National Republican., 1883-02-19
had arrived.
TIE SENATE.

Leedom, Randall, and Vance the house adj
journed.
THE SENATE.
Mr. Vest offered q resolution for the ap-
pointment of committee of five senators to
examine and report to the senate at its next
session what is the actual condition of the
Yellowstone National park, what action has
been taken by the department of the Interior
in regard to the management of the park and
the leasing or contracting to lease any part of
it, and what legislation, if any is necessary to
protect the timber, game, and objects Of Gu
riosity, and to secure the proper administra-
tion of Justice therein. The resolution also
requests the secretary Of the interior to take
no action in the matter of leasing or contract
ing to lease any portion of the park for any
purpose until this committee shall have re-
ported, to cause the cutting of timber and
the erection of hotels to be discontinued, and
to take immediate steps for the protection of
game and objects of interest, and to call upon
the proper military authorities for this pur-
pose. AT the suggestion of Mr.. Voorhees,, the
resolution went over until tomorrow.
Mr.. Call offered n resolution specially charg-
ing the committee OH appropriations to con-
slider the necessity for an additional force in
the general land office and in the local Office
in Florida to expedite the decision of con-
tested homestead cases Ill flOrluH. lne TcbO-
luton was referred to the committee.
Mr.. ingalls, moved that the hour for the
daily meeting of the senate during the re-
mainder of this session be 10 a. M. Laid
over.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE sENAToRsHIP.
Mr. Blair modified his resolution offered on
Thursday so as to instruct the committee on
the judiciary to inquire and report its opinion,
whether the legislature Of New Hampshire,
4
can lawfully elect n senator of the United
States to fill the term which will commence
on the fourth of March, 1885.
Mr.. Garland stated reasons for thinking
that an inquiry by the committee on the judi
ciary would be useless, and suggested that
the question had better be referred to the
committee on privileges and elections.
Mr.. Blair explained the situation, and said
that what he desired was not action upon any
body's credentials, but the opinion of the law
committee of the senate as to the right of the
| legislature to be organized next June to elect
u senator TO fill the term beginning March 4,
| 1885 He had no doubt that the action of the
legislature would be influenced by such an
opinion.
| Mr.. Hale suggested that the people of New
Hampshire might easily get rid of the diff
| Guilty by changing the time for the meeting
| of their legislature.
Mr.. Blair said that the people of that state
/ were very CONSERVATIVE, anu bIdb IL WOulu
not be easy to make such q change, because
| it would involve u change in the state con-
| stitution.
Mr.. Ingalls, said that the question had been
fully considered three years ago, and the
people of New Hampshire had been notified
that the proper remedy for the difficulty
| would be q change of the time for the meeting
of their legislature. If the senate had q
committee on conundrums, he would not
object to instructing IL to consider this
question, but he did object to the committee
on judiciary being further troubled with the
subject.
Mr. Rollins explained the difficulties in the
way of change of the time for the meeting
| of the state legislature
In the course of the discussion Mr.. Blair
said he had been forced to offer the resolution
by men who had attempted to place him in
false position. He had no personal interest
in the question, and did not care whether the
resolution was voted up or down. Ho thought
it would be but scant courtesy to instruct the
committee on the judiciary to examine the
question, but If the senate thought otherwise
he was willing to withdraw the resolution.
Mr.. Garland reviewed the past discussions
and action in the senate on this question, and
said that the only remedy for the difficulty
was in the hands of the people Of New Hamp-
shire themselves.
Finally Mr.. Blair withdrew the resolution
and
THE TARIFF BILL
was taken up.
Mr.. Sherman offered the following as a
substitute for his amendments offered Friday
night:
Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and slabs
die blocks or blanks bilets and bars and tapored
or beveled bars bands, hoops, strips, and sheets
fnll gauges and widths plates OF all thioknesses
and widths; steamer, crank, and other shafts
wrist or crank pins; connecting rods aud piston
rods; pressed sheared or stamped shapes, OF
blanks OF sheet or plate steel, or combination Of
steel and iron, punched or not punched; hammer
mulds or swaged steel gun molds not in bars
alloys used as substitutes for steel toolsi all de-
scHptons and shapes Of dry sand, loan or Iron
nodded STEEL castings-all of the above valued al
A cents u pound or less 40 per cent. ad yalorem
above cents q pound and not above cents .
cents per pound valued above cents and no
above IL cents per. pound 2N OF cent per pound
and valued at II cents per pound ga cents pc
Steel in any form not specially enumerated OIL
provided for In this act, 40 Per cent ad yalorem.
Mr.. Mcpherson offered the following:
, There shall be paid on galvanized iron or stee
: wire, except bar6ed fenee,wlre y centper pound
in addition TO tho rate imposed on the wire o
which II is made. on iron wire rape and wir
strand, cent per pound, In addition to the rate
. imposed on the wire OF which II ls made. OF
steel wire rope and wire strand 2H cents pc
, pound, In addition to the rates imposed on th
wire Of which tits made,
Mr.. Call made Mr.. Shennan's amendment
{ the text for an elaborate speech in which he
, described the fundamental principles tha
should guide the legislative power In dealing
with the great questions of labor, capital, anC
Q production.
i Mr.. Beck said that Mr.. sherman's amend
7 ment was proposal to undo all that the senat
a had been engaged in doing during the las
Q month and substitute for II tho action of tn
| house of representatives, not merely in rela
4. tion TO the items embraced in tho lines pro
posed to be struck out, but also in relation +
many other articles Of steel and Of iron. IL