, 1884-01-23
SENATE and HOUSE
The Land Grant Question
Thoroughly Handled.
Fitz John Porter's Case Still
on the Tapis.
The Business Transacted Dur
ing the Last Session.
xLvHl. CONGRESS-.



of Wisconsin, of the committee on In
dian affairs, reported a number OF pc
titions asking for the opening of thu
Oklahoma lands for settlement.
AT the conclusion of this morning..
business, Anthony's resolution relating
to the prohibition of American pork by
France and Germany was called up.
Beck proceeded to address the SEN
ate.
AnthonY's resolution relating to the
exclusion of American meats, as agreed
to reads:
"ReSo lied, That the committee on
foreign relations is instructed to in
quire into and report to the senate such
legislation al shall protect our interests
against the governments which prohib-
tied or restrained the Importation Of
meats from the United States"
Beck's amendment. requiring the COM
mittee to inquire into what discrimina-
tions may have been m~adeIagainst the
United States by tariffs and treaties,
was agreed to.
Referring to determinations made
against our commerce by France
through tariff, Beck said that up to
1881, when a modification was effected,
nearly every article of American manu-
f~acture, including cotton and wooden
goods, was absolutely prohibited from
entering the ports Of France. The
modification then made was an i'm
provement, but leaves American man
nfactures substantially prohibited,
while n the case of the trade of Eng
land and Germany with France there
are treaties by which a general tariff of
ten per cent. operates. This gives
England and Germany SO much adyans
trade relations with France as to
amount to practical prohibition, be-
cause our goods cannot compete in
France with those countries. The sug-
gestion of retaliation was what these
foreign countries wanted, and would
commerce. Our manufactures have
been excluded for years from France.
| Why did we not want retaliation them
Because our manufactures were not
seeking foreign markets. If we ex-
| clude French and German wines from
our country it will reduce the demand
in Germany for our alcohol, and COM
plant will then be heard that we can
neither sell our alcohol nor u hogs.
What Mr.. Beck desired was a thorough
investigation of the whole subject of
discrimination. whether by tariff or
otherwise. We have by our tariff pro-
hibited these foreigners trading with
us; they exercise a similar right by re-
fusing to allow us to trade with them.
France receives imports from Germany,
a nation between which and herself
there is strong national feeling, but she
does this because it is to her interest to
do 80. There is no sentimentality in
dulged in such matters,
Logan did not understand that sort
of legislation referred to to be injurious
to our interests. He was in favor of
giving the president power to exclude
foreign wines or other articles which
examination declared injurious, or the
very principle that France and Ger
many excluded our meats. The meats
produced in America were the most
healthful in the world, and more SC
than those of France and Germany. In
justice to ourselves we should exclude
foreign authorizations while foreigners
exclude our meats.
After the question was further dis
cussed in opposition to the bill by Mil
Ter, Of New York, Maxey's resolution
was amended and agreed TO as follows
Resolved, That the committee OF
foreign relations be instructed to in
quire into the report Of the senate tina
such legislation will protect our inter
ests against those governments which
prohibit or restrain the importation o
= meats from the United States, and tn
committee was further instructed /
| report what discrimination was mad
against exports from the United State
: by the tariff laws of the principal coun
tries of Europe and America especial
France, Germany, Mexico and Brazil
by reason of the commercial and othe
special treaties or agreement wit
favored nations, and report the cause
c that led to such Discrimination, an
U what efforts, If any, have been made t
9 remove them, and what legislation,
J, any, is necessary to place the Unite
States on an equal footing with Il
most favored nations, this investigate
is not, however, to delay the commits
% on the first branch of the resolution.
?, The senate took up the bill to pr
vide civil government to Alaska.
le the course Of the debate Of this bill
10 was participated in by Harriso
y Dawes, ingalls,, Jones, of Florida, al
Garland. Ingalls, remarked that Il
Monroe doctrine is written on the mi
OF America, and the manifest destiI