The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-22
FIFTIETH CONGRESS-.
An Adjournment Taken Till
January I'd.
ONLY ONE DRESS IN SIX YEARS.
The Tariff Bill Brings Out a Few
Statistics-The Nicaraguan
Canal Question.
SENATE,

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, December 21.-Chand-
Ter pres nted additional memorials.
numerously signed, from three voting
precincts in Orangeburg County, South
Carolina, alleging denial of the right
of voting in the late election, and pray
ing for an invetigation. Referred.
The public printing deficiency bill
was passed. and appropriates $63 900.
The resolution offered, yesterday, by
Teller, for a committee to investigate
the Office of the supervisory architect
of the treasury during the adnlinistra-
ton of the present supervising archi-
tect, was taken up. Teller accepted
Vests amendment extending it to the
administration of the preceding archi-
tect.
Vest made speech denouncing the
present system for the erection of pub
lie buildings as extravagant and the
worst in the world. The resolution
was finally modified to apply to the
conduct of the office merely, and was
passed.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The Senate then took up the tariff
BILL, at schedule cotton manufac-
turers."
Vest moved to amend the first para
graph of the schedule by striking out
the words 10 cents per pound" ap-
piled to thread, yarns, etc.. valued at
not exceeding 25 cents per pound, and
inserting the words "35 per cent. dd
VGlorenl The amendment was debated
at considerable length by Vest and His
cock.
Coke read, with many comments, the
testimony of Thomas O'Donnell, q
spinner from Fall River, Massachusetts,,
showing that for himself and wife and
two children, he had BOT earned $3.50 in
year; that he had had no help from
the outside; and that he had little fuel
or food the preceding winter; that his
wife
ONLY HAD ONE DRESS,
costing about 50 since her marriage
six years before; that this condition
of things existed for more than six
years; that it was not confined tc him,
but there could not be less than 1000
operatives in Fall River in like con-
dltions; that said Coke is in the condi-
ton of all protected American working
men, to pay whom and to support
whose families, the American people are
taxed on an average of 81 per cent. on
everything they eat, drink o" II ar;
even on the grave clothes of t. Q dea !.
Dawes admitted such casee oIu exist,
but he asked Coke which was better,
the remedy to furnish employment or
take it away. He showed thas
THE AMOUNT OF DEPOSITS
in Massachusetts, savings banks was
$315 ,OOO 900, and that rs per cent. of
that amount represented the deposits
of wage esrneTs.
Coke turned from the cotton operat-
ives of Massachusetts to the miners of
Pennsylva oia, and quoted the testi-
mony Of John Jarrett, to the effect that
coal miners, numbering at least 80 900,
are in pitiable and miserable condi-
ton. In conclusion, he said, This is
protection This is the policy which is
claimed to have the sanction of The
American people at the late election.
This policy never had been endorsed
by the American people, and never
will be-"
Hawley.said he did not know that in
the State of Connecticut there was any
such people as O'Donnel. There were
everywhere some
sHIFTLEss, DRINKING, IDLE MEN
who could not get living, but in the
savings bank of Connecticut, with a
population of $1,000, the deposits
amounted to $12,OO0,0OO, mostly the
savings of servants and operatives. !
Massachusetts had a proportionate
amount in her savings bank. These
two facts were most emphatic answer
to what the senator from Texas had |
been saying about the condition of
the people OF New England.
Hoar also replied to Coke. He denied !
that there was any such q condition OF |
things as described. He was not to !
picture to the working people OF New |
England the stuff which the Senator |
from Texas talked of, and what he read |
was pure nonsense. The bill went over |
without action. Vests amendment to |
the Senate bill to provide for the dis
posal of certain public lands OF the |
United States, uuder the provision OF |
the homestead law, was taken from the |
calendar and passed also the following !
bills: The House bill to provide for GER |
tain arms, ammunition and equipments |
to the State of Oregon, for the militia |
thereof; the House bill for the issue Of |
military stoves to the Governor of Mon
tana for the regular active militia. At
ter executive session the Senate ad-
journed till January I'd.