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Representatives who voted for the Mills Anti-❘ while only 1,836,843 votes were cast in the Protective Tariff Bill, there were at the con- districts represented by the 60 Northern Regressional election in 1886, only 3,618,687 votes presentatives who voted for the passage of cast, while at the same election, in the con- that bill; and that in the solid Southern gressional districts represented by the 149 States, where the Republican vote is largely Representatives who voted against its passage, suppressed, in the 16 States, the popular This shows vote, in 1886, was 427,567 in the districts there were 4,584,365 votes cast. and 1,781,844 in the districts whose represenon the popular vote, a majority of 965,678 whose representatives voted against the bill, against that measure. tatives voted for the bill. These figures suggest the likelihood of a solid vote of the South for Cleveland and Free Trade, and a solid vote of the North for Harrison and Protected Labor.

Grouping the Northern and Southern States into sections, it will be found that in the 22 distinctively Northern States there were cast, in 1886, as many as 4,156,798 votes in the districts represented by the 133 Northern Representatives voting against the Mills Bill,

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exempt distillers of brandy made exclusively from | be in force from and after October first, eighteen apples, peaches, grapes, or other fruits from any pro- hundred and eighty-eight, except as herein otherwise vision of this title relating to the manufacture of spir- provided. its, except as to the tax thereon, when in his judgment Full Vote in House on passage of the it may seem expedient to do so." Mills Bill.

"The Secretary of the Treasury may exempt all distilleries which mash less than twenty-five bushels of grain per day from the operations of the provisions of this title relating to the manufacture of spirits, except as to the payment of the tax, which said tax shall then be levied and collected on the capacity of said distilleries; and said distilleries may, at the discretion of said Secretary, then be run and operated without storekeepers or storekeepers and gaugers.' And the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of said Secretary, may establish special warehouses, in which he may authorize to be deposited the product of any number of said distilleries to be designated by him, and in which any distiller operating any such distillery may deposit his product, which, when so deposited, shall be subject to all the laws and regulations as to bonds, tax, removals, and otherwise as other warehouses. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized and directed to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section: provided, that such regulations shall be adopted as will require that all the spirits manufactured shall be subject to the payment of the tax according to law."

SEC. 37. That the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act relating to the production of fruit brandy, and to punish frauds connected with the same," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventyseven, be extended and made applicable to brandy distilled from apples or peaches, or from any other fruit the brandy distilled from which is not now required, or hereafter shall not be required, to be deposited in a distillery warehouse: provided, that each of the warehouses established under said Act, or which may hereafter be established, shall be in charge either of a storekeeper or a storekeeper and gauger, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

SEC. 38. That section thirty-three hundred and thirty-two of the Revised Statutes, and the supplement thereto, shall be amended so that said section shall read as follows:

"When a judgment of forfeiture, in any case of seizure, is recovered against any distillery used or fit for use in the production of distilled spirits, because no bond has been given, or against any distillery used or fit for use in the production of spirits, having a regis. tered producing capacity of less than one hundred and fifty gallons a day, every still, doubler, worm, wormtub, mash-tub, and fermenting-tub therein shall be sold, as in case of other forfeited property, without being mutilated or destroyed. And in case of seizure of a still, doubler, worm, worm-tub, fermenting-tub, mashtub, or other distilling apparatus of any kind whatsoever, for any offence involving forfeiture of the same, it shall be the duty of the seizing officer to remove the same from the place where seized to a place of safe storage; and said property so seized shall be sold as provided by law, but without being mutilated or destroyed."

SEC. 39. That whenever it shall be made to appear to the United States court or judge having jurisdiction that the health or life of any person imprisoned for any Joffence, in a county jail or elsewhere, is endangered by close confinement, the said court or judge is hereby authorized to make such order and provision for the comfort and well-being of the person so imprisoned as shall be deemed reasonable and proper.

SEC. 40. That all clauses of section thirty-two hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes, and all laws amendatory thereof, and all other laws which impose any special taxes upon manufacturers of stills, retail dealers in liquors, and retail dealers in malt liquors, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 41. That this Act is intended and shall be construed as an Act supplementary and amendatory to existing laws, and the rates of duty and modification of clauses, provisions, and sections as herein specifically made are intended and shall be construed as a repeal of all clauses, provisions, and sections in conflict herewith; but as to all clauses, provisions, and sections in existing laws not herein specifically changed, modified, or amended, the rates of duty now existing shall

The vote, in full, by which the Mills Bill passed the House of Representatives, is as follows:

