Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-13
WASHINGTON.
Tariff Has Full Right of
Way in the Senate.
PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH HOUSES,
The Direct Tax Bill Passed-Dyna-
mite Guns for Coast De-
fense-NOtes.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. |
WASHINGTON, December 12.-In the
Senate to-day but little morning business
came up, so the tariff bill was quickly
taken up, the question being the amend
ment offered by Jones, of Arkansas, to
admit hoop or band iron, cotton ties, ETC.,
free of duty, instead OF taxing it two.
tenths of cent per pound additional.
The question whether this would be a
tax on the cotton planter, and if so, how
much, was discussed at length by Berry
and Hiscock.
Hiscock replied to Berry at some length
in speech championing the Senate bill
and the protective tariff. In closing, be
said. "a verdict on this question has
been rendered by the people. The DEM
ocrats will have chance four years from
now to try it over again. This is not the
time nor the place."
A colloquy in reference to cotton and
| to the question whether it's price was
fixed in the Liverpool market, took place
between Senators Reagan, Hiscock and
and Chace. After its close, the cause of
the defeat of the Democrats in the last
election was broughtup, Reagan claiming
that the tariff had not so much to do
with it as did the veto of the Dependent
| Pension bill and Democratic discomfort
with the Presidents Civil Service policy.
Chace asked whether the discomfort
| was because the President had not
carried out his pledges.
Reagan-The discomfort was because
he did not carry out his pledges and be-
cause he kept Republicans in office in
cases where the law did not require him
to do so.
Dawes-Does the Senator mean to say
that the Presidents party deserted him
because he would not break his pledges
Reagan-No sir, do not mean that.
Dawes-What do you mean?
Reagan-It was the Presidents duty
to carry out the law, but it was not his
duty to extend the principle of the law
to offices that we're not covered by it.;
mean that there was discomfort with the
doctrine of civil service reform, and the
gentlemen on the other side will soon
have evidence of that discomfort
Hiscock said there was no evidence of
Democratic discomfort in the State OF
New York with the Presidents civil ser.
vice policy during the last year. Then
replying to Reagan's remarks about the
agricultural interests in the tariff quee-
ton, he reminded him of the fact that
the Republicans of the State of New
York came down to Harlem river with
majority of S5,0 900, and that part of the
State was fairly agricultural; that Iowa,
fairly agricultural State, gave Repub-
lican majority of $4,000. and Kansas
Republican majority of $4,000 or 80 900.
That proved, he said, that the agricul-
tural interests of the country did not
consider it was being injured by the
tariff.
Reagan accounted for it by suggesting
| that for the last twenty years iallacies
about the blessings of the tariff had been
preached to the farmers, and that the
last campaign was too short to undo the
effect of such preaching.
Hale stated that the Presidents tariff
message had been more extensively cir.
culated among the farmers of the North
and Northwest than any other document
for many years, its circulation being mill
lions and millions of copies, which the
farmers had read and which they had
answered in the election.
The presiding officer at o'clock pre-
sented as the special order for that hour
the Union Pacific Funding bill, but as
Allison insisted on proceeding with the
tariff bill, the funding bill went over,
retaining all it's rights as special order.
The tariff debate was then resumed.
The cotton-tie tax amendment was
voted on and rejected by strict party
vote-yeas 1S, nays %.
Coke moved an amendment reducing
the duty on cotton ties to 35 per cent ad
valorem. Without action the Senate ad-
journed.