Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-19
SATURDAY NEXT.
THE DAY SET FOR THE ADJOURN
MENT OF CONGRESS.
The Resolution introduced and
Passed by the Senate and Con-
Cured in by the House.
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-The conference
report on the bill for the allotment of
lands in severalty to the united Peorias
and Miamas in the Indian territory was
preseted and agreed to.
Mr.. Gray, in the absence of the two Con-
necticut senator's, presented and read
memorial of 500 citizens of Connecticut,
workingmen, wage earners, manufacture
ers and farmers in favor Of the Mills bill
and the admission of raw materials. par
ticularly wool, salt, lumber, tin plates,
ETC., free of duty. Laid on the table.
The resolution for recess from next
Saturday to November 10 was taken up
and Mr.. Paddock moved to amend it by
making the recess begin on the 9th and
end on 18th of November
Mr. Allison said that he had consulted
senators of both sides of the chamber and
thought that the prevailing opinion was in
favor of adjournment until the first Mon
day in December. He understood that the
senator from Georgia (Mr. Brown would
offer a resolution to that effect and if so
he (Mr. Allison) would support It.
Mr. Brown thereupon offered a resolu-
ton for final adjournment of this session
at l o'clock next Saturday. He said he
did not believe that the passage of the
I)dSSt--c VI VIE tdIlu DlIl WOuIu Dt diItCtcu
by a prolongation of the session. Ii the
Democrats were successful at the coming
presidential election, something like the
Mills bill would be passed, and if the Re-
publicans were successful something like
the senate bill would be passed. The pop
ular opinion on the subject would be
known after the election,
Mr.. Evarts spoke in favor of Mr..
Browns resolution and Mr.. Paddock
favored the amendment offered by him.
MIR. Cockrell ridiculed a remark by Mr..
Paddock to the effect that he and his peo-
pie desired the passage of the senate bill.
That claim, he said, was perfectly farcial.
If Republican senators wanted to pass the
bill before the election Democratic senator
would stay with them, but it was farce
to undertake it, and the senator from Ne
braska knew 1t.
Mr. Paddock said that the primary
trouble about the matter was that there
had not been quorum, for six weeks, in
the house.
Mr.. Cockrell-That does not make a
particle of difference, the house has moth
ing to do with the bill now. When the
senate passes this bill, there will be a
quorum of the house to act on it. 1t is>the
Republican senate that has to do with it.
The presiding officer intinlated that Mr.
Cockrell was not in order and expressed
the hope that senators would cooperate
with him IN maintaining order.
Mr.. Cockrell--We will do it, we will
help you. [Laughter.l Do not Ito Mr..
Paddock trouble yourself about the
house. The house Will take care of itself
Take care of the senate. Here is your re-
SponSibility.
After some further. discussion by Sena-
tors Cockrell, Paddock and Aldrich, Mr..
Allison said he would accept the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Brown.
A majority of the Democrats voted in
the affirmative while a ma jority of the Re-
publicans voted no.
There was no demand for division, and
the chairman after longer pause than
usual declared the concurrent resolution
was adopted.
Mr.. Teller offered resolution instruct
ing the committee on Indian affairs to in
quire as to the truth of the report that the
secretary of the interior has purchased
large number of wagons for the Indian
service that were manufactured by prison
labor in the state of Tennessee. He made
some remarks on the subject, intimating
that the complaint was against the late
commissioner of Indian affairs. After
lively debate between Senators Teller,
Bate and Cockrell, the resolution went
over on objection by Mr. Cockrell.
The senate then took recess tor half an
hour, in expectation of some messages
from the president.
The senate then resumed consideration
of the tariff bill and was addressed by
Mr.. Aldrich, one of the members of the
finance committee Mr.. Aldrich asserted
that the table concerning tariff rates in
the house and senate bills furnished by
the bureau of statistics and produced some
days ago by Mr.. Vest, was full of
misstatements and errors and entirely in
accurate and misleading, and that the
bureau officials, if they knew anything
about the subject, must have known that
it was.
The discussion was continued by Sena-
tors Frye, Evarts and Teller
Mr.. Cockrell replied to Mr.. Aldrich's
criticism of the tables of the bureau said
that they were perfectly correct and had
been made out, under headings prepared
by himself and by Mr.. kepperstein, a
Prussian employe of the bureau who had
been in the department at least since 1879,
and who had no interests directly or in
directly in any Misrepresentation.
Mr.. Allison offered resolution author
iZing the finance committee TO continue its
investigation into tariff matters.
Laid over until tomorrow.
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