YEAS.-Messrs. Abbott, Allen, Miss., Anderson, Iowa, Anderson, Miss., Anderson, Ill., Bacon, Bank head, Barnes, Barry, Biggs, Blanchard, Bland, Blount, Breckinridge, Ark., Breckinridge, Ky., Brower, Bryce, Buckalew, Burnes, Burnett, Bynum, Campbell, F., Campbell, Ohio, Campbell, T. J., Candler, Carlton, Caruth, Catchings, Chipman, Clardy, Clements, Cobb, Cockran, Collins, Compton, Cothran, Cowles, Cox, Crain, Crisp, Culberson, Cummings, Dargan, Davidson, Ala., Davidson, Fla., Dibble, Dockery, Dougherty, Dunn, Elliott, Enloe, Ermentrout, Fisher, Fitch, Ford, Forney, French, Gay, Gibson, Glass, Grimes, Hall, Hare, Hatch, Hayes, Heard, Hemphill, Henderson, N.C., Herbert, Holman, Hooker, HOPKINS, Va., Howard, Hudd, Hutton, Johnston, N.C., Jones, Kilgore, Laffoon, Lagan, Landes, Lane, Lanham, Latham, Lawler, Lee, Lynch, Macdonald, Mahoney, Maish, Mansur, Martin, Matson, McAdoo, McClammy, McCreary, McKinney, McMillin, McRae, McShane, Mills, Montgomery, Moore, Morgan, Morse, Neal, Nelson, Newton, Norwood, Oates, O'Ferrall, O'Neall, Ind., O'Neill, Mo., Outhwaite, Peel, Penington, Phelan, Pidcock, Rayner, Rice, Richardson, Robertson, Rogers, Rowland, Russell, Mass., Rusk, Sayers, Scott, Seney, Shaw, Shively, Simmons, SMITH, Snyder, Spinola, Springer, Stahlnecker, Stewart, Tex., Stewart, Ga., Stockdale, Stone, Ky., Stone, Mo., Tarsney, Taulbee, Thompson, Cal., Tillman, Tracey, Townshend, Turner, Ga., Vance, Walker, Washing ton, Weaver, Wheeler, Whitthorne, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Wilson, Minn., Wilson, W. Va., Wise, Yoder, Carlisle, Speaker. - 162.

NAYS. Messrs. Adams, Allen, Mass., Allen, Mich., Anderson, Kan., Arnold, Atkinson, Baker, N.Y., Baker, Ill., Bayne, Belden, Bingham, Bliss, Boothman, Bound, Boutelle, Bowden, Bowen, Brewer, Browne, T. H. B., Brown, Ohio, Brown, J. R., BRUMM, Buchanan, Bunnell, Burrows, Butler, Butterworth, Cannon, Caswell, Cheadle, Clark, Cogswell, Conger, Cooper, Crouse, Cutcheon, Dalzell, Darling. ton, Davis, De Lano, Dingley, Dorsey, Dunham, Farquhar, Felton, Finley, Flood, Fuller, Funston, Gaines, Gallinger, Gear, Gest, Goff, Greenman, Grosvenor, Grout, Guenther, Harmer, Haugen, Hayden, Henderson, Io., Henderson, Ill., Hermann, Hires, Hitt, Holmes, Hopkins, Ill., Hopkins, N.Y., Houk, Hovey, Hunter, Jackson, Johnston, Ind., Kean, Kelley, Ken. nedy, Kerr, Ketcham, La Follette, Laidlaw, Laird, Lehlbach, Lind, Lodge, Long, Lyman, Mason, McComas, McCormick, McCullogh, McKenna, McKinley, Merriman, Milliken, Moffitt, Morrill, Morrow, NICHOLS, Nutting, O'Donnell, O'Neill, Pa., Osborne, Owen, Parker, Patton, Payson, Perkins, Peters, Phelps, Plumb, Post, Pugsley, Reed, Rockwell, Romeis, Rowell, Russell, Conn., Ryan, Sawyer, Scull, Seymour, Sherman, Sowden, Steele, Stephenson, Stewart, Vt., Struble, Symes, Taylor, E. B., Taylor, J. D., Thomas, Ky., Thomas, Ill., Thomas, Wis., Thompson, Turner, Kan., Vandever, Wade, Warner, Weber, West, White, Ind., White, N.Y., Whiting, Mass., Wickham, Wilber, Williams, Yardley, Yost -149.

NOT VOTING.-Messrs. Belmont, Browne, Ind., Davenport, Foran, Glover, Granger, Hiestand, Hogg, Maffett, Perry, Randall, Spooner, Whiting, Mich., Woodburn-14.

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Representatives who voted for the Mills AntiProtective Tariff Bill, there were at the congressional election in 1886, only 3,618,687 votes cast, while at the same election, in the congressional districts represented by the 149 Representatives who voted against its passage, This shows there were 4,584,365 votes cast. on the popular vote, a majority of 965,678 against that measure.

