The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-04-16
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS-.
SENATE.

WARRINGTON april AV'
The chair laid before the Senate q message
on the subject of sea coast defense submitting
an estimate of the chief OF ordnance for per
manent annual appropriation of $1b, ,OOU 10
provide the necessary amount for Notifications,
also letter from the Secretary of War trans
uniting a plan and estimates for fire PROOF
building for the use of the signal service; the
building and site not to cost more than $780,
OOO. Also communication from the Attorney
General in reply to a recent resolution OF the
Senate relating to the Office of marshal OF the
Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama.
The Attorney General states that the question
whether there now exists a vacancy in the ONO
IS question of law which has been decided by
the United States district conrt in the negative.
Mr.. Blair reported faveraby the bill to pro-
vide for commission on the subject OF the
alcoholic liquor traffic.
The Senate then passed the House joint re-
solution providing that certain books be
furnished by the Secretary of the Interior 20
the Cincinnati law library.
Mr.. Dawes called up the bill to divide por-
ton of the great reservation of the Sioux
nation of Indians in Dakota into separate
reservations and to secure reliDquishment OF
the Indian title to the remainder bnt the bill
went over with an amendment reducing the
land allotted to the Ponca Indians to one"
quarter section in severalty.
Consideration OF the bankruptcy bill was
resumed aud much progress made The
things that any person owing provable debts
exceeding $500 may voluntarily petition to be
adiudicated bankrupt Any trader owing
debts in excess of $1,000 who leaves the State
to avoid creditors, or conceals himself to avoid
arrest or service of legal process, or make
fraudulent transfer of property, or conceals or
removes the same TO avoid process or with in
tent to defraud creditors procures or suffers
Judgment to be procured against him, or who
being actually insolvent suffers his property to
10 fatlu
days to redeem it, or has suspended payment of
accounts for a period of 80 days after they
were due and payable, shall be deemed to have
committed an act OF bankruptcy and may be
adludged bankrupt on petition filed by three
or more of his creditors
After an executive session the Senate adj
iourned.
Consideration :of tho Morrison tariff bill
was begun in committee of the whole.
Immediately upon the committees assem-
bling, Mr.. Eaton of Connecticut objected to
the consideration of the bill and the objection
was repor ed to the House. Bya vote of 140
yeas and 1873 nays the committee decided to
consider the measure.
Following is the detailed vote on the consid-
Grafton of the Morrison bill:
Yeas-Adams of New York, Aiken, Alexander.
Belmont Bennett, Blackburn, Blanchard, Bland,
Blount, Breckenridge, Buchanan, BuckDer Cabelli
Caldwell, Gambler, Carleton, Cassidg, Clardy Clay
Cobb, Collins, Cosgrove, Cox of New York, Cox Of
North Carolina, Crisp, Culberson of Texas, David
son, Davis of Missouri Deuster, Dibble, Dibrel1
Dockery, Dorsheimer, Dowd, Dunn, Eldridge, Ellis,
Evins of South Carolina Forney. Garrison, Geddes,
Graves, Green, Greenleaf Halsell, Hammond, Han
cock, Hardiman, Hatch of Missouri, Hemphill Her
Houseman, Hurd, james, Jones of Wisconsin, Jones
of Texas, Jones of Arkansas, Jones of Alabama,
Jordan, King, Kleiner, Lanham, Lefeyre, Lore,
Lowering, McMillin, Matson, Maybury, Miller of
Texas, Mills Mitchell, Money, Morgan, Morrison,
Morse, Muldrow, Murchy Murray, Niece, Nelson,
Oates ONeill of Missouri, Pierce, Poole of Arkan-
Rogers of Arkansas, Rosecrans, Scales, Seney, Sey
mour, Shaw, Singleton, Skinner of North Carolina,
Slocum, Snyder, Springer, Stewart of Texas, Stock
slayer, Strait, Sumner of Wisconsin, Talbot, Taylor
of Tenn, Thompson, Throckmorton, Tillman,
Townshend Tucker, Turner of Georgia, Turner of
Kentucky. Vance, Van Eaton, Wakefield, Ward,
Willis, Wilson of West Virginia, Winans of Michi-
gan, Winans of Wisconsin, Walford, Wood, Wood
ward WorthiDgton, Yapee and Yourg-140
Nays Adams of Illinois, Arnot Atkins Barbour,
Barr, Belford Bingham, Bisbee, Boutelle, Boyle,
Brainard, Breitung, Brewer of New Jersey, Brown
of Pennsylvania, Budd, Burleigh Cannon, Chase
Converse, Curtin, Cutcheon, Davis of Massachu,
sets, Dingley, Duncan, Denham, Eaton, Elliott,
Elwood, Ermentrout Evans of Pennsylvania,
Foran, Funston, George, Glasscock, Golf, Guen-
ther, Hanback,, Hardy, Harmer, Hart, Hatch of
Michigan, Haynes, Henderson of Iowa, Henderson
Of Illinois, Henley, Hepburn, Hewitt of Alabama.
