Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-05-03
FORTY SECOND CONGRESS-.
This Afternoons Proceedings.
FRIDAY, May 3.

SENATE.-Mr. Morton moved 70 reconsider
the passage Of the bin regulating elections in
the territories of Washing ton and Idaho.
Mr.. Corbett urged that the bill should be re-
considered. He said that it named day Tor
holding the elections different from the election
day in Oregon, and the effect wOald be that the
democrats in those territories would come over
to Oregon and help swell the democratic vote.
Under the existing law the election was held on
the same day in the state of oregon and in these
territories.
Mr.. Kelly combatted the view presented nv
Mr. Corbett, and read from the election returns
OF the county contiguous to the territories nam
ed 10 show that in the last wears the demo
cratic majority had scarcely varied. whether The
election v A. held on the same dav OF on differ
ent DAYS than the elections in the territories
named.
The motion TO reconsider was then carried,
ayes 70, nays =. and, pending motion OF M.
Edmunds 10 lay the biil on the table, the morn
ing hour expired. ana the biz went over.
MT Cole, from the committee OF conference
on the legislative executive and Judicial ar-
preparation bill, made the third report from that
committee, which was cOncurred in.
Mr.. Morton, from committee on privileges
and elections, reported House hill 10 relieve
disabilities OF 5. IL. Rogers. member elect of
tie House OF Representatives firm North CarO-
lima. Mr.. Edmunds objected TO is present con-
sideratlon, and il went over.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
motion Of Mr.. Hale, the naval appropriation
bill aHd the Senate amendments thereto were
taken from the Speakers table and referred 10
The committee on appropriations.
There was then a contest 10 the order Of
business. Mr.. Roberts moved 90 90 into COM
mittee OF the whole, and Mr.. willard wanted 70
finally agreed that
THR TARIFF DEBATE
should 60 on until O'Clock, and that there
should then be morning hour.
MIR. Cox then addressed the House on the ia
riff, ard first reviewed the whole subject OF "a
rif legislation in this country. BE attacked the
theory Of protection declaring freedom 20 eN-
change commodities unhsmpered BY natural
right, and cheerfully looked 10 the future for
the abolition OF all custom houses. He claimed
that when the high tariffs were put on during
the War II was distinctly understood that IL was
war measure; that the external taxes wOuldh he
reduced along with internal taxes, and charged
had faith upon the part Of the protectOnsts.
he produced tables OF prices of articles sndis-
pensible 10 the working classes In different
countries, and claimed that the laboring men OF
this country, with higher wages, were forced IN
give more hours of labor for their necessaries
under the protective system than i'm any country
in Europe. He examined the taxes and materials
used IN shiphriiding, and held that il was these
taxes that cansed the Decline in American com.
meree, and not the Alabama privateers. The
tax ON iron not only injured our ship
ping interests but IL reached 20 the railroadS.
and by increase in the cost Of trsnSporta-
ton affected the cost agricultural pro in -tions
He reviewed the bills now before the HOa-e
and said the majority bill, 50 called, contained
good and bad. and Was entitled TO commanda-
ton and censure. He was disposed 20 see the
good in ii, and accept that on the principle th.t
half a loaf was better than none. The other
bill had but one feature. and that feature was
rank protection. The ma jority bill was scarcely
expected TO pass, but he believed that after n
had been amended il would receive more votes
when the final ayes and noes were called, than
was now generally anticipated.
Mr.. Randall (Pa.) advocated the abolition OF
internal taxes, with the exception OF the taN an
distilled and fermented liquors, tobacco, snuff
and cigars, and on banks, aud appealed 10 re-
publican members 10 support the recommends
tion OF their President. He urged a uniform
tax on distilled spirits in lien OF the nineteen
different ta,es imposed by the present law, aud
q single tax of twenty or twenty-f0ur cents
upon tobacco and snuh, and a tax OF half cent
upon cigars, the stamp TO be affixed 20 the cigar
thus avoiding the necessity Of requiring new
boxes to be used, and making q violation Of the
revenue law impossible. He called the attcn-
ton of the House and country to the discrepan-
cies in the accounts OF the Treasury DEPART
ment, during the period OF nine years from the
breaking out OF the war, which he said amounted
upon the chairman Of the committee OF Wavs
and means for an explanation.
MI. Lamison (Ohio, gave notice that he would
vote for every reduction proposed 20 the bin,
and then vote against the bill ITSELF which he
denounced a. an imposition--it being no rednc-
don at all, bat simply q shifting the burden
from one shoulder 70 the other.
MI. Townsend (Pa) reviewed the history Of
the hnancesof the country since the commence
ment Of the var, pointing out the great indebt-
ednezs Of the country abroad, which he asserted
prevented IN approach % specie payments.