Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-16
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
LIVELY TARIFF DEBATE.
AN OBJECT LESSON IN THE HOUSE.
THE MEAT BILL IN THE SENATE.
The Senate,

The NEAT BILL IN THE SENATE.
The Senate
The House bill amending the agricultural COL
legeS act was reported back from the committee
on agriculture and placed on the calendar.
GENERAL LEGISLATION IN APPROPRIATION BILLS.
MI. Edmunds offered a resolution to amend the
rules, so as to make 1t the duty of the presiding
of1cer Of the Senate, whenever any general legis-
laton appears in general appropriation bill
coming from the House, to direct the same to be
Struck out, subject TO an appeal to the Senate.
REFERRED TO the committee on rules
Inc resolution offered by MIR. Vest last Monday,
pIoViolng Tor select committee to examine the
questions touching meat and meat products Of the
United states, was taken up, and Mr.. Vest pro-
ceeced to address the Senate on the subject.
Inc resolution was not intended. he said, to
create any Junketting committee or to interfere
WIZ the province OF any other regular committee.
II IL concerned only the question OF tranSpOrta-
tlon, he should have asked the reference OF the
SUBJECT TO the committee on commerce or the COM
mittee on interstate commerce.: out the intention
OF The resolution was to reach much further than
the question OF transportation.
BEEF EATERS AT THE FRONT.
The question OF the meat product OF the United
states was by no means local or sectional 1t af-
fected every portion OF the country and almost
every individual in it, 1t was question of vital
ity, OF enterprise, OF civilization, OF empire. The
history OF the world showed that the beef-eating
peoples or the world were foremost In peace and
war, In art and science. That had been ever the
history OF the race, and would be 10 the end Of
recorded time. He quoted from a table showing
the relative consumption OF beef per head per year
among the principal nations in 1884. The United
states stood at the head OF the list, with 100
pounds per head; Great Britain coming next, with
los pounds. Then followed France with "A pounds:
Germany, 81 Russia, 4S; Italy, %; Austria, "a /;
Spain, 40, and Scandinavia, 81. This table showed,
pies (Which were foremost in empire and civifza-
tOn) were the largest consumers (per lndividuaD
OF beef.
THE RESOLUTION EXTENDED AND ADOPTED.
p. m.-After long discussion by Senators
Vest, Manderson, Cullom, and Plumb, the resolu-
tion for select committee on the cattle and beef
business OF the country was extended so as to
make the investigation embrace the Trunk Line
Association, the Central Tranic Association and
other agencies OF transportation and was adopted.
House of Representatives.
The House met this morning at 10 O'Clock, with
twenty-six members present when the journal was
read.
On motion Of Mr.. steele Und.), a bill was passed
appropriating 500 900 for a branch home for VOL
unteer disabled soldiers in Grant County, Ind
Mr.. BAKER IN FAVOR OF A PROTECTIVE TARIFF
LABOR day having been postponed till next Tues
day, the House went into the committee of the
whole (Mr. Springer Of Illinois, in the chain on the
tarin bill Mr.. Baker (N.Y.) spoke in support of
the protective tari. and cited the prosperous con-
III.
BILE to high tarin, and declared that the capital
and labor OF the country were seriously agitated
by the recent development OF the free-trade
hereSies OF the Golden Club In the ranks OF the
democratic party. He wished to give the commit
tee the benefit Of object lesson ana In order TO
do so he produced
THREE PAIRS OF STOCKINGS,
displaying, as he said, the cOlors of the American
flag, which were manufacturer IN Rochester. and
he invited the gentleman from Texas (Mills) to
visit that city, promising to introduce that gentle
man 10 the wooen factories and TO the fair hands
that turned out these stockings by the thousands
ually. he presented the stockings to the gentle
man from Texas with the suggestion that he send
the red ones to the President the white ones to the
as typical Of his feelings at the end Of the se
sion when he Deheld the defeat Of his measure.
[Laughterl
SOCKS FOR SPRINGER
Mr.. Springer left the chair and walked up to the
gentleman's desk, adjusting his glasses on his
nose, to look at the sample socks Mr. Baker
stopped for moment in his speech and reaching
down under his desk, hauled out pair of gray
stockings OF very great size and prodigious length
Oh OF leg and rotundiy OF calf. ''rhese," he said.
laugh.
POLITICAL PREDICTION.
He predicted that on account Of the Mills bill an
Increased republican majority In his district
would be given for the republican candidate for
one PRESIDENCY, provided he steered clear Of allit
eratlve dlvlnes. [LaughteEl
Mr. BOUND THAMES THE PRESIDENT
Mr.. Bound Pa.) regarded the Mills bill as a long
stride In the direction OF free trade and as an in.
auguration OF tariff policy which must
eventually prove ruinous and disastrous
TO many important Industries 10 whicn his
people were largely interested. He thanked
the President for tearing the mask from
his democratic followers. No longer could the
favorlte sons OF Pennsylvania deceive her laborng
men by the declaration that the democratic party
was In favor OF protection. Mr.. Randall could not
again attempt to save the manufacturing states
or Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey TO the
democratic party as he had done four wears ago
and II the democratic party intended to commit
political hari-kari Brother Randall would hardly
be one of the chief mourners.
CRITICrzING THE COMPOSITION OF THE WAYS AND
MEANS COMMITTEE.
Mr.. FarQuhar IN. ~, commented severely on
the fact that the great CONNER cial and financial
questions were committed to the ways and means
committee, and he called attention TO the compost
,o mon OF that committee OF the thirteen gentle
lawyers, one was cotton planter and one railroad
manager. The whole industries OF the country
capitalists, not Of the bankers not Of the mana. %
facturers. not OF the wage earners, but OF eleven
lawyers, one cotton planter and one railroad man
tive government, the Filth Congress 'hs had
reached 1t. When the great industrial interests
were to be taken care Of and regulated was it Just
sense. that eleven lawyers one cotton planter and
one railroad manager should legislate for the
American industrial people? He bore testimony to
the fairness OF Speaker Carlisle but said that this
business question had passed beyond the fair
judgment OF Speaker. II had become
A APARTIsAN QUESTION.
It had been injected into the partisan politics OF
America simply on a partisan basis, for partisan
ends, for partisan success; and any bill formu-
lated upon such basis and for such objects could
never be a success, and would never satisfy the
American people.
The kernel Of the whole matter was that the
committee on ways and means had not taken into
account the fact that within the last thirty
there had risen up Two great, powerful bodies Of
wOrkingmen.
THE TRADES UNIONS AND THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR
These bodies aggregated over one million Of
wage earners. Not q respectable petition had
come from either body In the line OF the Mills
bill-not one. On the contrary, those men had
sent to himself, Foran and Gallinger and other
recognized representatives Of labor on this
floor scores OF petitions protesting in the
strongest way against the free list and q good
deal OF the dut1able list OF the Mills Dill
While It might be possible to pass this bill as a
party measure, there were revising committees In
all labor assemblies which would pass upon its
merits Independent OF politics. These men would
stand like wall OF iron against the free list and
the cutting OF wages. and at the ballot box would
decide the Mills bill IN toto or emasculated. zap
plausel
DEMOCRATIC MANUFACTURERS.
Had It ever occurred to the democratic party or
the democratic partisan press. that nearly one
half OF the manufacturers Of the country whose in