The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-11
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

1
said the committee on pensions was unable
to agree on the pension bill, pensionlng
one-armed and One-legged soldiers, the
chairman being sick.
Senator Frye introduced JOINT resolu
ton for the termination IF the fisheries,
articles of the treaty between the United
States and Great Britain of 1871 and NOV
ed to refer the matter to the foreign re-
lations committee. He urged immediate
action because we were being injured by
the unfairness of the treaty. The treaty
was gift to them. Where we took one
barrel of mackerel they took a hundred.
Agreed to.
The calendar was taken up and the tariff
bill then considered.
Senator Cox's amendment was adopted,
requiring the payment of shipping com
missioners for shipping seaman, if shipped
for the master or owner, and that the du
ties performed by the shipping commits
sioners of home ports be performed by the
collectors. Adopted.
Senator Morrill, addressed the senate and
said at the outset:
Permit me to say the report on his bill
by the senate committee on finances has
not been made in any spirit of aDtagonism
to, or competition with. the ways and
means committee of the house. but, in
view of the early termination of the pre-
sent congress, it is made to score with
greater certainty a reduction of the
too abundant revenue from both
internal taxes and the tariff by such
timely consideration as would permit fa
vorable action on the part of the senate,
as well as of the house, before the close of
the present session. If, with all the other
important questions pressing upon our at
tention. we can wisely accomplish this we
shall at least have deserved credit at least
for diligence and honest effort.
Senator Morrill, closed his speech by say
ing that if the senators are in earnest about
having any reduction of the taxes and of
the tariff, their hearty CO operation is ahso
lutely necessary to bring about that result
If the work is done at this session of con-
gress it must be done promptly As we
proceed with the b II, if easy questions are
asked. in explanation, / will answer with |
great pleasure. Ii harder questions are |
asked shall either step aside for my col |
eague on the committee to come to the |
front, or shall retreat behind the words |
Of old Sam johnson, who when asked by |
a lady how he came to make the blunder |
n his dictionary,-as to the description of |
Eastern joint of horse. responded, "Sheer
ignorance, madam" Laughter
Senator Brown attacked the report of
he tariff commission, saying that while
here was plausible profession to reduce
he duties it really reduced them upon
many important articles. The commission
lad simply let the men who were to make
he money out of the business fix up the
chedule for themselves, and had handed
hat in as their own work, when, in fact,
n his judgment they had done no intelli-
-ent work at ALL 1t would, therefore, be
6nYv IF he
lily wanted a reduction of the ex-
sting duties to examine this bill very
arefully to see that it did not
eally increase them by means of cunning
hanges of schedule transpositions and
PROVISIONS devised by men who would
'rofit by the increase, and who, perhaps,
u many cases deceived even members of
he commission themselves.
The senate then proceeded to consider
ne bill in committee of the whole The
ection authorizing the President, when,
ven in his judgment the importation of |
leat, cattle, and hides may be made with
ut danger of introducing contagious or {
liectious diseases to declare operative the
ection prohibiting such Importation in ,
srtain cases, was struck out. In brief
iscussion of the section relating to the
Importation of goods in other than Amei-
LII VESSELS, oeHaboT morgan expressed the :
pinion that Great Britain. in substituting
er merchant marine for the avowed pur
ose of enabling it to run our ships off the !
Ugh seas. had violated the spirit of the |
eaty with the United States We must
D something for our commercial marine, {
nd he did not feel certain that we could
cover ourselves by merely repeating the 7
avigation laws, or.in any other way than
= following the example of Great B itain
nd propping up our ships with subsidies
Adjourned.
HOUSE. i.
Mr.. Mills, of Texas, offered resolution s
LlHng on the attorney general as to the t
srsons employed as attorneys and others b
the prosecution of the star route case t
e term of the contract with each. and v
q probable amount entire cost of tn c