The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-11
FIFTlETH CONGRESS.
The Waite Widow Bill Passes
the Senate.
THE MADDOX CLAIM VETOED.
The House Agrees to the Deficiency
Bill, the Last of This Years
appropriations.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, October 10.-Hale pre-
sented the report of the select commit
tee on the operation of the civil service
law, and said the minority report would
be presented hereafter.
The Senate then resumed the consid-
Grafton of the tariff bill and was ad-
dressed by Bates.
The House bill for the retirement of
A. j. Smith, Colonel of the Seventh
Cavalry, was taken up and passed with
an amendment making the retirement
rank Colonel OF Cavalry, instead of
Brigadier-General.
The Senate then took up for consider
alton the bill to pay SIS .475 to the widow
of Chief Justice Waite, being the bal
ance of his years salary.
Hoar advocated the bill.
Berry opposed the bill, arguing that
every dollar due to the Chief Justice
had been paid to himself or his widow
and the proposed sum was simply a
donation or gift. If the Chief Justice
had not been able to save money out OF
his salary, $40, 900 year, he must have
lived in very extraordinary way.
Coke, member of the judiciary COM
mittee, said he had opposed the bill in
the committee and was opposed 10 it
now.
George, another member of the Judi
ciary committee, also opposed the bill.
After further discussion, the bill passed
Berry having withdrawn the call for
yeas and nays, the Senate then re-
sumed the consideration of the tariff
bill and was addressed by Bates. The
Democrats of the House of Repre-
sentatives, he said, had discharged its
duty by sending to the Senate a bill
which in its general scope partially
complied with the demands of the peo-
pie, the pledges of the party and the
bold and manly emphatic condemna-
ton of the President. The Senate bill
was superstructure of protection.
erected on the frame of the work of
revenue reform. That much at least,
the President and his party had
Wrested from the grasp of mo-
nopoly. The reduction of duties in
one article was attended by an
increase of the duties in another, but it
was to be remarked that the reduction
was on products of agriculture and the
increase on those of manufacture.
At the close of Bates speech, Cullom
obtained the floor and the tariff bill
went over until tomorrow.
a message from the President was
presented and read, vetoing the bill for
the relief of the executors of Joseph II.
Maddox, for the payment on account of
losses and damages sustained by the
seizure of tobacco during the war. The
President refers to the fact that the
claim was barred by adverse decisions
of the courts, that 1t had been then pre-.
scented to Congress, beginning with the
Forty-second Congress-, had passed
now when favorable conditions existed,
and that he fails to appreciate the
equities which entitle the claimant to
further hearing.
The bill and message were referred to
the committee on claims.
Dolph introduced joint resolution
authorizing the executive and other de-
partments of the government, National
Museum, Smithsonian Institute etc.,
TO send for exhibition at the Paris Ex-
position. in 1889, such articles as they
may have on hand, and to use for that
purpose the unexpended balance from
the appropriation fer the Cincinnati
Exposition.
Hoar criticized the phraseology of the
Joint resolution as "unmeanlng and
utterly unworthy of the Senate" and
Dolph said it had been prepared at the
State Department..
The resolution was placed on the
calendar.
Adjourned.