Hiscock, Hill, Holmes, Hopkins, Horr Howey,
Hunt, Jeffords, johnson, Kasson, Kean, Keifer''
Kelley, Kellogg. Ketchum, Lacey, Lamb. Lawrence,
mas, Mckinley, Willard, Miller of Penn Milliken,
Morey, Morrill, Muller Mutchler, Nutting, Ochel-
tree, o'Hara, O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, Paige,
Perkins, Peters, Phelps. Pollard, Post, Price Ran
dali, Ramsey, Ray of New York, Ray of New Hamp-
fh1re, heed Kiee' Robinson Of New York Rockwel
Smith, Spooner, Spriggs, Steele, Stevens, Stewart
of Vermont, Stone, Storm, Struble, E. B. Taylor of
ONO, j. D. Taylor OF Ohio, Tulley, Valentine, Van
Weaver, Wemple, White of Kentucky, Whaziug
Wilkins, Wilson of Iowa, j. d. Wise of Virginia,
j. S, Wise of Virginia and York -138.
On motion of Mr.. Oates of Alabama, The
Senate bill was passed 10 increase the endow
meut Of the University of Alabama from pub
lie lands in that State.
The committee then resumed its sitting.
Mr.. Morrison opened the debate in support
of the bill. He described the financial condi-
tion of the country: stated the estimated sur
plus OF revenue over expenditures, and dwelt
upon the necessity Of reducing taxation. To
fail to reduce taxation and to relieve the peo-
PIE wonld be a fragrant disregard of public du-
ty. The pending bill might not be all that
was required, but it was an advance forward
and promise Of more complete tariff reform
Such reform and adjustment of the tariff was
not believed to be aitainable at the present
session. 1t would create no surprise that in
the opinion of the minority of the ways and
means committee the measure was not sufh-
GENTLY harmonious to secure their approval.
They found in it no merit because it proposed
to reduce all duties alike. Horizontal reduc-
ton might not be best, but none other was
now practicable Protectionists opposed it not
because it was a horizontal reduction but be-
cause it was q reduction ct all.
Mr.. Kelley Of Pennsylvania made the open
ing speech in opposition to the bill. He did
not believe any cheapening of goods could re-
lieve any of the American industries. The
evil was not that goods were not cheap enough
or that America could not produce them. The
truth t. be considered By all men was
that the power of production the world over
had, outrnn tbs power of consumption and
that all the markets were overstocked, and in
every land skilled aud industrious people had
been idle for large portion of recent years.
Nihilism in Russia, Socialism in Germany,
Socialism and Nhilism in the border regions
of Austria, Communism in France, Socialism
which would prevent almost every question
that thu British parliament would consider
during the present session told the story iii
those countries of idleueSs, want and misery
in every industrial centre. He then proceeded
TO give chapters from the terrible lives of the
industrial classes of ssEnglandi as learned by
him during three months visit to "Merry
England; prosperous free trade. England, in
order to show the fearful condition of the lab
oring people in that country, and said that the
proposition now made was that the United
States should enter the race with the world
for the cheapnesS which had led to such terri
BILE results in England. There was nothing Of
SO little value in England as a working man or
won1sn with reasonably good appetite. In
one town be had seen women making tr ace
chains aud yet the gentleman from Kentucky
T1rner wagttlrned to @ 1ngress Q cry ye b .
cause he advocated placing trace chains on the
free list. Women coRid realize 90 OF go cents
a week for making trace chains. God forbid
that any Kentucky woman must ever work at
suck masculine employment and for such star.
walton wages
He denied that the free trade Democracy of
the country as represented ON this floor was in
favor OF free raw material. Under the present
tariff every element of raw material which
could be discovered was already on the free
list. The pending bill put 20 or 80 articles on
the free list, but not one of them was in reality
raw material. In the race for cheapness
production left prosperous countries and found
its way to the most oppressed. The United
States had entered on the work of banishing
manufactures and he asked that the tariff
rates be renststed as he had hoped they
would have been by majority in the last
Congress. The sapient secretary of the
treasury had held that the word "highest" in
count of that ruling wire rod makers were inn
porting wire rods well made from the other
side Of the water. Every reduction of wages
diminished the power of the masses to con-
sumo and magnified the evil from which the
people OF the whole industrial world were now
suffering. This evil could not be mitigated by
twenty per cent reduction in tariff now too
light On good many articles which should be
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