Grouping the Northern and Southern States into sections, it will be found that in the 22 distinctively Northern States there were cast, in 1886, as many as 4,156,798 votes in the districts represented by the 133 Northern Representatives voting against the Mills Bill,

while only 1,836,843 votes were cast in the districts represented by the 60 Northern Representatives who voted for the passage of that bill; and that in the solid Southern States, where the Republican vote is largely suppressed, in the 16 States, the popular vote, in 1886, was 427,567 in the districts and 1,781,844 in the districts whose represenwhose representatives voted against the bill, tatives voted for the bill. These figures suggest the likelihood of a solid vote of the South for Cleveland and Free Trade, and a solid vote of the North for Harrison and Protected Labor.

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CHAPTER IV.

British Free-Trade Virus-Its Workings in America.

"That the fruits of the great political triumph of 1844. . . have fulfilled the hopes of the Democracy of the Union in the noble impulse given to the cause of Free Trade."

- Dem. Nat'l Platform, 1848.

"We remit the discussion of the subject" [the Tariff] "to the people in their congressional districts, and to the decision of the Congress thereon, wholly free from Executive interference or dictation." — Dem. Nat'l Platform, 1872.

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"That this convention hereby indorses and recommends the early passage of the" [Mills] "bill for the reduction of the revenue now pending in the House of Representatives.' - Dem. Nat'l Platform, 1888.

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President Cleveland a Free-Trader - His attack on "raw materials," the "keystone of the Protective arch"-Senator Platt's demonstration.

strongly if I were to say the soul of man has entered into and transformed that natural product. It is no longer raw material. Go into any one of the manufacturing establishments of this country; look at one that I have in my mind in my own State. In that factory they take copper in the ingot as it comes from the mine into the front door. When it goes out again it goes out in the shape of copper wire of 1/400 of an inch in diameter. Into that crude copper ingot has passed

In his speech of Feb. 6, 1888, in the Senate, the highest thought of man; his brain is in the wire, his Senator Platt said:

But perhaps as favorite a method of attack upon the tariff by the free-trader as any is the claim that raw materials should be free, and why? Because the free-trader knows that the protection of raw materials is the keystone of the protective arch; that when you have once ceased to protect the production of what are called raw materials in the country, there is no logical ground upon which any article can be protected here. If that kind of production which employs the greatest percentage of labor in this country cannot receive protection, then nothing should receive protection; and it is, therefore, that the assault upon protection is made upon what are called raw materials.

It is more than that; it is an appeal to the supposed selfishness of manufacturers. The manufacturers are told told by the President in his message- that they can cheapen the cost of production if they can have free raw materials. Sir, the manufacturer that seeks to obtain raw materials free and demands a tariff upon his product is a selfish man, and selfish almost to the point of criminality; and the manufacturers of New England as a class spurn that bribe. When in the preparation of the bill advised by the leading freetraders out of Congress in this country, the proposition is made to purchase the support of New England manufacturers by free wool, by free iron, by free coal, I tell you that they mistake the manufacturers of Connecticut and the rest of New England. They know that this 18 a system or it is nothing. They know that every industry must be protected to thrive, and they know that protection alone can make us generally prosperous as a nation. They are not to be diverted from this issue.

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"It is not apparent how such a change can have any injurious effect upon our manufacturers. On the contrary, it would appear to give them a better chance in foreign markets with the manufacturers of other countries, who cheapen their wares by free material."

I will not go on to read his long argument to show that wool ought to be put on the free-list, and subject to no duty. There is no mistaking his recommendation in that respect. He particularly specifies wool as one of the materials that should go upon the free-list.

Let us look at this matter a little. I said that protection is a system. Every industry which can be successfully carried on within our boundaries must feel the benefit of this protection, or the system is destroyed. The protectionist says that whenever and wherever an industry can be profitably carried on in this country it should feel the benefit of the protecting power and force of the Government, and the labor which carries it on should be held above and aloof from the cheap labor by which the manufacture is carried on in foreign lands.

When he comes to consider raw material the President has no reference to any inequalities in the tariff; in this respect he does not propose to correct, he proposes to destroy. His only conception of tariff reform, so far as raw materials are concerned, is by tariff de

What are raw materials? I have not time to speak on this subject as I would wish, but the only raw materials there are, are those which grow out of the earth or those which repose beneath its surface. The moment you dig out the iron, and the coal, and the copper, and the marble, and the salt, and the clay, that moment human labor is added to the natural product, and from that moment it is no longer raw material.struction. When you cut down the tree and begin to saw it into timber or into boards it is no longer raw material.

When the farmer raises or buys his flock of sheep and produces his wool by means of his labor, that is no longer raw material. Human labor, the great energizing, civilizing force of the world and of humanity, has

Wool, the President says, is raw material: but raw material just as truly includes iron ore, and copper ore, and bituminous coal, and lead, and zinc, and lumber, and a number of other things, as it does wool. Take all these things that are classed as raw materials and put them on the free-list, and what have you done?

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