Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-22
THE GREAT REPUBLIC.
What Senate and House Did
Yesterday.
THE TARIFF AND ISTHMIAN CANAL
The Ford Immigration Committee
at Work-Increase of Population
in the Territories.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, December 21.-The res
olution offered yesterday by Teller for
committee to investigate the office of the
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
during the administration of the present
Supervising Architect, was taken up.
Teller accepted Vests amendment ex-
tending it to the administration of the
preceding architect.
Vest made a speech denouncing the
present system for the erection of public
buildings as extravagant, and the worst
in the world.
The resolution was finally modified so
as to apply to the conduct of the office
merely, and was passed.
TARIFF TALK.
The Senate then took up the Tariff bill
at the schedule on cotton manufactures
Vest moved to amend the first para
graph of the schedule by striking out the
words, "Ten cents per pound" applied
to thread, yards, etc., valued at not ex-
ceeding 25 cents per pound, and insert
ing the words ''35 per cent. ad valorem."
The amendment was debated at con-
siderable length by Vest and Hiscock.
Coke read, with many comments, the
testimony of Thos. O'Donnell, spinner
in Fall River, Mass, showing that for
himself and wife and two children he
had not earned $3.50 in a year; that he
had no help from outside, but that he
had little fuel or food the preceding win
ter; that his wife had only had one dress
costing about $2 since her marriage six
years before; that this condition of
things existed for more than six years );
that it was not confined to him, but that
there could not be less than thousand
operatives in Fall River in like con-
dition.'
"That," said Coke, sis the condition
of protected American workingmen, to
pay whom and to support whose famil-
les the American people are taxed an
average of tifty-seven per cent. on every
thing they eat, drink or wear, even on
grave clothes of the dead"
Dawes admitted that such cases did
exist, but he asked Coke which was the
better remedy, to furnish employment
or take it away? He showed that the
amount of deposits in Massachusetts
savings banks was 1915 ZOO, 900, and that
IS per cent of that amount represented
deposits Of wage earners.
Coke turned from the cotton operatives
of Massachusetts to the miners of Penn
sylvania, and quoted the testimony of
John Jarrett, to the effect that the condi-
ton of the coal miners, numbering at
least 10000, is "pitiable and miserable" !"
In conclusion he said: This is protec-
ton. This is the policy which is claimed
to have had the sanction of the Ameri-
can people at the late election. The pol
icy never has been endorsed by the
American people and never will be.''
Hawley said he did not know in the
State of Connecticut any such people as
ODonnell described. There were every
where some shiftless, some drinking,
idle men who could not get living.
But in the savings bank of Connecticut,
"a state with population of 670,000),
the deposits amounted to $102, 900 900,
mostly the savings of servants and
operatives. Massachusetts had a pro-
portionate amount in her savings bank.
These two facts were the 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
there was any such condition of things
as that described. 1t was not true pic
ture of the working people of New Eng
land. The stuff which the Senator from
Texas had talked of and read was pure
nonsense.
The bill went over without action on
Vests amendment.
BILLS PASSED.
The Senate bill to provide for the dis
posal of certain public lands of the United
States under the provisions of the home
stead law only was taken from the
calendar and passed. Also the following
bills: The House bill to provide certain
arms, ammunition and equipage for the
State of Oregon for the militia thereof;
the House bill for the issue of military
stores to the Governor of Montana for
regular active militia.
After the executive session the Senate
adjourned till January I'd.
Nominations-John Tyler Campbell,
of California, Consul at Foo Chow; John
Darcy Connolly, OF California, at Auck-
land.
Increase pensions have been granted
to M. W. Allen, of South San Diego, and
s. B. Nickel, of Elsinore.
Chandler presented additional me-
MORALS, numerously signed, from three
voting districts in Orangeburg county,
South Carolina, alleging the denial OF
the right of voting in the late election,
and praying for an investigation. Re-
ferred.
The Public Printing Deficiency bill as
passed appropriates $63, 900.
Senator Chandler to-day introduced
the bill recently proposed in the House,
making it a crime against the United
States, punishable with severe penalty,
for any person to offer or receive bribe
for vote cast at a Presidential election.
The House.
After routine bust ness the House went
into Committee of the Whole on the
Nicaragua Canal bill. The opponents OF
the bill continued to offer ar cendments
which were in most cases voted down.
On motion of Payson, OF Illinois, an
amendment was adopted providing that
all bonds. stocks and certificates OF the
company shall be issued at the principal
offices in New York City, also that all
shares, bonds, certificates and other
evidence of indebtedness shall be paid
for only in cash, to be paid into the CON-
pany's treasury and used for corporate
purposes.
An amendment by Holman was
adopted providing that the directors shall
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