Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03

out reference to any report. or anything
whatever, except to get this harangue be-
fore the country. Continuing, Mr.. Logan
said the course of the senator from Ne
braska was so undignifed and SO wide
in departure from the usual method of
proceeding IN the senate, that, without de-
string to enter into the merits of the case,
he felt justified in saying, if such speech
was made by any man out of doors while
the trial of these men, charged with rob
berry of the government was going on, that
the country would understand that the
speaker was an attorney for defendants.
Mr.. Van Wyck said he felt it his duty 10
ascertain whether the charges made against
the department of justice were true, AID
when the treasury department had sent
vouchers, bearing the attorney generals
own sign manual, "Brewster," showing that
$3.50 day was paid to one of these attor-
neys, there was no need to wait for the re
port of any committee, and he felt 1t his
duty to make this ''harangue'' as the sena-
tor called it, and get the facts before the
people. The senator from Illinois has said
that if a man, tout of doors,'' had made
such a speech he would
be regarded as an attorney for the defend
ants Is it possible, said Van Wyck, that
that is the way the gentleman or the attor-
ney general would seek to make these
charges. If what [ have read is true, and
/ it is true, surely it demands other answer
than that. do not want to see the treas
ury plundered, as plundered it is, by con
! spirators-star reuters or in any other
way. In no country, where justice is
decently administered, would it be
possible to have an ordinary
criminal prosecution prosecuted as this
star route trial has been. Not once, but
twice, the treasury has been robbed.
What has been saved through the efforts
OF former postmaster general is now be-
ing spent by common lawyers, getting
$3.50 day. want this extravaganza stop
ped. 1 move that these papers DE printed
and referred to the Judiciary committee.
Motion agreed to. The senate then, or
tbs half a dozen present, took q recess
until SIS p. m.
When The senate reassembled, Mr.. Ali
son presented the conference report on
the legislative, executive and judicial APP
preparation bill. AGREED TO. The pro-
vision regulating the hours OF labor in the
departments, which was struck out by the
senate appropriations committee, is in a
modified form in the conference report.
The conference report on the naval ap
preparation bill was agreed to.
Mr.. Morrill, presented and explained the
conference report on the internal revenue
and tariff bill. He said the entire amount
of reduction that viii result from the pas
sage of the bill is estimated at $4,000,
600.
Mr. Beck made fiery speech in oppo
sltion to the adoption OF the report anC
said in part: This report appears to b,
simply an increase of the duty upon ever.
article the committee attempted to toucl
except one or two unimportant ones
Of rates in bill passed Il
the senate. 1 knew from the beginning tina
; we would get a worse bill than either tn
house or senate desired. 1 knew the bill
would GO by hook or crook,and it has gon
by both, to conference committee VIII
: would pick out Just what they pleased il
> defiance of the will of both houses, make
tariff to suit themselves, ant
. force it upon the American
= people. This conference committe
: acting, as think, in defiance OF the orde
J ofssthe senate and in p ain violation of thei
known duty, undertook to increas the dut
on iron ore to seventy-five cents toI
:, | when both houses agreed that it should no
= :, be more than fifty. By what authority
Obeying whose orders? The house vote
" fifty cents ton; the senate voted fit
: cents ton. These conferrees violenu
= overthrow what both houses had agreed up
= on, and undertook to to add the duties t
y be levied on this one item, on the basis O
= last years importation of S144,279. M
a Beck went on to criticise the action of tn
: committee IN increasing the duty on th
= various items and denounced the Who'll
4 business as an outrage on the rights of th
q people a nd q vioitcion OF the sworn dutie
a of the conferrees.
II MIR. Hale reported the deficiency bill
= Ordered printed.
IL Mr.. Beck continued: The senator froI
:. Ohio went into this so-called conferenC
- committee and restored every provisio
70 upon which the senate voted him dow
~ The senator was the brains of that coz
y mittee in regard to capacity, audacity an
- intellect. and he was the driving wheel {
y the conference. 1t required an audacit
y which few men had to come back an
~ insert into a conference report ever
20 defeated amendment. The change in tt
y sugar schedule gave the reiner an abs
q lutte monopoly, and was the worst outrag
u in the bill. If the senate adopted the r
= port there would be such lobby broug
10 pear on Inc mousse Dy IHo hOOlou, III
y and sugar room, that it would force
- through there.
~ Mr.. Bayard characterizes the report
e, {, the most lame and impotent conclusion
9 winter spent in framing q tariff law.
. Mr.. Vance ridiculed the action of tt
~ conference in increasing the duty on irol
:, :, steel and WOODEN goods, and as return
= the taxpayer for all this putting hoe
poles on the free list.
: The conference report was adopted, ay
81 30, nays 81. as follows:
ce AYES.
rs Aldrich, Hawley, Malone,
al Allison, Hill, Miller IN. Y. J
be Anthony, Hoar, Morrill,,
of Blair, ingalls,, Plat,
- Cameron wis. Jones New Plumb,
- COnger, Kellogg, Rollins,
Davis (Ills.), Lapham, Sawyer,
gu Dawes, Logan, Sewel,
| Edmunds. McDiu. Sherman,
Frye, Mcmillan, WindOm-32.
e. Harrison, Mcpherson,
on NAYS.
Barrow, George, Pugh,
nd Bayard, GormaD. Ransom,
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