The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-04-30
THE NEWS.
Senatorial Proceedings on Am
erican Products and Their
Expectation.
Tilden Positively Refuses to
Accept the Nomination
for Presidency.
Commander Schley will Take
Command of the Greedy
Expedition.
The Civil Service Reform Com
mittee and Its
Workings.
Congressional Rxoceedings.

Congregational Rxsceedings.
WASHINGTON, April 2l-Bills intro
duced and referred:
By Jones, providing for an industrial
and cotton centennial exposition, to be
held in New York. A similar bill was
introduced in the house by Ellis.
By Ingalls,, to amend the revised stat
utes so as to prohibit collectors of inter-
nal revenue from charging or receiving
any special tax or license, or to permit
fee for the sale of Intoxicating liquors in
States where the local laws prohibit the
sale or n anufacture of such liquors.
Frye offered resolution which was
referred to the committee on foreign re-
latlons, requesting the President to insti-
tute negotiations with the government
and the King of Spain for reference toan
umpire for the decision of the question
whether the treaty of 1919 has been fully
carried into effect, and to settle and finally
decide what amounts remain to be paid
by the United States.
The senate then took up the bankrupt
cy bill.
Van Wick, in an extensive debate, said
that the principal difference he saw be-
tween the present bill and the old bank
rupt bill against which all classes had
risen up and protested) was that under
the old law the expenses incurred for
officers compensations came from the
bankrupt estate. and IN this bill it came
from the U. S. treasury.
Hoar replied that out of the banKrupt's
estate a certain percentage was paid into
the U. S. treasury.
On melton of Sherman, the bill was so
amended as to make examining officers
of the treasury officers to finally examine
bills for disbursement, the bills to be in
the first instance sworn to by the party
presenting them and certified to by the
judge.
Ingalls, said the machinery created by
the bill would be expensive, and would,
he thought, be at least 260 commissioners
appointed at once, and would be the
whole number of supervisors required by
the act; that it would involve an appro-
priation of not less than $3.50, 900 to $780,
600 in addition to the amount already
appropriated for the United States court
All scandals of the bankruptcy system
had grown out of the enormous expense
it involved.
Amendments were proposed byGeorge,
Sherman, Hoar, ingalls,, Edmunds, Nor
gan, and Van Wyck.
The bill as amended was reported from
the committee of the whole to the senate
and passed-yeas, 80; nays, Is.
The chair then laid before the senate
the next special order, which was the
pleuro pneumonia bill.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 20.-1t is under
stood before the tariff debate closes Mr..
Carlisle will take the floor in advocacy
of tariff reform. His speech will be
eagerly looked for, and is certain to at
tract crowd to hear the foremost cham
pion of revenue reform. It is expected
that Mr. Carlisle will draw the distinc-
ton between free trade absolute and
free trade, and between revenue reform
and free trade. It is expected that his
attitude on this question will be boldly
declared as favoring tariff for revenue
only and that he will maintain that a
tariff so levied will be amply sufficient to
afford incidentally whatever protection
is needed by American labor, and tariff
laid for revenue will lift up and improve
wages ard the general condition of the
laboring classes. The fairness and judici-
al tone of Mr.. Carlisle's method of argu-
ment cause his effort to be anticipated
as eagerly by Republicans as Demo
Gratis.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-On motion Of
Morrison an order was made providing
for evening sessions until furthe notice
for general debate on the tariff bill. The
house then went into a committee of the
J whole, Cox, of New York, in the chair
on the tariff bill.
Melborn said the measure was not al
effort to readjust many incongruities in
the present tariff system, but step in
the policy which looked to reduction o.
all duties to the revenue standard, and
for that reason met his approval. Pro
lection laid its destructive burdens on
the agencies of commerce, monop0lies o.
the worst form under protection, were
; converted into scenes of unseemly strife
!. for an unjust share of the favoritism o1
the government. It was an illegitlmate
and pernicious use of the right of taxa
ton. It would be difficult to find IL
the whole range of the English Language
more hypocritical words than incidental
!. protection. He protested against thu
raud in the use of language; if protec'
ton were good right and constitutional
let it stand on its own merits and no
!. lean on something so respectable y
' revenue.
r WAsH1SsToN, April l9-At q meeting
q to-day of the house committee on reform
: of the civil service. Representative
a Hoblitzell was directed to report adverse
e ly the bill for the repeal of the civil ser
. vice laws An unfavorable report wa
e also ordered on Representative Warner
t bill to reduce the salaries of the presi
, dent, cabinet officials, judges of the 81
e preme court and congressman. In re
: sponse to an inquiry from Philadelphi
f as to whether the appropriation commit
' tee would refuse to make an appropria
it ton for civil service, Commissioner Rar
i dali to-day wrote letter saying hi
n committee would not attempt to nullif
It any existing law by refusing to make q
Appropriation.