in wages, but exceeds all the wages paid for making all of the goods. If those who claim special friendship for the manufacturing industries will insist on their going into decay and theix dying, some other apology must be found for their taking off than the removal of unnecessary taxes. Mr. Kelley’s Reply. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, made the opening speech in opposition to the bill. He did not believe any cheapening goods could relieve any American industries. The evil was not that goods were not cheap enough or that America eould not produce them. 'The tiuth. to be considered of all men, was that the power of production the world over had outran the power of consumption, and that) the markets were overstocked, and in every land skilled and industrious people had been idle for a large portion of all recent years. Nihilism in Russia, Socialism in Germany, Socialism and Nihilism in the border regions of Austria, Communism in France, told the story in those great countries, of idleness, want, and misery in every industrial center. He then proceeded to give chapters from the terrible lives of the industrial classes of England as learned by him during a three months’ visit to “Merry England," prosperous, free-trade England, in order to show the fearful condition of the laboring people of that country, and said the proposition now made was that theUnited States should enter the race with the world for cheapness, which had led to such terrible results ia England. Then was nothing of fio little value in England as a working man or woman with a reasonably good appetite. In one* town he had seen women making trace-chains-and yet the gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. Turner, was returned to Congress every year because he advocated placing trace-chains on the-free-list. Mr. Turner said that that was a good proposition, which he hoped would be adopted. Mr. Kelley replied that women could realize* 55 or 60 cents a week for making traoe-chains. God forbid tTuat any Kentucky woman must ever work at such masculine employment forsuch starvation wages. He secalled the reply of Emery Storrs to an Englishman who, at adinner given by Minister Lowell, was badgering him about free trade: "I will admit free traders the best for you—at least for those of you who can afford to consume anything that is produced; but I claim that protection is best for us. You think more a great deal of cheap shoes than you do of a prosperous shoemaker, while in America we think more of the artisan than his* work. After describing the wretched condition of thelaborers in Birmingham and surrounding towns, he said: "God forbid that American labor should ever be embodied in any production thatshould be cheap enough to be sold to the industrial towns that surround Birmingham. Much was heard about iree raw material. He* denied that the free-trade Democracy of the country, as represented on this floor, was in favor of free raw material. Under the present, tariff every element of raw material which could be discovered was already on the free list-. The pending bill put twenty or thir.y articles on. the Tree list, but not one of i hem was raw material. The raw material for salt was the brine rvhich was pumped out. Coal in earth, selling at certain rates per ton “unsight unseen,” wasraw material; but when thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars had been expended in making it accessible to man’s use, it. was not. Alcohol was raw material, and onlytwo Democrat —Messrs. Hewitt and Randall — were in favor of putting it on the free list. What was charged tor tho use of Nature’ssolvent, for which the wit of man had yet discovered no substitute? Before the American, farmer could advance his raw material—corn — one stage in the manufacture, he had to pay 90 cents a peck. The same was true of tobacco—it was a tax on. the producing and trading classes. In the race for cheapness production, left prosperous countries and found its way to the most oppressed, and those whose peoplewould work for the smallest modicum of food and clothing. The United States had entered on the work of banishing manufactures, and heasked that the tariff rates be reinstated, as hehad hoped they would have been by the majority of the last Congress. By abolishing the* duty on quinine and salts of quinine thelargest manufacturer in the country had been obliged to send all his stock abroad, anti to employ cheap German labor and cheap raw material in its manufacture. By putting adutyof 2 1-10 cents per pound on tin plates the United Stateß had succeeded in establishingmanufactories; but, by the misplacement of a comma, it has been held that only a duty of 1 1-10 cents had been. imposed. The* effect of this had been to strike down the industry. The sapient Secretary of the Treasury had held tbat the word “highest” in the last', tariff law meant “lowest,” and on account of that ruling the wire-rod makers were importing wire-rods pretty well made from the other side of the water. Mr. Hewitt, of New York, suggested that the Republican and not the Democratic tariff had done that. Mr. Kelley replied that if 20 per cent, of the Democrats in the last Congress had united with the Republicans the tariff on wire-rods would, have been placed at such a rate as to enable Americans to manufacture them. Mr. Hewitt —Would you have allowed us to fix the thing in conference committee? Mr. Kelley—Yes, sir. No Democrat would serve on that commit ee save Mr. Carlisle, who served quietly in order to observe what was done. Nary one dared. Mr. Hesvitt—Then the whole performance -was a Republican performance? Mr. Kelley—The conference had to deal with, the materials you sent us. Are they Republicans in this House who propose to reduce the dutyon wire rods 20 per cent. ? Who voted for it today, Republicans or Democrats? Don’t let us talk about what occurred a year ago. Let us go back only two hours. Mr. Kelley then repeated the assertion he had made that the production had outrun consumption. Every reduction of wages diminished the power of the masses to consume and magnified the evil from which the people of the -whole industrial world were now suffering. This evil could not be mitigated by a2O per cent, reduction in the tariff, now too light on a good many articles which should be produced ha the United States, nor by a blow at the agricultural interests. The south of Russia was now engaging Americans to erect elevators, to build factories fpr American agricultural machinery, and to aid in the construction of railroads to the seaports;- and if the farmers of America did not care for their interests and did not strive by tne proper legislation to diversify their agricultural products their markets would be gone; and in comparison with the price they now received for wheat they would receive a price little more than nominal. He could see but two means by which the markets could be increased, with a third means glimmering in the future. Stop all importation of cheap labor. Send back .to whatever country they came from the men or women who had signed the contracts in foreign lands or on shipboard to work at lower wages than the wages of American labor. See that the wages were kept so high that the public schools might he well sustained and the children reasonably well educated. Let not the American women become degraded. Protectthe American motherhood against the degradation of becoming the drudges of men in gla‘s-works, iron-forges, and rolling-mills, if necessary, by declaring eight hours the longest period in the twenty-four that men or machinery may run. He advocated the production Of sorghum in the West, and especially in the Southwest, as a means of diversifying the labor of the American farmer and enhancing the sale of his production. Let the country be isolated. It was unlike any other, It was not a monarchy or an empire; it was a free republic, every human being belonging to which was a citizen with the rights of freemen, and with the duty before him of helping maintain the Government, which could only live as long as virtue, intelligence, and independence characterized its citizens. And this it could not do If it was to begin in an unholy race for the "cheap and nasty” underteachings of dismal science. A fancy bloodhound attacked Mrs. Eckert, at Rockasvay Beach, tore off one of bor ears, and stripped off the flesh from her shoulder to her wrist. Charleston, S. 0., has a 600-pound turtle