Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-13
CtnggreysnsnT Talk Wool
Speeches for and Against T ariff
 Reduction in the House.
A LIVELY SCENE IN THE SENATE.

IessrS. BIa1r ana butAor Dr1t rom 3
 Discussion of the President's Pension
 vetoes Into 8 Very Emphatic Discus
 sion of Each Other.
 WASHINGTON, July 13-The debate on the wool schedule continued all day yesterday in the house. Mir. Lanham. of Texas, spoke for some time in favor of the bill, and was followed by Leopold Morse, the clothing merchant of Boston, who also favored the schedule as given in the Mills bill MT. Cookery, of Missouri, was the next speaker. He emphatically favored the reduction in the wool tariff. Mir. Dockery referred at length to MT. Phelps speech of Wednesday, in which he said that no amendment could be passed by the Democrats until first acted upon in caucus. He severely condemned Mir. Phelps speech.
 Mir. Boothman, of Ohio, said that the Ohio farmer would be ruined by free wool MT. O'Donnell, of Michigan, also opposed the bill and MT: Dingley, of Maine, said that if the Mills bill were passed the foreign manufact- urer and grower would control the American market.
 Speeches against the clause were also de- hvered by Messrs. Pugsley and J. D. Taylor, of Ohio; Caswell, of Wisconsin, and Allen and Brewer, of Michigan. A favorable report from the pensions com mittee, presented in the senate by MT. Flaw ley, to print extra copies of the committees report on seven vetoed pension bills, led at once to a warm political discussion MT. Cockrell wanted to have the last veto message-the Doherty veto-printed along with the others
 Mr. SIawley and Mir. Stewart criticised the president Mr. Cockrell moved an amendment to print 100000 extra copies of all the presidents pension vetoes.
 Mir. Hawley said the president was viola ting the constitution by the character of his vetoes
 MT. Butler defended the president There was greater peril to the liberties of the people from the usurpations of congress than from the president
 MT. Blair said the senator from South Carolina was not justified in saying that any pension legislation had been characterized by recklessness on the part of congress. MT. Butler, replying to Mr. Blair, said 1t \ would be great blessing to the senate and the country if the senator from New Hamp- \ shire were less faithful to the line of duty | which he had marked out for himself. If | there had been any incubus, any incum- l brance on the sensible, respectable, orderly l discharge of the duties of the senate, it had been in the person of the senator from New ! Hampshire and in the measures which he ! had introduced.
 ! Mr. Blair asked Mir. Butler to please spec ! ify, but the latter said it would be absolutely impossible to do so. Quoting remark of Senator Blair, that the president might at least have sent his veto messages in gentle manly language, Senator Butler exclaimed:
 "God save the markl What a terrible ! calamity it would be to this country if the l standard of gentleman had to be established
 by the senator from New Hampshire It
 would undermine and destroy every rule on
 the subject recognized among civilized
 people"
 He spoke of Mir. Blairs'arraigning him as
 an attempt to create diversion, like @
 demagogue by appealing to the soldier vote
 of the country.
 MT. Blair said the senator from New
 Hampshire (meaning himsel0 was not @
 traitor and was not indebted for his life to
 the mercy of his country. Referring to an
 allusion by Mir. Butler to his (Mr. Blair's,
 courage, he remarked that while he claimed
 no excess of courage, he would not shrink
 from any test, probably, which the senator
 from South Carolina might seek to subject \ him to.
 Without disposing of the subject, the
 senate proceeded to .the consideration of ths
 fisheries treaty. Mir. George took the flool
 in favor of its ratification. He made ( ! lenpthy speech