St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-14
RIOTOUS RIDDLEBERGER.
The Virginia Senator Creates q
Scene and Is Threatened With
Arrest


Scene and Is Threatened With
Arrest.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The senate
to-day continued the discussion of the
tariff bill. 1t was enlivened by pass
age between Mr.. Riddleberger and the
presiding officer, in which the Virginia
senator was threatened with arrest for
disorderly conduct. The senate agreed
to a resolution of Mr.. Dawes, calling on
the secretary of the treasury for infor-
nation about the condition of the in
habitantS of Alaska; also resolution
calling on the secretary of the interior
for copy Of the minutes of the pro-
ceedingS of the commission to obtain
the consent of the Sioux Indians for
opening their reservation. AT 1910
consideration of the tariff bill was re-
sumed, the pending question being tn
amendment offered by Mr.. Coke to ad
NIT cotton ties. etc., at the rate of 35
per cent ad valorem. Mr. Vance crit.
cised the senate substitute, and said
that it was arranged without regard to
the interests of the agricultural classes.
During the remarks of Mr.. Vance, Mr..
Riddleberger made several interrupt
tons, and upon being called to order by
the president pro tem., Mr.. Berry, of
Arkansas, he said that the senator did
not know any better" Mr.. ingalls,,
having resumed the chair, succeeded in
bringing Mr..
RIDDLEBERGER TO ORDER
by threatening to cali on the executive
officers OF the senate to enforce its rules.
A motion was agreed to for a confer
ence committee to place Mai. Gen. A.
j. Smith on the retired list. Considera-
ton of the tariff bill having been re-
sumed, Mr.. Jones, of Arkansas, said in
reply to the statement of Mr.. Dawes
that the tax on cotton ties would make
them cheaper to the cotton planter:
eve ask the privilege of declining this
charity at your hands. Apply it to
other people who believe as you be-
lieve." He said he would be more will
ing to risk the dangers of a foreign
combination to produce cotton ties than
to risk the dangers of an American COM
bination. Mr.. Vest said that the item
under consideration ought to appeal
most strongly to the magnaDimity and
generosity of the northern section OF
the Union. Cotton was the life and
soul of all the commercial relations and
of all the wealth of the Southern states.
The proposition to increase the duty ON
cotton ties was in the highest degree
oppressive and sectional. The people
of the South were confronted to-day
with the most terrible problem,
THE RACE PROBLEM.
1t was struggle, the significance Of
which was beyond all language and be-
yOnd all Imagination, and yet to that
people this bill came as an additional
burden. Mr.. Vest read statements con-
NJ n
Dawes yesterday that the average divi-
dend of manufacturing companies in
New England had not exceeded per
cent in the last twenty years. Missouri
was the most prosperous agricultural
state in the Union, and yet the Missouri
farmer that was making 2 per cent
on his investment was phenome-
naliy successful. Mr.. Hiscock asked
if it would not be wiser for Missouri
and other states to take the benefit of
the profits i'll manufactures. Mr.. Vest
replied that the capital was in the New
England states and not with Missouri,
the Western states, with their enormous
resources, were mortgaged to the capt.
tai of New England. After some fur
ther discussion, vote was taken on Mr..
Coke's amendment, and it was rejected
by party vote, 10 to %, Mr.. Riddleber-
ger not voting. Amendments were Of
fered reducing the rates on horseshoe
nails. railway bars, sheets of iron and
steel, but
THEY WE'RE ALL REJECTED.
The paragraphs as to sheets of iron
and steel corrugated or crimpedl and
taggers iron were, at the suggestion of
Mr.. Allison. passed over informally. A
resolution offered by Mr.. EdmundS
was agreed to, directing that copies Of
the recent laws respecting the meetings,
of the presidential electors and the
transmission and counting of the cleo
teral vote be sent to the governors of
the different states. Mr.. Mitchell intro
duced bill for the admission of Idaho.
Referred. The resolution authorizing
the interstate commerce committee to
continue its investigations during the
present session and all receSseS before
December. 1889. was agreed to. After
the consideration in secret session of
executive business the senate, at 4:25,
adjourned until Monday.